JOSEPH SAUNDERS
Joseph Saunders was horn in 1844, in Ireland, and when ten years of age his parents emigrated to America, settling in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, and he was there reared to manhood. He received his education in the district school, near where he lived on a farm, and there worked with his father until 1879, when he came to Cass County and bought land on section 21, Edna township, where he is chiefly engaged in raising grain and stock. Mr. Saunders was united in marriage in 1881, with Helen Steward, who died nearly a year after her marriage. He was married soon after to Helen Phalen, a native of Canada, her parents now residing in Kansas.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 759.
