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Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa
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Guthrie County Ernest L. Alexander, M. D., the subject of this sketch, was born in Michigan, October 7, 1859. When an infant his parents removed to Cass county, Iowa, where he was reared on a farm and received his education of the schools of his neighborhood, and the high school of Atlantic. In 1878, he began the study of medicine under Dr. H. K. Macomber, of Atlantic, and from 1879 to 1882 was a student of the Hahnemann homeopathic college, of Chicago, Illinois, of which he is a graduate. In August, 1882, he came to Guthrie Center and engaged in the practice of his profession. The Doctor, although a young man and a disciple of a comparatively new school of medicine, has, nevertheless, been so successful in his practice, that he commands the respect of his brothers of the other school, and has the confidence of the best citizens. He is a member of the Congregational Church. Doctor Harrison Giltner Bower, a son of Doctor John Bower, and a graduate of the Michigan state university, at Ann Arbor, and the Iowa state university, at Iowa City, practiced medicine with his father in Guthrie Center for a short time. He removed thence to Carroll Center, Carroll county, where he died in October 1883. Forty-one years of study and close application to a profession is sure to win a place and name, for the one who undergoes the toil, worry and disappointments of such an undertaking. Dr. Bower began the study of medicine under Dr. Michael Gorman, in 1843, with whom he remained two years. He then entered the Pennsylvania medical college of Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated March 4, 1847. He then began practice in Salem, Pennsylvania, where he followed his profession for twenty-one years. In 1868 he came to this country, locating in Panora, and five months later located in Guthrie Center, where he soon became recognized as the leading light in his profession, and to-day he stands at its head in this county. He was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1823. His parents David and Catherine (Hains) Bower were both natives of Pennsylvania, and were of German descent. His father's death occurred in 1865, and his mother died in 1840. The doctor was united in marriage March 25, 1847, with Mary E. Giltner, by whom he had eight children--Rebecca C., Louisa H., Patterson G. (dead), John M., Mary E., Lorena V. (wife of E. W. Weeks, now dead), Franklin H., Edward L. The wife of the doctor's youth, passed from earth October 10, 1868. He was married to his present wife, Mrs. E. Lockmiller (a widow), January 2, 1875. They have one child--David H. Bower. The doctor was vice-president of the state medical society in 1873, and is president of the county medical society. He was pension examinier for this district five years, and has been insane commissioner for the past five years. In 1882 he was mayor of Guthrie Center. He was one of the most prominent workers in the interests of the county high school, and has been a trustee and the treasurer of the high school board. He has been a life-long worker in the Lutheran Church of this country, and held the position of delegate to the evangelical synod of his native state in 1863. The doctor is the only one now in the county that was here when he first came here. The first county judge was Theophilus Bryan, who was elected on the
organization of the county, in 1851. Upon him devolved the duty of perfecting the
organization of county, dividing it into townships, and such other work as was necessary
to perfect a system of government. he held this office until October, 1854, when he gave
way for a successor. Judge Bryan was a large-hearted, honorable, upright man, who came
here, in 1850, for Indiana. he was a strong democrat of the old Jackson school, extremely
partisan in his politics, and if a man was only a democrat, he was all right with the
judge. He died at Panora in 1857, mourned by a large circle of friends. [page 371] Fansler post-office was instituted on the 2d of July, 1883, and Nelson T. Coons appointed postmaster, which position he holds at present. Nelson T. Coons, a native of Cass county, Michigan, was born in April, 1848, and is the son of J. G. and Phoebe (Sutton) Coons. Nelson came to Iowa county, Iowa, with his parents, in June, 1854, where he remained until 1865, when they moved to Linn county, Missouri, where Nelson remained until 1867. He then moved to Johnson county, Iowa, where he was married to Miss Harriet B. Stowe in 1868, who died in Iowa county in 1869, where they had moved in the fall of 1868. Mr. Coons then moved to Cass county, Michigan (where he was born), and remained until 1875, when he moved to Osceola county, Michigan. He was married in 1875, in Bay county, Michigan, to Miss Alsma J. Kingsley; she died in 1880 in Osceola county, leaving one child, Moses F. In 1882, Mr. Coons moved to Guthrie county, and established his