Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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MILTON H. GREENFIELD

Milton H. GREENFIELD, a resident of section 3, of Jefferson Township, came to Harrison County June 19, 1858, and consequently is numbered among Harrison County's earliest settlers. Upon coming to the township the first year he worked for Stephen King, and in May, 1859 caught the Pike's Peak gold fever, and started for that region. He got as far as Fremont, Neb., and soon returned to this county and engaged at work making brick near the town of Jeddo, in company with A. L. STONE. Two hundred thousand brick were burned, which found ready sale at from $7.00 to $10.00 per thousand. In the summer of 1860 he purchased seventy-eight acres of land on section 13, Jefferson Township, upon which his brick kiln was located. That year, in company with Jason Z. HUNT, he burned two kilns of brick, besides working HUNT's farm.

In 1862 was working part of the same place, and some of his own which had been improved, and in August of that year left his crops in the field, hired it taken care of, and enlisted in Company C., Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, wearing the soldier-blue in the service of his country until April, 1863, at which time he received an honorable discharge at Memphis, Tenn., for disability occasioned by measles, erysipelas and chronic diarrhea.

When he left the service he went to Dodge County, Wis., where he remained until October, 1866, and again came West. While in Wisconsin he followed farming and blacksmithing.

Mr. GREENFIELD was born in New York February 29, 1836. His parents were Willard and Susana (HUNT) GREENFIELD, and he is the eldest of a family of five children. In 1858 he started for himself, and came West, as above stated. He was married May 6, 1860, to Elizabeth A. KENNEDY, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (MARSHALL) KENNEDY, who were natives of Ireland, the mother coming to this country in 1821, and the father coming a few years later. Mrs. GREENFIELD was born in Athens County, Ohio, April 13, 1840, and came with her parents to Crawford County, Iowa, November 15, 1854.

Mr. and Mrs. GREENFIELD are the parents of a family of ten children. Charles W., born in 1861, died January 26, 1864, of small pox; Orren H., born April 17, 1863, died January 26, 1864 of small pox, twenty minutes later than his brother; Clarence M., born December 22, 1864; Jessie W., born November 27, 1866, died April 2, 1867; George M., born August 31, 1868, died October 4, 1869; Grace S., born August 23, 1870; Perry E., November 10, 1872; Willard S., August 21, 1875; Asa K., July 12, 1878; Ralph E., July 18, 1882.

John GREENFIELD, the grandfather of our subject, was born in New York, and died there at the age of ninety-seven years. He had been married five times, and left a family of fifteen children, one of whom was Susanna, the mother of our subject, who was married in 1834.

Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party, and in his religious belief is a Free-will Baptist.

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