History of
Davis County, Iowa
Des Moines: Iowa Historical Company,
1882
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Unless noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.
Lang,
Wm.
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Lang, Wm.,
farmer, postoffice Bloomfield. His early life was spent attending school and
helping on the farm. At the age of 21 he came to this county, and the land not
being in market, he left money with his brother to pay for his claim. He was
here 6 years, then returned to Indiana, and made several trips back and forth.
He settled on his farm in 1849, where he has since called home. He has a fine
farm of 130 acres, with a good two story residence, a good barn, and orchard, of
four acres, of bearing trees. Mr l is a member of the Christian Church, and of
the Good Templars.
Leach, Chas.
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Leach, Chas., He came to Van Buren Co., Ia, in
1839, and four years later came to this county and located which was then all
timber; the first year clearing away enough to build a cabin and plant a little
corn.
Leach, John C.
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Leach, John C., one of the first settlers of this
county, and during the war, in Feb, 1864, enlisted in Co D, 3rd Ia Calv: was on
the raid in Ark and Mo. He has been a justice, township clerk, and was county
supervisor for four years.
Likes, George
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Likes, George, deceased; was born in
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1814, where he lived for ten years, then resided 12 yrs in
Cincinnati, Oh, then in Ripley Co, Indiana. until 1855, when he came to this
county March 5, where he lived until his death, Aug 30, 1868. Mrs. B E Baker;
was born in Pike Co,
Ohio, in 1832. In 1853, her father John Bromley came to this county, where, in
Jan 28, 1858, she was married to Geo Likes, and by this marriage had 3 children:
Sarah Catherine, Geo Washington, and Columbus B. She was again married to B E
Baker.
Likes, Urias
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Likes, Urias, farmer and stock raiser, section
17, postoffice Troy; was born Jan 15, 1817, in Phila, Pa. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1821 and four yrs later to Indiana. When 16,
he went to Boone Co, Ky., and worked on a farm, attending school, and
flatboating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; He then spent two years in
Versailles, Ind., then farmed in Ill, and Michigan, and arrived in IA in 1853, settling in Van Buren Co, for 3 yrs. Sept 4, 1856, he was married to
Miss Elizabeth A Barker, a native of Ohio; they came to this county in the same
yr., locating in Roscoe twp, and in 1865 moved to their present farm. His family
consists of 5 children, Charles M, Mary J D, Sarah J, Geo W, Margaret E., and 2
deceased, Lucy J and John J.
Eliphas Lister
submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Lister,
E.; page 672: farmer and stock-raiser, post office Stiles, section 11; was born
July 11, 1816, in Ohio. At the age
of twelve he moved with his parents to Park county, Ind., where he grew to
manhood, receiving his education in the primitive log school house.
In 1852 he came to Iowa, settling in this township, where he now owns 960
acres of land with a fine house, barn and orchard, the fruit of his own hard
labor. He was married August 20,
1837, to Miss Nancy Crabbe, a native of Ohio.
They have had eight children, Emmet, Minerva, Robt. R. B., Margaret,
Caroline and three deceased: Mary Ann, Henry and John.
Mrs. L. died November 6, 1853, and Mr. L. married again, Miss Nancy R.
Nixon; they have had eight children, Jasper, W. S., Eliza, Carolina, E. E.,
Sarah, Melissa, and Josephine, deceased.
Lowe, Daniel
submitted by Lois
G. Cossel McMillin
Lowe, Daniel, stock raiser, section 26, post
office Drakesville; was born in Vermilion Co., Ind., in May, 1838, where he
lived till 1841, when his father Obediah Lowe, moved to Scotland Co., Mo., to
wait for the treaty to be made with the Indians, which took about a year and a
half, he then moved into this county when the Indians gave possession, and
staked out his claim on the section where the subject of this sketch now lives.
Mr. L. was reared a farmer and educated in the common schools, and lived with
his parents till he reached manhood. He now owns 650 acres of improved land on
Soap Creek, all in cultivation, with good buildings and orchard. Mr. L has more
stock than any one else in the Twp. He was married in Dec. 1863, to Miss Sarah A
Mounts, a native of Ross Co., O. They have three children.
Lynch, J K submitted
by Lois G. Cossel McMillin
Lynch, J K, farmer and stock-raiser, section 15,
post office Eldon.
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