CARL, AUGUST—Deep River Twp—pg 713. Section 21, P.O. Deep River. His ancestors were all born and raised in Germany, where, in Prussia, he was born, May 21, 1835. He emigrated to America when twenty-three years old, and farmed the first year in La Salle county, Illinois, when he went to Kansas, where he enlisted in the Missouri Home Guards, September 6, 1861. After serving as scout he received an honorable discharge February 5, 1862. He then came to this county and worked ten months for old Robt. Taylor, during which time he was rendered a cripple by the falling of a tree. After working one summer for Thos. Harris he spent three years breaking prairie through the neighborhood. He came to this county with very little money, but by frugality, self-denial and industry he had in the meantime bought eighty acres of prairie in Lincoln township, which he broke and cultivated. He sold this and bought and moved to his present place in the fall of 1870. He married in Montezuma, October 11, 1866, Manda Newcomer, of Deep River township, who was born Ogle county, Illinois, October 29, 1844. Their offspring are: George C. (born December 18, 1867), Henry Martin (born August 14, 1869; died October 7, 1870), Marcus M. (born September 29, 1871), Mary Ellen (born September 6, 1873), Millie Ann (born September 1, 1875), Herman L. (born July 28, 1877) and Chas E. (born October 7, 1879). Mr. Carl owns 160 acres of excellent farming land, in splendid condition, well stocked and free from debt.

COCHRAN, Mrs. WILLIAM—Deep River Twp—pg 713-14. P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Jane Cox, and she was born in Harrison county, Ohio, on the 29^th day of August, 1828. On the 14^th day of March, 1861, she was married to Wm. Cochran, of Montezuma. To herself and husband were born three sons: John (born January 22, 1862), Ephraim C. (born April 28, 1863) and Samuel F. (born August 28, 1864). Mr. Cochran’s parents were of Irish descent, and his mother, who was survived her husband, is now living, at the ripe age of eighty-five years, in Wellsville, Ohio. He was born in Pennsylvania, the 30^th day of June, 1822. He was raised a farmer and immigrated to this State in the fall of 1854. He spent the following winter at Oskaloosa, working in a saw mill, after which he went to Montezuma, where he remained in the employ of Mr. Kilburn for the next six years. At the expiration of this time occurred his marriage, when he and his bride moved into a house in the neighborhood of her present residence, on a farm of eighty acres, deeded to the young couple by the wife’s father. This property was afterward traded for the present family home and subsequently repurchased, and is now held in Mrs. Cochran’s own name. Mr. Cochran died of consumption on the 21^st day of July, 1877. The following appeared in the Montezuma Republican a few days after his death: "Mr. Cochran was an old and highly respected Christian gentleman, who was much honored and beloved by all his many friends. After a brief illness he has been called away to scenes beyond the river. He leaves a devoted wife and three children, who have the deep sympathies of their entire circle of acquaintances in this dark hour of their affliction." Mr. Cochran left an estate of 253 acres of splendid farming land, well stocked and entirely free from debt, to the disposition of his widow until the sons shall have attained their majority. Mrs. Cochran is an estimable Christian lady, whose life is devoted to her boys, in the faithful discharge of her duties as a mother.

CONN, SAMUEL—Deep River Twp—pg 714-15. Section 31, P.O. Tilton. His father (Robert) was born in County Armagh, Ireland, March 31, 1792, and his mother in the same county May 12, 1792. They emigrated to America about 1833, when they took up their residence in Wayne county, Ohio, where Samuel was born, June 26, 1845, and raised on a farm. When he was eight years old the family moved to Paulding county, Ohio, where he attended school. On the 16^th of July, 1868, a portion of his father’s family, including himself, arrived in Iowa county, Iowa. After living in that county four years Samuel commenced improving his present place. Upon coming here to begin his breaking he was invited by one of the little pupils of a neighboring school to the hospitalities of her father’s home. Here he made his boarding place for the next six weeks, and the following fall invited the little girl’s older sister to board with him the rest of her life, in consequence of which they were married, November 14, 1872. Mrs. Conn’s maiden name was Jennie E. Lester, and she was born October 26, 1854. The fruits of their union have been: Robert A. (born August 28, 1873), Effie Ann (born July 10, 1874), Frank E. (born November 27, 1875), Bertha E. (born February 5, 1877; died July 13, 1878) and Maggie (born December 7, 1878). Mr. Conn owns eighty acres of good farming land, which is well stocked, and he is a thrifty and industrious farmer.

