PROSE - Lorenzo B. PROSE, owner of the LUSK House, at Logan, has been a resident of Harrison County for the last decade. He is a native of the Buckeye State, born in Gallia County, Ohio, December 21, 1834. He is a son of Jehu W. and Jane (WISEMAN) PROSE, natives of West Virginia, who died in Illinois, to which State they removed in 1858. The father was a tanner by trade but followed farming a good share of his life. They reared a family of seven children, six of whom still survive, our subject being the oldest. He was reared in Lawrence County, Ohio, principally surrounded by the scenes of pioneer farm life. After he had attained the years of his majority, he commenced to do for himself, and was for many years engaged in milling, operating both flour and saw mills as well as doing factory work as a machinist. In 1857 he removed to Illinois, spent three years and then returned to Ohio, where he engaged in the milling business.

Four months after Fort Sumter had been fired upon by those who rebelled against our form of government, and five months after President Lincoln had taken his seat, our subject offered his services to his country by enlisting July 16, in captain J. S. GEORGE's Independent Cavalry Company, which was attached to Gen. COX's Brigade in the Big Kanawha Valley, W. Va., and served sixty-five days, when the company was discharged, their time having expired. After his service in 1862, he returned to Illinois and remained there until 1866, when he once more returned to Ohio and engaged in the milling business, and in 1867-68 helped build and start a furniture factory in Gallipolis, Ohio, which he operated for a short time and then disposed of it, after which he divided his time for several years between Ohio and West Virginia, butting vast quantities of lumber, and being thoroughly conversant with that line of business, he made a decided success of the same.

In the spring of 1881, in company with several families besides his own, numbering fifteen persons in all, he came by team to Harrison County, Iowa and located upon a farm on section 7, of Lincoln Township, for which he had traded; the same consisting of two hundred and forty acres of unimproved land. He at once set about making substantial improvements and succeeded in making one of the finest farms in that part of Harrison County, the first year erecting a good frame residence. He was among the first to locate in that vicinity, which was then one vast expanse of unimproved prairie land. He went to work with a good will and a determination to subdue the prairie sod. Upon coming to the county he possessed but a small amount of money, which he had saved by frugality and the exercise of good judgment in Illinois and Ohio, thus succeeding more than some of his less fortunate neighbors, who at times almost manifested a jealous disposition because of his success. In the year 1882 the community in which he lived secured the location of a post office, known as Olympus, and our subject received the appointment of the first Postmaster, which position he held eight years, until he moved to Woodbine. At one time Mr. PROSE was the only Republican postmaster in Harrison County. While on the farm he devoted his attention principally to stock raising, moving to Woodbine in 1888, in order to give his children the benefits of the "Woodbine Normal School." February, 1891, he traded his farm to James LUSK for the "LUSK House" at Logan, which he leased until October 1, and then took possession himself and operated this until December 1, of the same year, and again leased it.

Mr. PROSE is a man of more than ordinary ability, having contributed to the local journals of the county in which he has lived, including Harrison, and through an article which he prepared for the Woodbine Twiner, June 17, 1883, he was the means of inducing several families to emigrate to Harrison County, many of whom are prosperous farmers to-day.

Politically, he is a firm believer in the principles and general administration of the Republican party. He acted as Justice of the Peace for four years, being the first one appointed to such a position in Lincoln Township. He is a member of the Eaton Post No. 86 G. A. R. at Woodbine.

January 7, 1856 marked a new era in this man's life, for it was upon this day that the was united in marriage to Miss Verlinda HANNAN, who was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, May, 1837. The fruits of this union was seven children--Thomas W., who has been a resident of Gallipolis, Ohio, where he has been a practicing physician and engaged in trade, but has recently sold his business and at this date is take a special course of lectures on the eye and ear, in New York City. William H., a resident of Hammond, Rock County, Neb., following farming; Arius H. and Elmie f., twins, both reside in Woodbine, the former traveling in the interest of Charles REED with medicines, and the latter is the wife of John H. MCDANIEL; Linna E., wife of C. M. NEWLAND of Allen Township; Mary J., wife of Traverse THOMPSON, of Bay View, Wash. and one who died in infancy.

