Biographies

~ Tough, James ~

The gentleman whose name introduces this brief review is a native of Ohio, born near Mansfield, that state, on December 12, 1854, and is the son of James and Isabella (McConna) Tough, both natives of the Highlands of Scotland. The family came to America in 1853, and settled in Ohio, where the father carried on agricultural pursuits for two years, at the expiration of which time, in 1855, they came to Iowa, the family consisting of six children, namely: Maggie, John and Charles, none of whom ever married, all living together in Muscatine County, Iowa; Henry is married and lives at Earlham; Belle, wife of Abraham Ice, lives in Muscatine County, Iowa, and is the mother of one child, a son, who answers to the name of Lester. The father departed this life in Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1886, at the age of sixty-three years, and the mother died a year or so later at the age of sixty-two.

On February 8, 1882, James Tough was united in marriage with Ella Milne, at Davenport, Iowa, who was born in Arbroath, Scotland, on August 9, 1851, the daughter of Stewart and Jessie (Fawns) Milne, both natives of Scotland. The father and mother never left their native country, both dying in Scotland, the father at the age of seventy, in the year 1870, and the mother in 1875; at the age of sixty. Mrs. Tough's father was a blacksmith by trade, and was twice married. By his first marriage there is now living but one child, a son, Stewart, who lives in Oregon. By his second marriage he was the father of four children, namely: James and Charles, who both died in Scotland; David, living in Aurora, Illinois; and Ella, wife of the subject of this review. Mrs. Tough was born and lived about forty miles north of Edinburgh, Scotland. She came to the United States in June 1879, with a brother, David, mentioned above, who had come to this country about five years previous to that date, and who had returned to his home intending to remain there, but his health failing him, the doctors advised that he return to America, the climate being too damp for him along the North Sea, and in the year indicated above he returned to this country, bringing his sister with him. They set sail from Glasgow and were twelve days on the water. David Milne was a linen weaver by trade in Scotland, but after coming to this country followed the trade of miller principally. They lived in Davenport, Iowa, where the sister kept house for him. When she came to America it was not her intention to remain here permanently, but she met and married James Tough, a young farmer, and settled down contentedly to remain on this side of the water.

Three years after their marriage, they came to Jasper County, Iowa, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Buena Vista Township, of a man by the name of McCauley, who had entered the land from the government many years before, and this is the only time this land has ever changed ownership. They have since added eighty acres to it and have built an elegant home on the place, which is located about three miles north of Killduff.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tough have been born eight children, namely: James and David, twins, born October 12, 1887. David died in infancy; James is unmarried and lives at home with his parents; Earl, born June 21, 1887; Roy, born February 2, 1889; Edward, born December 4, 1891; Charles, born October 2, 1895, all living at home with their parents; Cora, born November 21, 1883, wife of Elmer Guessford, lives in Cambridge, Wayne County, Iowa, has one child, a son, Harold by name; Hattie, born June 13, 1885, is still at home with her parents.

Besides the fine farm of two hundred and forty acres in Buena Vista Township, Mr. Tough also owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Dawes County, Nebraska. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World of Kellogg. Politically, he is a Republican, but has never aspired to public office, although he has served for several years as school director. In addition to general farming, he raises stock quite extensively for the market.

Mrs. Tough is a woman of rare sweetness of character, much beloved and respected by all who know her. She is a faithful and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church at Kellogg. Page 795.

~ Tramel, William Alexander ~

The early agriculturists of Jasper county will ever be held in the grateful memory of the present generation and of the active young farmers of today, and the husbandman who came here a half century ago and cleared, upturned and seeded the wild prairie sod and erected for himself and venturesome family a rude dwelling, and opened the country, then roadless, for the advance of a higher civilization, well deserves the respect which is accorded him after he has passed the allotted span of life. Of such as these is William Alexander, Tramel, well known farmer of Clear Creek Township, a man who has always labored along such well established lines as to wrench success from seeming discouraging situations and at the same time has been enabled to do much for his neighbors, believing in the old maxim, "live and let live," and as a result of such a life of usefulness and honor he is today held in high favor with all who have had an opportunity to know him intimately.

Mr. William Alexander Tramel was born in St. Joseph County, Indiana, August 19, 1835 and there he grew to maturity, working on the home farm during his boyhood days, and when seventeen years of age, in 1852, he accompanied his parents to Iowa and settled in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, and here he has resided ever since, having lived to see the wonderful growth of the locality, for it was then wild and settlers were few. The farm on which he now lives and owns was paid for by his father with an 1812-14 war warrant. The father, W. A. B. Tramel, was born in North Carolina in 1802, and his death occurred on his home place in this township in April 1897, at an advanced age, having reached his ninety-fifth milestone, and the century through which his useful life extended was the most remarkable in the world's history. He married Cynthia Alexander, who also was born in North Carolina, in 1804, and her death occurred in Clear Creek Township, March 3, 1878. Their family consisted of the following children: Eliza Ann Jeffries, whose death occurred in 1903; Nancy Campbell is also deceased; Martha Price, born January 28, 1833, is living in Ira, this County; W. Alexander, of this review; Joseph M. died in East Portland in 1906; Caroline Weston, born October 29, 1840, also lives at Ira; J. J., born November 26, 1842, of Ira.

On April 24, 1861, W. A. Tramel, of this sketch, was married to Sarah J. Spencer, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, August 5, 1835. Her father, William Spencer, was born in Vermont and his death occurred near Newton, Iowa, in 1861. He married Mary Meade, also a native of Vermont, and she died in Clear Creek Township in 1890. Their family consisted of two sons and two daughters: Charles, born in Vermont and died in Colfax, Iowa; Henry, born in Vermont, died near Newton, Iowa; Mary Craig died in Ohio in 1856; Sarah J., wife of Mr. Tramel, of this sketch, is the youngest and the only surviving member.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tramel have been born three children, the first born dying in infancy; Mary C., whose birth occurred on March 8, 1871, has remained with her parents; C. W., born December 25, 1873, is living on the home farm, which he works. They were born, reared and educated in Clear Creek Township and have always lived here.

Mr. Tramel has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and he is the owner of eighty acres of good land in Clear Creek Township, which he has kept well improved and tilled in a manner that has brought large returns. His son also owns eighty acres and his daughter fifty-four, all good land. The Tramel home is a pleasant one, modernly furnished.

Politically, Mr. Tramel is a Republican, and he has been active in local affairs, always ready to assist in forwarding any public enterprise. He has been Township trustee and a member of the school board, filling both offices most satisfactorily. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ira, and are faithful in their attendance upon its ordinances. Page 1191.

~ Tramel, Frank W. ~

A man who boldly faces the responsibilities of life and by determined and untiring energy carves out or himself an honorable success exerts a strong influence upon the lives of all who follow him. Such men constitute the foundation of our republican institutions and are the pride of our civilization. Such a man is Frank W. Tramel, one of the best known and most enterprising of the young farmers and stockmen of Clear Creek Township. There is peculiar interest attached to a resume of his career in view of the fact that he has here spent his life and also because he is a most creditable representative of one of our best pioneer families, the name Tramel having been well known in Jasper County through all its stages of development.

Frank W. Tramel was born in Clear Creek Township, this county, on the old homestead where he now lives. January 27, 1871, and here he grew up and was educated and has always followed agricultural pursuits in this community. His father, J. J. Tramel, was born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, November 26, 1842, and is deceased. When ten years of age he came to Clear Creek Township, this county, with his father, they being, as stated above, among the earliest settlers here. The date of their arrival was October 10, 1852. The paternal grandfather, W. A. B. Tramel, was born in North Carolina, in February 1802, and he died on the old homestead in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, in April 1897. His wife, who was known in her maidenhood as Cynthia Alexander, was born in Indiana in 1804, and her death occurred on March 3, 1878. J. J. Tramel, mentioned above, married Hannah Crawford, who was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, August 30, 1849, and she emigrated to Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, with her father in an early day and here spent the rest of her life, dying in 1891. Frank W., of this review, was the only child of this union. The father enlisted in the Union Army from Clear Creek Township, August 22, 1862, in Company D, Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served very faithfully for three years, during which he fought at Port Gibson and in the siege of Vicksburg. He was honorably discharged and was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa.

