youth and ambitious as well, he managed to overcome all difficulties and when twenty years old began teaching school, which line of work he followed for ten years in connection with farming. During this time he taught for nineteen terms. In the spring of 1875 he came to Story county, Iowa, making his residence with Ole Berhaw, whom he had known when living in Kendall county, Illinois. This was the farm on which he now resides and which he later purchased. In the meantime he went to Polk county and spent the winter there, returning the following spring to the Berhaw farm, where he has since resided.
Mr. Hill was married to Mrs. Clara Thorson, nee Seymour, of Kendall county, Illinois. Her parents were Sebert and Isabella (Thompson) Seymour, who came to America from Norway. To Mr. and Mrs. Hill four children have been born, as follows : Albert T., residing at Cambridge ; Martha H., who is attending Drake University at Des Moines ; John, who is a student in the State Agricultural College at Ames ; and one child, deceased. Mr. Hill is a prohibitionist in politics and both he and his wife are faithful members of the Lutheran church.
JAMES W. DUNAHOO.
One of the well known farms of Story county is the Dunahoo homestead, which is located on sections 2 and 3, Indian Creek township, and upon which the third generation of this family is now living. James W. Dunahoo, the present head of the family, was born in Marion county, Indiana, on the 3d of April, 1841. His parents, William M. and Sarah (Sheets) Dunahoo, were both natives of Virginia, where they were reared and married. A few years later they migrated to Ohio and the next year they removed to Marion county, Indiana, where they made their home for several years. In August, 1854, they came west, locating in Story county, Iowa, on the farm which is now owned by their grandson, our subject's son. William Dunahoo entered one hundred and sixty acres of land from the government, upon which he continued to make his home until the time of his death in 1874. His wife survived him for thirty years and passed away in 1904.
James W. Dunahoo remained a member of his father's household until he had attained manhood, attending the district school, assisting with the work of the farm and enjoying such diversions as fell to the lot of the young people of that day. He acquired the rudiments of his education in an old log schoolhouse with puncheon floors and slab benches and lighted and ventilated by means of pieces cut out of the logs which formed the walls. In those early days he drove oxen to market to Des Moines and Iowa City and sold wheat in Cedar Rapids for forty cents per bushel.