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Pocahontas County >> 1904 Index The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County,
Iowa H Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. Hamble,
Philip (b.
1832), one of the early pioneers of Washington township, is a native of Hamilton
county, Ind., the son of Anthony and Elizabeth (McPeek) Hamble; who were natives
of Virginia and New Jersey respectively. In 1854 he married Amanda Jane Burns
and located on a farm. His
father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and Philip, enlisting in 1862 at
Nashville, as a member of company A, 5th Ind. Cavalry, served in the Civil war
until its close, June 29, 1865. His first [engagement] was with Morgan's raiders
at Buffington Bar, Ohio, and the next were Blountville and Rheatown, Tenn. At
Knoxville the regiment was dismounted and sent back across the mountains afoot
through Cumberland Gap to Mount Sterling, Ky., where it was remounted. It then
passed with Sherman's army to Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, where it was
surrounded and captured. After their return a number of the men, including
Philip, were dismounted and sent to the command of Gen. Thomas at Nashville. He
spent the remainder of his time in the vicinity of that place, Ptouaski and
Louisville. At
the close of the war he returned to his farm in Hamilton county, Ind. In 1868,
he located in Dubuque county, Iowa, and in 1873, on the sw 1/4 sec. 33,
Washington township. At this date there were only three other families in the
territory now included in Washington township, He and his family lived in their
wagons and among their neighbors until their house was completed. He improved
his farm with good buildings and occupied it until 1901, when he moved to
Havelock and in 1902, to Long Beach near Los Angeles, Cal. He
was a very highly respected citizen and participated in the organization of
Washington township. He served as the first clerk of the township, as the first
president of the school board in 1877, and later four years as a trustee. He
rendered cordial co operation in the maintenance of public worship and in
efforts to promote the moral and educational interests of the community. His
family consisted of three children all of whom were born during his residence in
Indiana and came with him to the frontier in 1873. Margaret
Elizabeth, Dec. 18, 1872, in Dubuque county, married Jason N. Russell, (see
Russell). Delilah,
a teacher, married Alexander McEwen, (see McEwen). William
Franklin, a carpenter, in 1883, married Lulu C. Blake and located on a farm of
120 acres on sec. 33. In 1892, he moved to Havelock. His family consists of four
children, Earl, Philip W., Medorah Vashti, and Amanda Eleanor. HEALD, GEORGE A., (b. Iowa, June, 1870) vice-president of the Bank of Pocahontas, is a native of Johnson county, the son of Isaac and Amelia Heald, who located at West Liberty in his early youth. In 1887 he graduated from the high school of that town and in June, 1889, from the Eastman Business College , Poughkeepsie , N, Y. He then located in Pocahontas, where he found employment in the bank of D. J. Allen & Sons. Here he embraced the opportunity of reading law under the late B. J. Allen, county attorney at that time, and graduating from the Iowa College of Law in January, 1894, was immediately admitted to the practice of law. In January, 1897, he became a partner and was elected vice-president of the Bank of Pocahontas. He is a young man of pleasing address and is well equipped both for the practice of law and a successful business career. He has the happy faculty of gaining the confidence and esteem of those with whom he becomes acquainted and is entering on a constantly enlarging sphere of usefulness with bright prospects for the future. On Jan. 23, 1894 , he married Stella Torpey, a teacher of Lake township, and they have one child, George. HEALD, JOHN AVERILL, (b. Jan. 17, 1816 ) one of the early pioneers of Des Moines township, was a native of Granville , Washington county, N. Y. His mother was a descendant of the seventh generation of an ancestor that landed at Plymouth at the time of the arrival of the Mayflower. Dec. 3, 1841 , he married Aurilla Underwood (b. Vt. , March 5, 1819 ,) and located on a farm. In 1856 he moved to Sterling , Whiteside county, Ill. , and remained there until June, 1866, when, with a family of four children, George W., Laura, Mary and Lucia, three of whom were married, he located on section 36, Des Moines township, this county. During their later years he and his wife lived with their son George W., in Clinton township, where he died Oct. 22, 1899 , and his wife, Oct. 1, 1900 . He was a hard worker and gave as his reason the old adage, "It is better to wear than to rust out." He endured many hardships and privations during the early settlement of this county. Sometimes when he had wheat he could not get it ground. At other times the corn in the crib would be prepared for food by shaving it from the cob with a carpenter's plane or if soft in the field, by pulverizing it with a grate made by puncturing the bottom of a tin pan. He adopted the religious views of the Friends in early life and proved himself a faithful friend and an honest man. His family consisted of four children: 1 - George W. Heald, on Dec. 25, 1869 , married Sarah Clason, and located on section 10, Clinton township, where he still resides. He is the owner of a finely improved farm of 250 acres on which he built a large barn in 1900, and there is still growing on it a large grove of natural timber along Pilot creek. His family consists of five children: (1) Olive married Sanford Snodgrass, owner and occupant of a farm on section 3, and has three children, Virgil, Lulu and Vivian; (2) Emma married Fred Barth, owner of a farm on section 1, and has two children, Hattie and Raymond; John Wesley and Luana. 2 - Laura married Amos Cornish in Ill. and after a residence of four years in Clinton township, moved to Kossuth county, where she died in 1888. 3 - Mary married William F. Seaman, who is now the owner and occupant of a farm of 170 acres on section 36, Des Moines township, and her family consists of five sons and five daughters, of whom three sons and one daughter are married. 4 - Lucia, in 1865 married Andrew S. Harp, lives near McNight's Point and has raised a family of three children, Elma, Lizzie and Martha. |