On March 11, 1896, Frank W. Tramel was united in marriage with Grace B. Jeffries, who was born in Independence Township, Jasper County, Iowa, July 26, 1872, the daughter of A. E. and Emily H. (Keyes) Jeffries, the father born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, January 13, 1846, and is still living in Jasper County, at the town of Ira; the mother was born in Benton County, Iowa, August 9, 1850, and died in Independence Township, this County, April 22, 1904. They were early settlers in Jasper County and became well known and highly respected. Their family consisted of four children, namely: Grace, wife of Mr. Tramel, of this review, is the eldest; Vesta Pease, born May 22, 1874, of Poweshiek Township, Jasper County; Heziah, born February 11, 1876, lives at Des Moines; Xanthe, born December 21, 1877, lives at Burwell, Nebraska; she was born in Crawford County, Iowa, but the others were all born in Jasper County.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tramel two children have been born, a daughter and a son, namely: Mildred Grace, whose birth occurred on May 31, 1898; Howard James, born January 18, 1902, the former in Independence Township and the latter on the old Tramel homestead.

Mr. Tramel has been very successful in his life work and he is the owner of one hundred and seventy acres in Independence Township, on which are two sets of good buildings, and he also has eighty acres in the home farm, which consists of one hundred and ninety acres, and his improvements on all his land are modern and first class, his home being commodious, pleasant and well furnished. He carries on general farming and stock raising on an extensive scale and in a manner that stamps him as being fully abreast of the times.

Politically, Mr. Tramel is a Republican, and he has always manifested a lively interest in local affairs. He is at present a member of the Township board of trustees, and he has been a member of the school board. He belongs to Camp No. 5660, Modern Woodmen of America, of Ira, also the Yeomen lodge of that place, and he and his wife are members of the Disciples of Christ of Ira. They are pleasant people to meet, broad-minded, liberal and can claim a wide circle of acquaintances and friends. Page 1228.

~ Tramel, James J. ~

This biographical memoir has to do with a character of unusual force and eminence for James J. Tramel whose life chapter has been closed by the fate that awaits us all, was for a long lapse of years one of the prominent citizens of Jasper County, having come to this section in pioneer times, and he assisted in every way possible in bringing about the transformation of the county from the wild condition found by the first settlers to its latter day progress and improvement. While he carried on a special line of business in such a manner as to gain a comfortable competence for himself, he also belonged to that class of representative citizens who promote the public welfare while advancing individual success. There were in him sterling traits, which commanded uniform confidence and regard, and his memory is today honored by all who knew him and is enshrined in the hearts of his many friends.

Mr. Tramel was born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, November 28, 1842. He is the son of W. A. B. and Cynthia (Alexander) Tramel, the father born in February 1802, in North Carolina, and the mother born in Indiana in 1804. The family first moved to Clinton, Georgia, thence to near Richmond, Indiana, and from there to Kosciusko County, that state, and from the latter place to Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, and here the parents of the subject spent the rest of their lives, the death of the father occurring in April 1897, and that of the mother on March 3, 1878. They were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Eliza Ann Jeffries died in Jasper County in 1903; Mrs. Nancy Campbell, born in Indiana on September 17, 1830, died in Independence Township, this county, on March 25, 1886; Mrs. Martha Price is living in Ira; Alexander is living in Clear Creek Township; Joseph M. died in East Portland, Oregon, in 1906; Mrs. Caroline Weston, born in October 1840, lives in Ira; James J., of this sketch, is the youngest.

James J. Tramel was ten years of age when he came with his parents to Jasper County and settled in Clear Creek Township, and here he grew to manhood and attended the public schools. He took up farming for a livelihood early in life and up to 1903 was one of the Township's leading agriculturists, owning in Clear Creek Township a well-improved and fertile farm of one hundred and ninety acres. In 1903, having accumulated a competency, he and his wife retired from the active duties of life and moved to Ira, where they purchased a commodious and cozy home, and here Mr. Tramel resided quietly, enjoying the fruits of his earlier years of endeavor, until summoned to close his earthly career on January 7, 1912, after a successful, useful and honorable career, being one of the sterling pioneers of the community, the family having been among the first settlers here, their arrival having been on October 10, 1852.

Mr. Tramel was married on May 21, 1868, to Hannah Crawford, who was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, August 30, 1849. When young in years she came to Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, with her parents, James B. and Eliza Ann (Walters) Crawford, the latter a native of Ohio. They established a good home in Jasper County and spent the rest of their lives here, the father dying in 1891 and the mother at the age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of the following children: Hannah, wife of Mr. Tramel, of this sketch; Jane, deceased; Henry, who lives in Lake City, Iowa; Mary lives in Audubon County, Iowa; Nellie lives at Ira, this county; John H., lives in Ira.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tramel were born one son, Frank W., whose birth occurred on January 27, 1871, and is now residing in Clear Creek Township.

James J. Tramel was one of the patriotic sons of the North who risked his life for his country, during the dark days of the early sixties, having enlisted for service in the Federal Army on August 22, 1862, in Company D, Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he served gallantly for three years, taking part in many trying campaigns and hard-fought battles. He was in the numerous conflicts along the Sabine River, at the siege of Vicksburg, and the battle of Port Gibson. His second captain was Myron S. Cox, now living in Oakland, California. He was honorably discharged, and was mustered out of the service at Davenport, Iowa. He then returned to Jasper County and resumed farming.

Mr. Tramel was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, E. H. Keyes Post No. 511, of Mingo, Iowa. Politically, he was a Republican, and he was active in local public affairs. He was trustee of his Township for a period of nine years, and was also at one time a member of the board of education in Clear Creek Township. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ira. Personally, he was a genial, whole-souled, obliging gentleman, high minded and correct in his every-day deportment and he won and retained the confidence and esteem of all classes. Page 1114.

~ Tramel, Walter O. ~

While the life of Walter O. Tramel, one of the worthy native sons of Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, has not been of an unusual character, nothing strange or tragic about it, nevertheless it abounds in lesson and incentive, for his record has been one of persistence, even in the face of obstacles at which others would have quailed. He has sought to be of benefit to his neighbors and the community in general, and his example has resulted in no harm to those who have come under his influence.

Mr. Tramel was born in Independence Township on October 29, 1876, here grew to manhood, was educated in the common schools and has always been identified with the agricultural interests of the community, believing that better opportunities existed here in his chosen line of endeavor than elsewhere. Mr. Tramel is the son of Joseph and Cynthia (Leonard) Tramel, one of the well-known old couples of this locality. The father's death occurred in Oregon in September 1904, at the age of seventy years, and the mother died January 18, 1907. Their family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters, namely: William lives in Independence Township; Mrs. Stella Whitehead lives in Poweshiek Township, this county; Mrs. Bertha Allspaugh lives in Boulder, Colorado; and Walter O., of this sketch. For a full history of the Tramel family the reader is referred to the sketch of William Tramel on another page of this work.

Walter O. Tramel has devoted his life to general farming and stock raising, buying and shipping, and is one of the best-known stockmen in this locality and one of the most successful. In the spring of 1911 he moved onto the farm which he had purchased the preceding year and he has made a vast improvement in the same, rendering it one of the best farms in the community, well-equipped in every respect and under a high state of cultivation, and he has a good home. In addition to caring for his farm Mr. Tramel buys and sells about two hundred carloads of livestock annually, and no small part of his income has been from this source in the past. No better judge of livestock could be found than he and he is uniformly successful. By hustling persistently and dealing honestly he has accumulated a competency, but he has never shown that parsimonious spirit exhibited by some of the successful men of today and he therefore has the respect and confidence of all who know him.

