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Adkins, B. B., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Adkins, M. C., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Carlisle.

Albertson, E. F., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Alkire, J. W., farmer, Sec. --; P. O. Carlisle.

Anderson, J. S., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Anderson, T. C., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Armstrong, John, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Carlisle.

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Baber, M. A., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Carlisle

BAKER, E. D., hardware, stoves, and furniture, Carlisle; born in Dodge county, Wis., Oct. 8, 1848, and was raised there; he came to his present home, and has been engaged in his present business ever since; he married Miss L. D. Perrin, Jan. 16, 1871, a native of Ohio; they have a family of three sons and one daughter: Edward, Alva, Addie and Perry.

Batters, John, Laborer, Carlisle.

BAUGH, THOS, W., physician and surgeon, Carlisle; born in Highland county, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1835, and was raised there till eight years old, when his parents moved to Brown county, where he lived till fifteen years of age and came to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he was educated at the Normal school of that place, and Washington College, at Washington, Iowa; he read medicine with Dr. D. A. Huffman, of Oskaloosa, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, in 1864; the same spring he went into the service as assistant surgeon, and remained till the fall of 1865, and then came to this place and commenced the practice of his profession; he married Miss Carrie Connell March 1, 1866, a native of Highland county, Ohio; they have one son and two daughters: Minnie A., Wm. L. and Flora M.; during the winter of 1869 he took a course of lectures at Belvue College, New York; he has been very successful in the practice of his profession.

Beauchamp, C., huckster, P. O. Carlisle.

Beauchamp, I., clerk, P. O. Carlisle

Bender, Frederick, Sec. 6; P. O. Carlisle.

Bender, Levi, merchant, Sec. 6; P. O. Carlisle.

Blasdell, Betty, widow, P. O. Carlisle.

Boyd, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle.

BRAMHALL, JOHN, stock raiser, Sec 17; P. O. Carlisle; was born in Derbyshire, England, September 7, 1805, and in the spring of 1831 he came to the United States, and located in Boston, where he worked in a cotton factory, eighteen miles from the city, and while there he married to Miss Elona Smith, a native of Boston, January, 1832; he left there in February 1833, and came to Carroll county, Ohio, and engaged in farming, till 1850, when he came to this county and located where he now lives; his wife died at Indianola, July 20, 1868, and left four sons, and four daughters: Betsy, Joseph, Eleazer, Emmerson, Harrison, Mary A. M., Hannah, Hellen; he married again to Julia Asbury, September 1868, a native of England; they have one son, John A; was engaged in the hardware business for about four years, and the balance of the time he has given his attention t stock raising, and that of the best quality.

Britton, M. L., farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Brown, Rev., pastor M. E. Church.

Buchanan, J. M., laborer, Carlisle.

BUDD, C. W., Station Agent at Carlisle; born in Mill county, Illinois, in the year 1853, and has been a resident of Iowa for the past six years; has been station agent at this point for two years; he was married November 5, 1877, to Miss Lizzie Kopp, of Winterset, a native of Pennsylvania.

Buten, Francis, Carlisle.

BUXTON, WILLIAM, farmer and stock raiser, P. O. Carlisle; born in Derbyshire, England, May 16, 1830; when twenty-one years of age he came to the United States, and went with his brother to Shelby county, Indiana, where he remained till Nov. 1852; he rode from Shelbyville to this county, on horseback; he married Miss Betsy, daughter of John Bramhall, (who came to this county in 1850), on April 28, 1858, a native of Massachusetts; he lived in an old log-house for about seventeen years; has a family of one son and four daughters: Elizabeth A., Sarah E., William Jr., Clara and Agnes; he owns about 2000 acres of land, nearly all improved; is interested in the stock business quite largely, and also owns a woolen mill at Palmyra, one of the oldest in Central Iowa; he bought out Simpson Hargis, one of the first settlers.

Buzich, Nancy, hotel keeper, Carlisle.

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Casteel, Jacob, laborer.

Clemant, James, teamster.

CLOUGH, T., M., blacksmith, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle; born in Susquehanna county, Penn., Oct. 19, 1826, and lived there till he was 19 years of age; he commenced his trade at the age of 14, and has followed it as an occupation through life. He traveled more or less until he was 30 years of age, when he went to Missouri, where he remained till 1861, when he came to Carlisle. He married in Schuyler county, Mo., to Miss Mary J. Harmon, a native of O.; they have five sons and three daughters: Sylvester D., Milo M., Clarisssa, Nettie E., Leroy G., Thos. M., Reta, and Benjamin F. He owns a farm of 40 acres.