For his second wife our subject married Mary MCDANIEL, February 22, 1871. She was born October 13, 1837, in Gallia County, Ohio. By this union four children were born--Margaret E., Ruth U., Anna G and Joseph R., all residing at home.

The family are associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In religious matters Mr. PROSE reaches out after all that can be obtained in the Christian life, and may be termed a liberal thinker. Other matters concerning his pioneer days in Harrison County, will be found in the Lincoln Township history.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 593, 594, 595
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NUZUM - Samuel S. NUZUM, one of the enterprising farmers of Allen Township, living on section 13, came to Harrison County, in 1884, and first located on forty acres of partly improved land which he purchased. He built a house 14x20 feet, one story and one-half high; built a stable, cribs, shedding, dug a well and set out an orchard of one hundred and fifty trees. He came to the county a poor man, but is now surrounded with a comfortable home. His farm now comprises one hundred and sixty acres, seventy acres of which are under cultivation and the balance in pasture and meadow land. Our subject was born in Delaware County, Iowa, in November, 1858. He is the son of George and Eliza NUZUM, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. They reared a family of seven children, who were born in the following order: Linzy G., John W., Madison, (deceased), Thomas J., Caleb M., Samuel S., Willis, (deceased). The father was a farmer and Samuel S. lived with him until he reached his majority, his educational advantages being quite limited. He went from Delaware County, with the family to Pennsylvania and then to Warren County, Iowa, from there to Council Bluffs, in the vicinity of which he worked out for four years and then came to Harrison County. Mr. NUZUM, was married in January, 1883, to Rachel E. CARTE, the daughter of Zachariah and Rachel CARTER, the father being a native of Illinois and the mother of Ohio. They had a family of six children, our subject's wife being next to the youngest. They were in the following order: Jane A., Betsy E., John W., Charles E., (deceased), Rachel E., and Florence E. All of the living ones are residents of Harrison County. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children--Walter F., William R. and Samuel S.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 595, 596
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MAGNET - Thomas MAGNET, a farmer located on section 8, of Allen Township, has had a checkered career and seen more than the average amount of hardships co-incident to pioneer life. He came to Harrison County just at the breaking out of the Civil War. That the reader may have a more intelligent view of the subject of this sketch, it should be said that he was born in France, in March, 1823. His parents were Thomas and Mary MAGNET, whose birthplace was France. They had four children--John, Thomas, Catharine and Marion. Our subject, Thomas, came to America when twenty years of age, landing at New Orleans; remained there two winters, and summered in St. Louis, and was a trader with the Indians for a fur company in St. Louis. He was employed by this company for two years, then spent one winter in New Orleans, and then came to Harrison County. He was married in 1861, at New Orleans, to Caroline MOSHNEL, the daughter of John and Ann MOSHNEL, of France, who were the parents of four children--Celestine, Josephine, Odel and Caroline. Mrs. MAGNET's father was a soldier under Bonaparte for fourteen years. Mr. and Mrs. MAGNET are the parents of five children, born as follows: Paul, born March 28, 1862; Charles, September 25, 1872; Arthur, July 4, 1875; Henry, December 8, 1878; Aleck, January 12, 1881. All are living in Harrison County, except Paul, who is in the Black Hills. Our subject and his family are members of the Roman Catholic Church. When our subject came to Harrison County, he settled in St. John's Township, on Honey Creek, where he bought forty acres of land of George MCGAVREN, for which he paid $200. He came in poor, and did not have a pair of shoes to wear. He had plenty of meat and flour, but says he did not have five cents in money in three years. That was at a time when the farmers did not use steam threshing-machines and ride in buggies. He could see steamboats ply the waters of the Missouri River every day. Game was plenty, but there was no money to be had. He remained here four years, went to Missouri and lived a year, returned and went to work near Missouri Valley, where he rented a forty-are farm and continued to labor for three years, and then came to Allen Township, where he purchased forty acres of land on section 17, and there lived for eight years. We next find our subject in the Black Hills, remained one year, after which he returned and purchased the farm, consisting of eighty acres, which he now occupies, and sixty four acres of timber and pasture land on section 5. He built a barn, set out an orchard of one hundred and thirty-three trees, planted out a beautiful grove, and has remained here ever since.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 596, 597