Mr. Tramel was married in March 1903, to Lillian Long, who was born in Clear Creek Township, this county, March 12, 1882, and here she was reared and educated. She is the daughter of George and Phoebe Jane (Miller) Long, the father born in Winneshiek County, Iowa, April 3, 1854, and the mother in this township, on May 24, 1857, and this union resulted in the birth of nine children, five of whom are deceased, namely: Clarence D., born May 11, 1877, lives in Independence Township; Quincy, born October 27, 1879, died November 29, 1879; Pearl Hardenburgh, born in April, 1880, lives in Independence Township; Lillian, wife of Mr. Tramel of this sketch; James Carl, born September 13, 1883, is assisting his father on the home farm; Stella, born June 18, 1885, died November 3, 1885; Charles, Fred and the youngest child died in infancy.

To Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Tramel four children have been born, namely: James Russell, born January 6, 1904; William Blaine, born January 6, 1905; Cynthia Marie, born June 7, 1906; Gertrude Irene, born March 6, 1910. These children were born in Independence Township, this County, and they are all at home with their parents.

Politically, Mr. Tramel is a Republican and he belongs to the Yeoman Lodge of Ira. He is a public spirited man and takes much interest in what ever tends to promote the interests of his community, lending his aid whenever necessary. Page 1338.

~ Trease, Joseph Smith ~

The commercial world has long since come to recognize the importance of the farmer who furnishes the food for the world, and has surrounded him with almost innumerable contrivances not thought of a century ago. The inventor has given him the self-binder, the riding plow, the steam thresher, and many other labor saving devices; and the farmer has not been slow to take advantage of the improvements thus invented and offered. Among the hardworking farmers of Rock Creek Township, Jasper County, is the subject of this brief sketch, Joseph Smith Trease, who was born July 13, 1855, in this county. Thus he has lived to see the great transformation of the same from wild and sparsely settled stretches of prairie to one of the garden spots of the great Hawkeye Commonwealth, and has not only been an interested spectator of the same, but a lively participant. He is the son of Joshua Madison Trease, who was born in North Carolina, April 2, 1810, and who married Nancy Maise, who was born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, January 7, 1813. They spent their early life in their native country, emigrating overland to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1848, locating among the pioneers and starting a new home in an undeveloped region where yet roamed Indians and wild beasts, and: here, by dint of hard labor and economy, they built a good home, Mr. Trease entering eighty acres of land where the city of Newton now stands. The death of the elder Trease occurred in 1874. In his family were six sons and four daughters, named as follows: Willey M. is deceased; Louis Jefferson; Emily Jane; William M. died in infancy; Lucy A.; George L.; Marinda M.; Mary E. died September 25, 1850; Wesley S. is deceased; Joseph S., of this review

The gentleman whose name forms the introduction to this sketch grew to maturity on the home farm, where he worked during the summer months and attended the neighboring schools in the wintertime, later working for several years by the month as a farm hand, in order to get a start, and in 1882 he went to farming for himself in the northwest corner of Rock Creek Township, where he remained for seventeen years, and where he owned a place of forty acres, remaining on this place seven years, then purchased his present place of thirty acres in that township, where he has a neat little home, and is making a comfortable living.

Mr. Trease was married on September 28, 1882, to Carrie Edna Rice, who was born in Illinois, April 21, 1866, the daughter of James Austin Rice, who was born in Wooster, Massachusetts. He married Clarissa Clark, who was born in the same city. They were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters, namely: Ellen, John, Edward, Emma, Frank Comfort, George Washington, Charles Elsworth, Lucy Ann, and Carrie Edna, wife of Mr. Trease. They are all living.

Twelve children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Trease, named as follows: Henry C., born January 3, 1884; Nancy Clarissa, born March 9, 1886, is deceased; James Beck, born August 31, 1888, died June l9, 1895; Charles David, born December 7, 1890; Jacob Jefferson, born December 10, 1892; Phoebe H., born November 28, 1894, died September 24, 1895; Estella Verbenia, born September 1, 1896; Lucy Emeline, born March 15, 1894; Harold Christopher, born January 29, 1896; Joshua Austin, born December 16, 1902; Elbert Theodore, born July 29, 1905; Carl Nelson, born August 25, 1907; Clyde Laurena, born August 29, 1909.

Mr. Trease is a member of the Baptist Church, and politically he is a Republican.Page 1066.

~ Trussel, James ~

The people of Independence Township, Jasper County, point to James Trussel as one of their most valued citizens, admiring him for his continued interest in the affairs of the locality and for his high moral character, for his life among them for nearly a half century may well be likened to an open book.

Mr. Trussel was born in Kosciusko County, Indiana, June 2, 1844. In March 1853, he came with his parents to Iowa, located in Buchanan County and there followed farming. Purchasing additional land in Fayette County, the family moved from their log cabin which they had occupied when first beginning life in the new country to a more commodious frame dwelling located on the new purchase. Retaining the farm in Buchanan County, the elder Trussel thereby became a landlord in each of them. It was the formation period of Iowa, and it can be truly said that this was one of the real pioneer families. Their neighbors were few and developed farms infrequently seen. Their trading points were Dubuque and Iowa City. In 1864 the family moved to Independence Township, Jasper County, and have made this their home continuously to the present time, becoming active in the development of the same.

Marshall Trussel, father of James of this review, was born in Vermont in 1805 and died in Independence Township, Jasper County, Iowa, in 1865. Elizabeth (Belt) Trussel was born in Licking County, Ohio, and died in Missouri at the age of eighty-four years, having made her home with the subject of this sketch for a period of twenty-five years, after the death of the father. There were six children in her family, as follows: Phineas, deceased; Aquilla lives in Kansas; Mary Pitkin is deceased; Elizabeth White lives in Independence, Missouri; Emma White is residing in Independence, Missouri.

James Trussel was married in Des Moines, Iowa, to Lydia Ellen Morton, who was born at Fredonia, Licking County, Ohio, December 9, 1843, and her death occurred on March 11, 1880. This union resulted in the birth of three sons and two daughters, as follows: A. M., a well known and successful business man of Baxter, Jasper County, was born August 16, 1866, and has lived here practically ever since, having grown to manhood and attended the public schools here. In 1890 he left the farm and came to Baxter, working at the carpenter's trade with W. H. Bair, who was one of the successful contractors of this town. For four years they were associated in this work. In 1894 Mr. Trussel purchased the barbershop in Baxter and with the exception of one year, operated the same to April 1, 1912, when he sold out. In addition to the shop and equipment he owns the building adjoining and the undivided one-half of another good business house here; he also owns an interest in three hundred and twenty acres of choice land in Saskatchewan, Canada.

He is a Socialist in political belief, but not in an offensive way. He has been a member of the town council. Fraternally, he belongs to Baxter Lodge No. 168, Knights of Pythias, of Baxter, to which his father, James Trussel, also belongs.

S. C. Trussel, the second child born to the subject of this sketch, now deceased, was born in Independence Township, this county, May 29, 1868, and died November 15, 1891; Carrie Sherrard, born September 20, 1869, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah; Herman, born June 26, 1875, lives in Baxter; his wife was born in Independence Township, May 29, 1868, and died October 5, 1908; Grace E. Bowen, born May 26, 1879, lives in Houston, Texas. All these children were born in Jasper County except Herman, whose birthplace was in Adair County, Iowa. He is a member of Baxter Lodge No. 168, Knights of Pythias, Baxter, Iowa. By occupation he is a traveling salesman for the Sharpies Cream Separator Co., of Chicago.