Crawford, H. D., U. B. Pastor.

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Deets, Frank, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Carlisle.

Deets, Noah, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

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Epps, Wm., farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Carlisle.

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FARLEY, MATT., dealer in Agricultural Implements; P. O. Carlisle; born near Palmyra, in this county, Nov. 10, 1846, and is supposed to be the first white child born within the limits of the county; his parents came here in 1845. He enlisted in the late rebellion in Co. D, 15th Iowa Inf., and served till the close of the war; he was at the siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Marietta, Kennesaw Mountain, Savannah, Ga., and various skirmishes. He married Elizabeth J. Ellison, Sept. 17, 1867, a native of Indiana; they have four children: Edward, Guy, Mary L. and Laura.

Fisher, E. N., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Carlisle.

FOULKE, CHARLES F., retired; born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 1825; when fourteen years of age his parents moved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania; while there he was married to Miss Margaret Coburn, July 18, 1850, a native of Yorkshire, England; he came to Polk county in 1854, and stopped for about one year, then removed to what is known as the Allen & Parmlee Mills, on Middle river, the oldest flouring mills in central Iowa; in 1856 he came to this place and took charge of the Carlisle Mills for the Carlisle Milling Company; he remained in charge most of the time up to the outbreak of the war; in August 1862, he enlisted in Co. D, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and served about fifteen months; was present at Sherman’s first attack of Vicksburg, also at Arkansas Post; after this his regiment was sent north with the prisoners, and he was sent to the hospital at St. Louis, where he remained till his discharge; after returning from the army he engaged in the milling and mercantile business up to one year ago; their family consists of one son, James, who still lives at home.

Frisbee, E., shoemaker.

Fry, Perry, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Carlisle.

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HARTMAN, W. H., farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Carlisle; born in Richland county, Ohio, March 25, 1836; when quite young his parents emigrated to Cooper county, Missouri, where they lived about three years, and returned to Ohio, in November 1843, and lived there and in Illinois about two years, and came to this county in August 1845; he married Miss Samantha Roberts, Dec. 27, 1860, a native of Indiana, born in 1843; they have three sons and three daughters: Lulu M., Albert C., Charles C., Clarissa B., Franklin S. and Dora A.; was in the late war, in Co. D, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry; enlisted in July 19862, and served one year, and was discharged on account of disability; owns a farm of 120 acres.

HARGIS, JASPER N., farmer and stock buyer, Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle; born in Macon county, Missouri, July 18, 1845, and came to this county, with his parents, in March 1850; was in the late war, in Co. E, 4th Iowa infantry; enlisted July 10, 1861, and was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, August 15, 1865, and while in the service participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Siege of Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Jackson, Mississippi, Sherman on his March to the Sea, and several others; October 1, 1865, he married Miss Mahala Van Brunt, a native of Ohio; they have two sons and one daughter: John C., Clayton and Martha; owns twenty-eight acres of land.

HARGIS, JOHN, grain dealer; Carlisle; born in Pulaski county, October 4, 1816; when fourteen years of age his parents moved to Edgar county, Illinois, where they remained one year, and then removed to Shelby county, Indiana; while there he married to Miss Sarah E. Reamer, February 19, 1839; she was born there in December 1822; in 1844 they removed to St. Joseph county, Missouri, where they lived until 1848, when they came to this county and located in Carlisle; his wife died August 5, 1863; they had one son, who was in the late rebellion, in Co. B. 10th Iowa infantry, and was wounded at Champion Hills, and died three days after his return home; Mr. Hargis married again, to Mary E., widow of Samuel Mack (her maiden name was Scovill), September 25, 1864; she died February 5, 1874; he married again to Sarah Scovill, sister of his second wife, January 1875.

Hastings, M. A.; P. O. ------

Hastie, A. B., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Carlisle.

HASTIE, ANDREW, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Carlisle; born in East Lothien, Scotland, September 19, 1823, and was raised there; and came to America when past twenty-one and located in Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1845; he lived in Ohio for about six years, and most of the time was engaged in the railroad business; while there he married Miss Elizabeth Whittaker, October 26, 1849; in 1852 he came to this county, and located where he now lives; he owns a farm of 620 acres; his wife died April 1869, and left four sons and two daughters: Phillip W., Ephraim D., Lydia, Elizabeth, Charles and Andrew, who has since died; he married again to Mrs. Nancy, widow of E. Smith, October 16, 1869, a native of Illinois.

