Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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EDGAR F. CADWELL

Edgar F. CADWELL, a farmer of section 36, Magnolia Township, will form the subject of this biographical notice. He was born in Magnolia Township, August 4, 1855, and remained at home with his parents, Phineas and Harriet CADWELL, until the spring of 1877, when he moved to the farm he now occupies, which is a part of the old homestead, and which he obtained from his father in 1873, and consists of two hundred acres. In the winter of 1876-77 he built a frame house, two stories high 20x28 feet, to which he has since made an addition. In1880 he built a frame barn, 28x46 feet, and everything about the premises shows him to be a man of taste and order.

April 4, 1877, he was united in marriage in Magnolia Township, to Ella J. LEWIS, and they are now the parents of four children: Vida L., Fannie, Charles F., and James G.

Ella J. (LEWIS) CADWELL was born September 7, 1856, in Indiana, and about 1858 her parents came to Harrison County, Iowa, remained until 1861, and went to Ohio, coming back to Harrison County four years later, and settled in Magnolia Township. She taught school about four years, and both she and her husband attended the High School at Magnolia.

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