REV. ASA WALDEN
Rev. Asa Walden was born in Connecticut, in 1790. At the age of seventeen he removed with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, who were among the early settlers of that county. He was married in Bristol, Trumbull county, in 1813, to Mary Cline, who was born in Virginia in 1794. Her parents were also early settlers of Trumbull county. When a young man he united with the M.E. church, and later became a minister of the gospel of that denomination. In 1847, he removed to Ashtabula county, where he engaged in preaching and farming until 1856, when he went to Wiscosin. In the spring of 1857, he came to Victoria, effecting a settlement on section 6, and was probably the second settler of that territory, as he came but a short time after his son-in-law, William Johnson. He here united with the Christian church, and for some time afterward preached for that denomination. His death occurred August 7, 1861, and in 1878, the demise of his wife took place. There were eleven children born to them, four of whom are still living...Philena, widow of Mr. Lidle, who resides at present in Harrison county, Iowa; Catherine, wife of William E. Johnson, living in Cloud county, Kansas; Sophronia, wife of Isaac Johnson, a resident of Edna township; and Mary A., wife of Rufus L. Peasley, resident of Harrison county, 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, pg. 578.
