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LANE, ELIJAH

LANE, WRIGHT

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Date: 1/19/2005 at 13:01:42

Biography reproduced from page 491 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Elijah Lane, a native of Ohio, was born June 21, 1832. When he was six years of age his parents removed to Tippecanoe Co., Ind. When he was fifteen years of age he went to Will Co., Ill., and remained there one year, when he returned to his home in Indiana. In about three years he went back to Illinois. This time he located in McHenry county, and engaged in farming with Thomas Robison as partner. He next engaged in farming about twelve miles south of Bloomington, Ill. On the 22d of October, 1855, he came to Kossuth county, locating on section 6, township 95, range 28, Irvington township. In 1859 he removed to Washington Co., Iowa, and followed farming until in the fall of 1863, when he returned to Kossuth county. He settled on his old farm, where he resided until 1881. At that time he removed to section 31, township 95, range 28. He has eighty-five acres of good land, well improved. He was married April 14, 1853, to Martha A. Wright, born in McLean Co., Ill., Jan. 7, 1835. This union has been blessed with three children—Carrie F., Sarah A. and Chloe A. Mr. Lane belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Prudence Lodge, No. 205, Algona. Mrs. Lane is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He is a republican in politics, and has held the offices of township trustee and supervisor in Irvington township.


 

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