Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 535
WILLIAM F. SEE, residing on section 8,Goshen Township, was born in the county of Bath, Ky., in 1836, and was the fifth in a family of six children born to William and Michal ( Johnson ) See, both of whom were natives of Bourbon County, Ky. His father, who was a farmer by occupation, died in Kentucky in 1864, at the age of nearly seventy years, while his mother died in January, 1873, at the age of nearly seventy-five years. The See family was of German descent. the great-grandfather of our subject emigrating from Germany and settling in Virginia. On his mother's side the family was of Welsh and Irish descent, they emigrating to Virginia at a very early day, and from there to Kentucky.

William F. See was reared to farm life and educated in the district schools of Kentucky. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, for twelve months. He enlisted at Flemingsburg, Ky., and was mustered in at Covington, the same State. The regiment was engaged in guerrilla warfare during the whole time of its enlistment. Mr. See was honorably discharged ay Maysville, Ky., Sept. 17, 1863, and on the 10th of November, in the same year, he was united in marriage with Emeline L. Arnold, a native of Fleming County, Ky., and a daughter of Hanry and Frances ( Muse ) Arnold, who were also natives of Kentucky.

In 1864 our subject came to Iowa, settling in Jones County, where he purchased eighty acres of partly improved land, on which he erected a good house and barn, improved the land, and added to the farm from time to time until it comprised 340 acres. In the spring of 1881 he sold that farm, and in April of the same year came to Goshen Township, where he purchased 228 acres on section 8, of well-improved land. He has since added forty-two acres to his possessions, giving him a fine farm of 270 acres, all is under a good state of cultivation. He is engaged in general farming, and usually has on hand from sixty to seventy head of good grades of Short-horn cattle. He has also a fine grade of Clydesdale and Norman horses.

Our subject and wife are members of the Christian Church at West Liberty. In politics he is a Republican. They are parents of two children, Alice and Cora May, both of whom reside at home.

Mr. See has two sisters in Kentucky, Ann Eliza, widow of M.T.Mitchell, and Elizabeth T. King, residing in Fleming Co., Ky.

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