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Bainbridge, John, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Palmyra.

Bartholomew & Son, merchants, Palmyra.

BARTHOLOMEW, G. M., merchant, Palmyra; was born in Indiana, in 1825, but was raised in Illinois, from a small boy; his parents died when he was young; he located in this county, in 1852, in October, and that same year he engaged in the mercantile business, and has been connected with it since; October 2, 1878, he was burned out, and his loss is estimated at about seven thousand dollars, but he rebuilt as soon as possible; he married in Illinois, in 1849, to Miss Mary Flesher, of that State; they have seven children: W. N., Ezra, Laura, Noah, James, Joseph and Minnie; he enlisted in the one hundred day service, in Co., A, Forty-eighth Iowa, but served for five months; he owns 142 acres of land, and follows farming to quite an extent; was appointed postmaster at Palmyra, 1859.

Bartholomew, W., N., Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Barnett, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Ackworth.

Beem, Benjamin, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Palmyra.

Beem, Wm., farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Palmyra.

Bernard, Nicholas, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

Blanchard, James, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Palmyra.

BLAKE, JAMES D., Physician and Surgeon; P. O. Palmyra; born in Olive county, Ohio, November 25, 1838; he was educated at Marietta College, and studied medicine at Columbus, Ohio, Starling Medical College, whence he graduated M. D., in 1869; he settled first at Lowell, Ohio, in partnership with Dr. Echelberry, and moved to his present location at Palmyra in October, 1870; his practice is general, surgery however, and diseases of the eye being his specialty; he has performed nearly all the Capital operations with success; he is a member of the Noble County Medical Society, and has been President and Secretary and also a member of the Warren County Medical Society, of which he has been Vice-President and Treasurer, and a member of the Iowa State Medical Society; his contributions to medical literature have been “Puerperal Fever”, its causation and treatment, Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, December, 1876, “A case of poisoning and death with Veratrum Viride”, American Medical Weekly, November, 1874., “Case of a white girl twelve years old, giving birth to a mulatto child weighing nine pounds”, American Medical Weekly, “No Humbuggery”, Warren Record. Articles contributed to Medical Societies, “Inflammation, its Etiology”, “Tubercular Consumption”, “Typhoid Fever of the West”, “Spinal Concussion”, “Railway Spine”, “A new Cephalus Monster, with drawing”, American Bi-weekly Medical Journal, “Abscess of the Womb”, &c. In April 9, 1863, he married Miss Hannah E., daughter of James Kelley, Esq. Of Banesville, Ohio; they have a family of two sons and one daughter; Eugene Lind, Byron Storer, Luna May.

BLAKE, JOSEPH, farmer, Sec. 1, P. O. Palmyra; was born in Noble county, Ohio, in the year 1833, January 20, and came to this county, in 1855, and since that time has made it his permanent home; he was married in Ohio, in 1854, to Miss Lucinda Wheeler, of that State, who died May 7, 1873, and left a family of seven sons and five daughters: Andrew N., George N., Eli V., Joseph A., Lydia A., Elmer E., Roselia E., Ulyssus G., Leveretta J., Gentiliska May, Mary J. and Benjamin, who has since died; he was married a second time, December 19, 1877, to Nancy E. Adkins, of Indiana; they have one son: Wm.; he owns an improved farm of 175 acres.

Blizzard, H., Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Bond, Hiram, farmer, Sec. 1, township 76; P. O. Palmyra.

Bruce, J. W., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Hartford.

Bruce, P. R., P. O. Palmyra.

Buchanan, Alexander, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

Butterfield, W. S., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Palmyra.

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Campbell, David, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Palmyra.

Campbell, James, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Palmyra.

Campbell, AW. W., farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Palmyra.

Carnes, Jno., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

Clarke, H., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Palmyra.

Cosan, S. M., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Palmyra.

Craig, David, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Palmyra.

Cutlip, J. H., farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

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Davis, M. R., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Hartford.

Deaton, J. R., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Ackworth.

Dixon, A. J., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

Dunn, Lewis, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Palmyra.

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Ellison, Sarah, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

Epps, G. A., farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Palmyra.

Eicher, Geo., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Palmyra

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Farley, Lewis, Palmyra.

Farley, Sylvester, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Farley, Wm. J., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Palmyra.

