Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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LUCIUS D. WILLETT

Lucius D. WILLETT came to Harrison County in September, 1868, and settled on Allen Creek, in Magnolia Township, where he bought a piece of wild land, consisting of on hundred and sixty acres. He improved and lived upon this until the spring of 1877, when he sold and went to Nebraska, remained a short time, but sold, and came back to Harrison County, and bought the place on which he now lives, on section 33, of Boyer Township.

Mr. WILLETT hails from the old Green Mountain State, and was born in Franklin County, Vt, May 28, 1845, when seventeen years of age, went to Malone, N.Y., where he remained a year, and then enlisted in Company A, Third Vermont Infantry. This was under the last call of President Lincoln for troops to subdue the Rebellion. He served six months and was discharged at Burlington, Vt., after which he soon drifted West.

He married to Miss Frances HILLIS in Magnolia, March 15, 1871, and by this union six children were born � Abbie L, Sarah S., Harry C., Pansy M., Frederick E. and Samuel N.

Mrs. WILLETT was born in Jones County, Iowa, January 6, 1846, and when but a small child accompanied her parents to Harrison County, where she has lived ever since, with the exception of the time she was attend the college at Grinnell, of which school she is a graduate. Both Mr. and Mrs. WILLETT are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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