JESSE MADISON

MADISON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 19:40:12

JESSE MADISON, a successful and enterprising farmer of Adams county, resides on 120 acres of land in section 18, Carl township. He came here in 1871, and has since made this place his home.

Mr. Madison was born in henry county, Indiana, in 1840, son of John F. and Jane (Roberts) Madison. His father is a native of the South and is of Irish extraction; has been a farmer all his life, is now seventy- eight years of age, retired from active life, and resides at Corning, Iowa. The mother was born and reared in Indiana, and died in Adams county, Iowa, at the age of fifty-two years. John F. Madison is the father of twelve children.

The subject of our sketch spent his youth on a farm in Indiana, and received his education in the common schools. At the age of nineteen he came to Iowa and spent one year in Polk county. He then went to Madison county, lived there until 1871, and from that place came to his present location. Here he settled on wild land, which he has since improved and developed into a fine farm, with grove, orchard, good buildings, fences, etc. The District No. 4 schoolhouse is located on the southeast corner of his farm.

Mr. Madison was married in Madison county, Iowa, to Miss Nancy Farris, a native of Missouri. Her father, Charles Farris, was a pioneer of Madison county. Following is the issue from this union: Charles Wesley, who is married and lives in Colony township, this county; Lucy, wife of W. West, resides in Carl township; John F., Alpheus Levi and Edith A., at home. One child, Chrissie, died at the age of three years. Mr. and Mrs. Madison and two of the children are members of the Evangelical Church of Mount Etna. He votes with the Republican party, and has served as a member of the School Board. A man in the prime of life, possessing a strong physique, frank and cordial in his intercourse with his fellow men, and honorable in all his dealings, Mr. Madison is regarded by all who know him as a most worthy citizen.