Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 502
JASPER MCCRILLIS

Jasper McCRILLIS, a farmer and stock-raiser, making a specialty of Registered Poland-China swine and thoroughbred Short-horn cattle, residing in Magnolia Township, came to Harrison County with his parents in the autumn of 1870, at which time they settled in the village of Calhoun. His father, John McCRILLIS, finally bought a farm in Taylor Township and our subject remained with him until 1875; here he attended the common schools as well as the High School at Magnolia after which he taught nine terms and then worked his father's place on shares, continuing there until 1886, when he bought a farm of two hundred acres of improved land on sections35 and 36, of Raglan Township, and remained on this until March 5, 1890, when he bought a residence in the village of Magnolia, where he has remained ever since. There he purchased a lot of ten acres adjoining the town plot; seven acres of this is in a fine orchard. Of his farm, eighty acres are under the plow, while the balance is in pasture and meadow land.

Our subject was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, October 22, 1854, and remained there until 1868, then the family removed to Mills County. Mr. McCRILLIS came to Harrison County, in 1870; he was married there October 2, 1881, to Miss Mary Z. BESSIRE. Mr. and Mrs. McCRILLIS are the parents of five children; Clarence W., Essie M., Harvey R., Florence and Verna. Mrs. McCRILLIS was born in Allen County, Ohio, February 28, 1863, and with her parents, came to this county in 1875. She is an acceptable member of the Congregational Church at Magnolia.

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