For
Muscatine County Iowa
1879
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1879 | |
Here is what the abbreviations in the bios stand for: far: farm; Co.: company or county; dir: dealer; IVA: Iowa Volunteer Artillery; IVC: Iowa Volunteer Cavalry; IVI: Iowa Volunteer Infantry; P.O.: Post Office; S. or Sec.: section; and st.: street.
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Biographical Section, 1879, page 660
JACOB BUMGARDNER, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Muscatine; born in Bath Co., Va., in 1815; his parents Adam and Mary Bumgardner, were natives of Virginia. He married in Virginia in 1838 Nancy Lang, who was born in West Virginia. Removed to Ohio about 1843, and came to Muscatine in the fall of 1854; on April 1, 1855, Mr. B. was appointed Superintendent of County House in Seventy-six Tp., which position he held for five years; he then purchased a farm in Seventy-six Tp., where he resided till November, 1875; he visited his old home in Virginia in 1875; returned and engaged in the mercantile business at Muscatine; purchased his present farm in 1877, where he located in 1878. His wife died in December, 1874; has had five children---three now living---Sarah M., born 1839; Marion, 1843, and Edward T., 1858; Porter born 1845, died 1874; the other child, deceased, died in infancy. Mr. B's farm contains 120 acres.
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