Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 497
WILLIAM H. MCEUEN

William H. McEUEN, who came to Harrison County in 1880, arrived at Logan March 12. He bought a place the following June in Boyer Township, consisting of eighty acres, which he held three years and then moved to his present home on section 1, where he owns a farm of three hundred and ten acres, situated in Boyer and Jefferson Townships. It was wild land, but has by his plowshare been brought to a high state of cultivation. He has a commodious farm-house, 18x28 feet, and two stories in height, with an addition 18x28 feet. He generally keeps about fifty head of cattle.

William McEuen was born in Litchfield County, Conn. February 13, 1830, the third of four children born to his parents, Charles and Aurilia (RAMSEY) McEuen. The father was born in Connecticut and the mother in New York. They emigrated to Geauga County, Ohio when William was age 9, where they spent the remainder of their days. William later lived in Windsor and in Geneva, Ohio before coming to Harrison County, Iowa in 1880.

William married Miss Sarah E. WOOD Sept. 9, 1858, in Geauga County, Ohio. She was a native of Ohio, the daughter of Abram and Betsy WOOD. She was the third child of a family of six. William and Sarah had one child, Frank G., who married Ella Walton of Ashtabula County, Ohio. They live in Harrison County at present.

While living in Ohio, for three years he was a commercial traveler, selling oils and paints. During this time he dealt in cattle he shipped to Buffalo, N.Y., before any regular yards had been established there, and afterwards shipped to Albany, N.Y. He bought cattle in Chicago before the city had her Union Stock Yards.

Since coming to Harrison County he has been successful in his agricultural pursuits, and is surrounded to-day with a comfortable home and has the respect of all who know him.

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