CONAWAY, Dr. H. OLIVER—Deep River Twp—pg 715-17. P.O. Deep River, and resides in the village of Dresden. In Harrison county, Ohio, on the 27^th day of January, 1848, he began a most remarkable life. Raised on a farm, during the winter terms he attended a district school until he was fifteen years old. In the winter of 1864, he left home and went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he enlisted in the Sixth Independent battalion. This disbanded, and in 1865 he went to Virginia, where, feeling that his education was exceedingly limited, he attended the institution known as Rural Seminary, in Wood county, working for his board and tuition, night and morning, besides walking three miles daily to and from school. Although his studies were pursued under these disadvantages, besides being compelled, in most part, to study in the night by the uncertain light of an ignited pine knot in the woods, where he would often fall asleep until morning, at the expiration of three months he passed a searching examination before the County Superintendent, and received a teacher’s certificate equal in grade with that of his preceptor. This procured him employment as a teacher in a district school known as Oak Grove. He had taught but two terms when his father, learning of his whereabouts, went after him and took him home. He then attended New Market College one term, after which he went to Hopedale College. Determined to educate himself by his own unaided efforts, he refused all proffered assistance from his father, and with the money he had earned in Virginia rented a small room and boarded himself, while he rung the college bell in payment for his tuition, for which he was derisively called by the more fortunate students, the "bell-boy." His means being exhausted, he left this institution in the winter of 1868, and went to Cincinnati. He arrived at that city an entire stranger, with but seventy-five cents in his pocket. The next morning he obtained employment in a chemical laboratory. The proprietors of this establishment, H.M. Merrill & Co., soon resolved to put him upon the road as traveling salesman. He accordingly spent the next six months driving a team through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, over a distance of 4,850 miles, canvassing the route thoroughly for the sale of drugs and medicines, besides advertising four articles of patent medicine with a paint brush on all the fences, trees, bridges, etc. While in Indiana, he continually shook with ague, and during the spring and summer of 1869 he was in the rain for thirty-one consecutive days. Many times he was compelled to lay all night on the prairie, unable to reach village, settlement or private house, and he, sometimes, would become mired in the bogs, where he would have to remain until accidental assistance reached him. On such occasions he would improve the time and entertain himself and team by playing upon his violin. In October, 1869, he returned to Cincinnati, resigned his position and after a short visit to his home, started for Oskaloosa, Iowa, to visit some friends, including a young lady with whom he had been corresponding. While here he was employed in an art gallery, retouching negatives and sketching landscapes, a business for which he was instinctively adapted, and in which he soon attained remarkable proficiency. In the spring of 1870 he went to Sioux City, Iowa, where he remained but a few days, when he shipped on board the steamer, North Alabama, for Virginia City, working his passage as pantryman. Upon making application to the clerk for a berth, the question was asked if he ever had steamboated before, which he answered affirmatively. The next morning, after the boat had left the dock, he inadvertently exposed his unfamiliarity with his new situation, when the clerk turned toward him and sharply said: "I thought you said you had steam-boated before!" To which he replied: "I did, sir." "Where?" inquired the clerk. "In Ohio." "On what boat?" "A canal-boat." "What position did you fill?" "I curried the mules, sir," was the unhesitating reply. The clerk simply remarked "you’ll do," and turned away to smile. No further objections were ever offered, and he was, thereafter, evidently considered a first-class steamboat-man. After an absence of about six weeks, during which he traveled 1,380 miles, visiting Yankton, Forts Randall, Sulley, Rice, Buford and Grand River Agency, he returned to Sioux City. Prompted by a spirit of romance and adventure, he started, in company with a young man from Boston and a half-breed boy, for the Rocky Mountains on foot. They slept, during the night of the 3d of July, 1870, on a high bluff, in sight of Yankton, and on the morning of the 4^th were awakened by the cannonading of the citizens of that city in the celebration of the nation’s birthday. Realizing that it would be unsafe to travel in daylight, on account of the hostile Indians, they decided to confine their future traveling to night-time. Their nocturnal journey, in about ten days, brought them to Fort Randall. Here the Boston boy enlisted in the regular army, and the half-breed somehow disappeared. After purchasing a small amount of rations and a revolver, on the 18^th of July young Conaway again started upon his journey, alone. He had traveled about 150 miles, when he accidentally came upon an Indian village. He was immediately discovered and captured, and compelled to submit to the most revolting indignities for the next three days. On the night of the third day he effected his escape by some shrewd strategy. He succeeded in convincing the Indians that he had voluntarily left the whites, and come to be adopted into their tribe. They, consequently, initiated him by performances around his person as disgusting in some respects as they were amusing in others, after which the vigilance of their watch was relaxed, and he made good his escape about eleven o’clock in the night. He continued a hurried march for the next three days, and was almost exhausted by excited exertion, and famished for food, when, on the morning of the fourth day, he was taken up by the Twenty-second United States regular infantry more dead than alive and scarcely sane. Upon recovering his strength, he enlisted in the Fourteenth regular infantry for five years. He served but one year and twelve days, when he was discharged by the Secretary of War, who had been influenced to the act by the earnest intercessions of a good sister. Upon reaching home, he resumed the study of medicine, which had occupied much of his time in the army. In about one year after leaving the army, he went to Virginia, and returned home with one of his former pupils as his bride. He continued his studies—laboring by day and studying by night—until he had acquired means sufficient to enable him to attend the Electic Medical Institute. He entered in 1874, and graduated in 1875, and immediately afterward commenced the practice of his profession in Jefferson county, Ohio, and on November 29, 1878, emigrated with his family to his present field. He married, on the 16^th day of May, 1872, Miss Frances S. Hoover of Parkersburg, West Virginia, who was born April 25, 1852. Three children have been born to them, as follows: Nannie B. (born April 19, 1873, and died December 12, 1873), Josie (born October 20, 1874) and Clement A. (born April 23, 1879). Dr. Conaway entered his practice at Dresden, two years ago, a poor man. By his moderate charges and successful treatment, he soon won the esteem and confidence of the people, and now owns, besides his dwelling, ten horses and forty acres of good farming land near Dresden, and enjoys an extensive practice and popularity not inferior to that of any physician in the county.

