A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . ble courage and integrity has achieved both character and fortune andby sheer force of will and untiring effort he worked his way upward andwas during many years a leading business man of Keota, and at the pres-ent time he is living a retired life there. Mr. Ramsey was born in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, onthe 17th of September, 1830. His father, Eben. Ramsey, was also anative of the old Granite state and by occupation was a farmer. Hislather, Samuel Ramsey, came from Scotland to the new world in colonialdays and when the
A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . ble courage and integrity has achieved both character and fortune andby sheer force of will and untiring effort he worked his way upward andwas during many years a leading business man of Keota, and at the pres-ent time he is living a retired life there. Mr. Ramsey was born in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, onthe 17th of September, 1830. His father, Eben. Ramsey, was also anative of the old Granite state and by occupation was a farmer. Hislather, Samuel Ramsey, came from Scotland to the new world in colonialdays and when the Revolutionary war was begun he joined the army andfought for the independence of the nation. He married Elizabeth Wil-son and settled in Greenfield, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, upona farm. He entered his land from the government and improved theproperty, becoming one of the active and honored pioneer settlers of thelocality. The father of our subject having arrived at years of maturity,was united in marriage to Mary D. Butler, a relative of Franklin Pierce,. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 233 once president of the United States, also of Horace Greeley and of Gen-eral Benjamin Butler. Mrs. Ramsey was born in Bennington, NewHampshire, and was a daughter of Moody Butler, whose birth occurred inthe old Granite state, the Butlers being a pioneer family there. The} wereof Scotch-Irish descent. Unto the parents of our subject were bornfour sons. The father died in 1836 and the mother afterward marriedagain, becoming the wife of Amzi Jones, by whom she had two sons andone daughter. Her death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-fiveyears. J. L. Ramsey, of this review, is the second son born of the first mar-riage. He remained in his native place until sixteen years of age andin 1846 removed to western New York, locating at Yates, about fortymiles from the city of Buffalo. He went there with a Mr. Grant and hiscousin, David B. Ramsey, and for a year he attended school an
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