GEORGE FELT
George Felt owns and resides upon the southeast quarter of section 23, Franklin township, where he settled in 1815. He purchased his farm in 1872, of Edward Felt, of Galesburg, Illinois. He made the first improvement upon this land in 1873, breaking forty acres. He now has one hundred and fifty acres broken and the entire tract fenced. In 1878 he built his present residence and planted an orchard of one hundred apple trees. Mr. Felt was born in 1852, in Adams county, Illinois, where he was reared upon a farm. His father, Jeremiah Felt, a native of New Hampshire, was one of the pioneers of Adams county, where he still lives. He settled there in 1830. George Felt is the only one of his father's family living in Cass county. He was married to Clara Smith, daughter of Joshua Smith, who came to this county in 1865, and now lives in Atlantic. Mr. and Mrs. Felt have two children--Garnet and Stanley. Politically, Mr. Felt is a Republican. He is one of Cass county's enterprising citizens.
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. 800.
