J.A. Paddock, physician and surgeon, was born in Bureau County, Ill,, where he read medicine. In 1874, went to New York City, and entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which institution he graduated in 1874, coming to Nebraska the same year, and locating at Wilber. He commenced the  practice of medicine. Was married to Miss M. H. Stull, of Wilber, in 1879. Is a member of Blue Valley Lodge, No. 64. A., F. & A. M. Was elected Coroner of Saline County, in 1875, and has since been twice re-elected. Is at present one of the Commissioners of Insanity, and also United States Pension Examiner for Saline County. Mr. Paddock, although a young man, is one of the best read physicians in Saline County.

Source: Andreas' History Of Nebraska, Saline Co., Wilber

Farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. St. Mary's; born August 3, 1838, in Hart county, Virginia; his parents removed to Warren county Illinois, while he was quite young, and in that county he was raised to be a farmer, but, like a host of other brave and true men, he enlisted at his country's call; October 10, 1861, he was enrolled in Co. F, 66th Illinois sharp-shooters (Berges' sharp-shooters), remaining with that regiment until the close of the war, participating in the following battles: Fort Donelson, Corinth, Iuka, Kenesaw Mountain, Alatoona, Bentonsville, and ten others - seven battles - besides many skirmishes while "Marching through Georgia".

Returning home, he engaged in farming; in October, 1866, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Short, of Bureau county, Illinois, a native of Indiana; they have four children: Howard, Everett, Courtney and Elizabeth.

Mr. Parish came to this county in 1866, improving a farm of 130 acres; he has been honored with several township offices and is highly respected.

Source: History of Warren County, Iowa, Des Moines: Union Historical Company, 1879

Among the honored pioneers of Poweshiek County none have taken a more  prominent part than our subject in advancing her best interests.  For  nearly twenty years he has been a resident of Malcom Township, making  his home on section 13, and though he has passed his eightieth year he  is still active, his mind being as acute and clear as informer years.   He was born at Ludlow, near Springfield, Mass., September 12, 1812, his  parents being Benjamin and Betsey (Shepherd) Parsons, the former also a  native of Massachusetts.  He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was  killed while in the service of the United States.  The family is  doubtless of English descent, and has ever taken a leading
part in our  country's history and progress.  Our subject's mother was born at  Middletown, Conn., and was a daughter of a sea-captain, who was at one  time captured with his whole crew, ship and cargo in a foreign city, but  was fortunate in making friends with the ruler, who allowed him to  depart in peace.

When Henry Parsons was about twelve years of age he  commenced working in a cotton factory, where he continued for about ten  years, beginning at $1.50 per week, from which amount he paid his board.   He became an expert workman, and toward the end of his engagement earned  good wages.  About 1835 he commenced keeping a livery stable at  Jenksville, Mass., which occupation he followed in the various points of  Springfield, Belchertown, Palmer and Thorndyke until 1861, carrying on  stables in several towns at once.   In 1861 Mr. Parsons sold out his interests in the East, and going to the  vicinity of Princeton, Ill., engaged in farming for about twelve years,  at the same time keeping a livery at Wyanet and Princeton.

The year  1873 witnessed his arrival in Iowa, where he located in Marion County,  and engaged in farming for a short time.  The following year he  purchased his present farm in  Malcom Township, Poweshiek County, where  he still resides.  During his whole life he has been much interested in horses, and has in his possession a diploma which he received at the  first national exhibition of thoroughbred American horses, which was  held at Springfield, Mass., in 1853.  He is said to have owned more fine  horses at one time than any other man in America, and was engaged in  shipping horses to all parts of the country.  Among several noted horses  belonging to him was "Buck," with a
2:30 record, at a time when there  were less than half a dozen horses making that time, and "Cayuga Maid,"  also quite famous.

On April 29, 1833, Henry H. Parsons and Louisa Kingsbury, a native of  Springfield, Mass., were united in marriage.  Her paternal grandfather  kept an hotel in Boston.  They have had a family of five children: Jane  C., now Mrs. Hills, of Malcom Township;  Charles H.;  Emma E.,  Mrs.  Merrick, of Chicago; and Delphina, who became the wife of T. C. Carroll,  and makes her home in Montezuma.  One child, Isabella, died in infancy.   Notwithstanding their advanced years the father and mother are still  active and industrious, and bid fair to live for many years to come.   They have two living grandchildren and one great-grandchild.  Mr.  Parsons takes a just pride in the fact that though he has been a  horseman all his life, he has never used tobacco in any form.