COOK, RALPH P.—Deep River Twp—pg 717-18. Section 23, P.O. Deep River. Two brothers came to America, probably from England, in an early day, and one of them settled on the seashore and the other in New Hampshire, thus becoming separated forever. The latter was the great-grandfather of the subject of our sketch, whose grandfather was born and raised on a farm in New Hampshire, and died about 1809, leaving thirteen children, all of whom grew up and raised families. The youngest son (Sears) was born August 28, 1802, in Grafton county, New Hampshire, where he was raised on a farm. When twelve years old he served his brother, Major James Cook, as body servant in the War of 1812, and died July 3, 1875. His son Ralph, one among ten children, was born in Lyme, New Hampshire, April 30, 1832, raised on a farm, and received his primary education in the district schools of his native place, and afterward attended the high schools of Lebanon, New Hampshire, St. Johnsbury and Johnson, Vermont, where he commenced studying the languages, and was shortly afterward forced to discontinue his educational pursuits by impaired health. In the spring of 1852 he went to Elyria, Ohio, where he clerked in a store for two years, when he came to Iowa, and in co-partnership with J.C. Cutting, entered 760 acres in this, and 160 in Cedar county, and the next year bought Cutting’s interest. After securing his land he was employed by the contractors of the Muscatine and Washington Railroad, sent to Pond Creek station, Illinois, after horses and carts, and upon his return the first Irish shanty was built, and the first railroad grading was accomplished west of the Mississippi River under his supervision; he also shipped the first freight on the Mississippi and Missouri (now Chicago and Rock Island) Railroad, December 31, 1861, from Victor to Marengo. During his subsequent clerkship at the Oglesby House, in Muscatine, he first met with J.B. Grinnell, who had just arrived with his colony. He then returned East, entering into various kinds of enterprises until 1862, when he again came to Iowa, bringing a drove of sheep, which he herded on his land until 1869, 3,000 of which were lost by disease. In the fall of 1862 he was burned out of stables, feed and lumber, sustaining a loss of about $500. In 1865 he commenced improving his land and built his house. Mr. Cook married, July 9, 1863, Margaret L. Evans, of Goshen, Indiana, who was born in Flinchire, England, March 6, 1835, and came to America, with her father’s family when fourteen years of age. Their children are as follows: Sears Carroll (born September 16, 1864), William D. (born March 23, 1867), Nellie (born September 29, 1869, died April 2, 1872) and Frank E. (born June 16, 1873); besides these an adopted child, Louisa Ellen (born February 23, 1878). Mr. Cook owns one of the most beautiful farms in the State, comprising 480 acres, unsurpassed in quality, besides eighty acres of excellent pasturage in Lincoln township, section 23. His property is in excellent condition, and he has the reputation of handling more stock of all kinds of his own raising than any other man in his township. He is a wide-awake man of enterprise, whose energies are ever active, and a gentleman of wide acquaintance and great influence.

