Andrew Dunahoo came with his parents to this county in 1850, or when he was twelve years of age and passed his youth and manhood here. He remained with his father until grown, and then started out for himself as an agriculturist. He assisted in clearing the home place, and afterward bought land and made a farm of his own in Indian Creek and Collins Townships. He moved to his present farm about 1856, and here he has remained ever since, making many and vast improvements. He has 260 acres of land in the above-mentioned townships, and all joining. This is good land, and on it are substantial buildings, a story-and-a-half house, ordinary stables, a nice grove of maples and a small young orchard, all the result of his own labor. He was married here in March, 1859, when twenty-one years of age, to Miss Rachel Ann Smith, a native of Indiana, born in Marion County, where she was reared and educated, and the daughter of John W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Dunahoo have nine children living: William (married and on the farm), Sarah J. (wife of John Broady, of this county), Susanna (wife of Robert Sarsfield, of this county ), Abby (wife of John Shuey, of the county), Perry (a young man), Alice (a young woman ), Elmer, Floyd, and Fred (a lad of ten years). Mrs. Dunahoo is a Methodist in belief.
Nathan Dunkelbarger. There is probably no man within the limits of Story County, Iowa, who is more extensively engaged in stock dealing than Mr. Dunkelbarger, and throughout a residence of twenty-five years here he has become well known as a man of progressive spirit, energy and clear perception. He was born in Eastern Pennsylvania, July 18, 1824, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Slopisch) Dunkelbarger, who were also natives of that State, dying there at the age of ninety-three and sixty-three years, respectively. Nathan Dunkelbarger was the ninth of their eleven children, of whom five are now living, and in his youth he learned the cabinet-maker's trade of his father. At the age of fifteen years he left the parental roof and removed to Warren County, Penn., and after working at the carpenter's trade and the shingle-making business for thirteen years, he removed by team to Henry County, Ill., where he tilled the soil and made his home for twelve years. In 1865 he came to Story County, Iowa, where he has since given his attention to the stock business, and is one of the most successful men in this locality. He is the owner of fourteen acres of land inside the corporation, besides 160 acres of excellent farming land in Nevada Township. He was married in 1847 to Miss Mary Valentine, who was born in Warren County, Penn., October 24, 1832, and by her became the father of the following children: Isabell, Madora L. and Orra L. Mrs. Dunkelbarger is a daughter of Edmund and Hannah (De Long) Valentine, who were born in Pennsylvania in 1813, and New York in 1816, and died in Polk County," Iowa, in 1872, and Nevada, Iowa, in 1887, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Dunkelbarger united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Henry County, Ill., in 1858, the minister at that time being Rev. Humphrey, an excellent man, fully consecrated to his work. They are now highly esteemed residents of Story County, and Mr. Dunkelbarger's well known habits of industry and perseverance, as well as enterprise and progress, have contributed to place around him a host of friends and acquaintances. On starting out in life for himself, at the age of fifteen years, he contracted with his father for his time until he was twenty-one years of age, by agreeing to pay him $100, but at the end of that time began doing for himself, and his labors have met with the above mentioned results.