Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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JESSE F. NUZUM

Some of the best farming land in Harrison County, Iowa, is found in Allen township, and one of the most enterprising farmers on this section is J. F. NUZUM, who has been engaged in general farming and stock raising in this county for many years. He keeps well informed upon the latest advances in agricultural methods, and in this way makes a very comfortable living from his well improved farm. In common with most of the farmers of the county, he gets his greatest returns from the sale of live stock and as a producer of hogs ranks high among the farmers of his township. While interested in good government and all that it implies, he has never been active in politics and has never cared to aspire to official position.

J. F. NUZUM, the son of Jesse F. and Elizabeth (FONNER) NUZUM, was born June 25, 1856, in Delaware county, Iowa. His parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish and German descent, and reared a family of thirteen children.

Jesse F. NUZUM lived at home until he was twenty-one years of age. During this time, he received a good common school education and was trained by his father in those habits of thrift and industry which have made him the successful man he is today. After reaching his majority, he began to work out by the month, and for five or six years continued in this way. He then married and began rending land in Pottawattamie county, this state, for five or six years, and in 1891 came to Harrison county and bought 80 acres in Allen township, which he farmed for a few years, when he sold it and bought 60 acres near where the Allen postoffice used to be located, in section 4. One this farm he lived about eight years and in 1899 bought his present farm of one hundred twenty acres in Allen township in section 23. This farm is watered by a cross creek which runs through it and furnishes a plentiful supply of running water the year around. This feature adds not a little to the value of his farm and is of great advantage to him in the raising of stock. He feeds on an average about one hundred head of hogs for the market each year and also raises stock of other kinds in proportion.

Mr. NUZUM married on February 20, 1884, to Fanny FORD. She was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, daughter of Frederick and Rebecca (HORN) Ford. The Ford family are of English descent. Mr. And Mrs. NUZUM are the parents of eight children, seven of whom are living and two of whom are married. Bertha married John Tiffy and lives in Missouri Valley. Mr. And Mrs. Tiffy have two children, Carl and Burel. Frederick J. died when he was about twenty three years of age. The living children who are still at home are: Raymond; Albert; Linzy; Edith who married Antonia Wakehause in 1915; Lillie; and Howard. Mr. And Mrs. NUZUM are justly proud of their bright children, the father of whom delights to tell of the shrewdness of his youngest son, Howard. When only ten years of age, Howard could drive a keen bargain in making a trade. At this age, he traded an old milch cow for a six-year-old horse, although neither of his parents knew about the trade at the time it was made.

Mr. NUZUM is a Democrat but has never held an office and has no desire to engage in the game of politics. He prefers, rather, to devote all of his time to his farm and domestic circle. He is essentially a man of domestic tastes and is never happier than when seated by his own fireside and surrounded by his immediate family.

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