Hastie, P. N., farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Carlisle.

Hastie, Philip, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Carlisle.

Hastie, William, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Carlisle.

Haven, Johnathan, farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Carlisle.

Hull, W. C., farmer, P. O. Carlisle.

HULL, W. S., physician and surgeon, P. O. Carlisle; was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, April 7, 1828; was raised on a farm, but had all the advantages of a common school education supplemented with two years in Brownsburg College, and one year under Professor McGlothlin, in mathematics and surgery; when twenty-one years of age, he began the study of medicine, with A. J. Hull, of Bourneville, Ohio; he graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, in 1854; he came to Polk county, in 1849, and married there to Miss M. A., daughter of Jerey Church, deceased, a native of Pennsylvania, May 19, 1853; they have three sons and three daughters: Franklin C., doctor, a graduate of Keokuk, Otho O., Lolo L., Cora E., Emmet E. and Maud M.; he remained in Polk county, till 1855, and then went to Kansas, where he remained till the spring of 1860, and then went to Missouri, and remained till fall, and came back to Polk county, and to his present home in 1862.

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Kale, M. V., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle

KAIL, PETER, farmer, P. O. Carlisle; was born in Harrison county, Ohio, September 15, 1826, and was raised there; when quite young he learned the blacksmith trade; he came to this county, in November, 1854; he married Miss Elizabeth Myers, January 30, 1845, a native of Indiana, but raised in Jefferson county, Ohio; they have no family; he owns a farm of forty acres, also town property; he enlisted in the late war, July 19, 1861, in Co. B, Tenth Iowa Infantry, and was mustered out in November, 1862; followed blacksmithing for twenty-six years.

Keeney, B. K., farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Carlisle.

Keeney, Jonathan, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Carlisle.

KEENEY, S. T., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Avon; was born in Union county, Indiana, February 21, 1818, and was raised there till about nine years of age, when his parents moved to Montgomery county, where he married February 2, 1848, to Elizabeth Kessler, of Virginia, and the same year he came to Iowa, and located where he now lives; he came by wagon, and was three weeks on the road; has seven sons living: Benjamin K., George, Joseph A., Nathaniel F., Edward M., Samuel P., and Elmer A.; he owns a farm of 230 acres.

Kelley, F., druggist, Carlisle.

Koozer, Daniel, blacksmith, Carlisle.

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LAMB, J. B., dealer in groceries and notions, Carlisle; was born in Howard county, Indiana, in 1847, and was raised there till four years of age, when his parents came to Iowa, and located in Dallas county; they came to this county in 1865; he has been engaged in the above business for two years; was in the late war, in the 7th Iowa Infantry, Co. C., enlisted January 17, 1865, and served till the close of the war; Mr. Lamb is also engaged in school teaching.

Lang, Hugh, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle.

Latta, William, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Carlisle.

Ledlie, Thomas, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle.

Leese, John, farmer.

Lochridge, W. L., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Carlisle.

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Mahan, A. B., engineer, Carlisle.

McCLINTIC, J. E., Mayor City of Carlisle; is a native of Monroe county, West Virginia; born Sept. 9, 1809; when twenty-one years of age he left home and went to Henry county, Indiana, where he was married to Delilah Skoggs, July 26, 1832; he came to Iowa, near Fort Madison, in 1838, where he remained for ten years, and came here in October, 1848, and located east of Summerset; he owns a farm of 135 acres; his wife died in 1842, and left a family of three sons and one daughter: James, Michael, Jane (now Mrs. Wm. H. Burgett) and Lorenzo; he was married again to Nancy Patterson, in 1843, a native of West Virginia; they have three daughters: Minerva A., Martha P. and Alberta. Mrs. McClentic has one by her former marriage, John Patterson.

McElroy, John, grocer.

McIntosh, N. B., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Carlisle.

