Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 758
CHARLES S. GREENFIELD

Charles S. GREENFIELD, a farmer residing on section 3, of Cass Township, has been a resident of the county since the autumn of 1873, at which time he purchased a piece of land and then returned to his home in the East, remained one year, and came back to Iowa in the fall of 1874. The tract of land he originally bought was partly improved, and laid partly in Douglas and partly in Cass Townships, and upon the place was a one-story house 16 x 24 feet. Twenty acres of the farm were under the plow. The farm contained two hundred and seventy-five acres. He spent five years of his life and lost $1,500 in money, and finally left the place and purchased the eighty acres upon which he now lives. Twelve acres of this tract had been broken at the time he purchased it. It is now well improved and contains a good house, the upright of which is 16x20 feet, together with a wing 10x12 feet. He moved to this place in the spring of 1880. Our subject was born in Dodge County, Wis., September 1, 1849, and lived in the Badger State until he came to Harrison County.

He was married June 10, 1874, in Outagamie County, Wis. To Sarah M. SCOTT, born in Milwaukee County April 27, 1851. Her father's name was John SCOTT and her mother's name before marriage was Ida JEWELL. They were both natives of the State of New York.

Our subject's father was Willard GREENFIELD, who married Susanna HUNT. Both were natives of New York State. The father was a stone mason in the Empire State, but turned his attention to agriculture in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. GREENFIELD are the parents of the following children: Edith May, Libby Myrtle, John Earl, Charles S. and Willard S., who died September 19, 1885, aged six months and fifteen days. Politically, our subject believes in the principles of the Republican party, and in his religious faith is a believer in the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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