Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 538
MADISON H. CHAFFEE

Madison H. CHAFFEE, a farmer living on section 6, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1868, and first located in BIGLER'S Grove, Boyer Township. He came with his parents, his father buying twenty acres of land and rented other land. He remained under the paternal roof until he was of age, when he bought forty acres of wild land in Allen Township, and made substantial improvements upon the same, including a frame house 14x22 feet; also barns and cribs. He added to his farm until he had two hundred acres. He remained there four years, and sold out and went to Woodbine, where he engaged in buying live stock, following the same for six years. He next purchased the place he now occupies the same consisting of two hundred acres of partly improved land.

He was born in January, 1853, in Vermont. He is the son of Erastur and Maria CHAFFEE, natives of Vermont and New Hampshire respectively, who reared the following nine children: Arnold B., Ezera, Madison H., Hannah, Lura, Nettie, Carrie, (deceased), Chester and Charles K.

Mr. CHAFFEE was united in marriage, in April, 1884 to Nancy D. VAUGHN, the daughter of James D. and Anna WAUGHN, natives of Illinois. Our subject's wife was the fifth of a family of thirteen children: Lorenda, Sisney, Betsy Ann, William, Nancy, Hiram S., Joseph, Edmond, Charles, Mary A., Melvin, and Colonel (deceased).

Our subject and his wife are the parents of one child, Carrie A., born August 7, 1885. Prior to Mrs. CHAFFEE's marriage to our subject she was the wife of William WADE, by whom she had three children, one of whom is still living, Leavah.

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