1893 Biographies A to C

JARVIS ADAMS, the subject of this sketch, is the proprietor of the principal meat market in the town of Wall Lake, Iowa, and established the same December 1, 1887. Here he carries a very fine stock of choice meats, fish and poultry, finding it necessary to slaughter three beeves a week to accommodate his trade. Mr. Adams is a man of business, conducting a country line also, by which means he fills the wants of country customers. He has been a resident of this county since November, 1873.

Our subject is a native of Du Page county, Illinois, born October 18, 1848, and is the son of Clark and Permelia (La Due) Adams. The Adams family have been residents of this county for many years, some of the older members having made records in other States in the war of 1812, and two uncles, one brother, and several cousins serving through the late war. The parents of our subject are now deceased. The latter was brought up to work on a farm in Illinois, and was a pupil at the common schools. At the age of seventeen years he started out for himself, learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed for twenty-two years. In 1863 he left Illinois, and went to Kalamazoo county, Michigan, where he remained until 1872, and came West in 1873, locating in this county. He began farming on section 15, in Leroy township, upon eighty acres of raw prairie, which he had improved, and there he remained until 1887, but was engaged at his trade the most of his time.

Our subject also broke up a farm for his father, erecting a house and barn; and during the fourteen years that he worked at his trade in this county, he erected many buildings in Sac county, also in Crawford county. In 1887 he came to Wall Lake, and engaged in the butcher business, which he is still following, and has shown much energy in conducting it. Politically, he is a Republican, and is now serving as a member of the City Council, is also a director of the Waterworks. Socially our subject is a member of A. F. & A. M., Lake Lodge, No. 390: Darius Chapter, No. 58; 1. O. O. F., Wall Lake Lodge, No. 360; Encampment, Franklin No. 134; K. of P., Chevalier Lodge. In the Masonic lodge he is a Junior Warden, and is a member of the Rebekah and Eastern Star lodges.

The marriage of our subject took place in Michigan, in 1871. to Miss Mattie Hawley, who died December 27, 1886, at the age of thirty-six years, leaving two children, Grace and Laura. May 24, 1892, our subject married again, this union being with Miss Sadie Gray, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1878 Mr. Adams passed through a tornado, which carried away all of his buildings, utterly destroying them. His family were saved by having reached a cave in safety, but nothing else remained. He had to begin again, and is now among the most prosperous of the citizens of Wall Lake.

C. E. ALLEN, of Levey township, Sac county, Iowa, post office, Odebolt, widely and favorably known in this locality, where he has resided since 1873, was born in Clinton county, New York, August 30, 1852. His parents, David and Sarah (Mills) Allen, were natives of New York State and New Hampshire, respectively, and were both descended from early settlers of the United States. They were pioneers of Illinois, whence they removed, in 1873, to Iowa. In the latter State the father bought of the Iowa Railroad Land Company 360 acres, on which the family settled, in all the isolation of an unbroken waste of prairie. Here they lived and toiled with all the untiring energy and determined perseverance of the hardy pioneer, gradually making for themselves a comfortable and pleasant home. Here the father died in 1888, while the mother, who still survives, resides with her children in this county.

Mr. Allen, whose name heads this sketch, was quite young when his parents removed to Illinois, where he was reared and educated. In 1873 he accompanied the family to this State, and experienced with them the hardships of pioneer life. He has many anecdotes to relate of those early days, all of which are interesting, and many of them thrilling. The howl of wolves at night frequently aroused them to the protection of themselves and stock, while prairie fires, so destructive in their effects, were a continual source of alarm. Game was plentiful, such as deer, wild geese, duck and prairie chicken, while the streams were full of fish. Mr. Allen was much given to hunting deer, and brought home many prizes from his expeditions. Although he is still a young man, he has a thorough knowledge of frontier life, having been a pioneer in two States.

He was married December 24, 1876, to Miss Jennie E. Bartlett, an intelligent lady, daughter of Ichabod and Mary (Frick) Bartlett, natives of New York State and Pennsylvania, respectively. They have seven children: David, Edson, George, Jesse, Olive, Carl and Ella.

Politically, Mr. Allen is a Republican, although not active in public affairs. As a a citizen, he enjoys the merited esteem of the entire community.

H. R. ALLEN, well and favorably known throughout Iowa as a trustworthy man and efficient citizen, at present the popular Sheriff of Sac county, was born in Clinton county, New York, December 14, 1835. His parents were David and Sarah (Mills) Allen, a notice of whom was given in the sketch of C. £. Allen in this volume.

Mr. Allen passed the first twenty years of his life in his native county, receiving such education as the county schools afforded, and being reared to agricultural pursuits. In 1855 he accompanied the family to Illinois, which was at that time on the extreme frontier. They located on land in Kane county, where they followed farming for many years.

These peaceful pursuits were interrupted by the great civil conflict, and on August 14, 1862, Mr. Allen enlisted in Company I, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, serving in some of the principal engagements of the war. He assisted in capturing Vicksburg, and participated in the battle of Champion Hills, was in the Red river expedition and in several minor engagements. At Vicksburg, he received a gunshot wound in his right hand, necessitating the amputation of the index ringer.

On the close of the war, he resumed his former occupation of farming, and in 1873, accompanied the family to Sac county, Iowa, locating in Levey township. Here he was at first engaged in agricultural pursuits, but in 1877 embarked in the hardware business in Wall Lake, in the same county, and had a large trade in farming implements, etc. He was postmaster of Wall Lake one term, and also filled the office of Mayor one term, and for two years acted as express agent at the same place. In 1889 he was elected Sheriff of the county, and fulfilled his duties so efficiently in that capacity that he was re-elected in 1891. He is brave and trustworthy, and has gained the full confidence of his fellow-citizens.

He was married, in 1854, to Miss Anna Bartholomew, of Elgin, Illinois, and they have two children: Lettie and Fannie.

Politically Mr. Allen is a staunch Republican. Socially he belongs to the G. A. R., and A. F. & A. M., chapter and commandery of K. T. Few men are more deservedly popular, and few are more strongly characterized by uprightness and fidelity in all the walks of life.

S. G. ALLEN, residing on a farm near Lake View, in Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, is one of the well-known pioneers of the county, he having located here in 1866, when this country was all new and wild.

Mr. Allen was born in Essex county, New York, in February, 1843, son of Ira and Sarah (Goodspeed) Allen, natives of a place near Otter Creek. Vermont. The Allens are of [rish descent, and the Goodspeeds of English. Grandfather Allen served in the war of 1812, and Grandfather Goodspeed had a rother in that war. Ira and Sarah Allen had a family of eight children, seven sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, N. S. and S. G., served in the late war.

Mrs. Allen died in St. Lawrence county, New York, at the age of forty-seven years, and Mr. Allen passed away in the same county at the age of eighty. He was a farmer all his life. In politics he was at first a Whig and afterward a Republican.

S. G. Allen was reared in his native country, receiving his education in the district schools. In 1862 he enlisted in Company L, Eleventh New York Cavalry, for a term of three years, and was in the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 the regiment was stationed at New Orleans for six months and at Baton Rouge three months; was on garrison duty a portion of the time and was also in pursuit of bushwhackers. He was honorably discharged in July, 1865, at Memphis, Tennessee, after which he returned to his home in Essex county, New York. The following spring he came to Sac county, Iowa, and settled in Coon Valley township, where he rented land until the spring of 1892. Then he purchased eighty acres oi improved land, the property on which he now resides.

Mr. Allen was married in 1866, in Essex county, New York, to Miss Mary Jane Bobbins, a native of St. Lawrence county, that State, and a daughter of George Robbins. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have had five children, three of whom are living: Henry S., Sadie E., and Mabel Sylva. Nellie and Frank are deceased.

Mr. Allen was identified with the Republican party, and is a member of the G. A. R. Post at Grant City, Iowa.

W. H. ALLEN - the post-office of Early has been under the efficient management of our subject since July 8, 1889, and he is now serving his fourth year in that capacity. This is a fourth-class office and was located in its present commodious quarters in 1890. The office was established in 1883, two miles from the present town. Our subject came to Sac county the same year that the office over which he was destined to preside was established, in 1S83, and located in Early. At that time the place contained two general stores, the same number of hardware stores, saloons, blacksmith shops, three elevators, a drug store and the Methodist Episcopal Church. After coming here Mr. Allen engaged with Meveness Bros., proprietors of an elevator.

Mr. Allen was born in Rutland, England, January 22, 1842, the son of James and Ann (Bryan) Allen, natives of England, who left their native land in 1852. Upon arrival in New York they settled on a farm, and later removed to Corry, Pennsylvania, where the father engaged in the flouring-mill business. He still resides at Corry, Pennsylvania, although his wife died in New York in 1852. Mr. Allen, Sr., was a Church of England man in his native country. He and his wife reared a family of four sons and one daughter, of whom our subject was the oldest. The next child, Joseph, enlisted in the Tenth New York Cavalry, and died in the service; John enlisted in a New York Cavalry regiment, and is now probably living in New York; Margaret is living m the West; and Thomas, who was born in New York, now resides in Erie county, his native State.

Until our subject was twelve his parents lived in England, but at that age they removed to New York, where he continued in the common schools of Erie county, New York, the education begun in the schools of England.

When still a boy he came to DeKalb county, Illinois, where he finished his education, alternating attending school with work on the farm. At the outbreaking of the war he responded to the first call for men, and enlisted in April, 1861, in Company F, Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, for three years. He was mustered into service at Dixon, Illinois, being assigned to the Southwest army, participating in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou; Arkansas Post, Arkansas; Jackson, Mississippi; siege of Vicksburg; two battles at Jackson, Mississippi; was then taken to Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge and Madison Station. Alabama, where they were attacked by General Forrest. After this our subject returned home and was honorably discharged, June, 1864. He then enlisted in Chicago, in February, 1865, entering Company F, One Hundred and Forty- seventh Infantry, for one year, and was engaged in skirmishing, bushwhacking and scouting in Georgia. The regiment was stationed at Dalton, Resaca, New Albany, Calhoun and also at Savannah. At the latter place our subject was discharged and mustered out, February, 1866, at Springfield, Illinois. During his first term of service he was a private, but at the close he had been promoted to be a Corporal.

