BUTTHOLPH, Eugene

BUTTHOLPH, DRAKE, GLINES

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 4/25/2009 at 12:46:39

Eugene Buttholph and Everett E. Drake, in 1871, bought 240 acres of land on section 14, Rock township, which they have since worked together. They have erected good houses and commodious barns and otherwise improved it. Eugene Buttholph,was born in New Haven, Addison Co., Vt., May 18, 1845. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Windsor, Dane Co.,Wis., and in 1866 removed to Burr Oak, Iowa, where he made his home until 1869, when he was employed in stageing from Waverly to Nashua. He was married April 12, 1869, to Mary, daughter of William and Betsy (Glines) Drake. They have one son—Lloyd A.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 475.