Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 595
WILLIAM NEAL

William NEAL, a farmer located on section 6, of Allen Township, came to Harrison County, in the spring of 1885. The first four years he lived on the George PUGSLEY place in Lincoln Township. He then bought eighty acres of unimproved land, constituting his present farm. Mr. NEAL was born in June, 1857, in Piatt County, Illinois. He is the son of John and Amelia NEAL, natives of Ohio, who were the parents of eleven children, names as follows: Samuel and George (deceased); Anna, William, Charles, Ellen, Martha, Eliza, deceased; John, Emma and Elizabeth.

Our subject came to Iowa when a small boy, with his parents, who settled in Linn County, and remained with them until he had reached his majority. He then went to Page County, where he worked at farm labor for two years, leasing land. He then removed to Taylor County, Iowa, where he rented land for eighteen years, after which he removed to Monona County, remained two years on rented land, and then came to this county. Thus far in life our subject has lived the life of single blessedness. However, he is fortunate, in that his mother and sister keep house for him.

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