FENTON, OTIS J., Pottery, Palmyra; born in Ohio in 1840, Sept. 26th; when five years old his parents emigrated to St. Joe county, Ind., where he enlisted in Co. C, 12th Michigan Volunteers, Oct. 4, 1861, and served two years, then re-enlisted at Little Rock, Ark., for three years longer; he was mustered out at Camden, Ark., Feb. 1866, after four years service, and discharged at Jackson, Mich., March 6, 1866; after the war he returned to his native State, and settled in Laporte county; came to this county in Oct. 1869; he was married in New Buffalo, Mich., Feb. 21, 1864, to Miss Lucretia P. Hinman, of Berrien county, that State; they have one son: Charlie Glenn; and six deceased; Mr. Fenton was raised on a farm, and has followed farming as an occupation most of the time.

Fisk, Moses, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Palmyra.

Flesher, M. F., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Palmyra.

Frazier, Daniel, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Hartford.

Friar, W., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Palmyra.

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Garner, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Palmyra.

Gardner, W. H., farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

Gibbons, T., farmer, Sec 24; P. O. Palmyra.

GOLDIZEN, O., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Palmyra; born in Park county, Indiana, June 4, 1827, where he was raised, and made his home till he came to this county in 1853; he owns 140 acres of choice land, well improved, having two miles of the best hedge fence in the county; is an honest, upright, straightforward man, of unblemished character; August 7, 1851, he married Miss Eliza A. Runey, a native of Indiana; they have eight children: W. S., Jno. M., Eliza M., Seigle, Grant, Wm., Donis and Charlie; have lost two: Millen and Mary.

Gregg, Wm., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Palmyra.

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Hall, Dennis, farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

Hart, A. K., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

Hart, J. P., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

Haworth, G. D., farmer, Sec. 1, township 76; P.O. Ackworth.

Hayes, Thomas, Est., Sec. 35; P.O. Palmyra.

Hickman, Edmund, Jr., Sec. 3; P.O. Palmyra.

Hull, E. H., farmer, Sec. 33; P.O. Palmyra.

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Igo, Lewis, Palmyra.

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James, H. R., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

James, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Palmyra.

James, S. V. R., farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

Jamison, J. M., Sec. 31; P.O. Palmyra.

JURY, ENOS, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Indianola; born in Fayette county, Ohio, September 6, 1822, and was raised there; he married Miss Sidney Wright, of Highland county, Ohio, January 10, 1850; the following fall they went to Randolph county, Indiana, where they remained for one year and then returned to Howard county, where he made his home till June, 1856, when he came to this county; he has lived on his present homestead for fourteen years; he is a cabinet maker by trade, and followed it in Palmyra till he came to his farm, which contains 143 acres; they have a family of two daughters and one son: Clarkson W., Ella E. (wife of Samuel S. Thomas, now living in Oregon), and Elizabeth M.

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Kerr, L. H., farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Hartford.

Kiung, William, Sec. 31; P.O. Palmyra.

Kitchell, C. W., farmer, Sec. 31; P.O. Hartford.

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Lemon, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 30; P.O. Palmyra.

Lemon, T. J., Sec. 32; P.O. Palmyra.

Lewis, Dill, farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Palmyra.

Lewis, G. W., Sec. 31; P.O. Palmyra.

Lindewood, William, farmer, Sec. 33; P.O. Palmyra.

Lloyd, James, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Hartford.

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McPherson, W., Sec. 27; P. O. Hartford.

MARIETTA, J. C., physician and surgeon, P. O. Palmyra; born in Summerset county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1845, and moved, with his parents, to Fayette county in the year 1848, and from there to this State in 1857, and to Warren county in 1864; he enlisted as a private in Co. A, 48th Regiment, Iowa Volunteers, June 11, 1864, and was discharged October, 1864; his early education was received at Indianola; in 1867 he went to Illinois, where he studied medicine, and in 1871 he went to Minnesota, and returned to Iowa the same year, and engaged in the drug business at Grinnell, Powashiek county; he attended the college of physicians and surgeons, at Keokuk, in 1873, and graduated an M. D. in 1876; he located in Palmyra in 1874, and was married to Miss Hattie M. Lutz, of Palmyra, in 1875; she was born in Indiana, and came to Iowa at an early age.

McVay, James, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Ackworth

Matthews, T. D., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Palmyra.

Maxwell, Dillon, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Palmyra.

Miller, Abraham, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

Miller, J. H., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Palmyra.

Moon, Eli, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Palmyra.

Moon, Hiram, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Ackworth.

Moon, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Palmyra.

Morris, John, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Palmyra.

Morgan, C., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Palmyra.

