Adair, Wm., Sec. 19; P. O. Cedar.
Akers, Anderson, farmer, Sec. 36; Fremont.
Akerman, P., farmer, Sec. 13; P.O. Fremont.
Allman, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Fremont.
Allman, John, laborer, P. O. Fremont.
Alexander, Robert, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Fremont.
Aldridge, Joseph A., farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Fremont.
Allender, M., farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Fremont.
Anderson, Wm., farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Kirkville.
Baitsell, Geo. W., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Baitsell, Jane, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Barr, Ira, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Bentley, Laura J., farmer, See. 8; P. O. Cedar.
Beswiek, A. W., farmer; P. O. Cedar.
Bond, C., physician, Fremont.
Boyd, Wm., farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Cedar.
Bridenstine, Peter, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Kirkville.
Brown, G. W., shoemaker and farmer, Fremont.
Byram, C. G., school teacher, Fremont.
Byram, D. C., retired, Fremont.
Byram, M. W., druggist, Fremont; was born in Butler county, Ohio, December 1, 1837, and lived there six years; his parents then removed to Dark county, Ohio, where he lived until the spring of 1861, and then to McGoupin county, Ill., and remained there until September, 1864; he then returned to Dark county, Ohio, where he remained until September, 1873, and then came to this county; he married Mary J. McFarland August 7, 1859, of Randolph county, Indiana; she died June 9, 1873; was married again to Mahala Oldham, of this county, June 13, 1875; she died September 22, 1875; married again April 27, 1876, to Mary I., widow of E. Roberts, her maiden name was Ferguson, a native of this county; has two children by first marriage, Ida A. and Laura M., and one son by third marriage, Lawrence L.; has taught school, more or less, for twenty years.
Canon, Samuel R. of the firm of Canon &; Gunn, merchants, Fremont; was born in Fayette county, Ohio, , May 12, 1845, and lived there about twelve years; came to this county in 1857; not married.
Carnahan, Sarah, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Kirkville.
Caves, Edward, blacksmith, Fremont.
Cheek, James P., laborer, Fremont.
Cochran, G. W., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Fremont.
Cochran, O. C., farmer, Soc. 5; P. O. Cedar.
Cochran, Sanford, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. White Oak.
Cole, Wm., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Cedar.
Cole, Wm. W., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
Craft, J. E., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Cedar.
Cummins, H. C. farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Cummins, Thos., farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Kirkville.
Davidson, John W., farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Kirkville.
Davidson, W. A., Sec. 24; P. O. Fremont.
Davis, Elizabeth U., farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Kirkville.
Davis, Joseph, farmer. Sec. 28; P. O. Kirkville.
Dinmore, Wm., farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Fremont.
Doan, Martha A., farming, Sec. 17; P. O. Cedar.
Doolittle, B. M., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Fremont.
Eastburn, B. W.,farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Fremont.
Eastburn, C. A., farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Fremont.
Eastburn, Job H., commission merchant, Chicago.
Eastburn, Sanford, farmer, Sec. 25; P.O. Fremont.
Ellis, Wm., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Fremont.
Endicott, J. N., P. O. Cedar, general store, Cedar Chapel; born in Posey county, Indiana, in 1841; came here 1874. He enlisted in Co. B, 58th Indiana Infantry, in October, 1861, and was mustered out in August, 1865. February 6, 1866, he married Cornelia Boyle, a native of the same county; she died January 10, 1871; left one son Alfred B.; he married again to Mary L. Kinsman, June 6, 1875; she was born in Oskaloosa township, this county, in 1854; one son and one daughter, James N. and Baby.
English, Alpha, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Kirkville.
Epperly, Joel, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Fremont.
Everson, John W., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Fremont.
Failyer, George W., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
Fellers, John M., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Fremont.
Ferguson, John, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Concert.