present business of general stock. Mr. Coons was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Lydick, on the 28th of May, 1884. David Cretsinger was born January 18, 1844, near Newark, in Licking county, Ohio. He is a son of John and Mary (Boone) Cretsinger. His parents went to Carroll county, Illinois, September, 1859, and from thence removed to Guthrie county, Iowa, April 15, 1866. He was married to Susan Ribble, March 2, 1880, her parents being George and Sarah (Bowen) Ribble. Mrs. Cretsinger was born near Muncie, Indiana, April 18, 1855, from whence she went to Carroll county, Illinois, with her parents in 1856, where she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Cretsinger have three children--John, Mary and Allen. Mr. Cretsinger is a live business man, who has three hundred and thirty acres of land, one hundred and twenty of which is very productive farming land, ten acres are timber, and the remainder prairie. He pays attention to all kinds of stock. Isaac William Cretsinger, son of Jacob and Delilah (Harris) Cretsinger, was born in Putnam county, Ohio, June 3, 1855. He removed with his parents to Carroll county, Iowa, in the fall of 1856, where they lived on a farm for about five years. In March, 1861, they removed to Guthrie county, Iowa, locating on section 20, at Tuttle's Grove, Orange township. He was married at Grand Junction, December 22, 1880, to Miss Lena A. Crouse, daughter of Carrol and Minnie (Martin) Crouse. Mrs. Cretsinger was born near Madison, Wisconsin, in December, 1856. She removed with her parents to Greene county, Iowa, in October, 1875, where she was married. The have one child--Myrtle, born October 4, 1881. Mr. Cretsinger owns one hundred and forty three acres of good land, all under fence. He owns sixty-three acres on section 20, and eighty acres on section 17. Mr. Cresinger pays particular attention to the raising of cattle. The doctor has been a student and practitioner in the medical profession sinced 1877, and being a close student has acquired a knowledge of medicine, which few men of his age possess, and has been usually successful in his practice, both as a physician and a surgeon. He was born in New York, April 28, 1853. In 1856 the family emigrated to Scott county, Iowa, where he was reared. In 1873 and '74 and 1874 and '75 he attended Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. He then returned home, and in 1876 came to Stuart and began the study of medicine under Dosh & Kersey, prominent practitioners of that city. In 1877 and '78 and 1878 and '79 he attended Rush medical college of Chicago,Illinois and graduated from that institution February 24, 1879. He then began practice at Oakfield, Iowa (now known as Brayton), whre he remained six months. He then formed a partnership with Dr. Lougher, of Adair, Iowa, where he practiced one year. He then located in Guthrie Center. He was united in marriage, November 14, 1883, to Miss Mary Wineman, of Scott county, Iowa. He is a member of the state and county medical societies, and is the present city physician of Guthrie Center. Joseph R. Dosh, M. D., of Dosh & Kersey, physicians and surgeons, the subject of our sketch, is one of the most successful and popular physicians of Guthrie or Adair counties, and commands more practice than he is able to attend. He began the study of medicine in 1867, under Doctor A. S. Maxwell of Davenport, Iowa. In 1868 and'69 and 1869 and '70 he attended the Rush medical college, of Chicago, Illinois, from which he graduated in the spring of 1870. May 4th, 1870, he came to Stuart, and engaged in the practice of his profession, and in 1875 Mr. Kersey became a partner with him in the practice. Doctor Dosh was born in New Scotland, Albany county, New York, October 19, 1843. He is the son of Peter and Margaret (Resesler) Dosh, and is the third of a family of five children. In 1856 the family removed to Davenport, Iowa, where Jacob received a good education. In 1863 he engaged in teaching, which profession he followed until entering upon his medical studies in 1867. He was united in marriage March 3, 1873, with Miss Abba M. Curtis, a native of Vermont. They have had three children, two of whom are now living--J. Paul (deceased), Ray H. and Pauline. The Doctor is a member of the American medical association, and also of the state, district and county medical societies. He is a member and P. M. of the Blue Lodge, and Commandery of A. F. and A. M., and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and also a member of the Legion of Honor. Of the two latter orders he is the medical examiner. He is one of the surgeons of the C.R.I. & P.R.R. and has been the pension surgeon for this district for the past twelve or thirteen years. Dr. Cornelius M. Drumeler, one of the practitioners of Panora, is a native of Virginia, and was born August 8, 1851. He was mostly raised on a farm in Missouri, and attended the state university of Missouri during the years 1868 and 1869. He later on was matriculated at the St. Louis medical college, from