Orra L. Dunkelbarger is a well-known stock-feeder and shipper of this section of the country, and also gives considerable attention to tilling the soil, and has for some time been buying and improving real estate, being now the owner of 460 acres of excellent land. One of his farms, which comprises 320 acres, is situated in Grant Township, and is one of the finest and best improved farms in this section of the country. Mr. Dunkelbarger was born in Harrisburg, Penn., May 23, 1851, a son of Nathan and Mary (Valentine) Dunkelbarger, being the youngest of their three children. At about the ago of eight months he was taken by his parents to Henry County, Ill., and there attended school until 1875, when he came to Story County, Iowa, and here also attended school for some time. He began dealing in stock at the age of eighteen years, being interested in this business with his father, and continued thus associated until 1886, since which time he has been alone. He has obtained a fair share of this world's goods through his own good management, and is considered by all to be a shrewd financier and a man of sound judgment, as well as an excellent judge of stock. On the 8th of April, 1886, he was injured in a railway accident at Clinton, Iowa, while shipping stock from that place, which incapacitated him for business for about one year. He received from the North-Western Railroad Company the sum of $2,600 as compensation. Since the 1st of January, 1890, he has sold twenty-one full-blooded Short-horn bulls, which breed is one of his favorites, and of which he \raises quite a large number each year. He has always supported the Republican party, U. S. Grant receiving his first presidential vote, and he has taken an active part in politics of a national nature. His marriage, which occurred on the 19th of September, 1881, was to Miss Nettie Briggs, a daughter of Otis Briggs. She was born in 1860, in Nevada, Iowa.
George W: Dyer is a member of the well-known law firm of Dyer & Fitchpatrick, of Nevada, Iowa, and is also the present attorney of Story County. He was born in Jefferson, Schoharie County, N. Y., August 20, 1839, being a son of Calvin and Betsey (Sherwood) Dyer, who were born in Connecticut November 5, 1799, and January 15, 1803, and died in York State April 26, 1885, and December 8, 1886, respectively. The paternal grandfather, Winthrop Dyer, was born in the " Nutmeg State," and died in New York at a ripe old age. The maternal grandfather, Seymour Sherwood, was also born in Connecticut and died in Jefferson, Schoharie County, N. Y., at seventy odd years of age. Both families were early residents of York State, and were members of the Baptist Church. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of eight children—six sons and two daughters—the following being their names in order of birth: Chester (the eldest, was born in 1823), Adaline (born in 1827), Justin (born in 1829), Polly E. (born in 1831), Seymour (born in 1833), Soveryn (born in 1835), Winthrop (born in 1837), and George W. The latter remained with his father, learning the occupation of farming, until he was seventeen years of age, being also an attendant of the public schools during this time, after which he entered the New York Conference Seminary at Charlotteville, Schoharie County, but his education was completed in the Hudson River Institute in Columbia County, N. Y. In October, 1861, he entered the law office of Abraham Becker, of Otsego County, N. Y., and on the 24th of May, 1863, was admitted to practice in all the courts of the State of New York. The following year he formed a co-partnership for the practice of his profession with the Hon. Stephen L. Mayham,