For two years following his return from the army our subject engaged in farming in De Kalb county, Illinois, then removed to Sycamore to accept a position in the Marsh Harvester Works, remaining with this company until the time of his coming to Sac county, Iowa. He was married at Sycamore, Illinois, in November, 1868, to Mrs. E. L. Welling, a native of De Kalb county, daughter of Henry and Emily (Harrison) Townsend, natives of England, and early pioneers of DeKalb county. The mother is still living, but the father died in De Kalb county in 1881. Mrs. Allen was the widow of E. J. Welling and had one child, E. Welling, now a jeweler of Early. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have three children: Claude, married, residing in Early; Mabel; and Minnie, wife of E. H. Ekerly, of Early.

Mr. Allen is a Republican and takes great interest in the advancement of that party. At present he is the President of the Village School Board. He has been very prominent in G. A. R., McDowell Post, No. 391, being elected Commander of the post in 1892, for 1893. At the time of the election he was Adjutant of the post. Also, he has been prominently connected with St. Elmo Lodge, No. 462, A. F. & A. M., and is the present W. M., serving his third year. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Eastern Star, she being its present Treasurer. She is also an efficient member of the Woman's Relief Corps, being the President of the same in this locality. During his nine years' residence in this county, our subject has seen many changes, and has taken part in all the important measures for the development of the resources of the country.

H. H. ALLISON, the efficient and popular cashier of the First National Bank of Sac City, Iowa, was born in Freeport, Illinois, March 5, 1854, son of Abraham and Fannie (Hogan) Allison, natives of the Keystone State.

Mr. Allison was educated in the common schools of Vinton, Iowa, and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age. He was then occupied, first, at carpentry, and afterward in the lumber business, which latter employment be followed for seven years. In 1885 he removed to Sac City, and became cashier of the Citizens' Bank, which was incorporated as a National bank in November, 1890, and the name changed to the First National Bank of Sac City.

December 6, 1876, Mr. Allison was married to Miss Lillie Stoue, of Vinton county, and they have one child, Grace Dell, born April 30, 1S80.

Politically, he is an advocate of Republican principles. Religiously, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church. As a financier and citizen his integrity and ability are universally conceded, and he stands deservedly high in his community.

T. J. ANDRE, a physician and surgeon of Schaller, Iowa, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, May 10, 1857, a son of John L. Andre, a native of Pennsylvania, and a lineal descendant of Major Andre, of Revolutionary fame. The mother of our subject, nee Rachel Ann Taylor, was born in Stark county, Ohio, and was a relative of General Zachariah Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Andre located at Big Rock, Scott county, Iowa, in 1804, but later went to Bennett, Cedar county, were they still reside.

T. J. Andre, the subject of this sketch, received a good edncation in the Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, and in New Sharon, this State. After leaving school he taught for some time in Mahaska county, and later began the study of medicine with Dr. McAlister, and next with Dr. Coolidge, a well-known physician of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Mr. Andre graduated with honor at the Rush Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, in the class of 1882. September 14 of that year he came to Scballer, where he now has a large and extensive practice, and also owns the pioneer drug store of this city.

Our subject was married in Storm Lake, Iowa, to Cora Pettit, a native of Clayton county, this State, but reared and educated in Storm Lake. She is a daughter of O. D. and Eda (Hutchins) Pettit. Mr. and Mrs. Andre have two children: Edna Rachel and Dorothy Josephine. Politically. Mr. Andre affiliates with the Republican party, and socially is a member of Des Moines Valley Medical Association, of the Maple Valley Medical Association, of the Masonic order, Acme Lodge, No. 457, and of the A. O. U. W. Mrs. Andre is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

PLATT ARMSTRONG, a retired farmer, and one of the prominent founders of Lake View, was born in Canada, September 10, 1833, a son of Henry Armstrong, a native of the same country. His father was a native of Ireland, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The mother of our subject, nee Martha Grusey, was also born in Canada, a daughter of Samuel Grnsey, of Vermont.

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Platt Armstrong, the subject of this sketch, was reared and educated in his native country. In 1854 he came by railroad to Freeport, Illinois, and thence with teams to Clinton county, Iowa, settling at Lost Nation. He there improved a farm of 240 acres, but in 1877 sold out and purchased land in Sac county, which he gave his sons. In 1880 he bought 160 acres, which he made one of the best farms in Sac county, but in 1884 sold that land to Rudolph Hershey, except ten acres, which he platted as an addition to the the town of Fletcher, now Lake View, making the plat in 1882. This was the lirst land in Sac county sold as high as $50 an acre. Mr. Armstrong then engaged in the real-estate business in Le Mars, Plymouth county, and Pierson, Woodbury county, Iowa. He bought 160 acres, which he improved, and to which he later added twenty-six acres, all of which he sold in 1891. In 1892 he purchased sixty acres known as Thompson tract, located on the north end of Wall Lake, which he surveyed and platted, and this is one of the most desirable and valuable residence portions in the city of Lake View.

In 1862 Mr. Armstrong enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry, Company 1, took part in the siege of Vicksburg, with Sherman on his march to the sea, in the Carolina campaigns, and took part in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. In his political views he affiliates with the Republican party, and has held many of the offices of his township. Socially, he is a member of the G. A R. post at Le Mars.

Our subject was first married at the age of twenty years to Miss Emelia McCarter, a native of St Lawrence county New York, and a daughter of Robert McCarter. They had one child, Alden, now a business man of Lake View. The wife and mother died in Iowa in 1854. In 1856 Mr. Armstrong was married to Amanda McCarter, a sister of his former wife, and they have had seven children: Kimball, engaged in the grain business at Schaller, Sac county, Iowa, with his brother, Moody, grain merchant at Schaller, Iowa; Rufus, of Chamberlain, South Dakota; Emelia, wife of A. Thayer, of Rock Valley, Sioux county, Iowa; Nina L., wife of George D. Mann, of Pierson, Woodbury county; Lowry, at home; and Guernsey, deceased at the age of twenty months. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are members of the New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church. Our subject is one of the leading promoters of Lake View, and takes an active interest in the prosperity of this city and Sac county. He was the original founder of the town of Lake View, having originated the scheme of locating a town on the banks of the beautiful little lake, which is one of the most attractive spots in this part of Iowa, and which is fast becoming famous as a place of resort during the heated season of the year. Mr. Armstrong is engaged in the banking business, in company with his brother-in-law, Robert McCarter. at Mooreville, Iowa.

C. R. BAILEY, one of the prominent and representative citizens of Delaware township, P. O. Leota, has made the township his home since 1880. He was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1851, the son of Joab and Pleasant Jane (Roberts) Bailey, natives of Greene county, Pennsylvania, where they were reared, educated and married. A family of four sons and the same number of daughters blessed their union, six of whom attained maturity, two dying previously at five years of age. Our subject was only a few months of age when his parents removed to De Witt county, Illinois, in the fall of 1851, becoming pioneers of that county. The father died in De Witt county April 26, 1869, but the mother survived until April 18, 1876, when she, too, died in the same county. His father was a prominent farmer, and taught a number of terms of school. He was a prominent member of the church until death. He enlisted in the Union army in 1862 at De Witt, Illinois, and was mustered in at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. He served two years and eleven months, and was honorably discharged at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, July 3, 1865.

Our subject was reared in DeWitt county, Illinois, to farm life, receiving his education in the common schools of the county. He can remember having seen deer and wolves in droves on the wild prairies of Illinois in his childhood days. He remained in Illinois until 1880, engaged in farming. At that date he removed to Buena Vista county, Iowa, remained a short time, and then went to Sac county, and in 1881 purchased his farm, which was partly improved, consisting of 108 acres, situated six and one-half miles from Newell, Iowa. He has now brought it to a good state of cultivation, well improved; the residence is a comfortable two-story one, 14 x 24 feet, with a one-story L, the yard being surrounded by a small orchard and a fine three-acre grove. On this fine farm our subject carries on dairying and general farming.

The marriage of our subject occurred December 17, 1885, with Miss Eva S. Cushman, born in Fayette county, Iowa, a daughter of H. A. and Esther M. (Clark) Cushman, the former residing in Newell, Iowa, the latter deceased in January, 1891 at the age of sixty-seven years. They had a family of five children, two sons and three daughters, all having lived to maturity, Mrs. Bailey having been reared and educated in Fayette and Buena Vista counties, Iowa. She was a teacher in Buena Vista county for thirteen years prior to her marriage, and also taught for one term in Sac county. Two children have been born to our subject and his wife, namely: Homer E., born November 30, 1886; and Essie M., born June 6, 1890.

Mr. Bailey takes an active interest in politics, being connected with the Third party. He is a prominent man in his township, and has served as Justice of the Peace. He is still in the prime of life, and his frank, manly manner wins for him friends wherever he chances to be. He is actively interested in whatever tends to be of benefit to the township and county.

S. M. BARNT, whose post-office address is Early, Sac county, Iowa, is ranked with the most prominent men of Clinton township. In sketching the lives of the representative citizens of Sac county, we make the following record of him, and with pleasure present it on the pages of this volume.

Mr. Barnt was born in Fayette, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1844. His father, David Barnt, was a son of David Barnt, both natives of Pennsylvania, the latter being a soldier in the war of 1812. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary M. Resler, was also born in the Keystone State. When S. M. was seven years old his parents moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where, some years later, his father died, aged forty-six. He led an exemplary life; was by occupation a farmer, and in religion a devoted member of the United Brethren Church. The mother died in Tama county, Iowa, at the age of sixty-four years. Their family was composed of seven sons and five daughters. Two of the sons served in the late war, Daniel R., who was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, lost the use of his arm at Spottsylvania Court House, and Levi, who served in an Ohio regiment.