Mrs. Lydia Ellen (Morton) Trussel was born at Fredonia, Licking County, Ohio, December 9, 1843. Her father, Marcus A. Morton, was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, April 3, 1800, died at Valparaiso, Indiana, December 18, 1855. Marcus A. Morton was married at Granville, Ohio, February 4, 1830, to Lydia Nicoll, where their eldest children were born: George M. Morton, November 7, 1830, residing at Le Moyne, Ohio; William W. Morton, born May 22, 1832, died at Newton, Iowa, May 20, 1901; Hiram N. Morton, born January 8, 1834, died at Winterset, Iowa; Sarah L. Morton, born December 18,1836, of Horton, Kansas; the following children were born at Fredonia, Ohio: Elizabeth Morton, November 1, 1838, residing at Newton, Iowa; Silas W. Morton, born April 21, 1840, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 19, 1907; Lysander Morton, born April 29, 1842, died at Fredonia, Ohio, October 22, 1842; Lydia Ellen, of this sketch, born December 9, 1843, died at Newton, Iowa, March 11, 1880; Julia E. Morton, born September 14, 1846, residing at Chicago, Illinois; Martha H. Morton, born April 22, 1848, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 17, 1889. Mrs. Trussel's mother, Lydia (Nicoll) Morton, died at Newton, October 14, 1860. She and the children arrived at Newton October 10, 1856. She owned the farm five miles northeast of Newton. This farm remained in the family until 1901. Marcus Morton was of English descent, his wife was of Scotch descent.

James Trussel, the immediate subject of this sketch, was again married, his second wife being Hester A. Sego, who was born in Ohio and who is now living in Baxter, Iowa. There were three children born to this union, namely: Earl, born August 20, 1888; Ray, born November 24, 1890; Hazel, born August 25,1895.

Mr. Trussel followed farming until 1891, when he worked at the carpenter's trade, but the past fourteen years he has conducted a shoe shop in Baxter. Politically, he is a Socialist. He filled the office of constable of his township for four years in a very creditable manner. He is the owner of the business block where he maintains his shop, the other half being owned by his son, A. M., mentioned above. Page 1221.

~ Turnbull, William M. ~

It is always pleasant and profitable to contemplate the career of a man who has won a definite goal in life, whose career has been such as to commend the honor and respect of his fellow citizens. Such, in brief, is the record of the well-known agriculturist whose name heads this sketch, than whom a more whole-souled or genial gentleman it would be hard to find within the limits of Rock Creek Township, Jasper County, where he has long maintained his home and where he has labored not only for his own individual advancement and that of his immediate family, but also for the improvement of the entire community whose interests he has ever had at heart.

William M. Turnbull hails from the far away land of heath and bluebell, the bonnie Scotland of poetic and romantic history, on whose rugged hills his progenitors led a free, outdoor life, close to the life-giving, sympathetic, ideal-fostering heart of mother nature, so that they were not only hearty and happy-natured but gentle and kindly disposed to their fellow men, and many of their commendable traits have descended to the subject.

Mr. Turnbull was born in northern Scotland April 20, 1848, the son of James and Ann (Matheison) Turnbull, both born in Scotland and there grew up and were married. The father was a shepherd, as was his father before him, William Turnbull, the latter having worked for one man for a period of twenty-two years, tending sheep. James Turnbull and wife immigrated to America in 1849, when the immediate subject of this review was about a year old, the ocean voyage requiring sixteen weeks. The family located at Elmira, Illinois, and finally bought a farm there. Mr. Turnbull gradually increased his holdings until he owned a valuable place of two hundred and forty acres, becoming well established and one of the leading men of his community. He reached the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church. His family consisted of eleven children, seven of whom are living at this writing, namely: Mrs. James Rule, of Grinnell, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Scott, of Bradford, Illinois; Mrs. Flora Beatty, of Elmira, Illinois; Mrs. Walter Rule, of Kewanee, Illinois; Margaret O., who has remained single and is still a member of the home circle; John M. lives in Neponset, Illinois, at the old home; William M., of this review.

The subject received a limited education in the common schools of Elmira, Illinois, at which place he grew to manhood and assisted his father on the home place when old enough, during the crop seasons. He worked on the home farm until 1876, when he came to Jasper County, Iowa. He had been economical and had a start before leaving home and, having decided to devote his life to farming, he first bought one hundred and sixty acres in Rock Creek Township. He set to work faithfully and soon had good improvements on his land and his fields under cultivation, and here he has since remained, doing well as a general farmer and stock raiser, paying special attention to preparing cattle and hogs for the market.

Mr. Turnbull is a Republican in politics and he has taken more or less interest in local affairs since he came here, and he has served his Township as trustee and as justice of the peace, proving to be a very able and conscientious public servant.

On March 14, 1876, Mr. Turnbull was united in marriage with Margaret G. Turnbull, daughter of Alexander Turnbull of Scotland. Four children were born to the subject and wife, namely: Mrs. Bertha Luella Buck; Garfield is deceased; Alexander J. is also deceased, and the youngest died in infancy. The wife and mother was called to her rest on November 6, 1903.

Mr. Turnbull remains on his home place, but does not do much hard work, his daughter and her husband making their home with him; but he is yet active, hale and hearty for one of his age. Since coming here he has made a host of friends and is well known over the eastern part of the county, enjoying the respect of all who know him. Page 1046.

~ Turner, Alice Bellvadore (Sams), M. D. ~

Women are entering, in this advanced epoch of the world's history, many of the professions, and, as a rule, they have met with exceptional success, this being particularly true of medicine, and the town of Colfax, Jasper county, has a resident woman who has been longer in practice than most women doctors, and one who stands at the top of the profession, irrespective of sex. Dr. Alice Bellvadore (Sams) Turner is a descendant of a sterling old family of courageous, useful men and women, who have been leaders in various lines wherever they have dispersed, faithful citizens in whatever situation they were placed, whether fighting for their country's independence or living quietly in times of peace, whether blazing new trails on the frontier of civilization or laboring to better material, civic and moral conditions in some seat of modern culture. Mrs. Dr. Turner is a native of this county, having been born at Greencastle on March 13, 1859; the daughter of John and Evaline (Humphreys) Sams, the former the son of Edmund and Sarah Sams, and her mother was the daughter of Moses and Rebecca (Boyd) Humphreys. Both her grandfathers served in the War of 1812 with the Tennessee troops. John Sams was born in Sullivan County, East Tennessee, in 1813 and there he spent his boyhood, moving to Logan County, Illinois, in 1833; when that country was practically a wilderness. From there he came to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1853 and again began life as a pioneer. He first married Mary Vandevender, who was born in Virginia in 1834 and her death occurred in 1851, leaving three children, David E., Margaret and Sarah, deceased. In 1852, while a resident of Logan County, Illinois, he was united in marriage with Evaline (Humphreys) Hilton, who was born May 10, 1824, in the eastern part of Tennessee. To this marriage four children were born: Alfred is living in Jasper County; Emily, widow of Dr. A. S. Warner; Alice Bellvadore, subject of this sketch, and Francis M.

John Sams, born January 8, 1813, was a successful farmer, in fact, for many years he was one of the leading agriculturists of the county, being the owner of about six hundred and forty acres here. He was influential in the affairs of his community, serving as township trustee and school director. He was an active Democrat, and a good and useful man. His death occurred on April 9, 1891, his widow surviving until August 19, 1902.

The subject's paternal grandparents, Moses and Rebecca (Boyd) Humphreys, were natives of Carter County, Tennessee, and in an early day they moved to Logan County, Illinois, where they lived until 1853, when they came to Jasper County, Iowa, thus starting life twice under pioneer conditions, and here they spent the rest of their lives.

