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History of Boone County, Iowa D Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. Dawkins, B. M., druggist, Mineral Ridge; was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, January 26, 1835, and made it his home up to nineteen years of age, when he emigrated with his father to Tippicanoe county, Indiana, and remained there two years and then came to this county in the fall of 1856, and had made it his home since; his first occupation in this county was farming, which he followed up to 1875; in 1867 he was elected member of the board of county supervisors, which office he held for four years, and has also been elected to various offices of his township; his ancestry were all early settlers of the southern States and of English origin. DEFORE, Hon. W. L., farmer, stock-raiser and feeder; Sec. 29; P. O. Boone; the subject of this sketch (whose portrait appears elsewhere), is a native of Clay county, Indiana; was born July 12, 1826; he was raised here at farming as an occupation, and also received his education in the schools of this county; as early as 1849 he came to this county on a prospecting tour, and for the purpose of locating some land, in which he failed, through some mistake of his agent, whom he secured to attend to the matter for him; he remained but a short time, and returned to Indiana, and in June, of 1850, he came back to this county; in 1851 he permanently located on his present homestead, which now consists of 640 acres, with splendid improvements; Mr. D., heeding his country's call in the late rebellion, and feeling it his duty to lend a helping hand in its suppression, enlisted in company D, of the Thirty-second Iowa, in 1862, and served till the expiration of his term of enlistment; in 1874 the people of this county manifested their appreciation for him by electing him to represent them in the Fifteenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, and the citizens of his own township have often elected him to their various offices of trust; he was married in Indiana in 1848 to Miss Rachael C. Friedley, a native of that State; by this union they have ten children, of whom seven are now living: Julia, H. C., James A., Mary S., Belle, Minnie and viola; the names of those deceased were Charles A., Daniel L. and Eddie N.; he is a man of kind heart and obliging disposition, combined with social qualities, that have made him many friends, and his business qualifications may be inferred from the success that has attended his career.
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