The history of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics .. . 1;they have two children, Frank C,clerk in the post-office at Oska-loosa, and Charles E., civil en-gineer on the Burlington & Mis-souri R. R.; they lost one son,George , JOHN, firm of John Long& Sons, manufacturers of brickand draining tile; born in Eng-land, December 12, 1814; he wasbrought up and learned his busi-ness of brick and tile making,and was engaged in tha
The history of Mahaska County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics .. . 1;they have two children, Frank C,clerk in the post-office at Oska-loosa, and Charles E., civil en-gineer on the Burlington & Mis-souri R. R.; they lost one son,George , JOHN, firm of John Long& Sons, manufacturers of brickand draining tile; born in Eng-land, December 12, 1814; he wasbrought up and learned his busi-ness of brick and tile making,and was engaged in that businessuntil 1868, when he came toAmerica and located in Pennsyl-vania, and was eng^iged in thesame business there until 1877,when he came here, and associatedwith his sons; they selected tenacres of hmd, and enji^aofed in man-ufacturiug brick and tile; theyhave three kilns, having a capacityof 50,000 each, and have a capac-ity of making 20,000 per day;they built their own machinery,and have their drying sheds heat-ed by steam, requiring from 3,000to 4,000 feet of steam pipe, there-by enabling them to manufactureall winter; they make an excel-lent quatity of tile, and have acapacity of making 10,000 daily;. Mathew Picken OSKALOOSA CITY. 581 he married Elizabeth* Dawson,from England, August 30, 1838,and they have seven children,John D., Edward, Thomas, Henry,Ann, Mary J., Hannah E. LORING, MAJOR F. H., iirm ofShaw A: Loring, grocerj^ and pro-vision dealers, Oskaloosa; born inCentre Belpre, Washington coun-ty, Ohio, July 9, 1832, and wasbrought u|» there; during the warhe enlisted in Ninety-second Reg-iment Ohio Infantry, CompanyG, July 26, 1862; he, havingraised the company, was electedand commissioned captain Com-pany G; was in battles of Resecaand Dalton, and from there toKenesaw Mountain and Atlanta;in active service most of the time;he was under Sherman from At-lanta to the sea; was dischargedJune 25, 1865; he was in the ser-vice three years and did not re-ceive a scratc
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