SCRIVEN, Warren

SCRIVEN, SHERMAN STERNS, LONG, ROGERS, CARTER, WOOD

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/13/2006 at 16:11:33

Warren Scriven became a resident of Mitchell county in October, 1864, when he located in Mitchell township. In 1869 he came to Burr Oak township, and the next year bought his farm of 240 acres on section 33.

Mr. Scriven was born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Aug. 5, 1818. He was brought up on a farm and in 1854 came west to Green Co., Wis., where he was a farmer. He was married in his native county in New York, to Harriet, daughter of Erastus Stearns. She was born in Rensselaer County, N.Y. Following is the record of their children: Mary J. died at the age of twenty-eight years; George H. resides at Osage; Eliza (Mrs. Augustus Sherman) lives at Toledo, Ohio; Lydia (wife of John Long) lives at Osage; Joshua died in childhood; Hannah (wife of Leroy Carter); Lovinia, widow of Darwin Rogers; Thomas E.; Ellen is the wife of Wesly Wood, of Burr Oak township.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 285.