Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 387
NORMAN B. HARDY

Norman B. HARDY of section 32, near the village of Magnolia, came to the county with his parents in the autumn of 1852, having lived two years in Mills County prior to that. He was born in La Grange County, Ind., November 21, 1840, and in the spring of 1850 his parents moved to Mills County, Iowa, and upon coming to Magnolia Township his father entered a quarter section of land upon which some improvements had been made including a small log cabin. The first winter the family rented a house in Calhoun Township while they were building on their place. Here our subject remained with his parents until the autumn of 1862, and then went to freighting between Magnolia and Council Bluffs, and followed this until the railroad got as far west as Jefferson, and then freighted from that point to Magnolia, and as the line was extended west and reached Logan he hauled goods from that point until about 1880, when he bought the farm that his father first located on.

Our subject was married in Magnolia in 1862, to Miss Mary H. EATON, by whom six children were born -- Effie O., Winnie M., Isadora, Rollin B., Bruce H., and Norman E.

Mary H. (EATON) HARDY, our subject's first wife, died in 1873; and in 1877 Mr. HARDY married Miss Katie NUTTERVILLE, and by this marriage five children were born: Harry P., Percy J., C. Myrt and Morell M. (twins) died in infancy and Maggie. Mr. HARDY's first wife was born in Vermont in 1841, and when she was a small child her father took her brother, a sister and herself to live with an uncle, M. EATON, with whom she lived until she was married.

Mr. HARDY's present wife was born in Canada in 1851, and when eighteen years of age came to Harrison County. She is a member of the Congregational Church and an exemplary Christian lady.

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

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