We will now take up the history of Charles H. Parsons, son of our  subject, who has lived nearly his entire life with his parents, and is  at present in partnership with our subject.  He was born in Jenksville,  Mass., September 27, 1836.  He received a good education, graduating in  1856 from the Williston Seminary at Easthampton, Mass., and later from  Hadley Seminary.  In 1860, leaving home, he went to Wyanet, Ill., where  he was joined by his parents the following year.  On August 10, 1862, he  became a member of Company C, Ninety-third Illinois Infantry, and served  under Gen. Grant in the beginning of the Vicksburg campaign, where he  was taken sick, and was sent to the hospitals at Oxford and Holly Springs, Miss.  He received an honorable discharge March 5, 1863, at  Keokuk, Iowa.  The following
year he worked as a brakeman and fireman of  the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and in 1869 became a resident  of Marion County, Iowa.

In October, 1874, Charles Parsons came with his parents to Malcom  Township, where he now owns two hundred and forty acres of the best farm  land in Poweshiek County.  He has improved the same by enlarging the  farm buildings and constructing fences.  His farm is under a high state  of cultivation, and he is considered one of the most intelligent  agriculturists in the county.  He has taken special pride in raising  fine blooded horses, and lately has made a specialty of breeding  thoroughbred Jersey cattle and supplying the Chicago market with  unequaled creamery butter.  His herd of Jersey cattle comprises about  one hundred head, which are nearly all thoroughbreds, and which is  considered one
of the best herds in the State.

On the 25th of July, 1861, was celebrated the marriage of Charles  Parsons and Eliza A., daughter of J. K. Barry, of Wyanet, Ill.  On  October 1, 1863, the young wife was called to her final rest, leaving  one child, Scott B., who also departed this life, March 1, 1881.  Mrs.  Parsons was a truly lovable and amiable lady, one who numbered a host of  friends, who esteemed her highly for her sweet womanhood.  In politics,  Mr. Parsons is a Republican, has served as Township Trustee, and has  filled other local offices acceptably.  He is a member of the Farmers'  Alliance, of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Ancient Free & Accepted  Masons and of the Knights of Pythias.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa counties, IA; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893

Samuel B. Passmore  was born in West Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1827, son of John W. Passmore, a native of the same county. His grandfather and his great-grandfather, Ellis and George Passmore, were also natives of Pennsylvania. The first Passmore who landed in this country was a Friend, came here with William Penn and settled in Pennsylvania. All his descendants down to the present generation have belonged to the Society of Friends. The wife of John W. and the mother of Samuel B. Passmore was nee Deborah Brown, a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She, is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Brown) Brown also natives of the keystone State. John W. and Deborah Passmore reared four children, as follows: Ellis P., a resident of Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland; Samuel B., whose name heads this article; Elizabeth Ruth, widow of Eliphaz Cheyney, Westchester, Pennsylvania, and Colonel John Andrew Moore Passmore, No. 318 South Forty-second street, Philadelphia, a prominent resident of that place. He was an officer in the late war, and is now manager at Philadelphia for D. Appleton & Co. John W. Passmore died in June, 1848, at the age of forty-six years. His relict has been for forty-four years a widow. She is now ninety years of age and resides with her son Ellis in Cecil County, Maryland. When she made a visit to her son in Iowa, in 1881, she was in good health and quite active.

Samuel B. Passmore was reared on his father's farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and received his education
in the public schools. March 28, 1850, he wedded Miss Hannah M. Jackson, a native of that County. Her parents,
Joshua and Sarah (Cook) Jackson, were also born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Passmore and his wife
remained in their native county until May 22, 1855, when they moved to Bureau County, Illinois. There he rented land
and lived until 1870, when he came to Wright Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and bought 160 acres of land;
this was all wild prairie land. He also bought ten acres of timber, situated three miles from his farm. He was among
the early settlers of this part of the country, and at that time deer were frequently seen on his premises or in view of
his dwelling. He has since developed his farm and it is now under a good state of cultivation. Maple Grove, as he is
pleased to call it, is considered one of the finest farms in Wright Township. Mr. Passmore erected a comfortable
one-and-a-half-story house, which, surrounded with beautiful evergreens and shrubs, makes an attractive home. In
1874 he purchased 160 acres of prairie land which adjoined his farm, making 320 acres in one body. He has an
artificial grove of thirteen acres and an orchard comprising three acres. His barn is 44 x 46 feet, with eighteen feet
posts, and a rock foundation. His farm is divided into five fields for pasture, meadow and grain; and among other
improvements made by Mr. Passmore are two windmills and 1,600 rods of osage-orange and 200 rods of willow
hedge. He has some fine specimens of stock, both cattle and hogs. Maple Grove is, indeed, a beautiful home, and
one of which the owner should be justly proud.

