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MARION CLOUD, one of  Delaware county's representative fanners and respected citizens, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Cumberland township, Greene county, March 16, 1828.   His father, Jeremiah Cloud,
was born in Chester county, and  his mother,  whose maiden  name  was Jane Morgan, was born in Greene county, that state.   His paternal grandparents, Joel and Susan Cloud, were Pennsylvanians by birth, as were also  his maternal grandparents, John and Sarah Morgan.   Back of these even, family tradition has it that his ancestors were natives of the Keystone State, being representatives of the ancient and respectable Dutch-English stock of that state.   His father still  resides in Greene county, Pa., now well advanced in years, having been born in 1797.    His mother died in that county in 1852, in middle life.   

Jeremiah Cloud, as miller and farmer, accumulated some property in his earlier years, and is now spending the evening of life in comfort.  Notwithstanding his great age his mind remains clear and he continues to take an active interest in most public questions.   A man of superior intelligence and more than ordinary general information, he has been able to exercise an excellent influence and accomplish much good in the community in which he has resided.    Although a member of no church, he was reared in the Quaker faith, and his  whole career and character have been permeated and mellowed by the benevolent teachings of that faith.   Jeremiah and Jane (Morgan) Cloud were the  parents of  seven children,  of whom the subject of this notice was the third in order of birth, the others being Annie,  who died   at  the   age eighteen unmarried; Thomas, who is now a farmer residing on the old homeplace in Greene county, Pa.; Morgan, who died at the age of five; Sarah E., now the wife of Joseph Everly, a farmer of Morgantown, W. Va.; Elma A., who died at the age of seven, and Milton, who died when nine.

Our subject  was reared  in  his native county,   his youth   and   early  manhood being  spent  on   his  father's  farm  and engaged in  his father's mill,  where  he learned  the trade of a mill-wright.    He came to Iowa in 1848, being then in his twentieth year.   The occasion of his coming was the fact that he had a contract to erect a mill in Mallory township, Clayton county, three and a half miles north-west of Colesburg, the mill afterwards known as Bailey's mill.    After completing this contract he returned to Pennsylvania and spent two years in that state and West Virginia, working at his trade, returning to Iowa   in   1850.     He took charge of the Bailey mill on his return to this state and ran it for  four years. He then returned a second time to Pennsylvania, and, in conjunction

with his brother Thomas,   took    charge   of   his father's mill property and farm and carried  them on for a period of four years. He came to Iowa a third time in 1858 and again took charge of the Bailey mill.   He was in charge of this property two years when, having in the meantime purchased a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Colony township, he moved to it in 1860, and has there since resided.    To his tract of land Mr. Cloud has added by other purchases until he now owns five hundred acres, all lying in one body, and valued at $75.00 per acre.   No finer body of land can be found in Delaware county nor one better improved.    He has given his place his personal attention for thirty years, and the evidences of his intelligent labors are to be seen on every hand.   Mr. Cloud has not been without his business reverses and other hindrances, but he has succeeded through them all, and he is reckoned at this time as one of the financially solid men of the community where he resides. He owes his success entirely to himself, as he began with but little, and has lost several times more than his original capital amounted to.

In 1852 Mr. Cloud married, selecting for his wife a young lady then residing in Delaware county, Miss Jane Malvin, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Malvin, early settlers of Delaware county, moving here years ago from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cloud was born in New Jersey in 1833, and was reared partly in that state and partly in Pennsylvania. To Mr. Cloud and wife have been born eleven children, as follows Sarah, Alice, Jennie, Jeremiah D., Carrie B., William E., Josie E., Hattie L., Philip M., Albert M. and Samuel D. All of these, except Sarah, who is the wife of Patrick Kerns, of Delaware county, Jeremiah D., who resides at Canton, Dak., and Samuel, who is deceased, are at home with their parents.

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