McINTOSH, D. G., farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Summerset; born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1815, and was raised there; has been engaged on public works since twenty years old; he came to Lee and Van Buren counties, this State, and with Capt. Black took a contract on the Des Moines Valley Railroad from Keokuk to Farmington, a distance of twenty-eight miles; he was one of the first railroad contractors in the State; has been in this county since 1862, and been mostly engaged in farming; owns a farm of 300 acres; he married Miss Nancy D., daughter of David Doud, of Doud’s Station, on the Des Moines Valley Railroad, in June, 1861, a native of Licking county, Ohio; their family consists of two sons and tree daughters: Nannie, Isabel, David, Drusilla and William.

McNeely, J., laborer, Carlisle.

Major, William, farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Carlisle.

Maxwell, Levi, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Carlisle.

Maxwell, W. S., well digger, Carlisle.

Miller, Daniel, school teacher, Carlisle.

Miller, James, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Moore, Daniel, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

Moore, David, carpenter, P. O. Carlisle.

Moore, H. M., carpenter, P. O. Carlisle.

Moredick, T., farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Carlisle.

MOORE, HENRY M., carpenter and joiner and contractor, Carlisle; is a native of this State, born in Louisa county, March 1, 1839; when six years of age his parents came to this county, and located ion the present site of Carlisle; was two years with his father in the mill-wright business, and learned the carpenter’s trade which he as followed for seventeen years; he married Miss Mahala J. Ellison, July 10, 1861, a native of Monroe county, Virginia; she died Jan 5, 1866; he married again to Phoebe Ellison, sister of his former wife, January 16, 1868.

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NICHOLSON, ROBERT, proprietor Carlisle Flouring Mill; born in Thumberland county, England, January 9, 1831; he came to the United States when he was about twenty-two years of age; he first stopped in Stark county, Ohio, where he remained one year; from there he went to Rockport, Will county, Illinois, where he remained two years; he then came to Iowa, and stopped in Cedar Rapids six months, then came to Des Moines, in 1855, and to this county in 1861, and has been engaged in the milling business ever since; he married Miss Mary A. Garton, in Des Moines, October 22, 1857; she was born in Surrey county, England; they have five sons and two daughters: William T., Frank W., Hattie J., Bertie, Robert W., Artie J. and Gracie.

Norton, J., jeweler.

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Overton, Eli, farmer.

Owens, John, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Carlisle.

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PALMER, WM., farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Carlisle; a native of Berwickshire, Scotland; born Dec. 6, 1836; when eighteen years of age he came to the United States, and located in Columbiana county, Ohio, where he engaged in the railroad business, and remained till 1861, then went to Chilicothe, where he lived till 1868, when he came to Warren county and located where he now lives, and owns a farm of 120 acres; he married Miss Mary E. Law, July 4, 1861, a native of Ohio; they have one son and three daughters: Maggie, Ida May, Mina and David; Mr. Palmer has been twice married, first to Isabel McKinzie, Aug. 17, 1857, a native of Scotland, who died Sept. 18, 1859, and left one son, John.

Patterson, J. W., farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Carlisle.

Patterson, Thompson, farmer, Sec. 1; P. O. Carlisle.

Paul, Joseph, teamster, Carlisle.

Petre, J., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Carlisle.

Petre, Samuel, carpenter,Carlisle.

Porter, G. W., Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle.

Price, T. J., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle.

