OL. MEASE.
After many years of hard work and close attention to business, the gentleman whose name captions this sketch, is enabled to enjoy the fruits of his labor, doing so with the knowledge that he has always dealt with his brotherman in an honest, straightforward manner. His life as a farmer has been eminently successful in all phases, and his unremitting industry, coupled with integrity, has been rewarded by a fair share of the world's goods.
01. Mease, farmer and general stockman, Lincoln township, Audubon county, was born at Freedport, Illinois, March 27, 1865. He is a son of J. J. Mease and Elizabeth (Walkey) Mease. He left Freedport with his father, when five years of age. His early education was secured in the public schools of the county and, on quitting school at the age of seventeen years, went to work on his father's farm, where he remained until twenty-one years old. He then rented a farm in Iowa, and followed the vocation of threshing grain for twenty-four years. At the present time he farms two hundred and twenty acres, which is owned by his wife, and devotes his special attention to the breeding and sale of Percheron stallions and horses, a number of which he sells each year. He now has nine stallions and twenty-one thoroughbred mares on the place. In addition to the above, Mr. Mease is also devoting a portion of his time and attention to Duroc hogs, of which he has one hundred and eighty on the place, and of these he sells about two carloads each year. The grain raised on his farm is all fed to the stock. He has put about six thousand dollars worth of improvements on his land. His political views are Democratic.
The father of Ol. Mease lived at Freedport for ten years, where he followed the vocation of farming, and went from there to Nebraska for a few years, going from there to Iowa, where he rented a farm, and after remaining here for a time, he went to the Ozark mountains, where he now resides. He and his wife are the parents of the following children, namely: Ed., Ol., Art., Wilber, Mary, Martha, Rose.
Mr. Mease was united in marriage, on April 20, 1899, to Mrs. Eliza A. Welty, widow of Lynn Welty, and has since lived on the place where they settled at the time of their marriage. They have no children. Mrs. Mease is a member of the Alethodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Mease is a daughter of William M. and Eliza A. (Clark) Matson, who were natives of Ohio, where they married and later settled in Illinois, when he and she later came to Audubon county, Iowa, where she later bought land and here she died. They had seven children, Maudy, now Mrs. Kittell, and subject's wife. The other five died in infancy. She died on June 16, 1903, at Gray, Iowa.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 510-511.
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