Mote, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Hartford.

Moulton, Charles C., farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Myrick, Eli, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Hartford.

Myrick, J. H., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Ackworth.

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NEWLIN, ELIAS, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Carlisle; was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1822; he lived there till about twelve years of age, then moved to Hendricks county, Indiana, with his parents, and remained till sixteen years of age; while there he married Miss Rodema Lewis, in 1843; they came to this county in the fall of 1850, and located where they now live; their homestead consists of 300 acres; in 1861, Mr. N. met with quite a loss from fire, his house and contents burned, making a loss of about $3,000; they have no family; Mrs. Newlin has been a great sufferer for about eight years, has not been out of the house for seven years, and most of the time has been confined to her bed; he is a stock holder in the Warren County Bank to the amount of $4,200.

NICHOLLS, G., H., farmer Sec. 7; P. O. Palmyra; was born in Book county, West Virginia, March 23, 1821; when a small lad, his father moved to Knox county, Ohio, where he was raised; in 1853 he came to this county; having had but little success previous to his coming to this county, he rented land for several years in this vicinity. In 1864 he purchased the 100 acres on which he now resides, and since that time has increased his real estate to 263 acres, having accomplished all this by hard labor and good judgment, assisted by one of the nobles of women, formerly Miss Sophia Howe, a native of Ohio, whom he married March 23, 1847; they have nine children: Elliott, Susan M. (wife of I. Sutton), Margaret E. (wife of A. McCarty), Thos. J., Lucinda, Cyrus, Elmira (now Mrs. E. Gunlock), David, and Florence; lost one daughter, Alice.

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Overton, Wm., farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Ackworth.

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Parker, Smith, farmer, Sec. 5, P. O. Palmyra.

PARK, MRS. ELIZABETH, farmer, Section 19; P. O. Palmyra; widow of Wm. Park, who was born in Ireland in 1822 and came to American in 1844, and first lived in Pennsylvania, and then came to Ohio, where he made his home till he came to this State, in 1851, and to Warren county in 1855; he died in January, 1879. Mrs. Park was married to her husband in Ohio in 1849; she has a family of six children living: James, Nancy J. (now wife of M. Talbot), Geo., Milton, Zachariah, and Emmet; her homestead consists of 302 acres of land.

PAYNE, ARCHIBALD, blacksmith; P. O. Palmyra; born in North Carolina Oct. 8, 1822; his parents came to Indianapolis, Ind., when he was quite young, where he was raised and learned his trade, which he has followed since as an occupation. June 8, 1861, he enlisted in Co. G, 3d Iowa Infantry, and was honorably discharged June 8th, 1864, at Davenport. While in the service he participated in the battles of Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson, Mississippi, and the Red River campaign. He came to this county and settled in the year 18--, and has since that time made it his home; he has held the office of coroner one term, and justice of the peace several years. He was married in Bloomington, Ill., in 1846, to Miss N. J. Glimpse, of Indiana; they have by this union a family of four children: Matilda A. (now wife of W. W. Marshall), Laura F. (now wife of S. McClure), Mary B. (now wife of W. A. Bartholomew), and Alonzo.

Perry, Michael, farmer, Sec. 10, P. O. Ackworth.

Prall, Thos., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Ackworth.

Pyles, L. F., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Ackworth.

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Reed, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Hartford.

Reed, Wm., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Palmyra.

REYNOLDS, ALFRED, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Ackworth; born in Ohio in 1834, and came to this county in March, 1849, and has made it his home since, except two years that he spent in his native State; he was married in this county in 1857, to Miss Catharine Perry; they have ten children living: Wm. H., Mary J., Chas. A., Francis, Alice J., Annie, Noma, Julia, Thomas, and George. Mr. Reynolds was raised on a farm, and now owns one of 132 acres.

Reynolds, Alfred, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Palmyra.

Rubottom, Jane, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Palmyra.

Rubottom, Simon, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Palmyra.

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Sanders, Thomas, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Shepherd, Mrs. M., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Palmyra.

Silcott, H. E., farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Hartford.

Simon, C. R., farmer, Sec. 1, Township 76; P. O. Palmyra.

Simon F. D., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Palmyra.

Simon, George, farmer, Sec. 1, Township 76; P. O. Palmyra.