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HOLBROOK - Marcellus HOLBROOK, an ex-banker of Missouri Valley, came to Harrison County in 1866, and first settled at Magnolia, coming to Missouri Valley in 1872. He was born in Somerset County, Pa., March 18, 1838, and is the son of Henry L. and Mary (CONNELLY) HOLBROOK, and is a descendant of one of the first colonists of New England. From MORSE's Genealogical Register we find that Thomas HOLBROOK, a native of Doresetshire, England, sailed from Weymouth, on the south coast of "white-cliffed Albion," on the 20th of March, 1635, with his wife, Jane HOLBROOK, and four children--John, Thomas, Ann and Elizabeth, and came to the Plymouth Colony, Mass., and settled at Weymouth. He died in 1674. Thomas, his second son, who was born in England in 1625, and was therefore ten years old when he crossed the water, became one of the leading citizens of the towns of Scituate, Weymouth and Braintree, and died in the latter place in 1697, leaving a family of children, among whom we may find Deacon Peter HOLBROOK. The latter was born in 1655, and died May 3, 1712, at or near Mendon, in the old Bay State. Among his children was John, who was born September 24, 1679. He married Miss Hannah CHAPIN, and after rearing a family departed this life, full of years, May 11, 1765, at Bellingham. His widow died at the same place, April 12, 1770, in her eighty-sixth year. Josiah, the son of John and Hannah HOLBROOK, was born January 17, 1714. He served in the Colonial militia through both of the French wars, and in the latter years of his life transplanted his family from Massachusetts to New York State, settling at Pompey. There he died February 4, 1873. He was the husband of two wives, Peggy IVES and Mary MOFFET, and had a family of children. One of these, David, whose birth occurred July 28, 1760, served as a soldier during our struggle for independence, receiving a sever wound at the battle of Bennington. After the Revolution he settled at Lafayette, N. Y., where he engaged in the practice of medicine, and there died November 29, 1832. Henry L., the fourth child of Dr. David and Mehitabel (WELLS) HOLBROOK, was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., February 28, 1799. He received the elements of his education in that part of the great Empire State, principally at Pompey Hill. While there, in his younger manhood, he spent several years in teaching school, but about 1828 he removed to Somerset County, Pa., and for several years was Principal of the Somerset Academy. While residing there, May 12, 1829, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary CONNELLY, a native of that county, who was born in 1804. In 1834 he removed to a farm which he had purchased in the vicinity, where he made his home until 1865. In the spring of that year, with his family, he removed to the State of Iowa and settled in Monona County, where he made his home until called away by death February 11, 1874, his wife only surviving him until the 30th of May following. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. HOLBROOK were the parents of seven children: Charles H., of the firm of HOLBROOK & Bro., bankers, of Onawa: Eggleton W.; Bernard D., banker at Onawa; Norman Bruce, now President of the Iowa County Savings Bank, at Marengo, Iowa; Marcellus, of whom this sketch is written; Emily J., the wife of Herbert E. MORRISON, of Onawa; and Mary B., the wife of M. A. FREELAND, one of the leading business men of Onawa. Henry L. HOLBROOK was, during his residence in Somerset County, one of its leading citizens and a stanch and trusted member of the Democratic party and filled the office of County Surveyor there for many years. He never engaged actively in business after moving to Iowa. Of sterling integrity and simple tastes, like most of the race from which he sprang, the result of his life, upright and simple, has had its influence upon those left behind, and will prove "footprints on the sands of time" to lead his descendants for many generations in the path of moral rectitude. Marcellus HOLBROOK's early education was received in his native county, in the common schools, and afterward he took a course of study at Morgantown, Va. He taught school a few years, and then began the study of law in 1861, and was admitted to the bar at Iowa City in 1863. He commenced to practice at Marengo, Iowa, and two years later removed to Magnolia, where he formed a law partnership with Henry FORD. In the