ROOD, L.

ROOD

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 4/25/2009 at 12:55:35

L. Rood, came to Lincoln township in 1854. A native of Connecticut, he came from. LaSalle Co., Ill., starting on an overland trip, but at Galena took a boat and went up the river to McGregor, where he again resumed his trip by team. He selected the southwest quarter of section 32, where he built a log house and stable and broke twenty-five acres of land. In July, 1855, he sold again, and purchased land on sections 7 and 8. In the spring of 1856 he returned to Illinois, where he remained about two years and returned to this township, and settled on section 16, where he remained until his death, in June, 1881. His sons, Nelson L. and Joseph F., were residents of the township in 1883.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 347.