Alice B. Sams grew to womanhood and received her common school training in her home community, later attending Lincoln University, at Lincoln, Illinois, also Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, and the Mitchell Seminary at Mitchellville, Iowa, and for a time she successfully taught school in Jasper and Shelby counties. She studied medicine under Dr. J. J. M. Angear of Keokuk, Iowa, making rapid progress, and thus well equipped for her life work, she began practicing medicine in Colfax in 1884 and with the exception of two years, from 1898 to 1900, inclusive, spent in Chicago, this vicinity has been the arena of her endeavors, during which time she has enjoyed a profitable and growing practice and has taken a position in the front rank of her compeers.

On October 21, 1878, the subject was united in marriage with Dr. Lewis C. S. Turner, a complete sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this history, and has since been associated with him in practice and in the management of the famous Turner Rest Home and Sanitarium, but the success of the same has been due as much to her efforts as to his. She is a member of the Iowa State Medical Society. She was one of the founders of the Colfax Public Library, of which she has been president for many years; she also belongs to the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman's Relief Corps. In 1886 and 1887 she filled the position of health officer of Colfax, being the first woman in Iowa to fill such a position. She has read many able papers before the above named literary and medical societies. She is a scholarly, cultured and refined lady whom to know is to esteem for her many commendable attributes of head and heart and she numbers her friends only by the limits of her acquaintance. She is a worthy member of the Unitarian church. Although necessarily very busy in her professional and club work, she is nonetheless a faithful mother and home-loving woman. On July 24, 1874, she began keeping a diary, a daily record of transpiring events of interest, which she has continued to the present time, and she has induced her son and daughter to begin keeping a daily journal. These children are, Vera, born October 2, 1881, who was graduated from Wellesley College in 1895, married J. W. Preston, now a resident of Colfax, and they are the parents of one child, Ruth Alice, born July 13, 1911; Carroll John Turner, who was born March 28, 1893, was graduated from the local high school and he is now attending Drake University at Des Moines, intending to follow the medical profession. Page 483.

~ Turner, Lewis C. S., M. D. ~

Among the leaders in the medical profession in central Iowa the name of Dr. Lewis C. S. Turner, of Colfax, Jasper County, must be included, for his practice here of nearly thirty years has won him a wide reputation among his contemporaries, who, with his wife, also a physician of well established repute, is proprietor of the Turner Rest Home and Sanitarium, which has a prestige second to none of its kind in the state. But, indeed, no man possessing the heritage of character and ability which Doctor Turner has received from his ancestors could fail to live a life of usefulness, controlled by correct principles and high ideals, his progenitors including that sterling patriotic stock which helped successfully to establish the early American colonies, who sacrificed life in Washington's Army in the struggle for independence, who bore the vicissitudes of the great Rebellion on the sanguinary battle fields of the South, who, as pioneer physician, faced the dangers and hardships on the western frontier in the service of administering to the ills to which humanity is heir-men and women who, in their station, nobly fulfilled their myriad duties. Such an inheritance is more to be desired than "much fine gold."

Doctor Turner was born in Poweshiek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, on November 2, 1854, the son of Charles Carroll Turner and Ann E. (Parks) Turner, the father born in Oxford County, Maine, in 1826, the son of Joseph Turner, whose birth occurred on June 12, 1799, the latter's home being at Dedham, Massachusetts, and whose wife was known in her maidenhood as Nancy Shaw. Joseph Turner was the son of Ebenezer and Polly (Sumner) Turner, the former born in 1772, the son of Lieutenant Edward and Hannah (Fisher) Turner. Edward Turner was an officer in the colonial army and he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and while in the service for freedom he contracted smallpox, which caused his death at Half Moon, Massachusetts, in December 1777. The first American ancestor of the Turners came to Massachusetts in the early colonial days and settled twenty miles from Boston. The family of Joseph Turner came to Mindon, Adams County, Illinois, in 1834 the father of the subject of this sketch being then eight years of age, and there he grew to maturity, the Prairie State at that time being practically a wilderness. He remained in Illinois until 1850, when he came to Jasper County, Iowa, among the very early settlers, and located on a farm three miles north of the present site of Col fax, which land is still owned by his widow, Mrs. Mary C. (Pease) Turner, and their son, Ed S. Turner. Charles C. Turner became one of the influential farmers of the county in his day. He was the owner of over two hundred acres of good land and he was an extensive breeder of fine grades of livestock. He was active in public affairs, first as a Whig, then as a Republican. He was elected clerk of the district court of Jasper County, holding office from 1854 to 1857; he was also county surveyor for two terms, from 1868 to 1872, and he was justice of the peace and assessor for four full terms. He was a charter member of Newton Lodge No. 59, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He proved his patriotism in 1862 when he enlisted in the Federal Army and proved to be a gallant soldier in the Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. For a time he was sent home on recruiting service. While in the field he was at Columbus and Paducah, Kentucky; Satarsia, Mississippi, Haines Bluff and Snyder Bluff, and after the fall of Vicksburg he was on reserve duty. He was in Arkansas at the taking of Little Rock, and he was the first with his brother-in-law, Hugh A. Pease, to cross the river on a pontoon bridge, October 10, 1863. He was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, on April 1, 1864. His death occurred on August 7, 1907, at an advanced age, after a useful and honorable career. Andrew Pease, father of Mrs. Mary C. (Pease) Turner, was also one of the worthy "boys in blue," having served in Company I, Thirty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, the noted "Graybeard Volunteers," he having enlisted when fifty-eight years of age, on December 15, 1862, and his death occurred while in the service, at Alton, Illinois, on January 10, 1863, he having been on guard duty there.

Ann E. Parks, maiden name of the mother of Dr. Lewis C. S. Turner, of this sketch, was born in Noble County, Indiana, October 2, 1836, the daughter of Dr. Hiram S. Parks, who was one of the pioneer physicians of Poweshiek Township, Jasper county, Iowa, and he practiced medicine here until 1863, when he went to Kansas. He made his calls on horseback, going long distances in all kinds of weather, enduring great hardships, following Indian trails, often swimming or fording dangerous streams, sometimes in the roughest winter weather. He was a good doctor and was highly esteemed by the entire locality. The death of Mrs. Ann E. Turner occurred on May 10, 1856.

On June 4, 1857, Charles C. Turner was married a second time, his last wife being Mary Catherine Pease, one of the early teachers of this county, who taught the first school in her district. She was a woman of high educational attainments and a strong character. She directed the education of her only stepchild, and at the age of nineteen, Lewis C. S. Turner, of this sketch, began teaching in the common schools of this county. He entered Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, in 1873, and he also attended Central University at Pella, Iowa, in 1874. In June 1877, he finished the course at the Baylies Mercantile College at Keokuk, this state, and in 1878 he was graduated from Pierce's Normal Institute of Penmanship of the last named city. He began the study of medicine under Doctors Tillman Sterns, of Mitchellville, Iowa, and J. J. M. Angear, of Fort Madison, Iowa, later of Chicago. Since March 1, 1882. Doctor Turner has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Colfax and has built up a large, lucrative and ever growing patronage. He has kept well abreast of the times in everything that pertains to his practice, having always been a profound student and a vigorous and independent researcher. He is a member of the Jasper County, the Des Moines District and the Iowa State Medical societies. Since 1888 he has been health officer of Colfax and a member of the school board from 1892 to 1895. A graduate pharmacist, he dispenses his own drugs. He makes a specialty of eye, nose and throat and obstetrics, and his skill in these lines has placed him in the front rank of his professional brethren.

