Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 473
ABSALOM F. LINN

Absalom F. LINN, a resident of Section 14, Clay Township, was born in Adams County, Pa., in 1820. His parents were farmers, and with them our subject remained until he was nineteen years old, when he went to Maryland and served an apprenticeship of two years in a mill and then came back to Pennsylvania, followed milling until 1864, and then came to Kane County, Ill., where he ran a mill four years, and in the spring of 1870, came o this county, following the life of a miller four years, when he bought thirty acres of land in Clay Township. He was married in Adams County, Pa., in July, 1840, to Miss Catharine Heagan, and by this marriage union nine children were born: Annie D., Sylvester J., Amanda, deceased; Emory; Matilda, and Henry, deceased; Raphael; Hester; and Silas, deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. LINN are both member of the Dunkard's Church, having been members for thirty-seven years. Politically, he is an Independent.

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