Haines, Wilfred

HAINES

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/25/2019 at 13:22:47

Wilfred Haines

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.78, Boomer Twp.)
Farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Council Bluffs in January, 1851. His mother died when he was only a year or two old, and then he went to Canada, and lived there and in Prince Edward's Island and New Brunswick till he was nineteen years old, and came back to Council Bluffs spring of 1869. Mr. Haines is the youngest of eleven children, all but the oldest and the youngest dying when they were young. His brother went into the army, and never got hack. He was killed while in Missouri. Mr. Haines and his father were lost from each other from about 1858 till 1868. When by advertising, they found out the place of each. Mr. Haines' father was out through the mountains, and in this way they were lost from each other, for the people Mr. Haines was with, changed to different parts of the English provinces. Since coming here in 1869, his home has been in Pottawattamie County, and the next year came to the farm, and has been on it since. The farm of 570 acres is owned by his father, David Haines, of Council Bluffs, but their business is in partnership. On their farm, they have about 200 acres in cultivation; the remainder is in grass, pasture land and timber, having some of the best timber land in the township; his farming is corn and stock, feeding about two car loads of cattle a year. Mr. Haines has been married twice, first about 1872 to Miss Rosa B. Roberts, and second time in 1880 to Miss Dorcas Page, daughter of Thomas Page. Mr. Haines has three sons. Mr. Haines is Democratic. He is a member of the M. P. society.