A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . a child saw a great deal of pioneer life. Veryyoung when his parents left the Pennsylvania farm, he spent twelveyears of his early life on the Indiana farm. Later he moved with hisparents to Steady Run, Iowa, where he received a little schooling and agreat deal of discipline in rough farm labor. The work was not,however, without its compensation, and he acquired in time a practicalknowledge «if agriculture, which has been invaluable to him in lateryears. For a long time he assisted his father in the management of thelarge farm
A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . a child saw a great deal of pioneer life. Veryyoung when his parents left the Pennsylvania farm, he spent twelveyears of his early life on the Indiana farm. Later he moved with hisparents to Steady Run, Iowa, where he received a little schooling and agreat deal of discipline in rough farm labor. The work was not,however, without its compensation, and he acquired in time a practicalknowledge «if agriculture, which has been invaluable to him in lateryears. For a long time he assisted his father in the management of thelarge farm and after his fathers death fell heir to the old homesteadand ninety acres of land. The rest of the property was divided amongthe other children. On this place Mr. Lawson has continued the workthat his father began and has proved himself by no means inferior tothe latter as an agriculturist. His crops have been large and of thebest quality, and have commanded for him a good price in the in financial management he has been enabled to lay aside some-. ^^cx^v^eo^- yl^a-eJ-TL^ GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 357 thing for a rainy day and has added to his estate by the purchase ofeighty-seven and one-half acres near the flourishing city of Hedrick. In 1866 Mr. Lawson married Ellen McMillen, who was burn inOhio, but in 1848, when four years old, moved with her parents, Johnand Frances (Middleton) McMillen, to Steady Run, Iowa. Both parentswere natives of America, and among the old settlers of Keokuk McMillen secured a one hundred and sixty acre farm in the earlvdays and afterward added to his property until at the time of his deathhe owned five hundred acres in the vicinity, most of which he had clearedand greatly improved. He died July 9, 1855, and his wife in 1899. ToMr. and Mrs. Lawson have been born four children: Jennie, who isnow deceased; Hugh; Fannie; and John, all of whom were born andreared in the old homestead. As one of the old settlers and
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