History of
Davis County, Iowa
Des Moines: Iowa Historical Company,
1882
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Unless noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.
Cyrus King
Gleason submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Gleason,
C. K.; pages 741 & 742: farmer, section six. Post office West Grove:
was born August 22, 1842, in Fox River township, this county. His early
life was spent on the farm, with his parents, James and Margaret, and
attending the common school. In 1870 he moved to Scotland county, Mo.
where he resided two years, then returned to this county, and in October.
1873 came on his present farm, where he has since resided. He owns a
nice farm of 165 acres, in good cultivation. He was married January
17, 1864, to Miss S. F. Martin, daughter of John and Evaline of Roscoe
township. They have had five children: Edwin, Wallace, Hattie F. Nora
D., Cyrus Guy, and Frankie, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. G. are members of
the C. P. Church, of West Grove, and in politics Mr. G. is a green backer,
and is one of the substantial men of the county. James Gleason, deceased,
father of C. K., was born in 1823 in New York, where he resided till
he reached the age of manhood. He was married to Miss Margaret Downing.
They had eleven children: C. K., Mary E. Wallace, James, Roman, Fisher,
Friend, Elsie, Belle, Eddie, and Thomas. Mr. G. died in 1869.
Good, John,
deceased, was a native of Ireland, born in County Cork, February, 1817.
In his youth he assisted on his father's farm, and received a limited
education at the parochial schools of his native land. He was married,
February 8, 1849, to Miss Frances, youngest daughter of John and Mary
Battimer, of County Cork, and six weeks later took shipping at Queenstown
for America. Landing at new York, they went to Dayton, Ohio, where they
made their first home. From there they went to Wisconsin, and bought
a farm, on which they lived three and a half years, then went back to
Dayton, and seven years later, in 1859, came to this county, buying
a farm and being quite successful. October 12, 1878, Mr. Good passed
away, in the sixty-first year of his age, highly respected by every
one. He was a man of great energy, was a member of the Episcopal Church,
and died in the hope of a better world. He left a family of seven children:
Mary, wife of William Stack; James a., John R., Benjamin F., Miriam
A., wife of F. Bussell; G. W. and W. H., twins. The farm now consists
of 204 acres, of splendid land, besides twenty-five acres timber. Mrs.
G. manages the farm with the assistance of four of her sons. They live
on section 34.
Good, William H., deceased;
page 618: was born in Halifax, Virginia, February 23, 1798; where he grew to
manhood, then emigrated to Kentucky. In
1850, he came to this county settling in Wyacondah township, being one of the
pioneers of that township, where he lived till his disease; he was married July
29, 1860, to Mrs. Mary A. French, of Bloomfield, in Hamilton county, Ohio, and
they had two children, Edward E., now a young man of 18, in Bloomfield; and Eva
J., a young lady of 16, attending school.
Mrs. Good has a nice farm of 124 acres, well improved, with fine brick
residence, good barn, and one of the best orchards in the township.
She lives in Bloomfield, owning a neat cottage, with every comfort.
She has been a member of the Christian church since she was 17.
Mr. Good was a man upright in (his community.
Griffeath,
D.,
was born in Perry county, Penn., July 10, 1828, and at ten years of age he went with his mother to Van Buren county, Iowa, near Birmingham, and
in 1866, he came to his present home in Davis county, which was then wild land. Mr. G. received a common school education. He was married
June 20, 1850, to Miss Nancy Wilfrong, by whom he had one child, Wm W. His wife having died February 20, 1852, he was married again October 4,
1856, to Miss Delilah Bivins of Jefferson county, by whom he has seven children: Nancy Alvira, David Fremont, Marion M., Madison M., Susan D.,
Washington Jefferson and Clinton Clay. He has 172 acres of good land, comfortable buildings and an orchard of 200 trees. He is engaged in
stock-raising. Mr. and Mrs. g. and their eldest daughter are members of the M. E. Church. In politics Mr. G. is a democrat; his postoffice is
Milton.
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