which he graduated in February, 1876. he then came to Panora, and became at once a popular doctor. He was married November 27, 1877, to Miss Mary Johnson, of St. Louis, and they have two children--Daisey and Mabel. In July, 1854, Doctor John A. Gustine came to Panora and entered upon the hard life of the pioneer physician. He had been educated in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, in his native state, Pennsylvania, in both of which cities he had practiced his profession previous to his coming West. Coming from the ease and comforts of a large city to the very confines of civilization, his labors attendant upon a a sparsely settled district, were therefore more onerous and hard upon him. The population was then scattered in small settlements over an immense territory, with wide expanses of naked, uninhabited prairie between. His rides were long, dreary and laborous, covering portions of six counties, those of Dallas, Greene, Carroll, Adair, Audubon and Guthrie. The first case which the doctor attended was a boy in Carroll county who had hemorrhage of the bowels. All the medical srt was unavailing and the boy died. Dr. Gustine rode eight miles to secure the assistance of a man, and to get lumber to make a coffin. With the help of the man he constructed a rude box in which they inclosed the remains. They also dug the grave, and placing therein the coffin, covered it with clods. A story is told of the doctor's visit to a man who was suffering from nervous prostration, complicated with malaria, which is more cheerful in its relation. In talking with the man, finding out the symptoms and diagnosing the disease, he happened to say: "Mr. ---, you have been overdoing; you are a very energetic man, and ---" "oh, yaas, I know, doctor; I've had 'em for five or six years." "Had what?" the docotor quickly asked. "W'y, the energetics." If the doctor did not laugh, it was only the presence of sickness that prevented and when traveling homeward had his laugh out on the prairie. Doctor Gustine practiced here until the fall of 1875, except for a short time when he was engaged in the drug business in Des Moines. In the latter year he removed to Carroll county, where he owns a large farm and is engaged in stock-raising. T. E. Harbour was elected to the office of county judge in 1859, and served two years. Thomas E. Harbour was born in Highland county, Ohio, on January 8, 1813, and is the son of Elijah and Rhoda (Capps) Harbour. In early life he moved to Indiana, where he purchased a farm, upon which he lived until 1854, when he came to Guthrie county. He here bought a farm of 560 acres of land, on section 1. In 1859 he was elected county judge, and removed to Panora, where he remained until the county-seat was moved to Guthrie Center, when he moved there. He was elected county treasurer in 1862, which position he held for six years. He then moved to his farm, where he has since made his home. Mr. Harbour was married in January, 1833, to Miss Maria Zimmerman. Mrs. Harbour was born in Rose county on September 15, 1817. They have had seven children, six of whom are now living--Margaret A., Carrie, Milton, Ellen and Elijah, all of whom live in the county except Ellen, wife of George McPherson, of Adair. Mr. Harbour is a member of the Masonic lodge. With the expiration of the term of Mr. Harbour, much of the importance was curtailed, the creation of the board of supervisors, cutting off many of the duties of the office, and making it little more than a judge of probate. James Henderson, the next [2nd] county judge, was elected in the autumn of 1854 and served some three years. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and a staunch Jackson democrat. So partisan was he that it would sometimes bias his judgment, but on the whole he was an honorable upright man. He died in this county, a few years ago, at an advanced age. John Y. Hopkins was born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the 13th of November, 1819, and was reared and educated in that neighborhood. In 1848 or 1850 he went to Cincinnati and became a student of the medical college, and in 1951 graduated with the highest honors. In June, 1853, he came to Iowa and located in Mahaska county, where he practiced medicine until the breaking out of the war, when he became a surgeon in the 33d Iowa infantry. After the war Mr. Hopkins came to Guthrie Center, where he practiced medicine and improved his farm, not far from town. He died on the 16th of July, 1877, and at the time of his death was one of the most prominent men of this county. He was at one time deputy grand master and grand senior warden of the grand lodge of Iowa and took an active part in Masonry and in the organization of the grange in Guthrie county. Mr. H. was married in Guernsey county, Ohio, to Miss Mary A. Needham. They have had five children--F. M., W. C., H. L., E. W., and C. N. Doctor Frank C. Jones, one of the representative business men and practicing physicians of Herndon, is a native of Winnebago