A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . the school board, of which he is stilla member, for ten years. He stands high with the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows, of Ioka Lodge No. 173, having filled all the chairs of theorder. As a member of the Mission Baptist church he is also is well known all over the county, where he has many warm the rural delivery route was established some time ago his energyand popularity helped him to secure it and he has since had it in charge. FINLEY M. SMOCK. From the time of the establishment of the town of Ke
A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. . the school board, of which he is stilla member, for ten years. He stands high with the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows, of Ioka Lodge No. 173, having filled all the chairs of theorder. As a member of the Mission Baptist church he is also is well known all over the county, where he has many warm the rural delivery route was established some time ago his energyand popularity helped him to secure it and he has since had it in charge. FINLEY M. SMOCK. From the time of the establishment of the town of Keota, has been deeply interested in its welfare and active in its ad-vancement and promotion. Therefore no history of the place wouldbe complete without mention of his life. He was born in Johnsoncounty, Indiana, February 18, 1844. The ancestry can be traced back-through four generations to Holland. His father, Rev. David , was born near Madison, Indiana, and for many years was anactive minister of the Presbyterian church. In 1853 he came to Iowa,. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 87 settling in Birmingham, Van Buren county. He afterward located inSigourney, and became the first pastor of the Presbyterian church ofthat place in 1858. During the war he removed to the vicinity ofKeota, in which town he died. His life span covered three-score yearsand ten, and surely the world is better for his having lived. He wasa man of marked influence and his efforts for the elevation of his fellowmen were of no restricted order. He married Margaret A. Brown,a native of Virginia, in which state she was also reared. She was ofFrench and Scotch lineage, and died when forty-four years of age. Intheir family were four children, of whom Mr. Smock of this reviewwas the third in order of birth. When nine years of age F. M. Smock accompanied his parentson their removal to Iowa, and at the age of fourteen he came to Keokukcounty. He attended the public schools, acquiring a good ed
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