COOK, GEO. C.—Deep River Twp—pg 718-19. Section 23, P.O. Deep River. His father (Jas. L.) was born in Lyme, New Hampshire, May 19, 1828, married, June 7, 1849, Eliza Cutting, of Lyme, who was born in Shoreham, Addison county, Vermont, March 4, 1828. George (their only child) was born near Lyme June 3, 1851. His father having emigrated to this county when he was four years old, he was raised a farmer boy, and educated in Deep River township. His first term of schooling was in the old Cohoe House, his second in his father’s dwelling. He worked for his father until he was of age. He went to Floyd county, Iowa, March 11, 1878, where he was employed until the following October, when he returned and rented a farm from his father, where he now lives. He married, December, 21 1871, Jennie Merwine, of this county, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, March 27, 1856. The fruits of their union are: Floroetta (born December 30, 1872, died March 15, 1873), James Albert (born May 14, 1874), Myrtle Iona (born August 3, 1875, died October 12, 1876) and Cora Adella (born May 8, 1878). Mrs. Cook is one of the heirs of the Merwin estate. They own the stock upon their present place of abode and are free from debt.

CORRELL, Rev. WILLIAM W.—Deep River Twp—pg 719-20. Section 11, P.O. Deep River. He was born in Connellsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1812. His father being poor he was compelled to work during his boyhood and procure an education as best he could. While living in Higginsport, Ohio, to which place his father moved in 1829, he learned the trade of plastering, and also spent considerable time in flatboating on the Ohio River. He returned to his native place in the summer of 1834, where he married, and remained until he immigrated to this State, on the 14^th of November, 1842. He first located in Des Moines county, and in the following November moved to Libertyville, where he entered forty acres of land. Here he lost his first wife. In the fall of 1844 he returned to Des Moines county, locating at Burlington Mission, where he married. In 1853 he moved to his present place. Mr. Correll married, July 2, 1837, Miss Rosana Gearhart, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. His children by this marriage were: Mary A. (born April 11, 1838, and married to Nicholas Carr, of Montezuma, November 20, 1856), Frances G. (born March 25, 1840, and married George Hollingsworth, of Deep River township, April 27, 1867), John G. (born January 9, 1842, and married Miss Sallie Tout, of Deep River township, in February 18, 1863, who died, and he married again, January 2, 1869, Miss Belle Bower, of Boone county, Iowa), and Helen R. (born November 23, 1843, and died May 15, 1844). Mrs. Correll died November 8, 1844, and Mr. Correll chose for his second wife Elizabeth Smith, of Des Moines county, Iowa. The result of this union is as follows: Adaline J. (born June 12, 1849, and died January 1, 1863), Elizabeth J. (born May 27, 1852, and married in August of 1872, to John Pine of Iowa county), Martha A. (born January 31, 1855, and married October 22, 1875, to Eugene S. Daly, a minister of the Iowa M.E. Conference), William H. (born February 8, 1857), James R. (born May 27, 1859), Catharine C. (born April 14, 1862) and Josiah C. (born May 10, 1864). Mr. Correll was licensed to preach by the M.P. Church, Pittsburgh Annual Conference, in Pennsylvania, November 12, 1842, and regularly ordained deacon September 11, 1847, and