spring of 1870, he engaged in the banking business with W. F. CLARK, at Magnolia, and two years later went to Missouri Valley, and bough the banking interests of William PELAN & Co., and operated a private bank until 1889, when the Valley Bank was formed of which he was made President. July 1, 1891, he sold his interest in this concern, and is now located at Springfield, Mo. Politically, he is a Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic order at Missouri Valley. He was united in marriage June 11, 1866, to Ellen BERKEY, the daughter of Dr. Michael BERKEY, of German ancestry. This marriage union resulted in the birth of six children, five of whom are living: Anna, wife of M. W. COOLBAUGH, cashier of the Valley Bank; Bruce, deceased when nine years old; Richard, Nellie, Katie and Burke. The three last named are still at home. That no better citizen or business man ever lived in Harrison County seems to be the opinion of all who have been acquainted with Mr. HOLBROOK for the last quarter of a century.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 597, 598
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MILLS - Joseph S. MILLS, located on section 24 of Allen Township, accompanied his parents to Harrison County in 1868. They located in Lincoln Township and bought eighty acres of land, where they still live. Our subject lived with his parents until he was of age, and then went on a fortune-seeking expedition, and acted as a scout in Montana, Black Hills, Wyoming, and one parts of Nebraska, and spent four years freighting in and out of Deadwood, making eight years in all. He then drifted back to Iowa, where he worked a year and a half by the month, and then bought the farm he now occupies, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres, which was partly improved at the time. Among the improvements he added may be named fifty fruit trees, nine hundred and fifty grape vines, and a fence around the entire place. He was born in Franklin County, N. Y., in March 1858. His parents were Charles and Mehitable MILLS, natives of the Empire State, who reared a family of ten children, of whom our subject was the fourth--Harriet E., Frances M., Walter T., Joseph S., Mehitable S., Elias E., Lilly E., Roxy A., Eva and Charles. Our subject remained in New York until ten years of age, and then as above related, came to Harrison County. He was married July 21, 1887, to Nettie J. GLOVER, daughter of William and Nancy L., GLOVER. The father was a native of Illinois, while the mother was born in Vermont. They reared a family of ten children, our subject's wife being the second child. The children were as follows: Wilbur A., Nettie J., Hattie B., Elizabeth M., Fannie, Katie A., Thomas W., George C., Nora M., and James I. Mr. and Mrs. MILLS are the parents of two children--Ward T., born June 27, 1888; and Elsie V., April 3, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. MILLS are both acceptable members of the Methodist Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 598, 601
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LEWIS - Oscar LEWIS, a farmer located on section 4, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County in the autumn of 1881. The first year he worked land on section 11, and then in company with his brother, bought land on section 15. Here he made improvements and remained two years. He then sold out and purchased forty acres of partly improved land upon which he built a house 14x16 feet, to which was attached a kitchen 10x20 feet. Our subject lived on this place for five years, during which time he leased lands near by. He fenced and broke his own place, and harvested three crops from it, and then sold out and bought the place he now occupies, which consisted of one hundred and twenty acres of partly improved land. Here he made improvements, including the removal of his house to more desirable grounds. Our subject was born in Sweden, and is the son of John F., and Christina LEWIS, natives of Sweden, who had three children--Charles, Oscar and Gustaf. Our subject remained in the land of his nativity, and with his parents until he was of age, and then came to America, and from New York, came direct to Henry County, Iowa. He hired out to work by the month on a farm and followed this for one year and then came to Harrison County. He was married February 1885, to Emma C. WOLFE, a daughter of Henry C., and Caroline WOLFE, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio; respectively. They had a family of who children--Emma and Ella, both living in Dakota. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children--Emmet, born October 17, 1887; Alma, February 25, 1889; and Edith, July 11, 1891.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 602, 603
