Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . d right, and his convictions were such that his neighborsand fellow citizens knew well his position on all questions of a political, moraland religious nature. His private life was exemplary and his amiable traits ofcharacter and many virtues made him widely popular. Mr. Cinuch was Jjorn in Covington. Wyoming county. New York, June3. 1819, and died March 29, 1907. He was the son of Timothy and HannahChurch, the former born February 17, 1793, and died November 4, 1859; thelatter, born September 10, 1799, died July 29, 1845. 1 he\ were married July29, 18
Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa . d right, and his convictions were such that his neighborsand fellow citizens knew well his position on all questions of a political, moraland religious nature. His private life was exemplary and his amiable traits ofcharacter and many virtues made him widely popular. Mr. Cinuch was Jjorn in Covington. Wyoming county. New York, June3. 1819, and died March 29, 1907. He was the son of Timothy and HannahChurch, the former born February 17, 1793, and died November 4, 1859; thelatter, born September 10, 1799, died July 29, 1845. 1 he\ were married July29, 1818, and were among the old settlers of that county, the father havingbeen a native of Xew Hampshire, and the mother was born in New Yorkstate. Children were born to them, named as follows: David W. of thisre\ie\\ : John, Hannah 1)., Joseph, Jessie, Lizzie, Elizabeth, .\gustius,one who died in infancy. When David \\. Clmrcli was fourteen years old his parents moved toMichigan, locating on a farm not far from Detroit: later when the father. DAVID W. CHURCH JASlKK COLNTV, IOWA. S97 retired from active life he moved back to Wyoming county, Xew York, wlicrehe and his wife remained until their deaths. The subject received an excellent education in the schools of New Yorkand Michigan. Turning his attention to the legal profession while yet young,he attended a law school in the last named state and was graduated in thatbranch in September, 1855. He met and married Eliza Parker while inAdrian, Michigan. She was the widow of John Parker, deceased, of thatplace, and she was the daughter of John Reynolds, who was born in I^rance,and Stauchies Lebiga, who was born in Canada. They were among the oldsettlers of Canada across from Port Huron, and became well-known and well-established there. The year following their marriage David \V. Church and wife came toJasper county, Iowa, locating in Newton in 1856, and to this union twochildren were born: Robert F. B., now deceased, married Ella Gilmore
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