PHILIP TRAINER
Philip Trainer is a native of Wisconsin, born August 15, 1850. His father, Walter Trainer, died in Dodge county, Wisconsin, when Philip was quite young. His mother, Ann Trainer, died in Dodge county, February 4, 1870. Philip lived with his mother most of the time until he became of age. He was there engaged in the pineries, lumbering, log drawing and subcontracting, from the time he was eighteen years of age until he left Wisconsin. In 1875 he came to this county and has resided here continuously since that time. He purchased land on section 36, Franklin township, and there opened a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, which he sold in the fall of the same year, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres in section 5, Union township. He was married January 3, 1878, to Alice Conine, who was born in Columbia county, Ohio, August 5, 1861. Her father, Isaac Conine, came west and settled in Jones county, in 1868, and in 1870 came to Cass county and settled in Atlantic township, where he resides at present. Mr. and Mrs. Trainer have had three children---Arthur, (deceased), Rosetta and Frank Ray. Mr. Trainer is a member of the town board of trustees. He has served as road supervisor, and in 1884 was a candidate for county supervisor of the Fifth district.
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, pp. 747.
