Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 965
JACOB KIRK

Jacob KIRK ranks among the earliest pioneers of Harrison County, coming as he did in the autumn of 1853, and took a claim of one hundred and sixty acres near the present site of Logan, but two years later removed to Douglas County, Neb., twenty miles west of Omaha, where he made another claim and remained four years, but upon account of the sickness of his wife, went back to Jefferson County, leaving part of his goods in his house and some with his neighbors. He returned after about one year to find his house and goods reduced to ashes. He then returned to Harrisonc County and bought his prsent farm on section 3, of Jefferson Township.

Mr. KIRK was born in Claiborn County, Tenn., in January, 1824, and is the son of Alexander and Catherine (BOLINGER) KIRK. He started for himself when twenty-two years of age, then worked out a year by the month, but returned home to assist his father, who had been afflicted with the palsy. In 1850 he was married to Amelia SMOTHERS, by whom three children were born. His wife died in Harrison County, and he was again married, Alice WHITE becoming his wife, and she died in about seven months. In January, 1886, he was married to Mrs. Mary J. YOUNG, who was born in 1836, and was married in Putnam County, Ind., in 1848, to David D. YOUNG, who died at St. Joseph, Mo., at the hospital, while he was in the United States service. Mr. YOUNG settled in Harrison County, at Elk Grove, in 1850, and remained there until he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry.

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