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RANDLEMAN, CAPT. M. C., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 10; P. O. Carlisle. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in another place, was born in Stokes county, North Carolina, December 9, 1830; the following year his parents emigrated to Lawrence county, Indiana, but he was principally raised near Spencer, in Owen county; he received the advantages of the common schools of that State, and at the age of fourteen he apprenticed himself to learn the tanner’s trade, where he worked for two years and then enlisted in the Mexican war, in Co. D, Fourth Indiana Infantry, under Capt. J. I. Alexander; they rendezvoused at Fort Clark, on the Ohio river, for about four weeks, and then started for New Orleans; they were but two days out, coasting along via. Galveston, when a gale came up and the boiler of the steamer exploded, killing two men and scalding eleven; this occurred on the 12th of July, 1847; they were shipped on board the schooner Lavina, to the mouth of the Rio Grande; they then went up the river as far as Camp Belknap, and were then countermanded to Scott’s lines, and then shipped to Vera Cruz, and thence to the city of Puebla; he was engaged in the closing battles of the war as follows: Humantla, Penal Pass, Siege of Puebla, Atlexaco, and was mustered out at the close of his enlistment service, at Madison, Indiana, July 16, 1848, and for the following year was engaged ion public works; November 29, 1849, he married Miss N. J. Hicks, of Owen county, Indiana; in 1854 he emigrated to Johnson county, Missouri, and in September, 1856, he came to this State, and located in Polk county, where his wife died, April 17, 1857, leaving a family of three sons: Winfield S., Wm. M., and John H.; he married again January 17, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Moredeck, a native of Ohio; they have by this union six sons and three daughters: Reed, Zouave, Charles, Lincoln, James C., Benj. F., Albert, Flora and Florence; in April, 1861, he aided in the organization of Co. B, Tenth Iowa Infantry, and at its organization was elected First Lieutenant, and mustered into the United States service the following August, and was then elected their captain, which commission he held till October 2, 1862, when he resigned on the account of disability; while in the service he participated in the battles of Bloomfield, Missouri; Charleston, Missouri; Island No. 10; New Madrid, Missouri; Tiptonville, Kentucky; and the engagement at Farmington, and the siege of Corinth; after he had received his resignation papers, at the battle of Iuka, on the 3d and 4th of October, he took an active part in the second day’s fight, for which he deserves great credit; on his return he organized a militia company, and equipped it, and was appointed by the Governor to organize the militia of the county; he organized two infantry regiments, and was elected Lieutenant colonel of the Second Infantry of Warren county; after the war Mr. Randleman settled on his present farm, which contains 320 acres of well improved land; where he still resides, enjoying peace and plenty, and the good will of all who know him; from 1871 to 1874 he was engaged in shipping stock and grain from Carlisle, and at present is quite largely engaged in shipping stock; Mr. Randleman’s grandfathers, Reed and Randleman, were both in the revolutionary war; the former as private and the latter as surgeon.

Randleman, M. C., farmer, Sec. 10; P. O. Carlisle.

Randleman, M. I., farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Carlisle.

RANDLEMAN, R. R., farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Carlisle. Born in Stokes county, North Carolina, August 9, 1817, and emigrated to Lawrence county, Indiana, in 1831, with his parents, where he remained but a short time, when he removed to Owen county; in the year 1855 he emigrated to Bates county, Missouri, where he made his home till he came to this county, in the spring of 1857, and located where his brother, Captain M. C., now lives; he came to his present location in 1865; was married, August 15, 1854, to Miss Mary Cummings, in Owen county, Indiana, who was born in the State of Kentucky; they have four sons and two daughters: Martin S., Martha E., Absalom B., James W., Lincoln G. and Nancy J.; he owns a farm of 136 acres, with 2,000 fine apple trees and other varieties of small fruits.

RANDLEMAN, WILL. R., dealer in dry goods, groceries, etc., and postmaster, Carlisle; born in Owen county, Indiana, November 10, 1844; in February, 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, 19th Indiana volunteer infantry, and was mustered out in March, 1865; was taken prisoner in the battle near Culpepper Court House, Virginia, August 6, 1862, and was confined at Libby Prison for two months; was then paroled and sent to Annapolis, Maryland, and exchanged; he again joined his regiment at Antetam; was wounded in the hand at Fredericksburg, December, 1862; was engaged in the battles at Chancellorville and Gettysburg, and wounded in the latter, in the foot and knee; he was then sent to the hospital, at Philadelphia, where he remained six months; was then sent to the Soldiers’ Home, at Indianapolis, Indiana, and was transferred to provost marshal duty, at Terre Haute, Indiana, under Colonel R. W. Thompson, of the Seventh District, and was with him till the expiration of his enlistment, December 6, 12865; he married Miss Jennie Wilkes, a native of Colebrookdale, England, born August 1, 1847; in 1868 he came to Carlisle, Iowa; Mr. Randleman started out in life without funds or favor, and by hard work and close attention to his business, he has gained for himself a reasonable portion of this world’s goods, and the respect and confidence of his many friends.

REED, PHELPS, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Carlisle; born in Lawrence county, Indiana, March 7, 1826; he enlisted in the Mexican war at Springville, Lawrence county, Indiana, April 12, 1847, Co. K., 16th United States Regulars, and served fifteen months; he married in Clay county, Indiana, to Sarah Lanning, August 9, 1849, born in the same county; they came to McDonough, Iowa, in 1850, and in 1855 went to Missouri, and came to this county in 1856, and located where he now lives, and owns a farm of 192 acres; he has had many ups and downs during his life, but now he enjoys peace and plenty; they have one son and one daughter: John and Emma.

