Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 541
CHARLES H. LYTLE

Charles H. LYTLE, a successful farmer of Washington Township, living on section 10, came to that location in the spring of 1866, and was one of the first settlers of the county. At first he bought one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, and broke all but twenty acres of this tract up, the first year, and built a split log house 14x20 feet in which he lived until 1868 and then built a hewed log house 16x22feet, in which he lived a year and then ribbed it on the outside, weather-boarding and plastering it. This house is still used (1891) and is one of the warmest in the county. To this house has been added a frame kitchen 12x22 and another room 12x15 feet. From time to time he has addedd to his farm until he is the possessor of three hundred and forty acres, eighty acres of which is on section 3, and is used for pasture land.

When our subject came to the township there were but few settlers. There was one log school house at Walker's Grove, and in 1868 there was one built on section 15, near our subject's house. In the schoolhouses were held religious services. There was no settlement in Washington Township, of any account, except at Walker's.

Mr. LYTLE was born in Summit County, Ohio, September 15, 1840, and in the fall of 1856 came with his parents to Shelby County, Iowa, where his father settled on a piece of wild land on which he lived one year, then left their farm and moved to Pottawattamie County, near Council Bluffs, where they rented a farm and remained in that vicinity until coming to Harrison County in 1866.

He married in Shelby County, February 7, 1866 to Miss Ann HALLIDAY, by whom nine children were born -- Charles H., deceased, James A., deceased, Ira, deceased, William F., deceased, Sadie P., Charles H., George H., James A., Alice R., Ira A., Jesse S., Emma P., and William.

Anna (HALLIDAY) LYTLE, wife of our subject, was born in Wales, and when quite samll her parents emigrated to America, settling near Davenport, Iowa, and a few years afterward moved to Shelby County, Iowa, where our subject's wife remained until she was married. She is a member of the Latter Day Saints Church.

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