Singenfelter, Gilbert, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Smith, Mary, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

SPAIN, JOHN Q., farmer and stock raiser and buyer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra; born in the State of Iowa, in the year 1850, and was principally raised in this county, having come to it in 1852 with his parents; he was born in Van Buren county; he came to his present home in the spring of 1879, which consists of 160 acres; he was married in this county in 1871, to Miss M. A. Pendry, of this State; they have by this union, one son and one daughter, Robert T. and Nellie; they have lost one.

Spence, A. L., farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

Stump, James, farmer, Sec. 35; O. O. Palmyra.

Switzer, H. J., farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Palmyra.

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Talboys, Marths, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Palmyra.

Thompson, Newton, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

Thompson, T. J., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Palmyra.

Thomas, S. P., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Palmyra.

TRESHAM, JAMES, farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Palmyra; was born in Greenbriar county, Virginia, March 9, 1829, and was raised there; when twenty years of age he left his home, and removed to Highland county, Ohio, he remained there five years, and was married to Miss Mary J. Wright, March 24, 1853, a native of that county, the following year they emigrated to Warren county; he has lived on his present homestead for ten years, it contains 150 acres; they have one son and four daughters: Eunice, Emma, Issadora, John D. and Ida M., have lost two sons: Edward H. and Robert A.

Tumbtin Bros., butchers, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

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Vance, Eli, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Palmyra.

Van Fleet, W., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Palmyra.

Vernon, James, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Ackworth.

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WADE, BENJAMIN, farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Carlisle; born in Lucerne county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1822; was four years of age, when his parents moved to Muskingum county, Ohio, but was principally raised in Seneca county; was married there to Miss Maria Miller, December, 1844, a native of Fairfield county, that State; they came to this county, in 1856, and he now owns 204 acres of land; they have a family of five sons: Lafayette, Joseph, Abraham, Robert and Benjamin Jr., they have lost two sons and two daughters: James and Chaney, who were killed by the Indians, near Fort Kearny, Margaret T. and Rebecca E.

Waite, John, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

Webster, Mary, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Palmyra.

WEBSTER, E. P., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Palmyra; born in Park county, Indiana, January 13, 1842, and when quite young his parents moved to Knox county, Illinois where he lived till nine years of age, and came to this county in 1857, where he has since made his home--except three years that he was engaged in farming in Colorado; he owns a nicely improved farm of ninety acres, which he has made by the sweat of his brow, as he started life without capital; February 4, 1869, he married Miss Mary J. Farley, of Mahaska county, this State; they have three children living: Flora M., Isaac P., Ida M.; have lost one daughter, Alice, who died April 25, 1876.

Whitmore, Milton, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Palmyra.

WILSON, A., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Hartford; born in Rulaski county, Kentucky, December 14, 1820; his parents moved to Owen county, Indiana, in 1822, where the subject of this sketch was raised; in 1858 he came to Appanoose county, Iowa, and from there to this county, in 1875, and has since resided on his present homestead, which consists of eighty acres of good land; was married January 15, 1850, to Miss Margaret Whitaker, a native of Jefferson county, Kentucky; they have four children living: Sarah E., John K., William E. and E. P. M.; he was left an orphan at five years of age, and had to battle with the world for all that he has.

WILSON, JACOB P., farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Summerset; born in Washington county, Ohio, March 7, 1840, and was raised there; he came to this State in 1865, and located in Linn county; while there he married Miss Mary M. Bolton, January 1, 1870, a native of that county; they have a family of two sons: Allen L. and Albert P.; he enlisted in the late war of the rebellion in August, 1861, in Co., F, 36th Ohio infantry, and was mustered out in the fall of 1864; was in the battles of Lewisburg, Virginia, Second Bull; Run, South Mountain, Antetam, Chickamauga, Tennessee, Mission Ridge, Winchester, Virginia, and various skirmishes; he owns a farm of 125 acres.

Wirich, Marshall, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Palmyra.

Wright, J. W., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Palmyra.

Wright, Jonathan, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Palmyra.

Wright, T. J., farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Palmyra.

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Yarnall, David, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Summerset.

YARNALL, SAMUEL, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Summerset; born in Harrison county, Kentucky, May 7, 1811; he lived there till nineteen years of age; then went with his father to Vermillion county, Ill., where he lived for twenty-five years; and while there he married Miss Hester A. Richards, Sept. 6, 1832, who died June 17, 1878, and left a family of four sons and four daughters: Millie (now Mrs. A. Vandilla), Barr, Isaac, David, Mary (now Mrs. Beam), Sarah (now Mrs. Gregg), and James; he came to this county in Sept. 1854, and has lived on this present farm of 120 acres since 1860.