to elder’s orders September 9, 1852, by the authority of the same church in the Iowa Annual Conference. He was first appointed to Burlington Mission, December 21, 1844, and two years afterward was appointed to serve the church at Oskaloosa, which circumstances compelled him to forego. In 1852 he joined the Iowa Annual Conference, then but recently organized, and was sent to Montezuma Circuit, which then comprised a territory of about twenty miles in all directions from the central point. For this two years of unceasing labors on this circuit he received by $140. He then went to farming, and purchased his present place. Mr. Correll may be properly reckoned among the hard-worked pioneer preachers of the Northwest, often denying himself to prosecute his calling amid the darkest clouds and deepest discouragements. In addition to his labors as a son of toil, often working as a son of the gospel, without hope of compensation.

COX, CHRISTOPHER—Deep River Twp—pg 720-21. Section 22, P.O. Deep River. His grandfather Cox was probably of German descent, but born in America, and was a farmer. His mother’s father was a Scotchman, and came from his native country to this to fight in the Revolutionary War. His father’s name was Ephraim, and he was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, on the 25^th of July, 1802. He was a prosperous farmer in his native State, and emigrated with his family to this State, in October, 1854. His family consisted of Mary J. (afterward Mrs. Cochran), Robert, Samuel F., Christopher, Sarah A. (afterward Mrs. Farmer, now living in Iowa county), Margaret (afterward Mrs. John Wherry) and George. Besides these one daughter, Nancy (who married George Huffman and settled in Delaware county, Indiana). The spring before his emigration the father visited this county and took up 400 acres of land from the government, and subsequently purchased 140 acres from Albert Morgan, just east of Dresden, where he lived until his death, which occurred on the 13^th of March, 1862. His large estate was equally divided among his children. In 1855 this old settler built one of the first mills in the county, and run it successfully two or three years, when he sold it and farmed for the remainder of his life. His son Samuel was instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler belonging to this mill, on the 13^th of August, 1856. The subject of this sketch, Christopher, was born on the 13^th of June, 1832, in Ohio, and was educated in his native State. He chose for his first wife Miss Mary E. Morgan, who was a native of Ogle county, Illinois. His children by this lady are as follows: Samuel (born May 6, 1859, and died June 4, 1864), William E. (born February 18, 1861), Margaret E. (born May 17, 1862), Mary (born in May of 1864, and died the following January). Mrs. Cox died the 16^th of May, 1864, and Mr. Cox re-married the 10^th of May, 1866. Miss Mary E. Rosecrans became his second wife, and she was also a native of Ogle county, Illinois, and was born the 7^th of September, 1842. The fruits of this union were: George E. (born April 15, 1867), Clement L. (born January 19, 1869), Lela E. (born March 1, 1873), Emma J. (born May 12, 1874), Roy A. (born August 3, 1877) and Inez L. (born March 14, 1879). Mr. Cox owns 690 acres of good farming land. He is an extensive dealer in lumber and grain in the village of Thornburg; has dealt largely in stock, and still pays some attention to that business. He is free from debt.