On October 21, 1878, Doctor Turner was united in marriage with Alice B. Sams, one of the leading lady practitioners of medicine in central Iowa, an individual sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. This union has been graced by the birth of two children: Vera, who married J. W. Preston, of Port Lavaca, Texas. They have one daughter, Ruth Alice, born July 13, 1911. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and for a time she taught in the Jasper county schools; she is a member of the Des Moines chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Carroll J. Turner was graduated from the Colfax high school and is now at college, preparing to follow in the footsteps of his parents and devote his life to the medical profession.

Doctor Turner is a man of agreeable social nature, pleasing personality. Religiously, he is a Unitarian. He has been active in many works in Colfax, always ready to do what he could in furthering the interests of the city in any way. He is best known as the proprietor, jointly with his wife, of the Turner Rest Home and Sanitarium, which they established in 1904. Prior to this they had been proprietors of the Victoria Sanitarium, and for three years previously they maintained public bath parlors, using in all these the mineral waters for which Colfax is famous. Doctor and Mrs. Turner went to Chicago, Illinois, in 1898 and there remained two years, returning to Colfax in 1900 and have since devoted most of their attention to their modern, well equipped and popular sanitarium, which has proven to be a boon to thousands. Page 480.

~ Turner, James K. ~

For various reasons James K. Turner, of Newton, Jasper County, is deemed eligible for specific mention in this volume, not the least of which is the fact that he was one of the brave "boys in blue" who offered his service in defense of his country during the dark days of the early sixties. His life has been one of honest endeavor and certainly not devoid of good to his fellow men, as many of them will freely attest. He has always been a hard worker and has never permitted obstacles to turn him from his course when once he knew that he was right. He was born in July 1845, in Henry County Indiana, the son of James and Priscilla (Ferrow) Turner, the father born in Guilford County, North Carolina, and the mother in Virginia, the latter's people at one time being very prominent in their locality and owning a large plantation along the Blue River. Her father was a slave holder, owning about one hundred slaves, and at his death these and his estate fell to the subject's mother and her brother, John C. Ferrow, later a general in the Confederate Army. After Priscilla Ferrow married Mr. Turner, most of the slaves were set free, largely in view of the fact that James Turner, father of the subject, was a Quaker minister and opposed to holding slaves. In an early day the Turners moved to Indiana, but did not remain there long, having returned to High Point, Guilford County. North Carolina. In 1856 he again took his family to Indiana and lived there until his death, which occurred a few years later at the age of sixty-eight; the death of the mother of the subject occurred there two years after the family located there, at the age of fifty-eight years.

James Turner followed farming, and also engaged in the distillery business for some time, which in those days was universally regarded as a respectable vocation. His family consisted of ten children, of whom James K., of this review, was the youngest; four of the sons were soldiers in the Civil War, John, the eldest, having been with Morgan; he died at Eddyville, Iowa. The other children were named as follows: Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Smuck, is now deceased; Jane married Mace Beetle and lives in Jay County, Indiana; Mary A. is the wife of Philip Oxley; George lives in Gas City, Indiana; he was a soldier in Company C, Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; Lewis, who was a soldier in the Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, is now living in Texas; Priscilla, who married Thomas Tadlock, also lives in Texas; Nancy, who married Thomas Mann, lives in Michigan; Malinda died in Indiana.

James K. Turner, of this sketch, attended school for a time at Buck Creek, Indiana, also at Fairmont. When less than seventeen years of age he enlisted in the Union army, in April 1862, and served until the close of the war with honor and distinction, seeing much hard service, having taken part in over thirty of the most sanguinary battles of the war, besides a number of smaller engagements. He was shot through the body at Jackson, Mississippi, February 6, 1864, and was there taken prisoner, and it was some time before he recovered. As a private in Company C, Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he fought in the following engagements, among others: Green River Bridge, where he heard his first cannon, although he had been in previous engagements; Murfreesboro, Lafayette, Guntown, Tupalo, Coldwater. The two months that he was in prison he subsisted, mostly, on pea bread and water and during that time his wound was dressed only once; however, in the house where he was confined, which was guarded by the Confederates, was a bright young girl, who, feeling sorry for the wounded Northern lad, sometimes secretly gave him substantial food and brought him water. After he was exchanged he was sent home. As soon as he was able to be upon his feet again he reported for duty at Indianapolis, but was told that he was unable to return to the front and was ordered to the hospital, but he begged so hard to be permitted to rejoin his regiment that they allowed him to do so, and he was sent to Memphis, later going with Gen. A. J. Smith's command on the Red River expedition. Later in the war Mr. Turner took part in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, Yellow Build, Fort Duruso, and in the hand-to-hand engagement at Pleasant Hill, in which one big fellow came near choking him to death, but a comrade saved his life by knocking his assailant in the head. They followed General Price from DeSoto to Lexington and to Santa Fe, Kansas, and had several small engagements; then fought at Blue River, Sedalia, Lone Jack, and was in the two-days battle of Nashville, then went to New Orleans, and he witnessed the bombardment of Fort Pike, Fort Morgan and Fort Gains. He was on the sand battery and battery U. G. in the charge on the pontoons. He participated in the siege of Fort Blakely throughout. Later he was with Sherman in his march to Meridian, Mississippi, and was wounded at Queen's Hill. He was mustered out at Mobile, Alabama, and received an honorable discharge at Indianapolis, Indiana, in August 1865.

After returning from the war, Mr. Turner bought and sold cattle for a while, then went to Illinois and worked at the carpenter's trade and house moving. He came to Iowa in 1870, locating first at Oskaloosa, but later moved to New Sharon and there he was married to Ellen Shadley, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, the daughter of William and Malinda (Pendulum) Shadley; the father, a farmer, was born in Virginia and the mother in Ohio. They were the parents of ten children, those living besides Mrs. Turner being: William, of Newton, Iowa; Mrs. James Mitcheltree, of New Sharon; Mrs. Hester Hilderbran, of near New Sharon; Mrs. Abbie Stanford, of Montezuma. The Shadley family came to Iowa before the war.

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, namely: Minnie, who married Edward Lynn, lives in Des Moines, and they have seven children; Wesley, who lives in Newton, is married and has two children; Clyde also lives in Newton; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Pugh, lives in Des Moines and has three children; Allison is at home; Elsie, who married Bonner Benedict, died leaving four children.

After living in New Sharon three years, Mr. Turner moved to Marshall County, but later went back to New Sharon. Five years ago he came to Newton, Jasper County, and here he and his sons are successfully engaged in the house moving business, having built up a large patronage. Mr. Turner is a Republican and a member of Lighten Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Mrs. Turner is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Page 610.

~ Turner, Josiah P. ~

Everybody in Prairie City, Jasper County, knows and honors Josiah Turner, a kindly, honest, genial veteran of the "grand army" that saved the Union. For years a typical "jolly miller" of the town which he still claims home, his special line of business giving him a wide acquaintance with the surrounding country for a radius of many miles, he is one of the best known the pioneers of this part of the county, which he has lived to see develop from the wild prairie, taking an active part in the same.

Mr. Turner was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 1832, the son of Isaiah and Nancy (Moore) Turner, the father born in Maryland in 1801, the son of Abel Turner. The family is of Scotch-Irish descent. The mother of the subject was born in New Jersey in 1803. These parents were married in Pennsylvania, where they devoted their lives to farming. Ten children were born to them, of whom Josiah P., of this review, was the fourth in order of birth; the others were named as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Shirk, who died in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Martha Gordon also died in that state; Daniel died in New Orleans; Abel, who was a soldier in Company H, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, died in his native state; Mrs. Sarah Taylor also died in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Mary Sutton is living in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania; Tillie died in childhood; Nancy Ann, who has remained single, lives in the state of Pennsylvania, as does also James. The mother of these children died in Greene County in 1855, and the father subsequently married Mrs. Ruth Clark, a widow, this union having been without issue. The death of the father, Isaiah Turner, occurred in 1876.

