JACOB TREGO
Jacob Trego was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1840. In 1841, his father, Curtis Trego, moved to Mercer county, Illinois, and later to Knox county, then to Rock Island county, and thence to Henry county, Illinois. In the fall of 1875 he came to Iowa, and settled in Madison county, where he died, August 25, 1883. His widow is still living in Madison county. Jacob Trego, at the age of nineteen, left the parental roof, that being in 1859, and the family then lived in Knox county, Illinois. He enlisted in 1861, in company C, of the One Hundred Second Illinois regiment. After serving six months, he was discharged on account of disability. He was married June 30, 1861, in Mercer county, Illinois, to Hannah Wilkins, who was born in New Jersey, November 24, 1843. They lived one year in Mercer county, and then removed to Henry county, where he followed farming. They came to Cass county in 1872, and bought land on Section 13, Union township, improved and made a farm. In 1874 he sold this place to his father-in-law, and moved to Dexter. Two years later he bought the farm he now owns and occupies, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, all improved, on section 12. They have five children---Ida, Mary, Frances, Clarence W., Helen G. and Rush R.
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. 741-742.