The subject of our sketch resided in Ohio until 1869, when he came to Tama county, Iowa and located near Toledo, remaining there until 1878. That year he settled in Sac county. His first purchase of land in Clinton township was 240 acres, and to this he has since added until he is the owner of 826 acres, all under a high state of cultivation; his home farm comprising 518 acres is known as Brookside farm. He has 149 acres near Early, twenty acres being within the corporate limits of the town. He also owns 135 acres in Wall Lake township. Besides being the owner of this property, he has $5,500 invested in a meat and provision market at Early. Mr. Barnt's commodious two-story residence, with its bay window, veranda, attractive lawn, grove and orchard of nine acres, is one of the finest homes in Sac county, the general surroundings at once stamping the owner and his family as people of culture and refinement as well as affluence. His farm is well supplied with good barns, cribs, granary, etc., and has an excellent supply of spring water. He also has a creamery on his farm, which was built in 1878, and which is fitted up with modern machinery. Among his stock are tine speed mens of Norman horses and shorthorn cattle.

Mr. Barnt was married December 18, 1872, in Tama county, Iowa, to Adelaide A. Smith, a native of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and a daughter of Henry and Jane (La Bounty) Smith, the former a native of Connecticut, and the latter of Ashtabula county, Ohio. Grandfather Smith was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Grandfather La Bounty was a native of Canada and the son of French parents. Mrs. Barnt's father died in Sac county Iowa, at the age of seventy-five, and her mother is a resident of Sac County. Mr. and Mrs. Barnt have three children: Henry Smith, Jessie May and Levi R. Henry S. received his education in the Sac Normal, and is now a succssful teacher in this county, and Miss Jessie is also a popular and successful teacher.

Politically, Mr. Barnt is a Republican and has most acceptably filled the office of Justice of the Peace. He and his wife are members of the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a Trustee and a liberal supporter. He is also an active Sabbath-school worker. His daughter, Miss Jessie, is Secretary of the Sabbath school.

Such, in brief, is the biography of one of Clinton township's well-known men.

G. Z. BARRICK, a successful farmer of Sac county, was born in Northumberland county, Virginia, August 15, 1848, a son of William F. and Sarah (Brumley) Barrick, natives also of Virginia. The father was a member of an old and prominent family, ami the mother was of German ancestry. The former was a farmer by occupation, a Democrat in his political views, and religiously, a preacher of the Baptist Church. He died when our subject was seven years old.

G. Z. Barrick was but a babe when his mother died, and he was reared by his grandmother Barrick, on a farm, until fourteen years of age. He received a limited education in the common schools, and for a number of years was employed in oystering on Chesapeake bay. In 1871 he came West to Platt county, Illinois; later to DeWitt county, and in 1878 came to Sac county, Iowa. He was one of the first settlers in this township, where he now owns a well-improved farm of 160 acres, with a good dwelling, 11 x 21 feet, and an L, 14 x 16 feet, one and a half stories high, with kitchen, 10 x 12 feet; also a good barn, and all the necessary farm buildings, and everything about his place shows the thrift and prosperity of the owner, He also has an apple orchard of ninety trees, most of them bearine fruit, and an abundance of small fruit; also a good grove.

March 18, 1875, he was united in marriage to Miss Clarissa Bailey, who was born April 18, 1849, in Greene county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Joab and Pleasant Jane (Roberts) Bailey, who were born, reared and educated in Pennsylvania, and afterward moved to DeWitt county. Illinois, where they were prominent and well-known citizens. Mrs. Barrick was the eldest child in a family of eight children, six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, two having died in infancy. At this writing (1893), two brothers and a sister are the sole survivors of this once large family. She was two years of age when arriving at DeWitt county, Illinois; here she was reared and educated.

Joab Bailey was a soldier in the late war, serving as drummer in the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Infantry, and remaining two years and eleven months. While in service his company was stationed at Camp Douglas eighteen months, and at the close of the struggle was honorably discharged. He then returned to his home and family, arriving there July 4, 1865. Being a man of excellent educational abilities, he taught school in the home of his youth and also in De Witt county, Illinois. He was a farmer by occupation; a Republican politically, and was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He died April 26, 1869, at forty-six years of age, his wife following him April 18, 1876, aged forty-nine years.

Our subject and wife have one daughter, Mary Leota, born May 11, 1882, and the town of Leota was named in her honor. Politically, Mr. Barrick affiliates with the Republican party, and he, his wife and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a Trustee.

MARCELLUS BARTLETT, Odebolt, Iowa, residing on a farm of 240 acres, in Clinton township, Sac county, has been a citizen of this township since 1875. As one of its prosperous farmers and representative citizens, it is appropriate that more than a passing mention should be made of him on these pages.

Mr. Bartlett was born in Essex county, New York, August 3, 1851, son of Ichabod and Lucinda (Handy) Bartlett, his father being a native New England. They moved West when Marcellus was quite young and settled in Scott county, Iowa, and at Le Claire, that county. The mother died when he was four years old, leaving a family of three children, as follows: James, now a resident near Wiser, Whatcom county, Washington; Marcellus; and Albert, deceased. After living in Scott county three years and a half, the father moved to Rock Island county, Illinois, and two years later came bark to Iowa, settling in Clinton county, near DeWitt.

The subject of our sketch grew up on a farm, receiving his education in the district schools. From Clinton county he went to Linn county, locating six miles west of Cedar Rapids, thence to Boonesborough, Boone county, where he resided two years, thence to Sac county. His first purchase in this county was eighty acres, and to this he has since added until now he is the owner of 240 acres, all under a high state of cultivation ami well improved, with good buildings. His residence is a story and a half, 14 x 22 feet, with an L, 12 x 18 feet; tenant house, 14 x 22 feet, with an L, 14 x 14; barn, which was erected in 1892, is 62 x 60 feet. He has a modern wind-pump and a grove and orchard of six acres.

Mr. Bartlett was married at the age of twenty, near DeWitt, Iowa, to Maria Dawson, a native of Lincolnshire, England, daughter of Thomas and Maria Dawson, natives of that country. Her father died in Clinton county, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have had five children, namely: Hattie May and Carrie Maria, twins, both having been successful teachers in Sac county, and now are students in the Sioux City University; Mary Lucinda, who died at the age of nine years and ten months; Nettie B., and Elta.

Politically, Mr. Bartlett is a Prohibitionist. He has tilled several of the township offices, and has served as member of the School Board a number of years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a Classleader of the same. He has affiliated with the A. O. U. W. since 1887. A man in the prime of life, frank and cordial in manner, active in everything tending to benefit the community in which he lives, he is popular with all who know him.

THOMAS BATIE, another one of the representative citizens of Coon Valley township. Sac county, Iowa, resides on a fine farm of 260 acres, in section 33. He has lived in this township since 1878, and is well known throughout the county, having at one time served as County Sheriff. A resume of his life will he read with interest by many, and is as follows:

Thomas Batie was born in London, Canada, July 19, 1835, son of Adam and Mary (Robson) Batie, natives of Scotland. His parents settled in London, Canada, at an early day, and in 1851 emigrated to Grant county, Wisconsin, settling near Bloomington, where they passed the rest of their lives. The father died in 1857 and the mother in 1863. The father was by occupation a farmer, and in religion a Presbyterian. They reared a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters.

The subject of our sketch came to his present location in 1873. His lirst purchase of land here was eighty acres, and to this he has since added, making improvements from year to year, until he is now the owner of a fine farm of 260 acres. His cottage home, a story and a half, is 20x26 feet, with an L, 12 x 16 feet. His barn is 60 x 64 feet, and a grove, orchard and evergreens are among the other improvements he has put upon his place.

Mr. Batie was married at the age of twenty-four, in Grant county, Wisconsin, to Miss Letitia Wildman, a native of Sullivan county, New York, and a daughter of James and Margaret (Whitman) Wildman. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman had a family of eight children. One son, Henry, served in the late war as a member of Company D, Thirtv-third Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Batie had four children, namely: William F., a farmer of Coon Valley township; Henry A., at home, is one of Sac county's successful teachers; Adam R., at home; and Maggie, wife of J. J. Fitzsimmons, of Elm Grove. Mrs. Batie departed this life December 5. 1890.

Politically, Mr. Batie's views arc in harmony with Republican principles, and to that party he gives his vote and influence. He has served as Justice of the Peace, and has twice been elected Sheriff of Sac county, in 1885 and 1886, faithfully performing the duties of that office two terms. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having been made a Mason in Sac City, Occidental Lodge, in 1886, and now having his membership in Laurel Lodge, No. 517. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Auburn. Mr. Batie has the characteristics of a pioneer, is frank and cordial in his manner, and is interested in every thing tending to benefit the community in which he resides.

DAVID W. BELT, who resides on a farm of 240 acres in section 32 of Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, is one of the well-known early pioneers of the township and is ranked with the representative citizens of the county. Briefly a sketch of his life is as follows:

David W. Belt was born in Licking county, Ohio, May 3, 1839. Benjamin Belt, his father, also a native of Ohio, was a descendant of early settlers of America, some of his ancestors having been participants in the Revolutionary war. Our subject's mother was before her marriage Miss Mary Ann Jewell, and she, too, was a native of Ohio. When he was three years old, his parents moved to Whiteside county, Illinois, and located near Lyndon, on a tract of Government land. There the mother died. The father subsequently came to Sac county, Iowa, where his death ocenrred aged, eighty-six years. They reared a family of six children, namely: David W., whose name heads this article; Moses M., who served in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, during the late war; George C., also a member of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, is now a resident of Portland, Oregon; Martha J., Ed., and Marilda.

Mr. Belt was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, under General Farnsworth and Captain Glendenning, and re-enlisted in 1863. He participated in the memorable battle of Gettysburg, where his regiment lost heavily. His regiment was in eighty-two battles and skirmishes, a greater part of the time waging warfare against General Mosby. Mr. Belt entered the service as a private and was promoted to Corporal. At the close of the war he returned to Whiteside county, Illinois, and a few years later came from there to Sac county, Iowa. At that time this part of the country was all wild and new and there were no houses for miles around except a few at Wall Lake. He settled on Coon river, where he bought 210 acres of land; has developed it into a fine farm, and for twenty-two years has been engaged in farming and stock-raising here.

Mr. Belt was married at the age of twenty-eight to Miss Martha Jane Cargay, a native of Ohio and a daughter of James Cargay. They had three children: Walter A., a resident of this township; Fannie Edith Josephine, a music, teacher, residing at home; and William Anson. Mrs. Belt departed this life in L881.