Josiah P. Turner was educated in the country school of Greene County, Pennsylvania, remaining at home until 1854, when he came to LaSalle County, Illinois, and found work in a flouring mill there, and learned the business thoroughly. In those early days the newcomers to the Middle West frequently suffered from the ague, and the subject, not being exempt, left that country on this account and returned home after an absence of two years. When the call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion was sent out, it at once appealed to Mr. Turner's patriotic impulses, and as soon as he could arrange to do so he bade farewell to kith and kin and in July 1862, he enlisted at Waynesburg in Company K, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. At the battle of Antietam their colonel was captured, but later made his escape, and upon rejoining his regiment it was reorganized, Mr. Turner's company becoming Company D. Their colonel, William J. Palmer, was later made a brigadier-general. He was always greatly beloved by his soldiers and is now living at Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1907 he held a reunion of his regiment, furnishing transportation for all those living and who could attend. The subject was there and the memory of this reunion will fondly linger with him until the final "taps" are sounded. Besides the bloody conflict mentioned above, Mr. Turner took part in the scarcely less sanguinary conflicts of Chickamauga and Stone River. He was in the campaign about Atlanta, then their command was sent back to General Thomas and was engaged in the Battle of Nashville. He was with General Stoneman on his campaign through North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. He was in many skirmishes and saw much hard service. He was wounded in the foot at the battle of Stone River, and he was at one time confined in the hospital on account of sickness. According to his comrades he made a most faithful soldier, and for meritorious service became first sergeant of his company. After three years' service he was honorably discharged and mustered out on June 12, 1865.

After his career in the army he returned to Pennsylvania and the following year came to Iowa, where he met Elizabeth Clark and in March 1866, they were married in Muscatine County. She was born in Tyler County, Virginia, on October 9, 1842, the daughter of Remick and Maria (Hatfield) Clark, natives of Pennsylvania. They moved to Virginia shortly after their marriage and came to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1865, later moving to Missouri, where they bought a farm on which they spent the rest of their lives, Mr. Clark dying there at the age of seventy-eight years, his wife reaching the age of eighty-four. They were the parents of six children that grew to maturity, as follows: Emma, who married a Mr. McPherren, lives in Geneva, Nebraska; A. B. lives in Sullivan County, Missouri; Mrs. Minnie Bailey lives at Browning, Linn County, Missouri; Mrs. Joseph Pratt, now deceased, also lived in Missouri; Mrs. Amanda Johnson lives in Sullivan County, Missouri. Stephen Hatfield, grandfather of Mrs. Turner on her mother's side, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Turner went to Pennsylvania, but the following year, 1867, they returned to Iowa and have resided here continuously to the present time. For two years Mr. Turner farmed in Fairview Township, Jasper County, near the town of Monroe, and in 1870 he moved to Prairie City and worked in the flouring mill there, which he later purchased and in which he installed new machinery, converting it into a good rolling mill and soon built up an extensive and lucrative business. This he continued to operate and own until it was destroyed by fire, nine years ago. He did not rebuild it, but has lived practically retired since that time. He has accumulated a competency for his old age and is entitled to the respite he is enjoying. He has a pleasant home in Prairie City, which he bought June 1, 1871, forty years ago, and he has lived in the same ever since. During this long period he has witnessed many great changes in this locality.

To Mr. and Mrs. Turner six children have been born, namely: Virginia died when six years of age; Anna M. is at home; Amanda died when a child; Alberta died in infancy; Nettie married Hart W. Zachary, and they live on a farm three and one-half miles west of Prairie City, in Washington Township, and they have four children, Leland, Gerald, Raymond and Grace. Frank Turner married Haddie Hanes and lives in Prairie City, where he is employed as bookkeeper in the First National Bank, and they have one child, Francis Palmer.

Politically, Mr. Turner is a Democrat and he cast his first vote for Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 for President. He is a member of McCray Post No. 177, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was formerly commander. Mrs. Turner is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps. Page 595.

~ Turner, Marce ~

Success could not fail to attend the efforts of such a persistent and energetic worker as Marce Turner, of Kellogg Township, for his motto seems to have always been that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. He was born in Rails County, Missouri, June 5, 1870, and he is the son of George and Malinda (Seeley) Turner, the father born also in Rails County, that state, on June 1, 1840. The father followed farming during the earlier years of his life, later taking up carpentering, painting, blacksmithing and carriage making, following these until his death, on March 10, 1890; his widow survives, making her home in Cherokee County, Kansas.

Marce Turner grew to maturity in his native county and in Kansas, spending his boyhood days assisting his father and attending the public schools. He started in life for himself by driving a stage, later took up freighting, then turned his attention to painting and carpentry. He came to Kellogg Township, Jasper County, in 1900 and here worked on the farm by the month until in March 1909, when he rented eighty acres.

Mr. Turner was married October 22, 1899, to Maggie Watson, who was born in Michigan, February 14, 1883, the daughter of Lynn B. and Mary (Roach) Watson, the father having been born in Kansas in 1856, and the mother's birth occurred in Iowa in 1855. Mrs. Turner received a good education in the common schools and she came to Iowa when young.

Marce Turner is one of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters, namely: Molly is deceased; George is deceased; Elija is deceased; Laura, Lucy, Cordelia and Cornelius (twins), Eugene, Joseph, Mandy and Marce.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Turner, a son and a daughter, namely: Virginia F., whose birth occurred November 20, 1900, and Virgil Eugene, who was born December 9, 1903.

Politically, Mr. Turner is a Republican, and, fraternally, he belongs to the Woodmen. He is a member of the Christian Church. Page 735.

~ Pease-Turner, Mrs. Mary C. ~

In the following lines the biographer sets forth succinctly and, we hope correctly, the leading facts and characteristics of one of Jasper County's estimable ladies, who, since taking up her residence here, has formed a wide acquaintance with its best people, and all speak of her as one whose acts have ever been above idle cavil and singularly free of aught that the world terms unladylike and whose career has been governed throughout by correct and right motives.

Mrs. Mary C. Pease-Turner, who owns the beautiful and well-kept Turner homestead in Poweshiek Township, known as the Hawthorne Farm, is the widow of C. C. Turner. She came to the vicinity where she now resides in 1856, with her parents, Andrew and Joanna M. (Cook) Pease, the mother being the daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Pierson) Cook. This family moved here from near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, where the subject was born September 28, 1832 and therefore she is now, in the line of the poet, "in the mellow evening twilight of her age." Her father was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1804, the son of Andrew and Mary (Engle) Pease. Catherine Pierson, the maternal grandmother of the subject, was the daughter of John Pierson, of New Jersey, who served through the Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1784, and he was for six months one of Washington's lifeguards. Andrew Pease first served in the French and Indian War. He was a participant in Colonel Crawford's expedition to Upper Sandusky, and, with Doctor Knight and a few others, made their escape, the Colonel and the rest of his band being massacred and tortured to death. The great-grandfather Pease came to this country from Germany and located first near Baltimore, Maryland, then lived in Washington County, Pennsylvania, building the first grist mill in that county. The subject's mother, Joanna M. Cook, was the daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Pierson) Cook, as before indicated; Daniel Cook was a soldier in the War of 1812, having enlisted from Washington County, Pennsylvania. He later became a resident of Richland County, Ohio, where he was a leader in public affairs, being a man of strong convictions and well informed. His home was a station on the Underground Railroad for the escape of Negro slaves from their masters. Mrs. Turner remembers well an incident when she was eight years of age, of hearing Gen. William Henry Harrison make a speech in Mansfield, Ohio, she standing in a buggy. During his speech to the crowd he described fully the death of Tecumseh, the great Indian chief at the battle of the Thames. This family of Cooks descended from the famous Francis Cook, who, with his son, came to Massachusetts as a member of the notable Mayflower band, his wife and the rest of the children following the next year on the ship Ann.

