Nelson H. Whipple

WHIPPLE, HAZEN, VORRIS, TAYLOR, BOLTON, MURRAY

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/28/2004 at 22:58:40

Nelson H. Whipple is a son of Josiah and Eunice (Hazen) Whipple, and was born in Summit county, Ohio, December 29, 1832. When Nelson was three years of age, the family moved to Portage county, and afterwards to Ashtabula county, Ohio. Here he remained until twenty-one years old, then moved to Illinois, where he spent one year. In the fall of 1855 he came to Iowa and settled in Grundy county near the Butler county line. The following July he went to Minnesota, and after living in LeSueur county two years, returned to Grundy county, where he spent three more years; he then moved to Beaver township, Butler county, and worked in the Vorris mill. In December of the year 1862, he settled on his present farm on section 29, and engaged in carpentering.
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Mr. Whipple was married October 21, 1856 to Miss Zillyah Taylor, a native of Ohio. They have five children lving – Flora Amelia, wife of C. I. Bolton; Rosella V., wife of William C. Murray; Nelson Adolph, Harry Earl and Jerry Burton.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 472