Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 304
JAMES W. DIGGLE

James W. DIGGLE, who resides on section 25, of Union Township, accompanied his father's family to Harrison County in 1865, and who has had his share of pioneer hardships and experience, was born in Boomer Township, Pottawattamie County, October 5, 1854, and hence is a genuine Hawkeye production. He is a son of Samuel and Sarah (WHITTIKER) DIGGLE.

He has attended the common district schools of Harrison County, gaining a fair business education. When twenty-four years of age he embarked on life's sea for himself, his father giving him forty acres of land, which he attended to, at the same time assisting on his father's farm, and living at home until February 15, 1884, at which time he married Grace C. DAY, a native of Michigan, born February 15, 1864. She was the daughter of Charles and Olivia DAY. Her people emigrated to Lincoln County, Neb., in 1871, but returned to Michigan in June, 1877. The same year they returned to Missouri, and in the spring of 1880 came to Harrison County. They now live in Lane County, Kan.

Our subject's farm consists of one hundred and sixty-five acres, of which one hundred and twenty is plow land, five of timber and the balance is pasture and meadow.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. DIGGLE�Carl E., Gertrude O., and Claude J., who died at the age of five months and fourteen days.

Both Mr. and Mrs. DIGGLE are identified with the Latter Day Saints Church.

Politically, our subject believes in the principles of the Democratic party.

Our subject has been an industrious man, always looking to the fertile soil for a livelihood, and in this has been crowned with unusual success.

He usually keeps about forty head of cattle, and eight head of horses; and be it said to his credit, that he uses money for what it was intended�the happiness of himself and those around him.

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