Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . oyment of excellent health and the con-sciousness of duty faithfully done as wife and mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Bales Fisher was born in Indiana in 1834, andcame to Polk County with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon THE SAYLORS 267 Bales, in 1846. In 1854, she was united in marriage with WilliamS. Fisher. Four children were born of that union. Mrs. Fisherstill owns a portion of the land entered by her father, OctoberThirtieth, 1848. She is vigorous, active, and has good health. Mrs. Avis Saylor McQuiston was born in Van Buren County
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . oyment of excellent health and the con-sciousness of duty faithfully done as wife and mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Bales Fisher was born in Indiana in 1834, andcame to Polk County with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon THE SAYLORS 267 Bales, in 1846. In 1854, she was united in marriage with WilliamS. Fisher. Four children were born of that union. Mrs. Fisherstill owns a portion of the land entered by her father, OctoberThirtieth, 1848. She is vigorous, active, and has good health. Mrs. Avis Saylor McQuiston was born in Van Buren County,August Twenty-seventh, 1837, and when eight years old, in 1845,moved to Polk County, at a point north of Fort Des Moines, laterknown as Saylorville, named from her father, John B. Saylor. In1858, she joined by marriage D. S. McQuiston, and the twain arejoyfully looking ahead to the celebration of their golden weddinganniversary in 1908. The stork has brought them eleven littlechips of the old block, seven of whom passed away in infancy. November Fourth, CONRAD D. REINKING CONRAD D. REINKING A PIONEER of good repute, and influential, was Conrad Born in ^Yestphalia, Prussia, May Second, 1820,where he lived with his parents, who were poor, acquiringsuch limited education as he could get in the common schools, untilhe was sixteen years old, when, in 1836, he came to America, land-ing in Philadelphia, where he remained imtil 1842, in the mean-time learning the cabinet maker trade. In 1842, he came to Iowa, stopping at Fort Madison, where hestarted a furniture shop, which soon after was destroyed by started again, and again his shop went up in flames. Added tohis misfortune, he was prostrated with severe and dangerous illness,but the good people of the town, with the proverbial kindliness andgood-fellowship of the pioneer, appreciating his energy and sterlingqualities, generously cared for him during his confinement, andoffered assistance to rehabilitate h
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