CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH A.

CUNNINGHAM, WALKER, PRICE

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Date: 5/31/2005 at 12:56:06

Biography reproduced from page 554 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Joseph A. Cunningham is a native of Virginia, born in Monongalia county, Oct. 2, 1831. When he was two years of age his parents, Joseph and Elizabeth (Walker) Cunningham, removed to Ohio. He lived in Ohio thirty-two years, then removed to Olmsted Co., Minn. He remained in that county three years, when he came to Kossuth county and took a homestead of eighty acres in Wesley township, on section 16. He immediately put up a sod house, and in two years erected a log house, which he lived in until 1882, when he built the neat frame house he now occupies. He was united in marriage, Feb. 3, 1854, with Matilda Price, of Washington Co., Ohio. Her parents are dead. This union has been blessed with six children—Mansel S., Price, Margaret C., Joshua, Joseph P. and Effie. Politically he is a republican. He has held the office of township trustee for several years.