county, Illinois, where he first saw the light of day, on the 13th of April, 1856, and received the best education that the common and high schools of his native place could afford. In 1869 he took it into his head to learn the machinist trade and followed that until 1874, when he commenced the study of medicine at the Chicago medical college, and in 1876 entered the medical department of the Michigan State university, at Ann Arbor, from which institution he graduated July 1, 1880. He then entered into practice in Chicago, but suffering there from fire, he came to Panora, this county, in November, 1880, but in April following removed to Herndon, where he is engaged in the drug business in connection with the practice of his profession. Dr. H. C. LeRoy came to Guthrie county in 1869, and located at Panora, but removed to Stuart in 1870, having been engaged in practice in Buffalo, New York, and Davenport, Iowa. The Doctor is a native of Ohio, but received his medical eduacation in Dublin, Ireland. He has, twice since his settlement in this county, been seized with the Western fever, and has practiced in Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Missouri, and San Diego, California. Returning to Stuart, he reopened one of the finest drug stores in the town, but in May, 1884, he removed to Des Moines, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine. James Minert was born in Vermillion county, Indiana, on the 24th of July, 1830. In 1837 he removed with his parents to Wisconsin, and in 1856 moved to Iowa. On the 25th of March, 1858, Mr. Minert was united in marriage with Nancy Jane McClure, of Richland township, Adair county, Iowa. She was born in Johnson county, Indiana, August 30, 1840. In 1855 her parents removed to Adair county, Iowa, and settled in Richland township. Mr. and Mrs. Minert resided in Adair county until 1860, when they removed to Page county, Iowa. They lived in the latter county until 1872, then returned to Adair county and settled on section 16, Eureka township, where they still reside. Mr. Minert has a good farm, well improve, upon which is a fine orchard and grove. Mr. and Mrs. Minert have had nine children born to them--Thomas Henry, born January 7, 1860; Frederick Marion, born January 29, 1862; Anna Ella, born April 4, 1865; Mattie and Mollie, born September 14, 1867; Louie, born April 14, 1870, and Eddie, born April 25, 1875. Doctor James Porter was born on the 25th of January, 1853, in Noble county, Ohio, and is the son of Andrew and Jane (James) Porter. His parents removed to this state in 1856, locating in Scott county, but four years later removed to the county of Jasper, and to Baker township, Guthrie county, in October, 1869. The Doctor read medicine unter Doctor John Bower in 1876, and after several courses of lectures at the medical department of the Iowa State university, graduated therefrom with honors on the 2d of March, 1881. He had begun his practice in Guthrie Center previous to this, but in 1879 removed to Orient, Adair county, where he remained one year and returned to the former place, where he is now [1884] engaged in the practice of medicine and in running a drug store. He married September 10, 1873 to Miss Eliza Rose, by whom he has two children living--Elsa and Della. They have unfortunately buried three children. Samuel Reed, the pioneer hotel man of the "Center," [Guthrie Center] was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, born October 15, 1807. He was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Whetmore) Reed, and with his parents moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1812. In 1839 he removed to Knox county, Ohio, but in 1842 returned to his former home, all this time being engaged in farming. In October, 1858, he came to Guthrie Center, and from the fall of 1859 until the middle of 1861, kept the hotel. He then engaged in farming, but in 1863 again took the hotel, which he ran until 1866. He was married in Ohio, and had eleven children--Culbertson F., William A., Theodore P., Elizabeth A., Benjamin F., Hannah L., George W., James D., Hester A., Amanda M., and Mary E. He died on his farm near this place, on the 8th of July, 1882. Charles H. Smith, son of John and Eliza J. (Beede) Smith, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, November 4, 1851. He moved with his parents to Lee county, Illinois, March, 1865, and remaining there one year, they came to Black Hawk county, Iowa. He remained here five years, attending school a part of the time and also teaching. He left here in 1870 to attend school at the Iowa state agricultural college, where he remained two years. He went to Sac county, Iowa, where he taught school for one year; he then removed to Audubon county in 1873, and teaching there for one year, he came to Orange township, settling on section 16, his present location, where he has taught school and dealt in stock and farming. He was married May 7, 1877, to Miss Hattie E. Neel, daughter of James and Louisa (Banning) Neel. Mrs. Smith was born in Shelby