COX, GEORGE—Deep River Twp—pg 721. Section 9, P.O. Deep River. He was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on the 9^th of March, 1839. He came to this county in his boyhood, with his father, Ephraim Cox, and has lived in Deep River township ever since. He married Miss Catharine Funk, the 7^th of March, 1866. She is the daughter of Michael Funk, and was born the 27^th of October, 1848, in Ogle county, Illinois. Her father was born the 15^th of March, 1823, and emigrated to this county directly from Ogle county, Illinois, on the 10^th of July, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Cox had had four children, as follows: Unnamed male (born January 21, 1867, deceased), Cloyd North (born December 26, 1868), Irwin Roy (born January 19, 1872, and died April 1, 1874) and Alma Margaret (born November 10, 1875). Mr. Cox owns 440 acres of excellent farming land, is free from debt, and is one of the most highly respected citizens of his township.

COX, ROBERT—Deep River Twp—pg 721. Section 6, P.O. Deep River. He was born in Harrison county, Ohio, September 30, 1826. Remained with his father until his twenty-seventh year, when he emigrated to Iowa county, Iowa, preceding his father one year, and taking up 160 acres of land from the government. In May, 1868, he moved to his present place. Besides those whose biographies appear in this book, his other brother and sisters were born as follows: Nancy (born April 10, 1825), Samuel F. (born July 9, 1830), Sarah Ann (born June 14, 1834) and Margaret (born July 19, 1836). Mr. Cox married July 7, 1859, Miss Lucinda Light, of Deep River township, this county. Five children have been born to them, all of whom died in infancy. Mr. Cox owns 154 acres of land including ten acres of timber.

CRANSTON, WESLEY—Deep River Twp—pg 721-22. Section 11, P.O. Deep River. His father was born in Ireland, in 1790, and came to America when fourteen years old, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he married Anna Cummings, who was a native of Delaware. In 1812 he removed to Guernsey county, Ohio, where he was proprietor of a large farm until his death in 1875. Wesley was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, July 20, 1827. He was educated in his native county, and worked at home until his majority was attained, when he received a good horse from his father, and otherwise unaided, began the foundation of his present prosperity. In 1864, he immigrated to Iowa and bought and cultivated 240 acres of land. He purchased and moved to his present place in 1872. He married August 17, 1848, Rebecca Borton, of Guernsey county, Ohio, who was born March 4, 1825. They have raised five children: Wm. T. (born August 3, 1849, married Mary Bucher), Rueben B. (born December 7, 1850, married Ada Morgan), Jas. H (born October 6, 1854), Ann Elizabeth (born September 6, 1857) and C.B. (born May 2, 1860). One son, James, deserves special mention for characteristic energy and enterprise, which have crowned him early with an uncommon prosperity. Beginning with the small sum of money obtained by the sale of a bushel of hickory nuts he had gathered, now, at the age of but twenty-six years, he is the owner of several hundred acres of fertile land in California, where he lives and drives a flourishing business. Mr. Cranston owns 108 ˝ acres, including his excellent farm and fifty acres of timber. He has deeded eighty acres each to his two oldest sons. His place is well stocked, unembarrassed and in splendid condition. The surroundings of his residence bear marks of native taste, intelligence and culture.

