For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 778
F. E. RYNEARSON....F. E. Rynearson, of Wilton township, can trace his ancestry on the paternal side to Norway, the great-grandfather coming to America in an early day. He also has fighting blood in his veins as he had four uncles who assisted valiently in upholding the Union flag in the Civil war. He is a native of Morgan county, Indiana, born May 14, 1860, and is a son of DeWitt Clinton and Rachel ( Wigham ) Rynearson. The father was born in Darke county, Ohio, and lived for a time in Indiana and Michigan, coming to Iowa in 1875. After spending five years in this state he went to Kansas for his health but was too late and died very soon after arriving there. He was a carpenter by trade but during the later years of his life devoted his attention to farming. The mother of our subject was a native of Morgan county, Indiana, and died in Muscatine county, Iowa, in 1877. There were nine children in the family, three of whom are now living : F. E., our subject ; Theodore, now a farmer in Keokuk, county, Iowa ; and Arminta, the wife of Grant Shepherd, of Columbus, Ohio.Educated in the common schools of Indiana and Bloomington township, Muscatine county, F. E. Rynearson continued at home until the death of his parents and then began providing for himself by working on a farm and later by running a steam engine. After several years he resumed farming and purchased land near Wilton, which he later sold, living in Pike county, Missouri, for one season. He then purchased a farm in Bloomington township, Muscatine county, which he sold in the spring of 1910, and acquired forty acres of well improved land upon which he now lives. He makes a specialty of raising Jersey cows, and having a practical knowledge of his business, has attained a goodly measure of success.
In 1885 Mr. Rynearson was married to Miss Lavina Lemney of Muscatine county, and unto them two children have beem born : Willis De Witt, who was born February 14, 1888, and is now a student in the high school at Wilton ; and Jennie, at home. Being a man of strong determination, Mr. Rynearson generally succeeds in what he undertakes. He has gained a substantial standing in the community which he selected as his permanent home and politically is affiliated with the republican party, to whose principles he gives his earnest support. He and his family are faithful members of the Latter Day Saints.
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