Foster, Caleb, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
Foster, N. W., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Funk, Henry, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
Garroitt, I. N., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Gilmore, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Kirkville; was born in the town of Tevis, Harrison county, Ohio, in 1830; he lived there until 1851, and then came to this county; his farm contains 500 acres; he married Sarah Myers, November 25, 1856, a native of Morrow county, Ohio; they have two sons and two daughters, named Nina, Maggie, Myers and Fred; lost one son, John.
Gordon, Uriah, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Kirkville.
Graham, Jefferson, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. White Oak.
Griffis, Noah H., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Gunn, James A., of the firm of Canon &; Gunn, merchants, Fremont; was born in Lake county, Ohio, October 7, 1849; he lived there four years; parents then emigrated to Iowa, and to this county; has been engaged in business here since 1873; is post-master; he married Mrs. S. S. Heinzman, April 20, 1873, a native of Shelby county, Indiana; they have one son, Frank L.
Hackett, Isaac, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Halloway, Ralph E., farmer, Soc. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
Harter, Aaron, farmer, Fremont.
Harter, Andrew, farmer, Sec. 28; Fremont.
Harter, James, farmer, Fremont.
Harter, John H., farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. Fremont,
Hayes, Joel, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Cedar.
Heinzman, S. H., of the firm of Byram &; Co., merchants; Fremont; he was born in Shelby county, Indiana, August 2, 1840; he lived there until October 1st, 1861, and then came to this county; he married Miss Amey W. Byram, November 20, 1867, a native of Dark county, Ohio; they have two daughters, Gertrude and Madge.
Higgason, S. J., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Cedar.
Hook, John, farmer, Sec. 12; P. Fremont.
Hook, N. R., physician and Fremont; he was born in Williamsburg, Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1842; his parents moved to Gurnsey county, Ohio, when he was very young; they lived there eleven years, and then came to this county; he commenced the study of medicine at the age of nineteen, with Dr. S. E. Rhinehart; he attended the college of physicians and surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and graduated in 1874; he served from 1862, to August 9th, 1865, in the late war in Co. C, 33rd Iowa Volunteers Infantry; he married Miss Lucetta J. Kissick, June, 3, 1866, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania; she died December 19, 1873; he was married again to Florence N. Kissick, December 23, 1874, a native of Mercer county, Pennsylvania has one son living by his first marriage, Charles W., and one son by his second marriage, Walter M.; owns a farm of 200 acres.
House, A. J., farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Kirkville.
Howell, B. C., farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Fremont.
Howser, James, farmer, P. O. Kirkville.
Hughes, H. D., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Fremont.
Jackson, W., laborer, P. O. Kirkville.
Jemison, A. A., farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Kirkville.
Jones, N. J., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Kirkville.
Keith, J. C., farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Fremont; he was born in Miami county, Ohio, April 5, 1822; his parents moved to Shelby county, Indiana, when the subject of this sketch was about seven years old; he came to Davis county, Iowa, in 1858, lived there two years and then came to this county; his farm contains 306 acres; he has been married four times, first to Susan Heinzman, a native of Kentucky, but raised in Indiana; they were married December 16th, 1847; she died August 10th, 1852; had one son, Marshall E.; he was married again to Ann Eliza Davison, November 24, 1853, a native of Shelby county, Indiana; she died March 19th, 1857; had one son, Oscar; he was married again to Maggie Majors, a native of this county, December 14th, 1859; she died October 23, 1860; he was married again to Mary Canon, a native of Pennsylvania, October, 12th, 1861; has three sons and three daughters, Preston, Minnie, Nellie, Albert, Mabel and Gus.
Kent, Delilah, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Kirkville.
King, Wm., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Kline, E. J., farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Cedar.
Knicely, Isaac, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Fremont.
Lacy, Wm., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Lee, Isaac T., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Fremont.
Lee, John M., farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Fremont.
Lee, M. B., farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Fremont.
Lee, N. M., farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. Fremont.
Lentz, David, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Fremont.
