Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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ZACHARIAH TAYLOR NOYES

Prominent among the business factors in the community about Mondamin, Harrison County, Iowa, will be remembered Z. T. NOYES, who was born in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1849. His father, John NOYES, and his mother, Mary (STARKS) NOYES, were prominent in the early settlement of this county. John NOYES died in 1885. This is an Englishf amily, which emigrated to Maine and thence to Ohio at a very early date. Zachariah T. NOYES was only a small boy when his father, who was known as Captain NOYES, with his family, came to Harrison County. He was reared and educated on this western Iowa soil, and here he won out in the undertakings of a businessman. In youth, he worked around his father's steam saw-mill and upon the farm nearby. In 1872 he commenced merchandising in company with his father, the latter then being an extensive dealer in general merchandise and grain shipper. Upon the death of his father, he took full charge of the business at Mondamin, where success crowned his every effort. He built up a large trade and held the confidence and esteem of hundreds who bought and sold goods over his counter. He was an ardent supporter of the Republican party; belonged to the Congregational Church and was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He sold his interests in this county many years ago and now resides in one of the Pacific states.

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