Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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GEORGE F. NEWLAND

George F. NEWLAND, at present a resident of section 35, Union Township, came to Harrison County, April 12, 1881, and bought the forty acres where he now lives, paying $9 per acre for it. He bought of the railroad company, and by paying for the same in a short time, got $1 per acre discount. At the same time he bought eighty-one acres in Pottawattamie County, cornering with this. He built a one-story house 16x22 feet, and commenced breaking up the prairie sod, breaking about forty-five acres the first season, and kept on from year to year, until all was under cultivation. In 1881 he sold the Pottawattamie County land, and in 1891, bought forty acres of wild land, which he planted to corn the same year. This land is in Union Township.

One of the greatest drawbacks our subject has encountered in Harrison County, was the hog cholera epidemic, which caused him to lose one hundred and eighteen head of hogs valued at $7 per head.

Mr. NEWLAND is a Buckeye, and was born in Marlow County, Ohio, August 25, 1853, and is a son of Garrett and Mary A. NEWLAND, natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively. They reared a family of nine children: Sarah M., Mary E., Ann B.; James F., Jamima, Elvina (deceased), George, Martha E., and Ervin L.

Our subject was married February 26, 1873, to Abigal L. CHENEY, daughter of Amas and Hannah CHENEY, natives of New York, who reared a family of ten children, of whom our subject's wife was the tenth child. The following gives the order of the children: Chandler, Sarah (deceased), Ithmer, Hetta, Amasa, Amos, Louisa, Alden, Asberry, Abigal L. Mr. and Mrs. NEWLAND are the parents of one child, William Sargent, born December 31, 1876, the last day of the Centennial year. Politically our subject is identified with the People's party. In religious matter he belongs to the Christian Church.

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