VIRGIL WATERBURY
WATERBURY, VIRGIL: Farmer & Stock Raiser; b Shelby Co, Iowa Nov 16, 1872; s of Daniel Waterbury-Hannah McKeig; ed Shelby Co; m Sena Larson Mar 18, 1903 Atlantic; s Allan Lowell; d Zeta LuVerne (Mrs Fred Hamdorf), Anita Louise (Mrs Victor Johnson), Virginia Laura (Mrs Truman Reimer), Ruth Loree (Mrs Norman Seivers); 1888-1903 mgr farm for father, Shelby Co; 1903- farmer, Shelby Co, specializer in Hereford cattle & Hampshire hogs, 1st raiser of Dutch Belted cattle in Shelby Co; SAV, past mbr; Iowa St Farm Bur; Dutch Belted Cattle Assn; Amer Hampshire Swine Record Assn; past mbr IOOF, Avoca; AF&AM, past mbr, Avoca; English Luth Ch; Rep; hobby: raising high quality Clydesdale horses; father came to Shelby Co from NY, one of early settlers, farmer, lived on home farm 34 years; res Corley.
From Who's Who in Iowa, by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1118-1119. Transcribed by Denise Wurner, March, 2013.
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