FRANCIS L. HENRY
Francis L. Henry resides on the northeast quarter of section 28. He also owns eighty acres in the south half of the southwest quarter of section 22, having altogether, two hundred and forty acres, upon which he has made all the improvements. The date of his settlement here is 1874, when he bought the first described land of Moses Reeves and the last described of Philip Marvin. Mr. Henry was born in Park county, Indiana, in 1849. He came to Iowa with his parents in 1850. The family settled in Mahaska county, where his father still lives. Mr. Henry is a Greenbacker, politically, having been a member of that party since it organization in 1864.
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, pp. 643.
