J. I. PRITCHARD
J. I. Pritchard was born in West Virginia, on November 25, 1829. He was reared on a farm. His father being a blacksmith as well as farmer, J.I. worked in shop and on farm until nineteen years of age, then went into the mercantile business in Clarksburg. Working at that trade about ten years, his store and stock were burned, and he then purchased an interest in a steam saw mill, which he retained until 1867, when he sold out and came west, locating in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, and was there engaged in farming and blacksmithing until 1870, when he came to Iowa, spending the winter in Montgomery county. In 1872 he came to Cass county and settled in Noble township, purchased one hundred and twenty acres on sections 29 and 30, and has improved and is now living on same. He was married in 1870 to Felicia Selby. She was born in Knox county, Ohio, but was reared and educated in Wisconsin She has taught twenty-eight terms of school in Wisconsin and Iowa.
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. 662.