Mr. Belt affiliates with the Republican party, and has served as Township Trustee and as a member of the School Board. He is a member of the G. A. R., W. T. Sherman Post, No. 284, Sac City, in which he has served as Junior Vice two years. He has a membership in the I. O. O. F., at Lake View. Mr. Belt is a man in the prime of life, is frank and cordial in manner, and is one of the representative men of Sac county.

GEORGE BLASS, one of the well-known and representative citizens of Sac county, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in October, 1836, a son of Lenhart and Anna May (Hoch) Blass. The mother died in Germany, at the age of seventy- six years, and the father afterward came to Lee county, Illinois, where hedied at the age of seventy years. He was a farmer by occupation, and a member of the Lutheran Church.

George Blass, our subject, was reared and educated in his native land. In 1857, at the age of twenty-one years, he sailed from Hamburg, reaching New York on May 1 following, and on the following 14th he left for Lee county, Illinois, locating near Mendota. He was engaged in farming there until in October, 1861, when he enlisted in the Fifty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry; was first under fire at Shiloh, and was there wounded by a minie ball on the left side of the face. After spending three months in the hospital, Mr. Blass returned home for six weeks; later joined his regiment at Memphis, Tennessee; took part in the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Black River Bridge, Haine's Bluff, and in the latter place his regiment met with a heavy loss. He then returned to Vicksburg; later went to Jackson, took part in the battles of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, and his regiment on the extreme left; then marched to Nashville, reaching there after a severe inarch, and barefooted. Our subject afterward received a veteran furlough, joined the division at Big Shanty, took part in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain, Jonesboro, followed Hood back to Tennessee, went to Atlanta, thence to Savannah, Fort, McAllister, Columbia, Richmond, Washington, District of Columbia, Louisville, and was honorably discharged at Arkansas Post. After the close of the struggle Mr. Blass returned to Lee county, Illinois, and in 1874 began improving a farm in Benton county, Iowa. In 1882 he traded his land there for 160 acres in Boyer Valley, Sac county, where he now resides. The farm is well improved, has a good frame house, one and a half stories high, 16 x 24 feet, and all other farm conveniences.

In 1865, in Lee county, Illinois, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Kessler, a native of Saxony, and a daughter of Bonial and Margaret (Baumgardner) Kessler, natives also of Germany. The mother died in her native country, and the father in Illinois, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a farmer by occupation, and a member of the Lutheran Church. He had one son in tho late war, Hartman, a member of the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, and now a resident of Benton county, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Blass have nine children: George, Lena H., Rosa It.; Rosetta, attending school in Sac City; Katie, Anna, Fred, Christian and Herman.

Our subject takes an active interest in the Republican party, and, socially, is a member of Colonel Goodrich Post, No. 117 of Odebolt. Both he and his wife were reared in the Lutheran faith. Mr. Blass is well known and respected, and is one of the
prominent men of his township.

J. C. BODINE, a well-to-do farmer of Cook township, Sac county, Iowa, post office Schaller, was born February 8, 1835. His parents were Gilbert and Harriet (Swartout) Bodine, natives of Pennsylvania and New York, respectively. His father was of French origin, and his mother's ancestors were from Holland.

Mr. Bodine was the seventh of eleven children, and received his education in the common schools in New York. At nineteen years of age he took charge of his father's farm, on which he remained until 1865. Hearing favorable reports of the West, where land was cheap and good, he removed to Aurora, a prosperous city of Illinois at that time. He here engaged in the stock business, in which he continued with fair success for about two and a half years. He then removed to Grinnell in Poweshiek county, Iowa, where he farmed nine years. In 1876 he came to his present desirable location, and bought a half section of unbroken prairie land from the railroad company. Great changes have been worked by industrious cultivation and the lapse of time, until this is now one of the choicest farming spots in the world.

He has always been a stalwart Democrat. He is an advocate of all enterprises having for their object the advancement of the community. Although his county is largely Republican, he was elected Treasurer on the Democratic ticket, and has held various other positions of trusts, showing that in his case the office seeks the man.

H. H. BOGETT - Since 1873, Cedar township, Sac county, Iowa, has been the home of our subject. He was born on the Susquehanna river, in Montour county, Pennsylvania, July 25, 1839, a son of John Bogett, who was born in Columbia county. Pennsylvania, and he was a son of Godfret Bogett, a aative of Holland, who served in tliis country in the war of 1812. The mother of our subject was named in her maiden days, Mary Garmour, born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and both her parents died in Montour county. The father was twice married, rearing eight children by the first marriage and two by the second, and three are now living.

Our subject was the youngest child by the first marriage. One of his brothers, Aaron, was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment in the late war, and now lives in Montour county, Pennsylvania. Our subject was reared to farm life, receiving his education in the excellent schools of his native State. In 1865 he removed to St. Joseph, Michigan, where he lived tor two years, engaged in farming, and then removed to Mercer county, Illinois, where he lived for some time, but in 1870 moved to Story county, Iowa. For two years he lived near Ames in that county, and then removed to Sac county, Iowa, where he settled upon eighty acres of wild land. This land he has opened up and improved, and he now owns 160 acres in Coon and Cedar Valley townships. This land is under a high state of cultivation, and our subject has a nice home. The cottage is 14 x 28 feet, with an L, 18 x 28, and this is surrounded hy a fine grove and an excellent orchard. The grove is a feature of the place, containing maple, willow, box-elder and cotton wood trees. Besides this, our subject has had the wisdom to set out a large amount of small fruit, and thus provide an abundance of delicious berries, etc., for the table. At this place may he found all the indications of a good farmer; a barn, 30 x 58 feet, with sheds, yard, feed lots, and all of this is well fenced and well adapted to stock-raising and feeding.

Our subject was married February 26, 1863, in Montour county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Agnes Stettler, who was born in Montour county, a daughter of Joshna and Elizabeth (Cowsley) Stettler, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, and are now deceased, the father in Pennsylvania, and the mother at White Pigeon, St. Joseph county, Michigan. They reared a family of six children, one son and five daughters.

Our subject and wife had one daughter, Regina, who died at the age of two and one-half years. Our subject has taken an interest in politics, votes with the Democratic party, and has served in the various local offices in the gift of the party. As a member of the School Hoard and as Township Clerk he has given complete satisfaction. He and his excellent wife are among the honored pioneers of Sac county. He has always taken a deep interest in all that tends to the advancement of the county.

O. K. BOOTH - Among the well-known and highly respected citizens of Sac county, who settled in Delaware township in 1885, occurs the name of the subject of this short biographical sketch. He was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, March
14, 1840, the son of Jesse and Anna (Richards) Booth, both natives of the same place. The grandfather of our subject, Edwin Booth, was a native of Ireland, while the father of Mrs. Booth, William Richards, was a native of England, who came in an early day to Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Our subject was a boy of four years when the family removed to Henderson county, Illinois. Later they removed to Hancock county, and finally settled in McDonough county, same State. The mother died in Henderson county at the age of thirty-seven, while the father's demise occurred in 1870, when he was fifty-six years old. He and his wife reared a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, three of the sons serving in the late war, namely: James, in the Tenth Illinois Infantry for over three years, now resides in Cherokee county, Iowa; Harvey, in the Ninety-first Illinois for two years, now resides at Albion, Marshall county, Iowa; our subject; Rufus R., the youngest son, lives in Cherokee county, Iowa; Vang A., married J. E. Lyon and lives in Henderson county, Illinois.

Oui subject, after being reared to farm life, receiving his education in the public schools, enlisted April 27, 1861, in the Tenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry for three months. At the expiration of his term of service he reenlisted as a veteran, and participated in the battles of Stone River, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Bentonville, Corinth and in the Carolina campaign. He was wounded while in North Carolina by a minie ball in his left knee, being confined for a short time in the hospital by it, at Beaufort, South Carolina. Later he was taken on shipboard and conveyed to Long Island, where he remained four weeks, then went to Alexandria, Virginia; later joining his regiment at Washington, District of Columbia. He participated in the grand review on crutches, and was honorably discharged July 4, 1865, with the rank of Corporal.

After his discharge he returned to his home, and in 1871 removed to Putnam county, Missouri, where he remainad three years, after which he located in Marshall county, Iowa, near Gilman, whore he made his home until February, 1880. At that date he settled in Ida county. Iowa, near Ida Grove, remained there a short time then removed to Cook township, Sac county, and remained there until his removal to Delaware township, which has remained his home ever since.

Mr. Booth was married April 16, 1867, at Burlington, Iowa, to Miss Nancy E. McClure, born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, daughter of Arthur and Fannie (Cosebult) McClure, the former born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, the latter a native of Pocahontas county, same State. Both were reared, educated and married in Virginia and the mother died in Greenbrier county at the age of twenty-four, leaving two children: Vang F. and Susan C. The father survived her until he reached the age of sixty-six, dying in Putnam county, Missouri.

To our subject and wife eleven children have been born, namely: Stella M., wife of Prof. C. H. Jump, of Early; Leroy G.; Nevada Irene, a dressmaker of Early; Harry W., Minnie Myrtle, Vinta Fay, Nellie F., Ross E. and Bessie Merl. Their last two children, James H. and Leora C, died, the former, September 30, 1872, aged two years; the latter, August 10, 1880, aged three years.

Mr. Booth takes an active interest in politics, casting his vote for the Democratic candidates. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R. Post at Newell, Iowa, although he was formerly connected with the McDowell Post at Schaller. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. Mrs. Booth is an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she is much respected.

Mr. Booth is one of the representative citizens of Delaware township and enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him.

CHARLES BOOTS, Township Trustee of Delaware township, Sac county, was born near Sycamore, De Kalb county, Illinois, January 28, 1859, a son of Thomas and Mary (Henry) Boots. The father was born in Chenango county, New York, in 1836, and his father, Henry Boots, was a native of England. The Boots family moved to Illinois in 1843, where they were among the early pioneers of De Kalb county. The mother of our subject was born near Elgin, Kane county, Illinois. When our subject was six years of age his parents located in Linn county, Iowa, later at Springville, near Anamosa, Jones county, and in 1881 in Buena Vista county. They reared a family of six children, five sons and one daughter.

