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Hartford Mill

Hartford Flour Mill - 1872

The Hartford Flour Mill was owned by Cornelius Shauk and located southeast of Hartford, Richland Township, in the NE corner of the SW quarter of section 21.

 

History of Warren County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, etc., 1879, p. 705
Cornelius Shauck, proprietor Hartford Flouring Mills, Hartford; is a native of Maryland, born in the year 1829, and came from there to Richland County, Ohio, in 1841, and to this county in the spring of 1850, and settled at Summerset, where he worked at the millwright business; he has worked at this business nearly all the time since he came to the county, but during the time he has spent one year in Van Buren County, two summers in Ohio, and one in Minnesota; he built his mills in 1872; was married in Indianola, to Miss Rahama A. Spires, of Ohio, [Nov 10, 1863]; they have a family of three sons: Frederick, Charles and Oliver.