. History of Wright County, Iowa, its peoples, industries and institutions . ved, to his countywhich he has represented and to the nation f(jr which he has fought, ha\eIjeen of the highest order. W. T. U. Humphrey is the \-oungest and onl\ sur\i\ing child born tothe union of Robert llunii)hrry and jane Kobi^on, and his birth occurredon bebruar\- 5. 1S45, in Scott county, Iowa. Uobcrt llumphrex was bornin 170^ in Wheeling, \irgini;i, and remo\ed, witii his parents, when a smallboy to Jelferson county, (^hio, where he received his education. Mis fatherwas a farmer and Robert llumphrcy followt-d
. History of Wright County, Iowa, its peoples, industries and institutions . ved, to his countywhich he has represented and to the nation f(jr which he has fought, ha\eIjeen of the highest order. W. T. U. Humphrey is the \-oungest and onl\ sur\i\ing child born tothe union of Robert llunii)hrry and jane Kobi^on, and his birth occurredon bebruar\- 5. 1S45, in Scott county, Iowa. Uobcrt llumphrex was bornin 170^ in Wheeling, \irgini;i, and remo\ed, witii his parents, when a smallboy to Jelferson county, (^hio, where he received his education. Mis fatherwas a farmer and Robert llumphrcy followt-d this \dc;ition until Ins retue-ment. With his wife he remo\ cd to l;irke comit\-, Indiana, where hebecame interested in agricultural ])ursuits and coutmuecl to cultixate his landfor tweh-e years. He then remo\ed to Scott county. Iowa, where he pur-chased two hundred rmd forty-nine acres, also buying laud in Louisa county,and these two jjlaces were cultivated until his removal to Daxenport, Iowa,in 1871, at which time he retired and disi)osed of the farm, the i)ar-. W. T. R. WRIGHT COUNTY, IOWA. 457 cuts j(.)iiie(l their son, James, in Ioweshiek cnunty, where they remaineduntil tlie death of jane () Humphrey, the wife and niuther. Afterihc death of liis wife, l\ol)ert Humphrey made hi^ liunie witii his childrenuntil his death which occurred in i8<M- l Ohio county, was in the battle of Stony foint. In ijoo be began his residence inJefferson county, Ohio, near the town of Warreiiton, where lie lived untilhis death. His wife, McKee, ilied when forty years of age. The maternal grandfather of W. T. R. Humphrey was James , a
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