Charles Boots, our subject, was reared on a farm in Linn county, Iowa, and educated in the schools of Anamosa. In 1883 he located in Buena Vista county, this State, and in 1887 purchased his present farm of 240 acres in Sac county, which is now well improved. His residence is 16 x 22 feet, with an addition 12 x 22 feet, well furnished and surrounded by a beautiful lawn. His barn is 32 x 48, 18-foot post, and another one is 30 x 40 feet, 16-foot post, with 20-foot shed. This is used for grain and cribs, with hay overhead. He has a fine grove, an orchard of five acres, a large dairy, and everything necessary for a well-regulated farm.

Mr. Boots was married February 17, 1886, to Louisa M. Wadsley, who was born, reared and educated in Rockville, Delaware county, Iowa, a daughter of John and Ruth Boulling) Wadsley, natives of Somersetshire, England. The parents located in Simcoe, Canada, when young, were there married September 7, 1852, and in 1854 located in Delaware county, Iowa, where they were among the pioneer settlers. The father died there February 8, 1882, leaving a widow and five children, four sons aud one daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Boots have two children: Daisy Maud, born January 19, 1889; and Arthur Joseph, May 27, 1891. Mr. Boots votes with the Republican party, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bethel.

WALTER B0WMAN, one of the pioneer settlers of Sac county, Iowa, was born in Merrimack county, New Hampshire, February 13, 1841, a son of Levi and Ruth (Abbott) Bowman. The father was born in New England, August 27, 1795, and died in Merrimack county, New Hampshire, October 25, 1841. The mother, born in Bradford. New Hampshire. November 10, 1800, died April 25, 1861.

Walter Bowman, the youngest of four children, was reared on a farm in his native county. In 1865 he located near Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, where he followed farming until 1870, and in that year settled in Grundy county, Iowa. Five years afterward he located on his present farm in Eureka township, Sac county, Iowa, then wild land, and the nearest railroad was the Illinois Central at Storm Lake, eighteen miles. Mr. Bowman now has one of the best improved and most valuable farms in the county, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He has a barn, 26 x 36 feet, a shed, 24 x 80 feet, windmill, mill for grinding feed, and a beautiful grove and orchard.

Our subject was married at Chester, Windsor county, Vermont, September 27, 1866, to Miss Thressa Eastman, who was born, reared and educated in that State, a daughter of Alfred and Lucinda (Gowing) Eastman. The parents died in Windsor county, Vermont, the mother dying when Mrs. Bowman was a small child, and the father about three years ago. The latter was a contractor and builder by occupation.

Mr. and Mrs. Eastman reared a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.; One son, Seymour, served four years in the late war. Another son, Henry, came to this county in 1876, where he died April 13, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have three children: Waldo E., born July 1, 1869; Bert E., and Bertha I., born in Grundy county, Iowa, May 3, 1872. The children were well educated in the Normal Business College of Storm Lake, and the daughter has been a successful teacher for the past four years.

Mr. Bowman is identified with the Republican party, and socially is a member of the A. O. U. W. Both he and his wife are members of the Christian Church of Schaller. Our subject takes an active interest in education and religion, and the family are respected by all who know them.

A. L. BRYAN, one of the prominent and progressive farmers of Boyer Valley township, settled here in 1880, and since that time has been one of the residents of this beautiful little township. Mr. Bryan was born in North Fork township, Delaware county, Iowa, August 26, 1856, son of Frank Bryan, a native of Somersetshire, England, where he was reared and educated, coming to America in 1850. His first place of settlement upon arrival in the new country was in Delaware county, Towa, where he purchased a farm of wild land and improved it. The mother of our subject was Mary Tuhey, a native of Massachusetts, although she was reared in Michigan. Her death occurred in March, 1889. She and her husband reared a family of four children, namely: A. L., our subject; Isadore, living in Delaware county, Iowa; and Lavina and Frances. The father was a farmer by occupation, and a Republican in politics.

Our subject was reared to farm life and received his primary education in the common schools of his native county, subsequently attending Lenox College. After finishing there he engaged in teaching for several terms in Delaware and Sac counties. In 1874 Mr. Bryan purchased his present farm and has brought it to a fine state of cultivation. His comfortable residence is a two-story one, 14 x 20 feet, with an L, 16 x 24, and his model barn is 50 x 60 feet, and shelters a large herd of cattle and horses. There is a nice grove on the land and a fine orchard of two acres. The farm is well-watered, has a windmill in the yard and all the fields are fenced. He owns 260 acres of as fine land as can be found in the county, and the many improvements upon the land, as well as the well-cultivated fields, testify to his ability as an agriculturist.

The marriage of our subject occurred June 26, 1884, with Miss Ella Slawson, born in Herkimer county, New York, a lady of intelligence and fine attainments. She was a successful and popular music teacher of Delaware county, a daughter of Samuel and Laura (Eldred) Slawson of Delaware county, Iowa, where the marriage of our subject occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Slawson had two sons in the army. Douglas served in the Twenty-first Iowa Infantry, and James was in the same regiment.

Our subject is a Republican in politics and takes an interest in the success of his party, being one of the wheel horses of the party in the township. He is one of the efficient Township Trustees of the township, now serving his second term. Socially, he is connected with the K. of P., lodge No. 165, of Early. In all matters tending to benefit society and aid in the development of the county, our subject occupies a foremost place.

He is a man in the vigor of life, of strong physique, and one who would command attention in a crowd. On account of his many sterling qualities he is highly respected throughout the eutire county.

GEORGE H. BUSH came to his present farm near Lake View, in Viola township, Sac county, Iowa, 1882, and has since been identified with the agricultural interests of this place.

Mr. Bush dates his birth in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1830. His father, Thomas A. Bush, was born in Tioga county, same State, a descendant of early settlers of Pennsylvania. His mother, who before her marriage was Miss Catharine Dunn, was born in Onondaga county, New York, near Syracuse, daughter of C. Dunn. Thomas and Catharine Bush had five children: Martha, Hannah, George H., Tyler and Thomas. The parents both died in Onondaga county, New York, where for many years the father was engaged in farming. He was in politics a Jackson Democrat, but supported J. C. Fremont. In religion he was a Baptist.

George H. was reared on his father's farm. In 1851 he went to Chautauqua county, New York, from there to Erie county, and thence west to Illinois. In 1861 he enlisted in the Seventy-second Illinois Infantry and at once went to the front. He was in the siege of Vicksburg, and soon afterward returned home on account of disability. Later he re-enlisted and was in the campaign on the Potomac, participating in the battles of Wilderness, Petersburg, Hampton Roads, and continuing in the service until the surrender of Lee. At the close of the war he went to New York and soon afterward came West to Illinois, first settling in Grundy county and then in Livingston county. In 1882, as above stated, he came to Sac county, Iowa, and took up his abode on his present property. This farm he has brought up to its present state of development. It is well fenced, has a barn, 16 x 26 feet, and a story and a half residence, 16 x 24 feet, with an L, 12 x 16 feet.

Mr. Bush was married, at the age of twenty-four, to Miss Priscilla Gould, and they had two children: Virgil, a teacher in Sac county, and Orville, deceased. He was again married in 1874, to his present wife, Mrs. Catharina Jones, nee Buck, who is a native of Canada.

Mr. Bush affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of William T. Sherman Post, No. 284, G. A. R., Sac City. He and his wife belong to the Baptist Church.

Mr. Bush possesses the characteristics of the old soldiers, is frank and cordial to all with whom he comes in contact, and takes an active interest in the general welfare of the community in which lie lives.

JOHN N. BUTLER, residing on a farm near Lake View, in Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, is another one of the representative men of this township, and is properly classed with its pioneers, he having settled here in 1876.

Mr. Butler was born in Indiana, June 29, 1835, son of John and Margaret (Pratt) Butler, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. His grandfather was George Benjamin Butler. John Butler died in Arkansas at the age of forty-nine years, and his wife in Polk county, Iowa, in 1876, aged seventy-one. They reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. The sons all served in the late war, namely: Benjamin, who was in the Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, is now a resident of Woodbury county, Iowa; John N., whose name appears at the head of this article; Thomas A., who was a member of the Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, died in 1867; C. A., who was in the Third Iowa Infantry, is now a resident of Woodbury county, Iowa.

John N. Butler came to Iowa in 1860, located in Polk county and engaged in farming, to which occupation he had been reared. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Second Iowa Cavalry, and was in the service four years, seven months and eight days. He participated in seventy-six engagements, among which were Shiloh, Corinth and South Mountain. He was wounded with grape-shot on the left foot and instep; was mustered out of the service at Selma.

After the war Mr. Butler located near Maryville, in Nodaway county, Missouri, from there coming to Iowa, first settling in Polk county and afterward in Dallas county. In 1876 he came to Sac county and took up his abode in Coon Valley township. Here he owns 175 acres of land, used chiefly as a stock-farm. His house, a story and a half, is 14 x 22 feet, with an L, 14 x 22 feet, and is beautifully located on a natural building site. He has two barns, one 46 x 40 feet, and the other, 28 x 40 feet, and his crib and granary is 32 x 24 feet. Among his other improvements are a good grove and orchard.

Mr. Butler was married at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1864, to Miss Artimitia Hayden, who was reared and educated at that place. She was bom in Dane county, Wisconsin, daughter of Solomon and Louisa (Moses) Hayden. Her father was born in Ohio, and is now a resident of Cherokee county, Iowa. Her mother died in Jones county, this State. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have had seven children, namely: Margaret Louisa; Ella, wife of J. J. Warrington; Benjamin C.; Mary F.; John R.; James Wylie; and Allen, who died in infancy.

Politically, Mr. Butler is identified with the Democratic party. He has served the public as Township Trustee and as a member of the School Board. He is a member of William T. Sherman Post, No. 284, G. A. R., of which he is Junior Vice. He also has a membership in the I. O. O. F., No. 302, Lake View. Both he and his wife are Baptists.

