Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . us taught frominfancy found a secure lodgment in his understanding No young man couldhave better equipment for the duties of the farm than he received. There wasthe sound judgment of his father and there were the sleek herds and thebeautiful fields of growing grain. In addition to all this he was given a goodcommon school education and in every way fitted for his future successful lifeupon the farm. Another thing, he selected a splendid woman to share his joysand sorrows, his triumphs and defeats, which come in the course of the yearsto everyone, and t
Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . us taught frominfancy found a secure lodgment in his understanding No young man couldhave better equipment for the duties of the farm than he received. There wasthe sound judgment of his father and there were the sleek herds and thebeautiful fields of growing grain. In addition to all this he was given a goodcommon school education and in every way fitted for his future successful lifeupon the farm. Another thing, he selected a splendid woman to share his joysand sorrows, his triumphs and defeats, which come in the course of the yearsto everyone, and thus equipped he began the battle of life on his own account,and so it is not surprising that success has attended his efforts all along theline. William H. France was born in Mercer county, Missouri, on DecemberII, 1858, but most of his life has been spent in Iowa. He is the son of OrvilleHenry France and Margaret Worth Clary France, the father b<jrn in hultoncounty, Illinois, on May 23, 1834, and the mother near Louisville, Kentucky,. MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM H. FRANCE JASPER COLNTV. IOWA. Qbl on August I, 1834. The latter came to Fulton county, Illinois, with herparents, Richard and Ann Claiy, from Kentucky in early life and there shegrew to womanhood and received her education. The father of the subjectalso grew up and was educated in the state of Illinois, and there they weremarried. He began life as a farmer in the Prairie state, but soon after hismarriage left there and moved to Iowa, where he remained two years, thenwent to Missouri where his son, William Henry, of this sketch, was born on arented farm. Not long afterwards the family went back to Illinois andresumed farming, remaining there until 1869, when they came again toIowa, locating in Jasper county, the father buying fifty-four acres in ElkCreek township. Here he got a good start and, by good management andpersistent effort, prospered, later adding to his original purchase until heowned two hundred and fifty-four
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