Mr. Passmore and his wife have ten children, viz.: Amor C., of Aurora, Buchanan County, Iowa; Ella Deborah, wife of
A. J. Lipp, Wright Township; Orlando C. resides near Linden, Dallas County, Iowa; Ida A., wife of J. C. Morris,
Guthrie County, Iowa; Ellwood Lovejoy, at home; Anna Mary, wife of H. Nolta, Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa; Ellis P., in
the nursery business at Cloverdale, California; Willie T., Dallas County, Iowa; Emma L., wife of N. G. Brown, Cass
County, Iowa; and Lincoln G., at home.

Like his worthy ancestors, Mr. Passmore is a Quaker. He, however, attends the Methodist Episcopal Church of
Whipple; has been a trustee for several years and is a liberal supporter of that church. He is one of the leading
Republicans of his township, and is chairman of the Republican Central Committee. He was formerly a Free Soiler,
and was one of the three in his township who voted that ticket in 1852, the township casting 200 votes. He has served
in most of the township offices, is at present Township Trustee, and has always used his influence for the best
interests of the community.

Mr. Passmore is past sixty, but bears his age lightly. He is frank and cordial in his manner, with a vein of humor in
his makeup, and he is highly esteemed by all who know him. His family are refined and cultured, and are ranked with
the best society of the community.

Source: Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, 1891

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.

Source: Biographical History of Shelby and Audubon Counties, Iowa  Chicago, W.S. Dunbar & Co., 1889.

William W. Pierce, Bureau, was born in Plainfield, Sullivan Co., N. H., August 6, 1828. He is the son of Job and Rebecca (Alexander) Pierce, also natives of New Hampshire, whre they spent their lives. The mother died when our subject was but five years old; the father died in November, 1861.

W. W. Pierce spent his early life on a farm, and then learned the shoe maker's trade, which he followed until 1856, when he came to Bureau County, arriving here February 14.  For two winters he worked at his trade in Princeton, and in 1857 engaged in farming for himself, and has since given his attention entirely to that business.

November 2, 1862, he came to his present farm, which now contains 270 acres, in Bureau Township. When Mr. Pierce came to this county he had but 75 cents, and his success in life he owes to the energy and united efforts of himself and wife.

He was married October 1, 1857, to Sarah Lucretia Stiles, sister of Alvah Stiles. (See sketch.) Mrs. Pierce was born November 30, 1834, in Logan County, Ohio. She is the mother of six children, viz.: Henry Sumner, born March 11, 1861, married to Nancy Carl; Franklin H., born August 29, 1863; Asa, born March 15, 1866; Luther M., born June 11, 1868;
Clara M., born June 13, 1871; Sarah L., born July 9, 1858, died November 20, 1861.

In politics Mr. Pierce is an active Democrat. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: History of Bureau County, Illinois, H. C. Bradsby, Editor. World Publishing Company Chicago 1885

Deceased. Section--, P.O. Malcom. The subject of this sketch was born in Medina county, Ohio, October 26, 1824; was there raised and educated and remained until the age of twenty-five years, when he came to Bureau county, Illinois, and engaged in agricultural pursuits, where he remained until 1875, when he came to Poweshiek county.

He was married, in 1855, to Miss T. Spake, of Ohio, a lady of refined tastes and domestic habits. By this union they have had four children: Emma J., Elmer J., Parker P. and Henry C.

Mr. Pimlott died suddenly September 18, 1880. His demise is mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends. His estate consists of 240 acres of choice land. It is now conducted by his sons, Parker P. and Henry C. They have, since his death, in company with their brother Elmer J. and Mr. R. T. Headley, their brother-in-law, purchased 490 acres, one-half of which is in Pleasant township and the balance in Scott township. They are numbered among the successful and enterprising young men of the county.

Source: History of Poweshiek County, Iowa,  Des Moines: Union Historical Co., 1880  Malcom Twp p 871.

Farmer and stock-raiser, section 4, P.O. Malcom. Was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, September 27, 1848, where he was raised and educated. His father (Fred) followed various pursuits in that country. Our subject came to this country in 1866, locating at Princeton, Bureau county, Illinois, where he resided one year, and then came to this county, where he
has since resided.

He was married, March 4, 1876, to Miss Mina Schultz, of Malcom township, by whom he has two children: Fred and Josie. Mr. Puls’ farm consists of 160 acres of choice land, comparatively well stocked. He came to this county with limited means, but is now considered among its solid farmers. Himself and family are members of the Lutheran Church of Malcom township.

Source: History of Poweshiek County, Iowa,  Des Moines: Union Historical Co., 1880  Malcom Twp p 871-72