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         ADEN CURRY, a general farmer of Louisa County, Iowa, residing on section 10, Port Louisa Township, is a native of Fayette County, Ohio, where he was born Oct. 4, 1829. He is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Clevenger) Curry, the father a native of Maryland, and the mother of Virginia. In 1851 he came to this county with his parents, who settled on section 10, Port Louisa Township, where the father purchased 318 acres of land, which he greatly improved, and made his home until called to his final rest, Jan. 19, 1854, at the age of sixty-three years. The mother died in 1879, at the age of seventy-six . . .

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. . . years. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and earnest workers for the cause. The father was a Democrat in politics, and took an active interest in all political affairs.

Our subject was reared upon a farm, and has made his home in Port Louisa Township since 1851, with the exception of one year which he spent in Ohio. On the 25th of November, 1860, he led to the marriage altar Miss Sarah A. Ellis, a native of Blount County, Tenn., and by this union eleven children have been born: Hannah E., wife of John Asp, of Muscatine, Iowa; Canada C., who died in infancy; Minerva J., wife of B. F. Stroh, who lives in Columbus Junction; Lake Erie, who resides with his parents; Thomas J., John Ellis, Junieta, William O., Nona Charlotte; George, who died in infancy, and Mary Ellen. Mr. Curry is the owner of 103 acres of land, and is engaged in general farming. He has always been an enterprising and progressive farmer, and also a great reader, but lately has been afflicted with cataract of the eyes, and is denied that privilege. He and his wife are highly respected citizens in the township where they reside.