OBED BLAKESLEE
Obed Blakeslee is the owner of a fine farm of four hundred and thirty-five acresm, which (with the exception of forty acres lying in section 10), is located in section 3, of Brighton township. It is all under cultivation except one hundred and twenty acres, and is a beautiful and highly desirable farm. He has good improvements, including buildings, orchard and groves. Mr. Blakeslee was born in Linn county, Iowa, April 15, 1845, and is a son of Obed and Sarah E. (Morse) Blakeslee, natives of New Haven, Connecticut. Obed Blakeslee, Sr., died in October, 1845. His widow, Sarah Blakeslee was again married April 15, 1847, to Hugh Martin who died in 1871. She is still living at her home in this county. An adopted son lives with her. The subject of this sketch has always followed farming. He also deals in stock. Mr. Blakeslee was married in Linn county, in the winter of 1873, to Melissa Williams, a daughter of W.R. Williams. They have four children living...Orrin H., Edith L., Edna M., and Inez. Mr. Blakeslee is a highly successful farmer.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 605.