Lentz, George, carpenter; P. O. Fremont; born in Butler county, Ohio, January 5, 1838; lived there about seven years; his parents then emigrated to Keokuk county, Iowa, about five miles from where he now lives; he moved to Fremont in 1855; is justice of the peace; he married Miss Rebecca J. Able August 12, 1861; she lived but fifteen days after marriage; she was a native of Indiana; he was married again to Sophia Pfeiffer September 15, 1861, a native of Bavaria, Germany; they have one son and three daughters, Mary E., Eda A., Arminta, and Ralph J; he was township clerk one year and secretary of school board seven years; owns a farm of 90 acres.
McCarroll, Rob'ts, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. Kirkville; born in Harrison county, Ohio, December 16, 1819; he lived there until 1848, and then came to this county and located where he now lives; has a farm of 200 acres; he married Susanna English January 5, 1843, a native of the same county; they have four sons and five daughters, Jane E., James, Addie, Sella, Etta, Frank, William, Jason, and Lewis; they have lost three daughters, named Martha A., Rachel, and Mary S.
McClain, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Fremont.
McEwen, J. E., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Fremont.
McFaddin, Wilson, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Cedar; has a farm of 210 acres; born in Harrison county, Ohio, January 18, 1830; lived there until 1852, and then came to this county and located in Cedar township; has lived on his present farm since 1862; he married Miss A. C. Wellslager, May 29, 1856, from Richland county, Ohio; they have two daughters, Elanora, and Emma Carrie.
McFall, David, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Fremont.
McFall, G. B., farmer, Sec. 4.; P. O. Concert; was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, in 1823; he lived there until November, 1847, and then came to this county and located on the place he now lives; has a farm of 131 acres-he entered 252 acres; he married Miss Newsom, January 16, 1845, a native of the same county; they have two sons and five daughters, Lottie M., William O., Mary E, Emma E., Clara E., Gideon B., Jr. and Jennie L.; was a member of the board of supervisors one term, has been a member of the school board twenty years, treasurer about sixteen years.
McFall, John, Sr., farmer, See. 9; P. O. Fremont.
McFall, John, Jr., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
McFall, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Fremont.
McFall, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Fremont; was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, in 1803, he lived there until ten years of age; his parents then moved, to what is now Switzerland county, Indiana; he lived there until 1821, and then went to Bartholomew county, Indiana, where he lived until 1830, and thence to Iroquoise county, Ills.; he came to this county in March, 1844, and located where he now lives; he married Miss Elizabeth Barbee, February 14, 1828; born in Ross county, Ohio, February 11, 1804; they have two sons and four daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel T., Martha, Nancy, and Joseph.
McFall, Samuel L., farmer, Sec. 2; P.O. Fremont.
McFall, W. O., physician and surgeon, Fremont; was born in Cedar township, Mahaska county, May 23, 1851; at the age of twenty-one, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Hoffman, of Oskaloosa, where he continued for two years and six months; he then attended the Bellvue medical college, of New York City, where he graduated March 1, 1876, and has been located in Fremont since March, 1877; he married Miss Sarah Lloyd, December 21, 1877, a native of Meigs county, Ohio. No family.
Mills, D. T., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Concert; was born in Dare Co., Kentucky, in 1821; he lived in Kentucky until the fall of 1844, and then went to Park county, Indiana, where he lived until the fall of 1852; he then came to this county, and located where he now lives; owns a farm of 140 acres; he married Emily Bingham, of Mercer county, Kentucky, in the fall of 1842; she died May 26, 1856; he married again to Mary Torrance in July, 1857; have two sons and four daughters by first marriage, Sophia, Wm. T., Mary, Sarah, Martha and David; two sons and two daughters by second marriage, Jacob, Ella, Edward and Myrtle.
Mills, W. T., farmer, P. O. Kirkville.
Mona, John, painter, Fremont.
Moody, Wm. I., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Fremont.
