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WILLIAM WYLAND


Hon. William Wyland, farmer, was born in 0. in 1830; removed to northern Ind. in 1832, with his parents, where he remained until 1856; then came to Shelby county, Ia., which at that time was very sparsely settled, the inhabitants having to go to Kanesville--now Council Bluffs--for mail and to do trading. He entered land, and engaged in farming until 1859; was elected county treasurer in 1857, and county judge in 1859; returned to farming in 1861, and in 1873 engaged m the mercantile business in partnership with Thos. Wood; closed out business in 1877, and returned to farming in North Harlan.

Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 428.