NORTHRUP, Thomas

NORTHRUP

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/31/2021 at 14:29:32

Thomas Northrop
born in 1837

Thomas Northrop, a farmer and stock-raiser, living on section 30, Silver Creek Township, was born in New York, in 1837. He is highly esteemed, being one of the honored and prominent pioneers of the township. He was the son of Isaac and Lucintha (Cook) Northrop, natives of New York State, but their ancestors were Pennsylvanians. These parents are deceased, the father passing away in 1854 and the mother in 1856. In 1857 Mr. Northrop made a residence in Illinois, but the next year immigrated to Cedar County, Iowa, and after making a tour through the Rocky mountains he settled in Ida County, where he has since lived. The early education and training of Mr. Northrop were received in the common schools of the Keystone State. The record of our subject as a soldier during the late war is a very creditable one, he having remained in the service for three years. He enlisted in 1862 in Company K, Thirty-fifth Iowa Volunteer, from Cedar County, Iowa, was mustered at Muscatine, Iowa, and his first engagement was before Vicksburg. He participated in several skirmishes in Missouri during Price’s raid, and also took part in the battles of Nashville, New Orleans, Mobile Bay, and in Alabama; was in many warm engagements, never suffered captivity nor received a wound. He was finally mustered out at Davenport, September 18, 1865.
Our subject was married in Cedar County, Iowa, in 1868, to Miss Julia Page, a daughter of Lucius and Frances Page, natives of Ohio and New Jersey, respectively, who settled in Cedar county at an early day, where the father died, and the mother, after living in different portions of Iowa, finally settled in Ida Grove, Iowa, where she now resides. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Northrop have been born twelve children, ten of whom are still living, namely: Dell, married; Mark, Gertrude, Ralph, Lucius, Clarence, Erma, Frances, Clara and an infant. Mr. Northrop owns 440 acres of well-improved land in Silver Creek and Logan Townships. He has a fine residence, 26 x 30 feet, two stories high, with a brick basement, the same size of the house. The barn is 52 x 52 feet, with 18-foot posts. There are also granaries and other outbuildings for the shelter of stock, etc. The residence is situated on an elevated spot, surrounded by a beautiful grove of about two acres and an orchard of about five acres. There is a very generous supply of small fruits of all kinds. In politics Mr. Northrop is a Republican and supports the principles of his party upon any and all occasions.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.575