Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 662
OSCARR LEWIS.

Oscar LEWIS, a farmer located on section 4, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County in the autumn of 1881. The first year he worked land on section 11, and then in company with his brother, bought land on section 15. Here he made improvements and remained two years. He then sold out and purchased forty acres of partly improved land upon which he built a house 14x16 feet, to which was attached a kitchen 10x20 feet. Our subject lived on this place for five years, during which time he leased lands near by. He fenced and broke his own place, and harvested three crops from it, and then sold out and bought the place he now occupies, which consisted of one hundred and twenty acres of partly improved land. Here he made improvements, including the removal of his house to more desirable grounds.

Our subject was born in Sweden, and is the son of John F., and Christina LEWIS, natives of Sweden, who had three children--Charles, Oscar and Gustaf. Our subject remained in the land of his nativity, and with his parents until he was of age, and then came to America, and from New York, came direct to Henry County, Iowa. He hired out to work by the month on a farm and followed this for one year and then came to Harrison County. He was married February 1885, to Emma C. WOLFE, a daughter of Henry C., and Caroline WOLFE, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio; respectively. They had a family of who children--Emma and Ella, both living in Dakota. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children--Emmet, born October 17, 1887; Alma, February 25, 1889; and Edith, July 11, 1891.

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