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FISHER - William G. FISHER, who resides on section 3, of Jackson Township, has bee a resident of the county twenty-one years, coming as he did in the spring of 1870. He commenced at the bottom round of the ladder, and rented land the first two years of William ARTHUR. He then bought fifty acres of land he now occupies, which was wild land at the time. Here he built a story and a half house, 14x18 feet, to which he has since added an apartment, 22x28 feet. Also constructed a barn, 20x40 feet. His farm now comprises three hundred acres, seventy-five acres of which has felt the keen edge of his plowshare, while the remainder is in meadow and pasture land. He is amply provided with fruit from his apple orchard, which contains seventy-five trees. The grounds about his farm-house are beautified and made attractive by various varieties of shade trees. He has a bank cellar costing him $60. Clermont County, Ohio, in the land of the "Buckeyes," was the birthplace of our subject. The date of his birth was April, 1846. His parents were David Y. and Delia FISHER, natives of Ohio, who had a family of thirteen children names as follows: Nancy J., Leonidas, Caroline H., William E., Hamilton B., Mary E., deceased, David N., Martha E., Catherine A., Anna; Susan, Maria and Truman are deceased. Our subject remained under the paternal roof until thirteen years of age when he enlisted at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Naval Department, under Capt. ROGERS with Admiral FARRAGUT. Was in the service nineteen months and was in the naval engagement at Mobile, Ala., where their vessel was lost. Our subject was wounded and sent to the hospital, at Pensacola, Fla., where he remained one month and then went back and served his country, as one of those who manned the "Meteor" and later the "Fear-naught," and was discharged from the service July, 1866, at New York City, and spent the next four years farming in Ohio, then coming to Harrison County. The vessel upon which our subject was wounded was blown up by a torpedo, fired by the rebels, killing nine men outright. After our subject had served his country as a brave soldier, as one of the marines, and peace had perched upon our banners, he saw many of his comrades enjoying the comforts of a home, so he sought the hand and heart of Elizabeth ABRAMS, to whom he was united in marriage in the month of February, 1870. She is the daughter of George and Rachel ABRAMS, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Ohio, who reared the following children: Louisa, Louis, Elizabeth, Isaphena, Vilena, Marcellus, Transylvania and John. Our subject and his wife have their home circle made cheerful by four intelligent children--William A., born July 23, 1871; George W., September 17, 1873; David, September 28, 1875; and Frank, January 5, 1877.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 605, 606
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LIVERMORE - D. L. LIVERMORE, M. D., has been one of the medical fraternity of Harrison County since June, 1879. He came from Onawa, Iowa, where he had practiced his profession up to within a year of the time he came to Dunlap, during which period he was unable to practice, on account of sickness in his own family. His ancestors were English people, and his forefathers on both sides were among the oldest families of the East. He was born in New York City, September 15, 1840, the son of Lorenzo and Susan (HATFIELD) LIVERMORE, natives of Massachusetts and New Jersey respectively. He was reared and educated in New York State and Massachusetts. He attended the public schools and read medicine under a tutor, and graduated in Buffalo, in 1867, locating in Kansas City, where he remained until the latter part of 1868, and then removed to Richmond, Mo., but later removed to Kansas, just in time to enjoy the benefits of the drought and grasshopper years, which plague years caused him to remove to Council Bluffs. It was at this time that he concluded to leave the Allopathic school and take up that of Homeopathy, from which school he graduated in Chicago in 1879, having attended the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, from which school he went to Onawa, Ia. Politically, our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and also of the Knights of Pythias. He was united in marriage January 31, 1870, to Fannie ESTES, a native of Kentucky, born near Lexington, July 4th, 1847. The Doctor and his good wife are members of the Congregational Church at Dunlap. He has been Health Officer of that place for several years. He is a man affable and courteous in his manners, a hard student, and successful practitioner. Having had the experience of two schools of medicine, with a large amount of experience, he is well qualified to cope with the diseases prevalent in his time.

Source: 1891 Harrison County Iowa History, pp. 606
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