JONATHAN DUBOIS
Jonathan DuBois lives on section 35, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in 1867. He now owns eighty-five acres. He was the first occupant of his farm. He was born in Ulster county, New York, in 1816, and lived there until thirty-five years of age. He was there married to Anna E. Dickerson, a native of that State. Mr. DuBois removed with his family to Virginia, where they lived about five years, thence to Illinois. They improved a farm in Stark county, and remained in that State until they came to Cass county, in 1867. He betan making improvements on his land the same year, breaking about sixty acres, and building his present residence. Mr. and Mrs. DuBois have six children...Mathusalem, William H., Alice M., Catheran J., Jonathan C. and Thomas C. The children were all born before the family removed to this county. Mr. DuBois is a Democrat politically. He is a descendant of Louis DuBois, who emigrated from France to New York in 1760.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 568.
