John F. Chevalier, farmer, section 21, Union Township, owns eighty acres of land, which he has in a good state of cultivation. He erected his present residence in 1883. He has been a resident of Carroll County since 1867. The first farm he improved was on section 29, Union Township, upon which he settled in the spring of 1876. He sold that farm previous to locating where he now lives. Mr. Chevalier was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1831, where he lived until nineteen years of age. His father, Peter Chevalier, was an early settler of Meigs County, where he lived until his death. He was a native of West Virginia. The mother was Elizabeth (Sheets) Chevalier. The father was twice married, and had four children by his first marriage, and eight by the second, John F. being a child of the second marriage. In 1850 he went to California and engaged in mining. He remained in that State five years, then returned to Ohio, and soon after came to Iowa, locating in Mahaska County, where he lived nine years. He then moved to Guthrie County, and since that time has been a resident of Carroll County. He was married in Ohio in 1855 to Elizabeth Hetzer, daughter of George and Matilda (Reed) Hetzer, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of New York. Her parents had nine children. One was killed in the battle of Winchester, Virginia. Mr. Chevalier had three brothers who served during the war, one of whom, Thomas, was killed at Ravenhood, West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Chevalier have had twelve children, and all are living except the two youngest—Cyrinthia, Almira, Philena, Philora, Elizabeth M., Arizona, John Franklin, Vernile, Homer and Martha Belle. Politically Mr. Chevalier is a Democrat.

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