Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 900
MOSES GERMAN

Moses GERMAN, a native of Ohio, has been a resident of Harrison County since 1855, and is now a resident of Little Sioux Township. He was born in Putnam County, Ohio, January 13, 1820, and is the son of John and Casander (SMITH) GERMAN. His paternal grandparents' names were Moses and Susan GERMAN, natives of Maryland. Our subject was the second in a family of seven children, five of whom are still living. His boyhood days were spent in the Buckeye State, his parents removing to Putnam County, Ill., in 1833, where the father engaged in farming. In Illinois he assisted his father on the farm and attended the common schools, and commenced farming for himself in Jones County, Iowa, and there remained until in 1855, when he came to this county. He located at the village of Little Sioux, and the first winter lived in a "dug-out" on the bank of the Little Sioux River. The next season he erected the first house built in that village, the same being a log house, still standing and is occupied by Mr. FARBER.

Mr. GERMAN was united in marriage, May 1846, in Jones County, Iowa, to Eliza BRAZZELTON, the daughter of Benjamin and Elsie (MOORE) BRAZZELTON. The father was killed in the Indian War, and the mother died in Little Sioux in 1859.

Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN have one child living: Mary Frances, wife of W. H. WILSEY. Politically our subject is a Democrat and in religious matters he is a Methodist. He served as Deputy Sheriff of Harrison County for a number of years, and stands high in the community in which he lives.

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