county, Illinois, January 2, 1863. She moved to Polk county, Iowa, in 1865; came to Guthrie county in 1873, where she was married. They have four children--Cora Jane, Gertrude Louisa, Emma Dell and Blinn Neel. Mr. Smith has held the position of clerk for three years. He is at present township assessor, having been elected and serving four years. His time expires November next. He owns eighty acres of rolling land in sections 15 and 16. He at present follows farming and stock-raising. James C. Thompson, a son of John and Mary Thompson, is a native of Franklin county, Indiana, born May 30, 1853. In the year 1872, he went to Richmond, Indiana, to attend college, where he remained until June, 1874, when he moved to Guthrie county, and in May, 1875, he moved to his present location on section 15 [Richland township], where he owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, and has the second best barn in the county. He was married in January, 1878, in Springfield, to Miss Genevra Fawcett, a daughter of Sarah and John Fawcett. By this union they have two children--Winifred S. and John Irwin. Mr. Thompson now holds the position of township clerk. William Tracy, the pioneer editor of Guthrie county, was a native of Ohio, having been born in Belmont county, in that state, on the 2d of February, 1820. In the various professions and trades in which he was engaged, among which were those of blacksmith, lawyer, editor, miller, farmer and soldier, Mr. Tracy was always energetic and prominent. On the 3d of November, 1855, Mr. Tracy landed in Guthrie county, with his family, while it was then indeed a wilderness. He entered the land on which the largest portion of Guthrie Center is located, and at one time owned fourteen hundred acres in the vicinity. He wintered, the first season, in a small log cabin across the river, where the first press was established. In 1857 he built the first saw-mill in the township in which he lived, to saw lumber for the town. This village of Guthrie Center was laid out in 1856, on a tract of land sold by him to E. B. Newton for that purpose, adjoining which, on his home farm, he built a double log cabin, into which he moved his family. In 1859 Mr. Tracy entered into the county-seat contest, with warmth and energy, devoting his time to gain the point for Guthrie Center. This election failed, as already mentioned, and in 1860 this town gained the coveted honor, largely due to the activity of Mr. Tracy. In 1861 the war broke out, and although a warm democrat, no man was more patriotic. He enlisted in Company C, 4th Iowa volunteer infantry, and was shortly after made lieutenant of the company, and held other positions in the service. He was engaged in several battles participated in by his regiment, and in all did his duty as a soldier and a patriot. On the 25th of February, 1863, he was compelled, by ill health, to resign. In 1876 he was a candidate for the representative nomination at the hands of the republican party, but he was defeated in the convention. In 1873 he went to Texas to assist General Dodge in railroad construction, and while there suffered from an attack of the scourge of that climate, yellow fever. He was also engaged in the Black Hills, sawing lumber for Deadwood, and in mining. He was twice married, and eight children blessed his lot in life. He was high in the order of Masonry, having taken the thirty-third degree. He passed away to his heavenly home on the 16th of June, 1881, at his residence in Guthrie Center, leaving his bereaved family and the community to mourn their loss. His funeral services were held by Rev. G. F. Brand and a sorrowful cortege followed his remains to their last resting place. Thus passed away a brave, indomitable spirit, a generous and kindhearted gentleman, leaving only his memory for his friends to cherish and a remembrance of his virtues for imitation. Michael Trullinger, son of George and Nora (Durbin) Trullinger, was born in Knox county, Ohio, May 17, 1830. He was married in Knox county, Ohio, to Miss Sarah M. Bricker, daughter of Christopher and Nancy (Buckingham) Bricker. Mrs. Tullinger was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 7, 1838, where she lived until she married. They moved to Edgar county, Illinois in October, 1863, where he was engaged in farming until 1868, when they returned to Knox county, Ohio, and remaining there one year came to Jasper county, Iowa. They came to Guthrie county in April, 1882, locating on section 5 [Orange township]. They have had six children--Frank H., was born August 14, 1861; Charlie A., was born November 8, 1864, died October 20, 1876; Annie J., was born August 10, 1867; Nellie, was born October 10, 1875; George, was born August 2, 1876; Mattie G., was born July 3, 1879. Mr. Trullinger owns forty acres of well-cultivated land on section 5. S. G. Weeks located a claim on section 31, in Jackson township in 1851, where he built a small cabin. He was a native of Kentucky, and was born about 1804. He came here from Warren county, Illinois, and