New York, January 6, 1806, and died in Erie county, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1882. She was related to the well known Wadsworth family of Geneseo, New York, and her brother, Lee Wadsworth, is still living at the age of over ninety years and is one of the wealthy residents of ,Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Strickland had five children: William W., who died March 7, 1909; Sarah S.; Harriet L., the wife of L. O.. Eldridge, of Springfield, Erie county, Pennsylvania; J. F., who died in 1893; and Kittie O., also of Springfield, Pennsylvania. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Allen were born five children : Edgar S., of Rocky Ford, Colorado; Edwin F., the twin brother of Edgar S., and a resident of Cambria, Iowa; Hattie M., the wife of W. R. Dodds, a farmer of this county; William D., a railway engineer of Dubuque, Iowa; and Hugh, a brick-mason of Ames.
In his political views Mr. Allen was a Lincoln republican. He kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day and was a public-spirited citizen but never sought nor desired office save in connection with the schools. He belonged to the Grange and lived a quiet and uneventful but useful life, which gained him the kindly regard of his fellowmen. He was in the sixty-third year of his age at the time of his death, February 23, 1899, and was not only deeply mourned by his family but also by his many friends.
NEHEMIAH H. Nelson.
Among the extensive landowners of Story county is Nehemiah, H. Nelson, who was born in Hardin county, Iowa, on the 12th of September, 1880. His father, Henry Nelson, was born in Norway in 1854 but decided that the United States afforded far better prospects than the old country and therefore in 1875 he emigrated. He remained on the Atlantic coast a short time and then made his way to Hamilton county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming, and later lived for a time near what is now the village of Randall. In 1880 he removed to Hardin county, where he lived for ten years, and then located in Radcliffe but after five years' residence in the latter place he returned to Hamilton county, where he continues to live. In 1878 he was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Peterson and to them were born the following children : Nehemiah H.; Helen E., who married S. V. Van Winkle, of Eagle Grove, Iowa; and Tobie A., the wife of E. C. Houck, of Iowa Falls, Iowa. Mrs. Nelson passed away in 1886, and the father later married Miss Cecelia Onstean, his present wife, and they have become the parents of five children: Gertie, Lloyd, Lilas, Otis and Mamie.
Nehemiah H. Nelson acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Hardin county and later he attended Jewell Lutheran College at Jewell, Iowa, where he took a commercial course. After his graduation in 1899 he came to McCallsburg, being employed in the bank for seven