J. P. CARR - In 1869 a number of energetic and enterprising men made permanent settlement in the fertile lands of Sac connty, Iowa, and with these hardy settlers came our subject, J. P. Carr, now a retired farmer and a resident of Grant City. He was born in Ticonderoga, Essex county, New York, May 10, 1823, and was a son of W. W. Carr, who was born in Massachusetts, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, The name of the grandfather was John Carr. The mother of our subject was named in her maiden days, Mary Jones, born in Massachusetts, and is a daughter of John Jones, who was born in Ireland. To the parents of our subject were born nine children, five sons and four daughters, namely: Wesley, Sylvester, Mehala, Samantha, James P., Deloss, Mary, Jerusha and Merrill.

Both parents have passed away; the father at the age of fifty-six, the mother living until 1889, when she died at the age of ninety-six. In early life the father was by trade a shoemaker, and later became a farmer. In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a member of the Congregational Church.

Our subject was reared in Essex county New York, and there learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for many years. In 1885 he emigrated to Dane county, Wisconsin, and was engaged in the hotel, post office, express and railroad business at Deansville, for a period of ten years, and was a notary public for four years, and owned the largest sorghum manufactory in Wisconsin. In 1869 he came to Sac county, Sac township, settling upon wild land, where he has opened up and improved 321 acres, in a high state of cultivation. Here is located the pleasant home, a comfortable residence, with dimensions of 18 x 24 feet, one and one-half stories and with an L, 16 x 24 feet, and there is an addition to the house, to increase its convenience, of one story, 12 x 18 feet. There is a fine grove surrounding the home, of Nature's own growth, and Mr. Carr has also a fine orchard. He has looked well after his stock and horses. The horse barn is a building, 28 x 44 feet, and the cattle barn is 48 x 68 feet, firmly built, with 20-foot posts. In connection with this Mr. Carr has shed yards, feed lots, a modern windmill, which supplies the motive power for the watering of the stock, and everything that can be required on a well-regulated farm.

In 1870 he was chosen one of two to investigate the books of Sac county in order to settle the affairs of the county. This was the first time the books had been opened for settlement since the organization of this section of country some sixteen years previous. The investigation was carefully made and the report handed over to the proper authorities, which was accepted with satisfaction.

At the age of twenty-one years our subject married in Essex county Miss Lovina Snow, who was born, reared and educated in Essex county, New York, a daughter of Ezra and Chloe (rPotter) Snow. Mr. Carr and wife had two daughters: Estella, the wife of Ed M. Carr, of Calhoun county, [owa; and Ella S. the wife of Dr. P. Shattuck, of Independence, Iowa.

In politics, our subject is a Democrat, and for years served in township offices, especially that of Justice of the Peace. Socially, he was a member of the Masonic order, Jephtha Lodge, No. 281, of Auburn, and was made a member at Waterloo, Wisconsin.

Our subject is now in his seventieth year, but strangers would be slow to credit it, so lightly do his years rest upon him. In manner he is frank and cordial, and takes a great and active interest in all that is going on in the county and the outside world. He is one of the good citizens of Sac county.

J. M. CARTER resides in Cedar township, on section 20, with post office accommodations at Sac City. He is a prominent resident of the county and an ex-soldier. He came here in 1883, buying a farm of Studebaker Brothers, of South Bend, Indiana, which he has so improved that now he has a choice piece of land. The tract contains 240 acres, and is very fertile and well located, 5 acres of which is an artificial grove and orchard.

Our subject was born in Cedar township, Van Buren county, Iowa, September 4, 1843, a son of Samuel Carter, who came to the Territory of Iowa in 1835 with his brother, Robert Carter, an early pioneer. The father of our subject married Rebecca Ann Watson in Van Buren county, and they reared four sons and four daughters, as follows: J. M.; Elizabeth E., the wife of Frank Pontius; Robert lives in Council Bluffs; N. H. lives in Idaho; Nancy Olsen lives in Sac county; Katie Elliott lives in Story county; J. H. is a resident of Idaho; and Annie M. Craig, of Boone county, Iowa. The parents are both yet living, the father at the age of seventy-three and the mother at the age of sixty-nine. By occupation the father was a farmer. Politically, he was a Democrat, but a strong Republican from the founding of the party; and religiously is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Our subject was reared on the old pioneer farm, and received his education in the common schools. During the war he enlisted in the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteer, Company F, under Colonel William T. Shaw, of Anamosa, Iowa, and the captain was J. H. Newbold. Mr. Carter saw much hard service and was at the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Pleasant Hill. At the latter place he was wounded in the leg and later was again under fire at Old Oaks, Louisiana, and Yellow Bayou. He was taken prisoner at Shiloh, and was in the following prisons: Memphis icehouse; Cahaba warehouse; Mobile cotton sheds and Macon (Georgia) Fairground; from there to Chattanooga; thence to Huntsville; from there to Nashville and back to Cairo, Illinois, where he arrived July 2, 1862. On May 18, 1864, he was wounded between the shoulders by a piece of a shell, and was confined to the hospital in Jefferson barracks for some time. He was honorably discharged at Keokuk, Iowa, and returned home in 1865 to Van Buren county, Iowa, later going to Polk county, where he made his home until 1883, when he came to Sac county and took his present farm.

This farm is one of the pleasant homes of the county. The res-idence is a most commodious Iowa farm house, two stories in height, 16 x 24 feet, with porch and bay window, and an L of one story and a half, 16 x 22 feet. There is a fine yard and lawn, with a grove and a five-acre orchard. His barn is a strong and commodious one, with 12 foot posts, 22 x 52 feet, ami he has cattle sheds, yards and feed-lots. As he has on his place wells, springs and creeks, he engages in stock-raising and farming.

Our subject was married at the age of twenty-four, in Polk county, Iowa, to Miss Mary A. Cross, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, a daughter of David H. Cross and Lydia Blaine, who was a relative of James G. Blaine. They live in Polk county. Iowa. The father was a soldier in the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry. Two of the brothers of Mrs. Carter were in the army, Charles W., in the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry, who was killed at Decatur, Alabama; and Jacob, who served in an Ohio regiment.

Our subject and wife have a family of four children, as follows: Barbara, the wife of A. E. Webb, of Cedar township; Emma J., the wife of A. L. Money, of Cedar township; Clinton M. and Homer C, both at home. Clinton, as the son of a veteran, is a member of Custer Camp No. 40. Politically, our subject is a Republican, and is a member of the G. A. R, William T.Sherman Post, 284. He is a good and popular man, much esteemed by all with whom he has business or social relations.

JAMES CARTON is one of the well-known and enterprising citizens of Cedar township and a resident on section 21. He was born in Antrim county, Ireland, June 1, 1833, a son of James Carton, Sr., who was horn in the same place, and the name of his mother was Elizabeth Troland Carton, a native of the same county in Ireland. There the parents died, and there our subject crew up and attended school until he was twenty years of age. At that time he left the old country and came to America, landing at Philadelphia and making his way to Chester county, in that State, where he remained for one year, and then removed to Putnam county, Illinois, and lived there many years. One year he spent in Cherokee comity, Kansas, but later returned to Illinois, and in 1879 came to Sac county, Iowa. After coming to Cedar township he first improved a good farm on section 4, and then sold it and bought eighty acres where he now lives, and this he has well improved also. Some of it had been improved by Ashury Young, and is now a good and valuable farm, having on it an excellent residence of six rooms, good yard and lawn and grove with a fine orchard. There is plenty of small fruit, sheds, stables, yards, pastures and meadows, and all in good condition.

Our subject was married February 28, 1862, in Putnam county, Illinois, to Miss Julia D. Packingham, a woman of great intelligence and many graces of mind and person. She was a native of Putnam county, Illinois, was born and reared there, and received her education in the schools of that State. She was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Dysart) Packingham, natives of Pennsylvania, whose last years were passed in Illinois. They reared a family of four sons and tour daughters.

Our subject and wife reared a family of five children: lames P.; Archie Lorenzo; John Calvin; Susan Elizabeth, the wife of Frank Hamilton, of Early; and Mary Luella, wife of Leon E. Jaynes, of Early.

Our subject is one of the enrolled Republicans of his neighborhood, and has held some of the positions of confidence in the township. He was for some time on the School Board. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Cedar, and is a man of great good sense. Mrs. Carton is also a member of Cedar Methodist Episcopal Church. They are well-informed and hospitable people, and Mr. Carton is regarded as oneof the most reliable citizens of the county.

J. K. CHALFANT, a farmer and stockraiser of Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1848, a son of Rev. Walter Chalfant, a native of Brownsville, Fayette county, that State, and of French ancestry. The mother of our subject, nee Abi McCarty, was a native of Somerset county and a daughter of Judge John McCarty, of Irish ancestry. She died in Missouri, greatly mourned on account of her many amiable traits ot character. Rev. Walter Chalfant resides with his son, Walter, in Wenona, Illinois. They reared a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, and two of the sons were soldiers in the late war: Wilson M., a member of the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, died in Kansas in 1882; and James W., in an Illinois Regiment, one hundred days' service, resides at Wenona, Marshall county, Illinois. Two daughters were teachers.

J. K. Chalfant was reared to farm life and educated in the district schools of Illinois. At the age of eight years, in 1856, he removed with his parents to Putnam county, that State, nine years later he went to near Rutland, La Salle county, and a number of years afterward to Linn county, Missouri. In 1870 he removed to Cass county. Michigan, nine years later to Elkhart county, Indiana and in 1882, to Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa. Here he purchased 360 acres of land, now well improved, with a good frame residence, 16 x 26 feet, one and a half stories high, with an L, 30 x 23 feet, two tenement houses, 18 x 23 feet and 14 x 18 feet, and a barn, 48 x 52 feet. Mr. Chalfant also has a grove of one acre in walnuts, three acres in cottonwood, three acres in maples and an orchard. He is engaged in stock-raising and dairy farming, and owns the land on which the creamery stands. He superintended the building of the Coon Valley Creamery, which was erected in 1883, and owned a part of it and operated it for a while, when he sold out his interest to Messrs. Ellwood & Pettis, the present owners.