at one time previous had resided in Park county, Indiana, where he was married to Miss Hannah Coleman, a sister of L. P. Coleman. He was the first clerk of the court in Guthrie county, and in common with other officials donated his salary to the county, there being nothing in the treasury to pay them with. He removed to Nebraska about 1860, and died there some six years ago. Benjamin F. Whisler, born in 1838, is a native of Stark county, Ohio. He is the son of Jacob and Rebecca (Wirts) Whisler. When merely a child his parents moved to Tuscarora county, where he removed until about fourteen years of age. He then moved to Cedar county, Iowa, and stayed until the fall of 1860. He then started to Western college, where he studied in the spring, and in the winter began to teach school. After the opening of the war he quit his college life and enlisted in the 1st Iowa infantry. He was in several battles and in many skirmishes, and was mustered out with his company about a month after the battle of Springfield. Benjamin returned to Iowa, and wandered from Linn county to Cedar and back again until 1872, when he came to Guthrie county and settled in Guthrie Center. He was married in March, 1862, to Miss Matilda Kramer, a daughter of one of the oldest settlers in Linn county. They have six children--Clara Belle, Charles E., Clay Albert, Ameta, Nellie and Estella. In the spring of 1873 moved to section 14 [Seeley township], where he still resides. Mr. Whisler was clerk of the township one term, and has been trustee, road supervisor and school director. He owns two hundred and forty acres of land, nearly all improved, and is known as one of the township's best farms. George W. Whisler was one of the pioneers of 1854, locating upon section 17 [Jackson township]. He came here from Indiana, although a Virginian by birth. He died in 1857. His son John is a resident of the county, having come here with his father when but seventeen years of age. In giving the biographical sketches of the most prominent men of Guthrie county, we will not fail to mention George W. Whisler [Jr.], who is classed among the intelligent class of citizens. he was born in Carroll county, Indiana, on the 7th of December, 1842, where he remained until 1854, when he came to Guthrie county, and remained at home until 1857, at the time of his father's death. He then lived with John Heiland until he was about twenty years of age, when he commenced for himself. He was married on the 29th of January, 1864, to Miss Jane Wolf, a native of Ohio. They have three children--Mary E., George F. and Minnie M. After Mr. Whisler was married he received fifty-five acres from his father's estate, and built a small house, and resided in that until 1883, when he erected his present residence, which is a good, substantial structure. He now owns one hundred and fifty-seven acres, includig twenty acres of timber land. Mr. W. and his wife are members of the United Brethren church. Their daugter Mary is a teacher in Valley township. Ira White, a son of Columbia and J. A. White, was born in Scioto county, Ohio, on the 13th of March, 1854. When he was an infant he moved with his parents to Washington county, Iowa, Lime Creek township, where he was reared on a farm. He, not being of a very stout constitution, and after having several attacks of lung fever, in his seventeenth year, took a trip to California, in which he regained his health. He was educated at the district schools and Oskaloosa college, and graduated in the business course at the Keokuk commercial college. In 1875 he was married to Miss Phoebe Huffman, of Washington county. By their union they have been blessed with two children--Pearly and R.T.C. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Christian church at Panora. In 1878 he removed to Guthrie county, and purchasing some two hundred acres of improved land on sections 35 and 36, in Richland township, devoted his attention to the raising of shorthorn cattle and other high grade stock. In November, 1882, he moved into Jamaica, where he built a neat two-story frame business house and establshed his present drug business. In 1883 he erected a reseidence in the town. He has served two years as justice of the peace. John B. Youtz, farmer, but now living in Panora, is a native of Ohio, having been born in Stark county, November 16, 1831, and is the third child of Joshua and Esther (Bosler) Youtz, both of whom are natives of Pennsylvania. John B. was reared and educated in Stark county. In the spring of 1856 he came to Cass township, Guthrie county, Iowa, locating on section 9, where he improved the farm which he now owns, consisting of two hundred and forty acres of good land, which is well improved. In 1882 he moved into Panora, where he now resides. He was married January 3, 1856, to Miss Margaret Sherer, a native of Ohio. They have three children living--William A., Minta and Grace. Mr. Youtz is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Panora. He was township trustee for ten successive years. |