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History of Boone County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1880.

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Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

CROUTHAMEL, JONAS, farmer; Sec. 35; P. O. Boone; was born in Bedminster township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1833, and was raised there up to the time he came to this county in 1866, except one year that he lived in the State of Illinois; his present farm consists of eighty acres of improved land; he learned the trade of stone mason at sixteen years of age, which he followed till he came west; he also learned the cigarmaker's trade when twenty years of age, which he followed during the winters; he laid the second stone basement for a brick building in the town of Boone; he was married in Pennsylvania in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth Yost, of Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; they have four children living: Remantus, Isaiah, Elmina, and Elmer; they have lost two: Susie and Ida.