W. H. EASTON
William H. Easton, a son of John and Ruth (Twickelle) Easton, is a native of Oswego county. New York, born November 17, 1833. He moved with his parents to Peoria, Illinois, in 1837, where he was married in 1854 to Mary J. Thurston, a daughter of Jesse Thurston. They have been blessed with eight children--Mary Emma, Ella May, Ruth Caroline, Nathaniel Lyon, J. Scott, William H., Edwin S and Adeline. In May, 1855, Mr. Easton entered four hundred and forty acres of prairie land in Jefferson township, Adair county, Iowa, and bought seventy acres of timber land of G. M. Haladay, on section 4, Grove township, of the same county. He returned to Peoria, Illinois, and in October of the same year moved his family to his land, spending the winter in a log cabin, which is now standing on the farm of Andrew Dickey. He built a log cabin on what is now his present location in Jefferson township, Adair county, and there lived until 1882, when he erected his new dwelling. He now owns four hundred acres of good cultivated land, and ten acres of timber land, which is of great value. He is a general farmer and stock raiser, having some line Short horn cattle. Mr. Easton has held every township office, and helped make the first assessment, while in the assessor's office, and was the second representative from this district, having been elected in the fall of 1873.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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. 347-348.
