1914 Delaware County History pgs. 482-483
Evan S. Dufoe
Evan S. Dufoe is a resident of Union township and one
of its native sons. He was born April 23, 1860, his parents being Oliver and Cassandra (Lyon) Dufoe.
The father was born at Three Rivers, near Montreal, Canada, and after removing to Rockford, Illinois, worked at the baker's trade, which
he had previously learned in his native country. He married
Lucinda Dyer and to them were born nine
children. About 1858 he arrived with his family in Union
township, Delaware county,
Iowa, where he purchased land, and the following year his first wife
died. It was at the end of the same year that he wedded Cassandra
Lyon and they became the parents of five children, while nine children had been
born of the first marriage. Mary, his eldest daughter, became the
wife of Henry Guiles, a farmer, and died in Nebraska, leaving five children. Esther Ann
is the wife of John D. Smith, a farmer, and they had five children. Watson Orr,
who was a soldier of the Civil war and has followed farming as a life work,
wedded Margaret Perky and they had six children. Isabel is the wife
of John McDowell, a farmer, and they had two children. Lorenzo P.,
also a farmer, married Lovina Reardon, and they
became parents of four children. Phoebe E. is the wife of Benjamin
McBride, who also carries on agricultural pursuits, and they had seven
children. Levi, who follows farming, is married with two children.
Amanda L. became the wife of Elisha Fordham and had
one child. John E. married Almira
Lyon, by whom he has three children, and for their support he follows farming.
Evan S. is the next younger. Sarah is the wife of Leroy Ney, a farmer of Nebraska. Lucy E. is the wife of
Jacob Waites. Charles H., a mail carrier, married Eva
Sheppard. Jane became the wife of John
Green and died leaving five children.
Evan S. Dufoe was educated in the public schools and worked upon his
father's farm until 1883, when, at the age of twenty-three years, he went to
Boone county, Nebraska, and in the fall of 1885 removed to
Perkins county, Nebraska, where he secured a homestead claim
of one hundred and sixty acres. He devoted two years to the cultivation of that
place, put up a sod house and in 1887 proved up, after which he returned to
Boone county, there remaining until January, 1888. He
then returned to Delaware county and
for four years worked on his father's farm, at the end of which time he completed
arrangements for having a home of his own in his marriage, on the
7th of November, 1889, to Miss Minnie Bacon, a daughter of Curtis and Eliza (Hogg)
Bacon. On the 1st of March, 1892, he purchased his present farm, which
comprises one hundred and twenty acres of cultivable land and ten acres of
timber land.
Mr. and
Mrs. Dufoe have three children. Floyd E., the eldest,
born February 16, 1892, was graduated from the Hopkinton
high school and in 1912 he married Miss Catherine Nietert,
who was born April 12, 1891. They are now residing upon a farm
near Kimball, South
Dakota, and they have one child, Howard A., born December
17, 1913.
Olive C., born February 23, 1898, was graduated from the Hopkinton
high school with the class of 1914. Mildred E., born August
21, 1902,
is a pupil in the public schools.
The family are members of the Buck Creek Methodist Episcopal church
and its teachings guide them in all the relations of life. Mr. Dufoe has ever been an honorable, upright man, worthy the
esteem in which he is uniformly held, and the success which he has achieved is
the direct result of his earnest, indefatigable efforts.
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