Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 856
ZACHARIAH TAYLOR NOYES

Zachariah Taylor NOYES, the leading business factor of Mondamin, came to Harrison County in 1856, with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. John NOYES. He was born April 13, 1849, in Morgan County, Ohio. His father, John NOYES, and his mother, Mary (STARKS) NOYES, were prominent in the early settlement of the county, and are made the subject of a personal sketch elsewhere in this volume. The father died in 1855; the mother still survives and is living at Mondamin, at the advanced age of seventy-three years. The NOYES family are of English extraction and emigrated from Maine to Ohio at a very early date.

Zacharish Taylor, of whom we write, was but a small boy when Capt. NOYES came with his family to Harrison County. His education and early training have all been within this county. His success as a business man and citizen speaks well for the family with thich he is associated; also of the type of manhood produced by pioneering on the frontier of Western Iowa.

When our subject was a mere stripling of a boy he worked in and around his father's steam sawmill and upon the farm. He soon exhibited good executive and business ability, and in 1872 he began mercantile life at Mondamin, in company with his father, who was an extensive dealer in general merchandise and a grain shipper. Upon the death of his father he took charge of the whole business, having previously bought the entire merchantile business. His present store is a double-room building , well arranged for the conducting of the large amount of business he now transacts. He is a first-class, modern business man, possessed of those manly and business-like methods that ever win friends, and is almost certain to insure success among men in business calling. No man stands higher in the estimation of his neighbors and also among commercialcircles than he of whom we pen this notice. Like his father, Capt. John NOYES, he is a strong man, in almost any sense this term may be rightfully applied.

To measure a man's worth in a community we must needs sound the opinion of those with whom he has lived and labored for a term of years. In the vicinity of Mondamin, where Mr. NOYES has grown to mature years, the universal opinion is that he possesses great merit as a business man, as well as abiding friendship and candor as a citizen and neighbor..

Our subject's father's family settled just northwest of where Mondamin stands on section 20, of Morgan Township. The father had been twice married and was the father of thirteen children, of whom Z.T. was the ninth child. Of the eight children who still live, six reside in Harrison County: Etta, Mrs. BRYAN; Maria, Mrs. DOOLITTLE; John H.; Fillmore; G.W. Jr., and our subject.

Jane PYLE, daughter of Hayes and Nancy PYLE, of the Buckeye State, became Mr. NOYES' wife, September 9, 1873. Four children have come to bless their home-circle, three of whom still survive; the second born died when eighteen months of age. Ray, born February 10, 1876; Neddie, July 14, 1877, now deceased; Bessie, September 28, 1880, and Helen July 3, 1888.

In his home circle, Mr. NOYES takes much delight and is never so happy, as when surrounded by his interesting family, within the sacred place called home.

Politically, he believes in and supports by voice and ballot, the general principles of the Republican party. He is an honored member of Mondamin Lodge, No. 392, of the I.O.O.F. Mrs. NOYES is a consistent christian and identified with the Congregational church.

There are but few men who have not yet passed the prime of their manhood, who have achieved the almost enviable business and social reputation enjoyed by Mr. NOYES. Parentage and nature first gifted him with many talents and the school of every day experience has molded him into a man of eminence, of whom the world has none too many. The estimate thus placed upon him is but the universal opinion of his wide circle of admirers.

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