. History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo counties, Iowa ... and biographies of representative citizens. History of Iowa, embracing accounts of the pre-historic races ... ., Ohio,in 1834, and went with his parents, in1848, to Green Co., Wis. After his edu-cation in the common schools he wentto Missouri and spent three years in thehardware business, then returned to Wis-consin, where he went into the dry goodsbusiness, remaining until 1876, when hecame to Franklin Co., Iowa, settled atHampton and engaged in selling drygoods. He spent three years at Leadville,Col., mining and prospecting, and made a
. History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo counties, Iowa ... and biographies of representative citizens. History of Iowa, embracing accounts of the pre-historic races ... ., Ohio,in 1834, and went with his parents, in1848, to Green Co., Wis. After his edu-cation in the common schools he wentto Missouri and spent three years in thehardware business, then returned to Wis-consin, where he went into the dry goodsbusiness, remaining until 1876, when hecame to Franklin Co., Iowa, settled atHampton and engaged in selling drygoods. He spent three years at Leadville,Col., mining and prospecting, and made asmall fortune. In 1882, he came back toFranklin county and established himselfin the business of farm machin-ry in Shef-field, which business he still follows. Heis a member of the Masonic lodge atHampton and is a republican in was married, in 1865, to AngelineBennett, also a native of Ohio. Theyare the parents of five children—DallasB , Emma E., Henna A., Charlie and Der-win. Thomas Bros, engaged in the generalmerchandise business in February, store building was 24x60 feet andtwo stories high. They did a business of$25,000 annually. f.
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