January 19, 1870, at Linneus, Linn county, Missouri, our subject married Miss Amanda Jane Pullman, a daughter of Charles B. and Eliza Jane (Bruce) Pullman, natives of New York. Her father was a cousin of George Pullman, the palace car manufacturer. The mother now makes her home with Mrs. Chalfant. Mr. and Mrs. Chalfant have three children: Willard Otis, Lola Emma and John Ira.

Politically, our subject votes with the Republican party, and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. He is progressive in his views and is one of the most prominent men, both politically and religiously, in Coon Valley township.

M. CHILDS, of the firm of Childs & Oleson, popular grocers and dry-goods merchants of Sac City, Iowa, was born at Niagara Falls, New York, September 28, 1835. His parents were Orson and Sarah (Pierce) Childs, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively. His father died in 1879 and his mother now resides in Fort Dodge, this State.

Mr. Childs was reared and educated in New York State, and at the age of twenty, commenced life for himself by engaging in mercantile business in Tipton, Iowa, in 1856, continuing there ten years. He then went to Michigan; some time later to Illinois, where he remained until 1879, and then returned to Iowa, satisfied this was a good State to "tie to." He located in Fort Dodge and remained there ten years, meeting with deserved success; whence, in 1889, he removed to Sac City, where he has remained ever since.

He was married in 1860 to Miss Ella Bissell, of Tipton, Iowa, and they have one child, Alice.

Politically, Mr. Childs is a Republican. Socially, he belongs to the blue lodge and chapter of the Masonic order and Knights Templar, and to the Mystic Shrine. As a citizen he has, by correct business methods and uniform courtesy, gained the confidence and respect of his fellow-men.

BENJAMIN CLEVELAND, a highly respected citizen, residing on a farm in Coon Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, dates his birth in Otsego county, New York, in 1814. His father, Benjamin Cleveland, Sr., had a brother in the war of 1812, and their father, Joseph Cleveland, was a Revolutionary soldier. The Clevelands are descended from English ancestry. Our subject's mother was, before her marriage, Miss Lydia Cooper. She was born in Rhode Island and was a daughter of Joseph Cooper. They had nine children, six sons and three daughters, namely: Stephen, Joseph, Benjamin, George, Lafayette, Christopher, Laura, Lydia and Percilla. When Benjamin was sixteen years old, in 1828, the family moved to Erie county, Pennsylvania. From there they moved to Huron county, Ohio, thence to Miami county, same State, thence to South Bend, Indiana, afterward to St. Joseph county, Michigan, and then to Dane county, Wisconsin. Near Madison, in Dane county, the father died, aged seventy years. He was in politics a Whig, and in religion, a member of the Christian Church. The mother died in Marion county, Iowa, at the age of eighty-five years.

Previous to his coming to Sac county, in 1880, Mr. Cleveland had lived in Marion county, this State. Upon his arrival here he bought 560 acres of land, all in one body, a portion of which he has since divided among his children, giving to each of them a farm. He retains for himself 160 acres, located in section 17.

In 1843 Mr. Cleveland married Miss Matilda Hayden, a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, born near Mentor, Garfield's old home. Her parents, John and Louisa (Babcock) Hayden, were natives respectively of Vermont and Grand Island, in Lake Champlain. Her father died in Michigan, at the age of fifty-four years; and her mother, in Jones county, Iowa, aged ninety-one. They had a family of thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have five children, namely: C. C, Auditor of Sac county; Benjamin P., Coon Valley township; E. V., also of Coon Valley township; Emily, wife of James Neal; and Electa, wife of N. S. Lyon. They lost their first-born, Louis, at the age of thirteen months.

Mr. Cleveland is identified with the Republican party, and he and his wife are members of the Christian Church. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order, Union Grove Lodge.

A. L. CLOUSER, County Recorder of Sac county, was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1860, a son of F. B. Clouser. Our subject was reared and educated in the common schools of his native county, also receiving an academic course. He received a certificate to teach, but never followed that occupation. For a time he was employed in a printing office, but in 1879, located in Battle Creek, Iowa, in the employ of the Northwestern Railroad, and was afterward engaged as station agent and telegraph operator at Wall Lake and Gray, Audubon county. In addition to this, Mr. Clouser followed general merchandising in Lake View, this State. January 1, 1890, he took charge of the office at Lake View, which position he has filled with satisfaction to his company. Politically, he is one of the leading men in the Republican party, was elected County Recorder in the November election, polling the full vote of his party, has served with great credit on the School Board in Lake View, and is one of the young, progressive and earnest workers in Sac county.

In Perry county, Pennsylvania, at the age of twenty-one years, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Shire, a native of that State. They have three children: Alice, Bessie and Francis. Socially, Mr. Clouser is a member of Laurel Lodge, No. 517, A. F. & A. M., of Lake View, and of the I. O. O. F., Lake View Lodge, No. 302, of which he is Past Grand.

Our subject is a young man, but the position to which he has been elected shows that in the years he has lived in Sac county he has gained the confidence and esteem of the people.

CIHARLES WILLARD COOK, of Cook township. Sac county, Iowa, post office, Odebolt, a well-known capitalist and the owner of a large tract of land in this county, was born in Haddam, Connecticut, July 13, 1832. His parents, Wiilard and Abigail (Brainerd) Cook, were both descendants from old and prominent families of that State. Both families, originally, from England, were among the first to settle in this country, and were with the colony that went among the Indians and settled on the banks of the Connecticut river, where the city of Hartford now stands. The genealogy of the Brainerd family can be found in all large public libraries. Mr. Cook lived in his native town until he was twelve years old, when his father, who was largely interested in the granite quarries of New England, wished to try his fortune in the great West, and removed with his family to a farm in Lake county, Illinois. Here they remained about eight years, when, as Chicago had commenced to grow rapidly, the father removed with his family, in 1854, to that city, where he engaged in the stone business, owning and operating a quarry in Joliet, Illinois, into which business. he took his two sons, Ansel B. and Charles W.

Mr. Cook, of this sketch, was engaged with his father and brother until 1869. He then became interested in the wholesale coal business, with his office and yard on the northwestern corner of Market and Adams streets, and at the same time commenced a money-brokerage business, his office being on East Washington street. He owned a large tract of timber land in Michigan, with a railroad track running back into the timber and extending to the end of a large pier, where five vessels could load at a time with wood for Chicago. He was also largely interested in real estate in Chicago, in connection with which he erected large blocks of buildings each year on his vacant property, and he built the first block of stone-front buildings in West Chicago. He was at one time a director in three insurance companies, one of the founders and directors of two of the National Banks, and a director in a steam railroad and of the West Division Street Car Company. All of these, and other interests, and without a partner, made serious inroads on his health, until, at the age of thirty-two, he was obliged to retire from business; and, after struggling with poor health for a year to get business closed so he could leave it, went with his wife and three children to Europe for three years. Returning to this country with health too poor to re-enter business, he commenced investing money in different ways. Among his investments was the purchase, in 1874, of between 7,000 and 8,000 acres of land in the western part of Sac county, Iowa. This he commenced to improve by plowing strips of land on each side of all roads, and then planted two rows of trees on each strip, forming beautiful avenues all over this large tract of land. He then divided this tract into farms of 320 acres each, and has put fine improvements on all, and surrounded each set of buildings with a nice grove of trees. All of this makes it almost like a beautiful park, which has done much to improve and beautify the surrounding country. All of these farms are occupied by a fine class of tenants, and with four schoolhouses on this tract, and a church situated at each end of it, it is a very desirable place for those who are not able to purchase a comfortable home for themselves. Several of these first tenants have bought fine farms adjoining. Near the center of this tract, and on the line of Cook and Richland townships, Mr. Conk has erected a large and beautiful residence for his family. This is heated by hoi water and lighted by gas and has all other modern improvements. Here he passes his summers, while his winters are spent at the Hotel del Coronado, situated on the banks of the Pacific ocean in southern Cualifornia.

Mr. Cook has been twice married. First, in 1857, to Miss Sarah A. Coonley, of Albany, New York, who died in 1872, leaving three children: Charles Ira, a wholesale merchant of Menominee, Michigan; Albert Eugene, manager of the Sac county estate; and Emma, wife of Fredric Ives Carpenter, of Chicago. On June 18, 1874, Mr. Cook married Mrs. Jennie W. Sterges, of Washington, District of Columbia, and a daughter of Captain John Wade, who was lost at sea with the steamer Cuba, September 3, 1842.

Mr. Cook's life has been a busy one, and as a citizen his actions have always been characterized by honor, integrity and affability, and he justly enjoys the universal esteem of his fellow men.

D. CORDERMAN, a farmer of Wall Lake township, and one of its well-known and respected citizens, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1835, a son of David Corderman a native of Berks county, that State, and of German ancestry. He married Miss Anna Seygest, also a native of Pennsylvania, and they had two children: David and Anna.

David Corderman, the subject of this sketch, was reared to farm life in his native country. In 1857 he located near Kewanee, Henry county, Illinois, but two years afterward went to Johnson county, Iowa. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, served two years and fourteen days and took part in the battles of Fort Kendall and Fort Pierre. He was next transferred to the Seventh Iowa Cavalry, stationed at Fort Snelling, and was honorably discharged at Sioux City, in 1865. Mr. Corderman then returned to his home in Johnson county, Iowa, and in 1880 purchased 200 acres of wild land in Wall Lake township, Sac county, Iowa. He has added to this place from time to time until he now owns 280 acres, well improved, with a two-story residence, 22 x 26 feet, an L, 12 x 17 feet, one story, a barn, 38 x 45 feet, with a rock basement, and a fine grove of pines, larches and catalpas laid out in an artistic manner. In addition to his agricultural pursuits, he is also engaged in stock-raising and dairy farming, milking twenty cows, and feeds on an average of one carload each year.

Mr. Corderman was married in Illinois, at the age of twenty-two years, to Mary Ann Harris, a native of Eaton county, Ohio. They have one son, Evan, who is married and resides in Wall Lake township. Our subject was married to his present wife in 1865, in Johnson county, Iowa, to Miss Exey Akers, a native of Pike county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John C. Akers. To this union has been born ten children: Ulysses, Henry, Dave, Ira, Ellen, Mauley, John, Clifford, Retta and one deceased.