CRANE, GEORGE—Deep River Twp—pg 722-23. Section 35, P.O. Thornburg. Three brothers emigrated from England to America together, one settling in Pennsylvania, one in New Jersey and one in Connecticut. He is probably descended from the latter. His grandfather Crane was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 7, 1790; followed his father’s trade of blacksmithing, in connection with some farming, all his life; fought in the War of 1812, and died in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1862. His father (Alson B.) was born, one of nine children, in Putnam county, New York, April 25, 1814; raised a farmer and blacksmith; enlisted in company F, Thirty-fourth Illinois volunteers, and participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was in the hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, 111 days, during six weeks of which time his wife was with him, and received his honorable discharge February 9, 1863, his health having been permanently impaired in the army; married in Bennington township, Morrow county, Ohio, August 22, 1835, Mary A. Wilson, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, August 4, 1817, and emigrated to the present family home July 18, 1866; owns a well stocked farm of eighty acres; and has raised a family as follows: Adelia M. (born April 1, 1836; married December 10, 1854, to George Yates, who died June 7, 1877), Albasinda (born April 3, 1838, died November 5, 1838), Susan (born October 9, 1840, died July 1, 1841), Amza (born June 14, 1842, married Achsah Baily, who died January 14, 1872, and he remarried in June, 1872, Elizabeth McDonald, the widowed sister of his first wife), Zebulon (born August 25, 1844, married in June, 1867, Jane Shearer), and George, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Taylor township, Ogle county, Illinois, January 7, 1853; was raised in Gran Detour, Illinois, where he attended school until thirteen years old. He married in Prairie township, Keokuk county, Iowa, December 28, 1876, Zearalda Miner, of the township, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, September 26, 1864. They have the following children: Harry H. (born July 25, 1877), Charles H. (born April 8, 1879, died September 30, 1879), and Mary (born August 12, 1880). Mr. C. owns the west half of the northeast quarter of section 35, of Deep River township, comprising eighty acres of good land. He is serving his township as school director, and is a young man of enterprise, frugality, and energy, upon whose brow the goddess of fortune will ultimately place a golden crown.

CRIETZ, SAMUEL F.—Deep River Twp—pg 723-24. Section 28, P.O. Deep River. His ancestors for many generations back were born in this country, and are of the stock known as Pennsylvania Germans. He was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, on the 9^th of November, 1836. He was raised a farmer lad, and when twenty-three years of age enlisted in the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, as a member of the brass band of the regiment. He served his country about one year, when he was honorably discharged two years before the expiration of his term of his enlistment. Shortly after returning home he made a temporary visit to his brother, who was serving the government as army quartermaster, and, at the time stationed at Middletown, Tennessee. After roaming about this place, going on foraging expeditions every short day in the interest of the soldier’s stomachs, he returned home, and in a time immigrated to this State in 1866, first settling in Muscatine county, and afterward upon his present place. Mr. Crietz married March 12^th, 1865, Miss Louisa Wildisan. They have three children: Samuel Franklin (born in Muscatine county, Iowa, August 17, 1866), Mary Ellen (born in Muscatine county, August 8, 1868), and Hattie Elizabeth (born in this county, March 12, 1872). Mr. Crietz owns 480 acres of good farming land, including about fifty acres of excellent timber, on which is situated one of the most beautiful homes in the county. He enjoys the confidence and esteem of his neighbors as a man of honor and unyielding business integrity.

CRISWELL, WILLIAM H.—Deep River Twp—pg 724-25. Section 1, P.O. Deep River. His great-grandfather Criswell came from Ireland, and his mother’s ancestors were from Scotland. Both his grandfathers fought under General Washington. During the latter part of the War of 1812, his grandfather, with a party of sixteen others, attempted to emigrate to Ohio, making their way down the Ohio River on a keel-boat. On the way, they were surprised and captured by the Indians; not, however, without a brave struggle, during which Mr. Criswell shot four Indians and wounded the chief. Having observed this, after the capture had been accomplished, the chief walked up to him with upraised tomahawk, with the intention of dashing out his brains. Without a quiver, Mr. Criswell gazed coolly and steadfastly into the warrior’s murderous eye. The chief was conquered, and instead of driving the weapon through his skull, patted him on the head with it, and complimented him with this remark: "Brave white man." The entire party, including Mr. Criswell, his wife and four children, were then marched on foot through the wilderness of Indiana, cruelly treated and almost starved on the way, to where Detroit, Michigan, now stands, when they were sold to the British for three dollars per head. During the skirmish the party threw overboard all their kitchen utensils, and two years later, thirteen of their number, Mr. Criswell among them, passing the same point, recovered many of the articles from the bottom of the river, the place having been marked by a range of trees. One of the recovered pieces, an iron kettle, is a family heirloom now in possession of the subject of this sketch. This kettle also enjoys the distinction of having been cast in the first iron works (the Junietta) ever projected in the United States. Mr. Criswell’s father (James) was born in Brown county, Ohio, in 1799, farmed all his life, and died March 31, 1869. His mother, whose maided name was Lucretia Ross, was born in Durbin county, Indiana, May 11, 1806, and died in Rock Island, Illinois, September 10, 1880. William was born in Ripley county, Indiana, September 2, 1836. When six years old, his father moved to Rock Island county, Illinois, where he was raised on a farm, and educated. He emigrated to his present place March 11, 1880. He married, in Rock Island county, Illinois, May 21, 1865, Miss Mary L. Bromley of New York, who was born in Otsego county, New York, February 17, 1843. They have had eight children; six of whom are living: Cora P. (born March 6, 1867), Anna J. (born March 22, 1869), Clara B. (born January 13, 1871), Lillie May (born December 11, 1872) and James G. (born February 22, 1878). Lost two: William E. (born December 12, 1874, died April 18, 1880) and an infant. Mr. Criswell owns 115 acres of excellent land, 100 acres of which are under good cultivation and well stocked; the other fifteen acres being in timber.

