Source: Portrait and biographical record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa counties, Iowa
Their story
What the record says
Native of Pennsylvania.
Removed early to Rock Island County, Illinois.
Methodist Episcopal minister, preached about forty years, a pioneer minister.
Wife Phoebe Devinney (also of Pennsylvania) bore him ten children (three sons, seven daughters).
Clark (eldest, Civil War veteran, resident of Colorado).
Milton (second son).
Hester (Mrs. Russell).
Rachael (wife of Mr. Teft).
Katie (wife of Duane Nicholson).
Mattie (wife of Hiram Taylor, deceased).
Minnie (Mrs. Nicholas Wiltemeth).
Anna D. (Mrs. Orcott, later Mrs. Wrage).
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