Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOHN W. JEFFERSON

John W. JEFFERSON, the son of Luke and Mary A. (FARNSWORTH) JEFFERSON, a sketch of whom appears at another place in this book, was born July 17, 1853, in Boyer Township, Harrison County, Iowa, has been a resident of this township all of his life, and remained under the paternal roof until about 1881, but had been working his own farm, which his father gave him when he was eighteen years of age, for some time previous to 1881. His farm is located on section 35, of Boyer Township, and consists of one hundred and sixty acres of well-improved land. In 1881 he built a frame house 16x24 feet, one story and a half high, and one year later made an addition of 14x20 feet, making the whole a fair-sized and comfortable house. He also has good outbuildings and everything shows evidence of being well cared for.

March 1, 1885, he took to himself a companion in the person of Elizabeth DENNIS, of Ringgold County, Iowa, by which union four children have been born; Myrtle A., January 7, 1886; Mary E., July 19, 1887; Mable O., January 17, 1889; and Edith B., February 17, 1891.

Mrs. Jefferson, wife of our subject, is the daughter of Ezekiel M. and Ruth Ann (MARSHALL) DENNIS, with whom she remained until the date of her marriage, she being the sixth child of a family of eleven children. Ezekiel DENNIS was born in Kentucky in 1834, and in 1846 came to Indiana. In 1854 he was married to Ruth Ann MARSHALL, of Warren County, Ind., who was born April 20, 1836, and moved to Warren County, Iowa, in 1855, and from there to Ringgold County.

Politically, our subject believes in the principles of the Republican party.

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