CRONE, JOSEPH, Jr.—Deep River Twp—pg 725. Section 16, P.O. Deep River. His father, Joseph Crone, was among the earliest settlers of this county, and was born in York county, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1800. He followed shoemaking for about thirty-eight years, when he returned to the occupation of his youth and has farmed ever since. He married April 7, 1822, Miss Sarah J. Watts, of Pennsylvania, who died in August, 1831, leaving five children. He again married June 17, 1832, Miss Jane Burns, who is the mother of Joseph, Jr. The subject of this sketch was born July 5, 1850, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. His father having emigrated to this county when he was four years old, he has lived here ever since the fall of 1854. He married Miss Nancy A. Taylor of Deep River township March 13, 1877, and they have two children: Nellie Samantha (born March 12, 1878) and Maggie (born January 1, 1880). Mr. Crone is a temperance man and a straight Republican.

CUTTING, Mrs. GEORGE W.—Deep River Twp—pg 725-26. Section 24, P.O. Deep River. Her maiden name was Mary Ann McBride, and she was born May 24, 1818, in Belmont county, Ohio, and was raised in New Athens, Ohio. She was married October 2, 1837, to Emmor Bales, of Uniontown, who was born in Virginia, December 25, 1801; he was a prosperous mechanic; served as justice of the peace in Uniontown for fifteen years; was a gentleman of scholarly attainments; a class –leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a zealous Christian. He emigrated to this State in 1863, and a few years later moved to Illinois, where, in Henderson county, he died, May 14, 1870, leaving six children: Wilson S. (born August 4, 1839;married), Rebecca J. (born August 17, 1845; married John Keslor), George W. (born August 3, 1849; married Emily Hubbell), Oscar K. (born August 22, 1852; married Frankie Rosecrans), Emmor (born November 12, 1856) and Anna V. (born July 17, 1860). She married in Victor, Iowa, October 9, 1878, to George W. Cutting, a minister of the Baptist church who was born in Vermont, January 24, 1805. He was converted in his thirteenth year; secured a good education; was licensed to preach on his twenty-fifth birthday, and entered upon an active ministerial life, having charge successively of different churches of his denomination in New Hampshire and Vermont. He came to Iowa and entered on the present estate about 1868. Here, in addition to his farming, he became exceedingly popular as a preacher of broad and liberal views, and died April 7, 1880. His first marriage was with Emily Hunt who was born July 12, 1806; she bore him: Eliza A. (born March 3, 1828; married James L. Cook, June 7, 1849), James Colman (born September 25, 1832) and George W. (born August 6, 1837; married Jane McGowin, November 24, 1864). His first wife died September 8, 1838; and on January 22, 1840, he married Hannah Rowell, to whom one child (Emily H.) was born (July 31, 1841; now the wife of Dr. E.E. Ennis), and she (the second wife) died April 19, 1877. Mr. Cutting left his entire estate, including an excellent farm of eighty acres, to the care of his widow until final adjustments are made. He was a man whose pure christian character and great popularity make his death felt and lamented, not only by his family, but by all who knew him.