REES, J. W., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle; born in Highland county, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1844, and lived there till six years of age, when his parents emigrated to Marion county, this State; he married there to Miss Harriett Williams, in January, 1869, a native of Missouri; he came to his present location in March, 1864; they have a family of one son and three daughters, Laura, John, Cora and Bessie; his present homestead consists of 320 acres.

REYNOLDS, JOHN M., of the firm of Reynolds Bros. blacksmiths and wagon-makers, Carlisle; born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1839; in 1858, he removed to Kankakee county, Illinois, and in April, 1861, enlisted in Co. G. 20th Illinois, Vol. Infantry, and was mustered out in July, 1864; among the battles participated in, were Fredericktown, Shiloh, Corinth, Donaldson and others; he married Miss Mary Bloom, June 28, 1874, a native of Germany; they were married at Winterset, and came to Carlisle three years ago.

REYNOLDS, I. N., of Reynolds’ Bros. blacksmiths and wagon makers, Carlisle; was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1832; came to Iowa in 1857, and stopped at Davenport for one year, then went to Kankakee, Illinois, and remained till 1863, and returned to Pennsylvania and enlisted in Co. E, One hundred and eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, March, 1863, and was mustered out August 14th, 1865; participated in the battles of Coal Harbor, Reams’ Station, Deep Bottom and numerous skirmishes; he came to this place in the fall of 1874; was married in 1852 to Miss Mary O. Bartholomew, a native of Pennsylvania, who has since died and left three children: Ada C., Henry D., and Oras L; he married for his second wife Abitha D. Dinsmore, a native of Indiana, but raised in Jasper county, this State; they have three children: Corda C., Isaac N. Jr., and Lucretia.

Rice, William, farmer, Sec. 8; P. O. Carlisle.

RULE, OLIVER, carpenter and joiner, P. O. Carlisle; born in Putnam county, near Greencastle, Indiana, October 1, 1840, and came to this county in the fall of 1852; August 1, 1861, he enlisted in Co. B, Tenth Iowa Infantry, and served for three years, then re-enlisted as a veteran and was mustered out of the service August 5, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa; some of the principle battles were Corinth, New Madrid, Vicksburg, Champion’s Hill, Chattanooga, Savannah, Atlanta, and various skirmishes; has been twice married, first to Leah Adkins, on February 17, 1861, a native of Warren county; she died April 22d, 1864; left one daughter, Mary E; he married again to N. E. Pearson, November 16, 1865; have one daughter, Rosetta E.

RUNCIMAN, WM., farmer, Sec. 16; O. O. Carlisle; was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, April 16, 1826, and was raised there till twenty-one years of age; he traveled more or less till December, 1851, when he came to this county and located where he now lives, and owns 320 acres of land; he married in the state of Ohio, December 11, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Hastie, a native of Scotland; they have a family of two sons and three daughters: Jeanetta, Mary, Wm. H., Elizabeth and John W.; he represented this district in the Fifteenth General Assembly during the winters of 1874 and 1875; was one of the first board of county commissioners in 1862; has held the office of township treasurer a number of times.

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Sanders, A. J., teamster, Carlisle.

Sanders, B. F., miller, Carlisle.

Schooler, Peter, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Carlisle.

Shetterly, E. B., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Carlisle.

Shoemaker, A. B., retired, Carlisle.

Shoemaker, Jackson, Sec. 9; P. O. Carlisle.

Shuler, Henry, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Carlisle.

Sides, A. F., farmer, Sec. 6; P. O. Carlisle.

SMITH, C., physician and surgeon, and druggist, Carlisle; was born in Burlington, Iowa, July 9, 1846, where he was raised, and studied medicine with Dr. J. S. Robinson, of that city; August 7, 1862, enlisted in Co. C, 30th Iowa, and was discharged on account of a wound received in the foot, at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and received his discharge, April 23, 1863; he then began the study of medicine under Dr. A. H. Hoffman, surgeon in charge; he went to New York, in 1865, and attended Dr. Simms’ College and graduated in the spring of 1868.

