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Shelby County
>> 1889 Index Biographical
History of Shelby and Audubon Counties, Iowa P Unless noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. J. P. Perry is
one of the early settlers of Shelby County, coming here in 1874.
He was born in Belmont
County, Ohio, September 10, 1841; he is a son of
Jesse and Malinda (Poole) Perry. Jesse
Perry is a relative of the old Commodore
Perry, and a native of Ohio; his wife was born in Virginia.
J. P. Perry was the fifth of eight children, four of whom were sons and
four daughters. When he was
thirteen years of age his father remove to
Bureau County, Illinois, then a wild, new country; his parents lived
here until their death. He
was reared on a farm and educated in the public
schools. During the late war he
went to the defense of the flag; he
enlisted at the first call for troops, April 24, 1861, in the Twelfth
Illinois Infantry, Company I; he served over three months and was
honorably discharged, and returned home. At the call for 300,000 more
men, he again responded, enlisting June 1, 1862, in the Sixty-fifth
Illinois Infantry, Company E; he was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry,
Virginia, September 15, 1862; was paroled, and went to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, and was exchanged January 19, 1863; in
April, 1863, he was sent to the
front, and took an active part at Concord, London
Bridge, the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee; with Sherman of the march to
Atlanta; returned with General Thomas to Columbia, Tennessee; Franklin,
Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Fort Fisher, North Carolina; Fort
Andersen, North Carolina; Cape Fear River, Wilmington.
He was honorably discharged
June 8, 1865, and returned to Bureau County, Illinois; he was
discharged as Corporal. September
5, 1866, he was married to Miss Mary Chaddock, a lady of intelligence, born in Jefferson County
Ohio; she is a daughter of Richard
and Eliza (Nickelson) Chaddock; the father is a
native of Maryland, and the mother, of Ohio. Her family came to Bureau
County in 1864. Mr. Perry
lived in Bureau County until 1873, when he
came to Mahaska County, Iowa; in 1874 he came to Shelby County, and
settled on wild prairie land; he now owns 320 acres of land in a body,
and has one of the best improved farms in the county; he has a good
frame house, and barns for stock and grain; he farms extensively, making
a specialty of Jersey Red swine, of which he has some specimens as fine
as can be found in the west. Mr.
and Mrs. Perry have three children - William
Grant, Jesse Harmon and Mabel. Mr.
Perry is a Republican; he is a
member of the Anti-horse-thief Association, No. 35, and is secretary
of the same. He is yet in
the prime of life; he is social and genial in
his disposition, an intelligent conversationalist, honest in business,
and one of Shelby county's solid men.
J. M. Pieffer is one of the leading merchants of Panama. He keeps a general stock of hardware and jewelry, carrying a stock of $2,500. He has been in this business since February, 1888, having bought out Nelson Swenning. He had bought out L. M. Eby, who had established the business in 1881. Mr. Pieffer is a native of Shelby County, Iowa, born March 15, 1859. He is a son of Benjamin and Elmira (Kauble) Pieffer, who are the parents of five children - Hattie, the wife of Caleb Smith; Benjamin F., J. M., Fannie E., the wife of F. J. Swenning, and William H. Benjamin Pieffer, Sr., came from Pennsylvania to Kanesville, now Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1852. He remained there but a short time, and then came to Monroe Township, Shelby County, and entered fifty-nine acres of land from the government, which he still makes his home. He has made additional purchases until he now owns 290 acres, all under cultivation. He carried on general farming and stock-raising until he retired from active business. He and his wife are natives of the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pieffer was born September 5, 1823, and Mrs. Pieffer was born May, 1824. Both are of German descent. J. M. Pieffer remained with his parents until he was nineteen years old, assisting with the work on the home farm. He then engaged in farming for himself, and continued that occupation until he bought his present business.
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