Frederick Segrist
Frederick Segrist, carrying on general farming upon eighty
acres of fine land on section 7, Franklin township, is one of
Allamakee county’s most progressive and successful native
sons, his birth having occurred just across the county line in
Hardin, on the 5th of February, 1883. He is a son of Louis and
Mary Ann (Joyce) Segrist, the former born in Massachusetts in
1835 and the latter in Indian some seven or eight years
afterward. As a young man the father came to Iowa and his
marriage occurred in Allamakee county, after which he worked in
the employ of others for some time. He later became an
independent landowner in Franklin township and from there moved
to Post township, where his death occurred in 1902. His wife
survives him and makes her home in Franklin township. In their
family were nine children, of whom the subject of this review is
the youngest.
Frederick Segrist was reared upon his father’s farm and from
an early age assisted with the work of its cultivation, becoming
thoroughly familiar with the best agricultural methods and with
everything pertaining to the work of the fields and the care of
the grain and stock. The occupation in which he had been reared
was the one to which he turned his attention upon reaching
manhood and upon the death of his father he assumed charge of the
homestead, continuing to develop and improve it until 1906. In
that year he sold the property and bought eighty acres on section
7, Franklin township, upon which he still resides. He engages in
general farming and stock-raising and devotes his entire time to
his agricultural pursuits, his farm evidencing in its neat and
attractive appearance his practical methods and well directed
labors.
Mr. Segrist married, on the 1st of May, 1904, Miss Zelma Lawson,
who was born in Franklin township, March 1, 1886. To their union
have been born two children, twins, Bertha Louise and Bessie
Lucile, whose birth occurred September 16, 1908. Mr. Segrist in
independent in his political views and interested in the growth
and welfare of the community although never an office seeker. He
is well known throughout the township as a man of alert and
enterprising spirit, possessed of the resolute will which enable
him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he
undertakes. His methods are at all times practical and
progressive and his success, rewarding earnest and persistent
labor, places him among the most prosperous and able of Allamkee
county’s native sons.
-source: Past & Present of Allamakee County; by
Ellery M. Hancock; S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.; 1913
-transcribed by Diana Diedrich
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