. Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. an and although he has been solicitedto accept public office he has always declined. REV. ^^1LLIAM PEARSON SOPHER. Rev. William Pearson Sopher, living on sec-tion 28, Spring Creek township, is one of thesubstantial fanners and stock-raisers, his prop-erty embracing one hundred and eighteen acresof rich and productive land. He is one of Ma-haska countys native sons, his birth having oc-curred in Spring Creek township, March 24,1852. The Sopher fami
. Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. an and although he has been solicitedto accept public office he has always declined. REV. ^^1LLIAM PEARSON SOPHER. Rev. William Pearson Sopher, living on sec-tion 28, Spring Creek township, is one of thesubstantial fanners and stock-raisers, his prop-erty embracing one hundred and eighteen acresof rich and productive land. He is one of Ma-haska countys native sons, his birth having oc-curred in Spring Creek township, March 24,1852. The Sopher family is of Scotch-Irishlineage and was established in Virginia at anearly period in the colonization of the newworld. The paternal great-grandfather, JosephSopher. was a soldier of the Revolutionarywar. The grandfather, who also bore the nameof Joseph, was born in Loudoun county, Vir-ginia. His son, \\illiam Kenworthy Sopher,father of our subject, was born in ^^ashingtoncounty, Pennsylvania. April 8, 1817, and wasreared in that state. In 1834 he removed west-ward, locating in Tippecanoe county, Indiana,where he was married in 1837 to Miss Agnes.
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