Mr. Corderman votes with the Republican party, has served as Township Trustee, and is a member of William T. Sherman Post, No. 284, of Sac City. He is a man highly honored throughout Sac county, has an extended acquaintance, and is one of the leading fanners of Wall Lake township.

DAVID CORRELL, one of the prominent and well-known citizens of Sac county, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 6, 1853, a son of Jacob Correll, a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. His father was a native also of Pennsylvania, and of Dutch ancestry. The mother of our subject, nee Catherine Floyd, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and of Irish and German ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Correll were the parents of nine children, six now living: Daniel, who served in the Twenty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, was wounded at Arkansas Post, and lost his right arm; he now resides in Marion, this State; Samuel, a member of the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, served three years, suffered the loss of a finger, and now resides at Labette, Kansas; Abraham, of Clinton county, Iowa; Levi, of Labette, Kansas; Maria, of Clinton county; and David, our subject. The father died in 1892, aged seventy-eight years. He was a farmer by occupation; politically, a Republican; and religiously, a Dunkard. The mother now resides in Clinton
county, Iowa.

David Correll remained on the old homestead until 1881, when he came to Clinton township, Sac county, Iowa. He has cleared and improved 320 acres of land. His dwelling, 16 x 28 feet, with three additions, is built in the modern style of architecture, and has all other necessary farm improvements and conveniences. Mr. Correll is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.

In Clinton coanty, Iowa, in 1880, he was united in marriage with Miss Laura Davenport, a native of Indiana, educated at Mt. Vernon, and was a successful teacher before marriage. Her parents were C. L. and Mary (Parnell) Davenport. Her father was a native of Sandusky county, Ohio, and now resides in Odebolt, Iowa. The mother was born in Westmoreland county, England, and died in 1888, aged fifty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport had five children, four now living: Laura, Albert, and Lincoln residing near Odebolt; and Jessie, living in Odebolt. Mr. and Mrs Correll have two children: Esther Mary and Zula Floyd. Mrs. Correll is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject takes an active interest in the Republican party. He is a young man in the prime of life, but is prominent and active in every thing for the good of his county.

CLARKE COX, a leading farmer and stock-raiser of Coon Valley township, is one of the progressive and representative men of that section of country. He was horn in Jackson county, Indiana, July 25, 1839, son of Abner and Sarah (Shoemaker) Cox, natives of Knox county, Kentucky, and Jackson county, Indiana. The father was a son of Solomon Cox, a member of an old Kentucky family, while the mother of our subject was a daughter of James Shoemaker. Our subject was a boy of three when the family removed to Henry county, Iowa. Later they located near Oskaloosa, Mahaska county, Iowa, about 1844, and were among the early settlers of that place. In 1851 they removed to Polk county, Iowa, locating nine miles north of Des Moines, which was then only a small hamlet. All the surrounding country was wild: game abounded, and even elk were shot by our subject. The father died in this county, aged eighty-one years. By occupation he was a farmer, and in polities a Democrat.

Like nearly all farmers' sons, our subject was reared to an agricultural life, attending the common schools in the winter. August 10, 1861, he enlisted for three years, or the entire war, in the Tenth Iowa Infantry; was made a veteran in the same company and regiment, and received his honorable discharge at Little Rock, Arkansas, August 15, 1865, being paid off at Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Cox was first under fire at Charleston, Missouri; then partipated in the siege of Vickshurg, Champion Hill, Black River Bridge, Island No. 10, New Madrid, Corinth and Iuka. He also took part in the memorable march to the sea, under General Sherman, to Savannah, the Carolina campaign, went on to Raleigh, thence to Washington, District of Columbia, where he participated in the grand review.

At the close of the war he returned to Polk county, Iowa, and resumed his peaceful occupation in farming. He came to Sac county in 1885, locating in Coon Valley township, where he purchased 100 acres of land, to which he had since added twenty-six and one-half acres, all of which is in a good dtate of cultivation. His comfortable home has dimensions of 16 x 24 feet, while the barn is a commodious one, 34 x 42 feet, with 16-foot posts. The crib shed is 24 x 24 feet. The farm is well watered and adapted to stock-raising. In addition to his other products, Mr. Cox raises some fine fruit in his two acre orchard, and also has some good varieties of small fruit. A good grove on the farm affords grateful shade during the summer, and a protection during the winter from the wind.

Mr. Cox was married October 11, 1866, in Polk county, Iowa, to Mary Howard, born in Marion county, Indiana, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Sulgrove) Howard, who moved in an early day to Van Buren county, Iowa, then to Wapello county, Iowa, finally settling in Polk county, Iowa. They had nine children, eight of whom are still living, four sons and four daughters. One of these, John S., of Cedar township, this county, was in the late war, while another one of the family, Ovi, wife of Thompson Lane, is a resident of Jackson township. Three children have been born to our subject and wife, namely: Eleanor E., Sarah and Naomi.

Mr. Cox is independent in politics, although formerly a Republican. Socially, he is connected with the G. A. R. Post, of Polk county, Iowa. He has the characteristics of an old soldier, frank and cordial in manner, and a warm friend to all public enterprises calculated to improve the township.

HON. EUGENE CRISS, a well-known and highly respected resident of Sac City, Iowa, an early settler of the State, and a prominent figure in important affairs relating to its welfare, was born in Preston county, West Virginia, July 27, 1822. His parents were Michael and Maria (Armstrong) Criss, the former born in Virginia and the latter in the north of Ireland. The father was a zealous Methodist Episcopal minister, a devoted laborer in the cause of religious enlightenment. The mother was reared, educated and married in Philadelphia, whither she accompanied her parents from Ireland when she was three years of age.

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Judge Criss was educated in the common schools of .Maryland, and began life for himself when quite young by farming. In 1844 he followed other pioneers to the West, settling in Galena, Illinois, where for about five years he worked in the lead mines. After this he rented some land, on which he again engaged in farming, following this occupation for two years, He then engaged in the mercantile business in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, but, constantly hearing favorable reports of Iowa, he conceived an ardent desire to visit the country and decide on its merits for himself. Accordingly he loaded a wagon with dry goods and started on his journey. After four months' travel he stopped, in August, where Sac City now stands, after having traveled through more than sixty counties of the State. Here he decided to build a sawmill and make of it the county seat. He erected the firsl building on the present site of Sac City, a log structure, 16 x 20 feet, with clapboard roof, the windows and doors for which he hauled from Dubuque, Iowa, a distance of 270 miles. He shortly afterward pre-empted a claim of 160 acres, continuing to add to his landed possessions until he now owns 1,500 acres of its choice land as is to be found in the State. He is energetic, industrious and persevering, to which qualities may be assigned his continued prosperity, although the country itself offered marvelous opportunities for any young man of ambition to gain a suhstantial foothold. He was one of five men that entered the land that Sac City now occupies. This was done in 1857 before the land was in market. He also donated the land for the tirst cemetery, reserving a family lot, which at this date, 1893, has not received an occupant. He was the first fur-buyer north of Des Moines, at which business he was extensively engaged for a number of years, also trading largely with the Indians. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Sac City, of which he was one of the first directors and the first vice-president, which position he now occupies. He has been an extensive traveler, has visited twenty-eight States and four Territories, but has settled down to the conclusion that "Sac county is the garden spot of the land."

He has been a life-long Republican, coming over from the old Whig party. He has filled various offices of honor and trust in the gift of the people, having been Provost Marshal during the war, and was County Supervisor for a number of years, besides having creditably filled many minor offices. He served one term as County Judge, and represented his district in the Legislature, the district at that time comprising the entire northwestern portion of the State.

He was married March 9, 1843, to Miss Frances Hall, of Preston county, West Virginia. They have six children: Mary .lane, wife of W. J. Wine, a respected resident of Sac City; .lames S., a prosperous merchant, also of Sac City: Helen B., wife of Levi Davis, residing in Montana; Nancy Emeline. married to Robert Lamoreux; William, also of Sac City; and Lola, married to Dolph Benner [Beiner ?].

As husband and father, private citizen and public man, his actions have ever been characterized by the same excellent judgment, thorough integrity and pleasing affability, exciting the respect and esteem of all who know him.

REASON CROZER, a retired farmer of Lake View, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, August 22, 1830, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Bye) Crozer, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Maryland, but was reared in Ohio. In a very early day the family located near West Branch, Cedar county, towa, where they were among the pioneer settlers. The father was a farmer, also operated a sawmill. He was formerly a Whig, buf later a Republican; religiously, he was a Friend. He died in that county at the age of eighty-four years, and the mother died at the age of seventy-two years. They reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters.

Reason Crozer, the subject of this sketch, was a child when the family came to Iowa, where he was reared and educated. He was engaged in farming in eastern Iowa until 1879, and in that year purchased 160 acres of land in Wall Lake township, Sac county. The place is now well improved, with a good two-story residence, 14 x 26 feet, an L, 14 x 18 feet, a barn, 16 x 52 feet, with additions on both sides, 12 x 16 feet, a second barn, 40 x 44 feet, a grove and orchard of five acres, a modern windmill, and everything necessary fur a well-regulated farm. Mr. Crozer retired from active labor in 1891, and came to Lake View, where he has fine residence property.

He was married September 13, 1854, in Cedar county, Iowa, to Miss Hannah Hawley, who was born, reared and educated in Stark county, Ohio, a daughter of Caleb and Catherine (James) Hawley. The mother died in Ohio, and in 1852 the remainder of the family came to Cedar county, Iowa, where the father died at the age of eighty-eight years. They were the parents of nine children. Mr. and Mrs. Crozer have also had nine children: J. K., one of the proprietors of the Wall Lake Boat Line; Sally, wife of C. W. Irwin, of Clinton township, Sac county; O. E., a railroad man of Chicago; L. M., a farmer; C. W., engaged in the same occupation; T. T.; A. C.; W. E.; and Edna Irene, deceased at the age of five years.

Mr. Crozer takes an active part in the Republican party, and has served as Township Trustee, a member of the School Board and Town Council. Religiously, he is a member of the Friends. He is one of the prominent and successful men of Lake View and Sac county.

Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893

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