Source: Past and Present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa
Their story
What the record says
Subject of sketch.
Age 73 at time of writing (b. ~1831).
Only child by his father's first marriage.
Worked on the Erie canal as driver/bowsman for three years and in the pineries winters.
Came west winter 1855-6 to DuPage county, Illinois, then to Iowa.
Resided Monona county until 1858, then Smithland (Woodbury Co.).
Married Elizabeth Jane Adams by Judge Campbell at the old Pacific House, Sioux City.
Farmer near Smithland.
Nine children total (six sons, three daughters).
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