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 657
H. H. Fridley, far., Sec 10; P.O. Fairport; was born in Augusta Co., W. Va, Dec 4, 1818; removed, with his parents, to Ohio while he was quite young; settled in Ross Co., near Chillicothe, remaining there until 1843; then came to Iowa; located in Muscatine Co.; on the farm on which he has since resided. On Oct. 11, 1838, he married Miss Mary Calhoun, at Chillicothe, Ohio; she was a native of North Carolina. Mr. F. has held several offices in the county, and has also been engaged in some of the important enterprises of the county. He sunk the first coal shaft and opened the first coal mine in the county. The Fridleys in the United States area all descendants of Alexander Fridley, who came over with William Penn, forming a part of his first colony, and settled near Lancaster, Penn.; they were originally from Holland. Mr. F. is a very enterprising and public-spirited man; was an Old Line Whig, afterward a Republican. Mr. F's parents both died in Iowa--his father in 1853, and his mother in 1845.
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