| Metcalf, Fred E [sic] Rev. (b. 1817 d. 1873), county judge and superintendent, 1864-65, was a native of Connecticut. He taught school in his youth and at 21 comnmenced preaching in the M.E. church. In 1854 he located in Clayton county, Iowa, and in 1862 on section 27, Des Moines township. He was the first M.E. minister to hold public services in the north part of this county and seved as county judge and superintendent of the public schools of this county two years, 1864-65. He died while on the road, as a missionary, to Kansas. |
| In 1840 he married Ruhamah Pary and his family consisted of four children of whom Jane Etta, the third, married J.B. Jolliffe (see Jolliffe) and still lives in this county. Wm. Henry married Lois Cooper; Harried Louise married Dennis Quigley, and Corintha married Wm. H. Nading, who is now living in Clayton County. |