and is one of the worthy and substantial citizens of Ames, reliable in business, trustworthy at all times and faithful to the ties, duties and obligations of citizenship.
On the 13th of February, 1862, Mr. Lanning was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Marcellus, who was born in New York, December 21, 1843, and there resided until twelve years of age, when she accompanied her parents, John and Hannah O. (Richardson) Marcellus, to 'Iowa county, Iowa. Her father was a native of New York, and her mother of Maine. Following their removal to the middle west they continued residents of Iowa county until their life's labors were ended in death, Mrs. Marcellus passing away at the age of thirty-eight years, while the death of Mr. Marcellus occurred in April, 1903, when he was more than eighty-seven years of age. In their family were ten children, of whom six reached years of maturity. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Lanning has been blessed with five children : Myrtle, who has been successfully engaged in teaching in the high school of Ames for the past twenty years; Mellie, the wife of William Taylor, of Ames; Julia, the wife of Mont Gossard, of Onawa, Iowa; John, living in Ames; and Sadie, the wife of C. C. Morrison, of Chicago.
In his political views Mr. Lanning has always been a stalwart republican and for sixteen years has served on the city council. He was also a township trustee in Iowa county for a number of years and in the discharge of his official duties has ever been found prompt, reliable and energetic. As a member of the city council he has exercised his official prerogatives in support of many public measures contributing to the general welfare and upbuilding of this part of the state. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in their teachings and principles are found the rules which govern his life, making him a man whom to know is to esteem and respect.
JOHN QUINCY MOORE.
The passing years are rapidly thinning the ranks of the brave men who responded to their country's call for aid on the battlefields of the south and the few remaining are always conspicuous figures in the communities where they live. Among those in Story county none are better known than John Quincy Moore, who is a son of Lott and Mary E. (Glenn) Moore and was born in Clermont county, Ohio, on the 7th of April, 1844. His parents were both natives of the Buckeye state, his father being a descendant of an old Virginia family, while his maternal grandparents came from Ireland. About 1852 the parents moved to Hardin county, Ohio, where the mother died in 1860. Three years later the father and family came to Iowa, locating on section 9, Indian Creek township, this county. From that time until his death in 1885 he made this state his home.