OLIVER MCFADDEN
Oliver McFadden resides on section 15, of Bear Grove township. He has lived upon his present farm since 1878. He owns, also, the southeast quarter of section 9, all of which is improved. Mr. McFadden was born in Grant county, Indiana, October 16, 1853, and is a son of George W. and Sarah McFadden. The latter died in 1865. George W. McFadden, with his third wife and seven children, came to Cass county in 1871, locating in Noble township, where he now lives. Oliver McFadden was married June 3, 1880, to Phoebe A. Tippey, a sister of J. J. Tippey, of this township. She was born in Grant county, Indiana, November 25, 1852. They have two children--Ada Belle, born March 19, 1881, and William J., born June 25, 1882.
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. 718.
