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 686
SILAS W. JACOBS, farmer and stock-breeder, Sec. 7; P. O. West Liberty; born in Washington Co., Vt., in 1830; came to Iowa in 1857, and located in Cedar Co.; removed to his present farm in 1862. Married Martha Carpenter in 1851; she was born in Washington Co., Vt, in 1836; have three children--Edwin, Mary and Whitman. Are members of the Christian Church; Democrat.

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