Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 962
JAMES R. CASE

James R. CASE, of Cass Township, has been a resident of the county since October, 1865. He first rented land of Luke Jefferson, in Boyer Township, remained there two years and then went to Jeddo, where he worked the land and ran a shingle machine, and finally bought an interest in a sawmill, but after two or three years he moved from Jeddo, and in 1870, bought forty acres of land, which had an old house upon it, and about ten acres of breaking. He paid $400 for this land, having to run in debt for a portion of it. He remained here until 1878, then sold and moved to Cass Township where he now lives.

Mr. CASE was born in Ontario County, N.Y., in April, 1823. He is a son of Abner and Olive (ROLLAND) CASE, who had a family as follows: George, Hiram, Lewis, Thaddeus, Betsy, Sarah, John, James R., Ruth Ann.

Our subject, when he was twenty-five years of age, was married to Alice HURN, who was born May 13, 1834, in the County of Cork, Ireland, landing in New York City, in 1847. Mr. and Mrs. CASE are the parents of seven children: Frances Ann, James M., George A., Thaddeus A., Orin L., Effie and Cora M.

Our subject's father was a native of Connecticut, and served under Gen. Scott in the War of 1812, and died in Wisconsin, in 1854, his wife being buried in the same grave. Our subject's grandfather, CASE, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

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