Morgan, J. N., blacksmith, Fremont.
Myers, Isaac, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Cedar.
Neil, Graham, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Fremont.
Newbold, G. W., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Cedar.
Parker, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Parr, M. G., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Pfrimmer, George W., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Cedar.
Phillippe, G. L., farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Pickens, Alexander, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Kirkville.
Priest, J. F., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Quarton, W. B., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 24; P. O. Fremont; was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1821; his parents emigrated to the United States in 1829; located in Morgan county, Illinois, in 1848; he married Miss Charlotte Gill, in 1849; she is a native of England; they moved to Macoupin county, Illinois, the same year, where they lived until October, 1867, then came to this county; has a farm of 240 acres and 50 acres of timber; deals quite largely in imported cattle; has 400 head of sheep; 160 acres of his farm are devoted to meadow land; they have three sons and four daughters, Mary, Menassa, Georgia, Charlotta, Wm. B., Amy and Ezra.
Randall, Charles D., farmer Sec. 7; P. O. Cedar.
Rhegenness, Henry, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Rockey, Frank, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Fremont.
Ross, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Kirkville.
Russell, Almira C., farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Fremont.
Russell, G. W., farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Fremont.
Russell, J. M., farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Fremont.
Shaler, Geo., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Fremont.
Shaw, L. E., farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Kirkville.
Shaw, Solomon, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont; was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1809, but was raised in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; came to Iowa in 1856, and located where he now resides, in 1857; owns 256 acres of land; he married Miss Susan Strome, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1831; she died in 1835; married again to Mary Zigler, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1837; has two sons by first marriage, David and ____, and four sons and two daughters by second marriage: John, William, Levi, Solomon, Elizabeth, Susanna.
Sheets, B. F., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Fremont.
Shultz, Christian, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Fremont.
Skidmore, J. M., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Slater, Isaac, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Fremont.
Smith, Margaret, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Fremont.
Sparks, Isaac W., farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Fremont.
Sparks, William, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Fremont.
Stephenson, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 8; P.O. Cedar.
Stephenson, William J., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Cedar.
Storm, Samuel, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Concert.
Stout, Lee, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Thompson, F. S., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Concert.
Triplett, Mortimore, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Fremont.
Van Buskirk, Linford, Farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Votaw, Moses, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Fremont.
Votaw, Pierce, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Cedar.
Walsh, James, wagon-maker, P. O. Fremont.
Waltman, James, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Fremont.
Warner, John H., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Kirkville.
Weil, Christian, undertaker, Sec. 14; P. O. Fremont.
White, E. H., blacksmith, P. O. Fremont.
White, E. H., blacksmith; P. O. Fremont; was born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1826, lived there twenty-four years, and then emigrated to Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1850, and has been a resident of this township ten years. He married Miss Mary Barton, September 19, 1850, a native of Preble county, Ohio; she died August 21, 1858; he married again to Martha J. Heffner, December 15, 1870, a native of Dark county, Ohio; three daughters by first marriage, Lavica E., Nancy E. and Eliza J.; one daughter by second marriage, Della M; he enlisted in the late war in Company K., Eighteenth Iowa Volunteers Infantry, August 6, 1862; mustered out August 9, 1865.
White, J. A., merchant, Fremont.
White, John Q., farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Fremont.
Williams, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 12; P. O. Fremont.
Williams, William, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Whitmer, John, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Fremont.
Wolfe, Jacob, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. Fremont.
Wright, J. A., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Cedar.
Wright, J. C., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Cedar.
Wright, J. P., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Cedar.
Wright, W. W., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Cedar.
Yenney, George, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Yenney, John, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Fremont.
Yeoman, Richard, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Fremont.
Young, Abraham, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Fremont.
Zaring, J. W., farmer, See. 9; P. O. Concert.
Zaring, John, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Concert.
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Township List, Mahaska County History, Iowa 1878