JOHN M. ENGLE.

John Eller, a son of David and a brother of Jesse Eller, pre-empted a farm (also on sJohn M. Engle owed 120 acres on section 27, where he located in the spring of that year. Up to this time he had lived in Illinois, and by trade was a wagon and carriage maker. He had been a zealous member of the Church of God since he was fifteen years of age, and finally was chosen by the brethren, elder and pastor. He commenced to preach in 1872, and continued to occupy a pulpit for a number of years, or until compelled to abandon the portion of his pastoral work on account of a bronchial difficulty. Of his family of nine children only two reached years of maturity, and of his seven deceased, four died in June, 1876, between the 18th and 22d.ection 20) in March, 1855. After remaining here two years he returned to Jefferson county, Iowa, where he had previously resided for eighteen years, and in 1862 commenced a three years' service in the Civil War, with the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry. He participated in the campaigns of the Southwest, from the siege of Vicksburg, and in all of the famous operations of Sherman's army. After the war he returned to Jefferson county, where he remained until September, 1866, when he returned to his farm in Franklin township.

From "Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pg. 168.