WILLIAM T. READ
William T. Read came to Noble township in June, 1873, at which date he bought unimproved land on section 24. He removed to this place September 26, of that year. He now has the land improved and fenced, and has erected good substantial buildings, planted trees, and otherwise improved the place. He has purchased more land, and now owns two hundred and forty acres. He was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 19th day of April, 1838, and is a son of Nelson and Sarah (Johnson) Read. He resided with his parents in Ohio until 1855. In that year they removed to Iowa and settled in Jasper county, where he remained with them until twenty-one years old. He then went to LeGrand in Marshall county, and was there employed in teaching. He had previously attended four terms at Iowa college at Grinnell. He was married in Marshall county, in 1860, to Josephine Bibb, a native of Amherst county, Virginia. He bought land in LeGrand township and engaged in farming, also taught school. In 1866 he sold his land in that county and bought a quarter section in Hickory Grove township, Jasper county. In 1872 he sold and went to Missouri where he spent one year, then came to Cass county, after spending the summer in Marshall county, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Read have eight children -- Charles Edward, William Harvey, Byron J., Anna L., Arthur, Nellie, Edith and Howard.
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. 663.
