For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 198
LINDLEY L. BIRKETT. Lindley L. Birkett, who is numbered among the worthy native sons of Muscatine county, has won a gratifying measure of prosperity in his undertaking as an agriculturist, being now the owner of two hundred and ninety acres of rich and arable land in Wapsinonoc township. His birth occurred on the 25th of June, 1875, his parents being Thomas and Susan ( Hargraves ) Birkett, the former a native of England and the latter of New Jersey. The father crossed the Atlantic to the United States when about twenty-one years of age, settling first in New York. He is now a retired agriculturist of West Liberty, and a complete review of his life is given on another page of this work. He was twice married, his first union being with Miss Lucy Hargraves, by whom he had two children, namely: Lucy, the wife of J. J. Nichols; and Charles E., who is deceased. By his marriage to Miss Susan Hargraves he had seven children, as follows: Lilla B., the wife of Edward Fitzgerald, of West Liberty; Edith M., who is the wife of Charles Mosher and resides in West Liberty; Bertha I., who gave her hand to Walter G. Mosher and makes her home in West Liberty; Leslie R., who passed away; Vincent H., living on the old homestead; Lindley L., of this review; and Fred T., a resident of Kansas.Lindley Birkett attended the public schools and was graduated from the West Liberty high school in 1893, after which he pursued a course of study in the Iowa State College at Ames. When twenty-one years of age he started farming for himself on the old homestead place in Wapsinonoc township, whereon he has resided continuously since. His holdings embrace two hundred and ninety acres of land, all of which he has brought to a high state of cultivation. The property is lacking in none of the improvements and conveniences of a model farm of the twentieth century and in its neat and thrifty appearance indicates the supervision of a practical and progressive owner. In connection with the tilling of the soil Mr. Birkett makes a specialty of raising cattle, which branch of his business adds materially to his income.
In politics Mr. Birkett is a republican, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. He was reared in the faith of the Methodist church. His entire life has been spent in Muscatine county and his good qualities have gained him the favorable regard and commendation of friends and neighbors.
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