Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 365
ALEXANDER B. CASE

Alexander B. CASE, of Cass Township, came to Harrison County in may, 1865, in company with his parents, and assisted them on the farm until he was of age. He then worked for his father two years, receiving a team, harness and wagon for the same. After this he rented land for two years, when he bought his present place, which had twenty-six acres of breaking, and a small house upon it, to which he has made several additions. He paid $10 per acre for the land, and was obliged to go in debt for a portion of it.

Our subject's father, Nelson CASE, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1818, and remained there until eighteen years of age, and then came to Knox County, Ill., where he followed farming, boating and general employment. In the fall of 1847 he started for Iowa, and settled in Warren County, but after eighteen months removed to Lucas County, being the first settler in Otter Creek Township in that county. He remained there until the spring of 1865, and then moved to Harrison County. He had a family of six children, of whom our subject was the fourth. The children were as follows: John W., Isaac M., born March 4, 1851, Phoebe C., November 25, 1852; Alexander B., February 26, 1854; Thomas L., June 17, 1856; Albert M., October 20, 1858.

Our subject was married May 23, 1874, to Susan CHAPPELL, daughter of Thomas and Mary E. CHAPPELL, who was born in Utah. Her mother went with her first husband from Arkansas to Utah, and he started for California and was not heard of after the Mountain Meadow Massacre, at which place it is supposed he was slaughtered. After this occurred his wife married Mr. CHAPPELL and lived in Utah for ten years, but then drifted back to Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. CASE are the parents of six children�Thomas N, born December 2, 1877; Effie E., August 30, 1878; Ethel E., April 7, 1880; James L., May 28, 1883; Charles A., December 28, 1885, and Herbert A., October 29, 1887.

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