The immediate subject is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being able to trace her ancestry to the War for Independence through four lines, while her children trace back to that event through five lines, adding to her own lineage that of their father, C. C. Turner. This is indeed a record of which anyone might well be proud

Mrs. Turner, of this review, was educated at Mansfield, Ohio, and she taught school in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and after coming to Jasper County, Iowa, she taught the first school in district No. 4, Poweshiek Township. She was a woman of education, having kept abreast of the times and is familiar with the world's best literature, having ever kept her home well supplied with good reading matter, still a student of current events at the age of eighty, a lady of intelligence and culture, and her home is a pleasant place for her many friends to gather. She has been active and influential in the moral and religious as well as educational life of this locality.

Mrs. Turner has the following brothers and sisters: Frank L. Pease, who came to Jasper County in 1868, was a veteran of the Civil war, having served in an Ohio regiment; Mary C., of this review, is the second in order of birth; Willis M. has remained single and lives at Colfax, Iowa; Edith M., who is now deceased, married Ed. G. Fish, who died in California; Hugh A. lives at Colfax; he is a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the Fortieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry; Marion W., of Colfax, is also a veteran of the Civil War, having served in an Iowa regiment. At one time during that struggle the father, husband and three brothers of the subject were at the front.

The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Turner: Eva died young; Hugh Pease died in 1882, at the age of sixteen years; he was a most manly and promising boy, whose loss was a great blow to his parents; Edward S. is farming on the home place and living with his mother; he has been very successful as a general farmer and breeder of shorthorn cattle. He has made a great reputation for Hawthorne Farm, owing to the high grade of his livestock, for which he always finds a very ready sale owing to their superior quality. He married Minnie Westfall, daughter of Lee C. Westfall and wife, the father a veteran of the Civil War who came to Jasper County in 1854 and he married Jane Poling in July 1866. She was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1847. Lee C. Westfall is now clerk of Poweshiek Township and he has for many years filled local offices and is an influential and highly respected citizen here.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Turner, Nellie and Mary, both attending school; Harold Westfall, the oldest, died in infancy. The Turner family has been one of the most prominent and highly honored of Jasper County's residents from the pioneer days to the present time. Page 806.

~ Turner, O.J. ~

The student interested in the history of Jasper County does not have to carry his investigations far into its annals before learning that O. J. Turner has long been an active and leading representative of its great agricultural interests and that his labors have proven a potent force in making this a rich farming region. Through several decades he has carried on diversified farming and stock raising, gradually improving his valuable land, and while he has prospered in this he has also found ample opportunity to assist in the material development of the county, and his co-operation has been of value for the general good. He is one of the honored veterans of the Union army who, when the tocsin of war sounded in the nation's crisis, uncomplainingly went forth to defend with his life, if need be, the honor of the old flag. His career in every respect has been one of commendation and is well worth study and emulation by the youth whose fortunes are yet matters for future years to determine.

Mr. Turner is the scion of a sterling old Kentucky family and many of the winning characteristics of the noble families of the "land of the dark and bloody ground" seemed to have descended, like Elijah's mantle, on the subject and have rendered him popular with a wide circle of acquaintances. He was born on April 23, 1840, in Wayne County, Kentucky; the son of W. C. and Eliza (Sanders) Turner, both natives of Kentucky, in which state they grew up, were educated and married. The father is of French extraction and the mother of German descent. Grandfather Sanders was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Prior to his marriage W. C. Turner was a pilot on the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, being very skilled as such and well known to river men. He afterwards devoted his attention to farming, spending his life in Kentucky, where his death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-four years, his wife having died there when sixty-five years old. He was an active, public spirited and successful man, interested in politics and educational affairs. He assisted in dredging the Cumberland from its source to its mouth. His family consisted of nine children, O. J. of this review being the oldest; G. W. lives in southern Kansas; Mary is deceased; Sarah is the widow of Race Bunch and lives on the home farm in Wayne County, Kentucky; Scioto is deceased; James lives in Rock Creek Township, Jasper County; Hiram lives in Wayne County, Kentucky; Ann is deceased; Augustus lives in Scottsville, Illinois.

When O. J. Turner was eighteen years old he began farming, which he continued one year, then entered Cumberland College, taking a general course. In October 1861, he gave up his prospects of a college training and enlisted in the Federal Army. Company H, Twelfth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, in General Thomas' division. Almost immediately he was sent to the battlefield of Millspring, Kentucky, then on to the capture of Forts Donelson and Henry, then went with Buell to reinforce Grant at Shiloh. After this he participated in the Battle of Corinth, also Tuscumbia. He was next in the strenuous race with Bragg to Louisville, culminating in the Battle of Perryville. Later he was in the fierce engagement at Stone's River, also in the Battles of Chattanooga, Knoxville and Strawberry Plains. At the latter place he re-enlisted and veteranized, being sent to Chattanooga to begin the Georgia campaign. For several days he was in the chase after Johnson, finally meeting his army in the bloody Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and in the sharp engagement at the crossing of the Chattahoochee River, and in numerous other engagements leading up to the battle of Atlanta. From there he was sent west with the Twenty-third Army Corps to watch Hood and was held as a reserve in the battle of Allatoona Pass. Here he saw a wounded woman who had been fighting in men's clothes as a Confederate soldier. They met Hood's forces at Columbia, Tennessee, after which he was in the battle at Franklin, said to be the bloodiest of the war, considering the number of men engaged. Mr. Turner's regiment was then sent with those assigned to guard Nashville, finally taking part in the great battle there. After that he was sent by rail and water to Alexandria, Virginia, and from there by ship to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, but he was not in the fight at that place. He then went to join Sherman's forces, and while on the way was in the Battle of Mill Creek, North Carolina, finally joining Sherman at Goldsboro, thence he was sent to Raleigh, North Carolina, finally to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was honorably discharged.

Returning home after his gallant career as a soldier, Mr. Turner taught a term of school, then re-entered Cumberland College where he remained two years. In March 1868, he left Kentucky and came to Kellogg, Iowa, where he taught school and farmed alternately for three years. He has continued farming very successfully ever since, in fact, has succeeded much beyond the average person as a husbandman, being now one of the county's largest landowners and substantial citizens. He has seven hundred and twenty acres of as fine land as this locality can boast, near Newton and Grinnell and he is also the owner of eight hundred acres of valuable land in Walworth County, South Dakota. Besides this he owns considerable town property in Newton, all well improved and desirable. That he has accomplished all this unaided since he came here, starting with a capital of only ten dollars, is criterion enough to show that he is a man of superior business acumen, sound sense and mature judgment. He has kept his lands well improved and under a high state of cultivation and whatever he has turned his attention to has resulted in a large measure of success.

On November 15, 1872, Mr. Turner was united in marriage with Elizabeth A. Rice, of Wayne County, Kentucky, the daughter of E. B. and Rebecca Rice, both now deceased. This union has resulted in the birth of seven children, five of whom are living, two dying in infancy; E. O. lives at Turner, Jasper County; G. W. lives on his father's South Dakota land; Lulu is the wife of H. V. Clutter, of Arkansas County, Arkansas; L. R. is a doctor in Humboldt, Iowa; E. S. is at home and is attending school. The son, E.W., is a noted wrestler and was at one time champion of South Dakota. E. S. is an all-around athlete with many medals for records. He is a great sprinter. In his younger days the father, O. J. was a runner and wrestler of local reputation.

Mr. Turner is a very prominent and influential man in this section of the state, widely known and highly respected by all classes. He has always taken an active interest in politics and public affairs. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, of which he is a deacon at present and a very liberal supporter. Politically, he votes independently, preferring to cast his ballot for the best men. He is a member of Kellogg Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Page 1088.