outlay of money and human life. In the great Rebellion he learned the lessons of self-denial and perseverance which he has applied in every day affairs, attracting many friends who recognized in him those attributes which make the true gentleman and loyal citizen.
IRWIN CLAYTON WHITNEY.
Irwin Clayton Whitney had been a resident of Story county but two years at the time of his demise but the period was sufficiently long for him to prove himself to be a man of high principles and sterling worth. He was a native of the Buckeye state, having been born in Lorain county on the 17th of June, 1865, his parents being Eli H. and Mary E. (Hale) Whitney. He was but five years of age when his people migrated to Iowa, settling in Jasper county, where they lived for a time, and then went to Humboldt county and after remaining there for a short time they returned to Jasper county and settled on a farm near Mingo. The latter place continued to be their home until 1889, when they removed to Saybrook, Illinois, where Mr. Whitney passed away on the 20th of May, 1891, and very soon thereafter the widow with her family located in Maxwell, this county. On the 13th of February, 1894, Mrs. Whitney was married to R. R. Thompson, whose death occurred on the 24th of the following June. When a girl of fourteen years Mrs. Thompson was converted and united with the Baptist church, but as there was no church of that denomination in Maxwell she joined the Methodist Episcopal church. She was always an ardent Christian and an active worker in the church. Her death occurred on the 14th of December, 1909.
Irwin Clayton Whitney's boyhood and youth were not unlike that of most boys who live in the country. He remained at home until he had acquired such education as the common schools afforded, but being an ambitious youth, he laid away his text-books and early began his business career. He was married on the 30th of June, 1885, shortly after the twentieth anniversary of his birth, to Miss Mary Dickey, a daughter of Solomon and Rebecca (Barker) Dickey. Her father was a native of Athens county, Ohio, born on the 30th of March, 1828. He came to Iowa in 1854, locating in Jasper county, and there he was married on the 12th of September of the same year to Rebecca Jane Barker. He acquired some land, every acre of which was unbroken prairie, and upon this the young people began their life together, but unremitting toil and careful cultivation in time transformed it into a valuable farm, which remained their home until 1897, when they removed to Mingo. Mr. Dickey passed away in 1905. He had been a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal church and always led an upright, consistent Christian life, his high principles and incorruptible integrity gaining him the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in