SMITH, WM., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Carlisle; born in Derbyshire, England, about 1826, and was twenty-two years of age when he came to America and located in Shelby county, Indian a, and remained only about one year; while there he bought 400 acres of land where he now lives, without coming to see it; he then returned to England and remained for six months, and came back to Indiana and to this county in the spring of 1857; he has been twice married, first, to Martha Nast, June, 1855, a native of England, who is now deceased; married again to Anna C. Henley, Dec. 24, 1873, a native of Brown county, Illinois; they have three children: Mary, Wm. and Henry; his wife has five children by first marriage: Jennie, Charles, Annie, George and Albert; has a farm of sixty acres; he has made two trips to England since he came to this State; he bought and sold the first hogs in the county.

Stitt, T. R., pastor Baptist church, Carlisle.

STIVERS, J. F., dealer in general merchandise, Carlisle; born in Steuben county, New York, Nov. 1, 1836, and was raised there till fourteen years old, when his parents removed to Seneca county, Ohio, where he attended the Heidleburg College; in 1861 he left his home and went to Forrister, Ill., where he lived till 1871; he was married August 28, 1868, to Miss Fannie Talbott, a native of Jo Daviess county, Ill.; they have a family of three daughters: Clellie M., Carrie A. and Lillie L.; is justice of the peace and notary public; previous to his opening business in this place he followed school teaching for several years.

STUMBO, WM. C., farmer, Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle; born in Lawrence county, Ohio, August 2, 1822; he left his home in Ohio when about twenty-one years of age, and came to Mahaska county, this State, April 1843, being one of the first settlers of that county; two years later he came to Polk county, and took up a claim on Sec. 36, Allen township, about two miles from his present home; he owns a farm of 230 acres; married Miss Drusilla Langdon, in 1847, a native of Lawrence county, Ohio, who died Oct., 1848; he married again to Nancy Deaton, May 30, 1850, a native of Morgan county, Ind.; they have by this union one son and six daughters: Emaline, Eliza A., Ellen, Lilly B., Flotilla, Geo. E. and Carrie.

Suafford, I., druggist, Carlisle.

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Utterson, John, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. Summerset.

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WADSWORTH, B. F., farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Summerset; born in Hartford county, Maryland, March 19, 1829, and went with his parents to Morgan county, Ohio, when about ten years old, and was raised there; he came to this county and located where he now lives in 1854; owns a farm of 450 acres, and is largely engaged in the stock business; he married Miss Bettie Thompson, Sept. 30, 1856, a native of Kentucky; they have three sons and two daughters: Robt. B., Maggie M., Thomas T., Nancy B. and Bettie S.; Mrs. Wadsworth died January 10, 1866, and on March 16, 1871, he was married to Mrs. Mary Beck, whose maiden name was Elliott, a native of Indiana.

WARD, WM., farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Avon; was born in Mason county, West Virginia, April 16, 1816; when ten years of age, he went to Springfield, Illinois, with his brother; his father died when he was six years of age, and his mother, when he was but two years old; he remained in Springfield till nineteen years of age, then went to Dubuque and worked for two years, then went eighteen miles southwest of that place, and took a claim and went to farming; where he lived till 1855; he married in Jackson county, this State, June 3, 1840, to Miss Mary A. Snodgrass, of Ohio; they have one son and four daughters: Wm., Sarah E., Margaret, Ellen and Laura, lost one son in the late rebellion, he belonged to the Thirty-ninth Iowa, and was shot through the leg at Kingston, Georgia; he owns 504 acres of land.

West, A. M., druggist.

Whitcomb, J. B., farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. ---------

WOOD, JOHN, farmer and stock dealer, Sec. 18; P. O. Summerset; was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, August 19, 1824, and lived there till 1850, when he emigrated to America, and settled in Columbiana county, Ohio, for two and a half years, then came to this county, in the fall of 1852, and located where he now lives; owns a farm of 120 acres; he married Miss Mary Runciman, April 1, 1850, a native of that place; has held various township offices, and in 1872, he returned to his old home, and was absent for three months.

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YOUNT, GEO., farmer, P. O. Carlisle; was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 27, 1820, and when seven years of age, his parents came to Indiana, where he was raised; Mr. Yount has been thrice married; first, to Martha J. Brown, March 4, 1841, a native of Ohio, who died in 1844, and left two children: Margaret and Martha (deceased); was married again to Malissa Brown, in 1847, a native of Ohio, who died in 1849; his present wife, was Catharine Vanbrunt, a native of Ohio; they were married in 1852, and have a family of two sons and four daughters: Eva, Carrie, Nina, Edward, Mary and Byron; he came to Iowa, in 1857, and has lived on his present farm since 1859, which consists of sixty-five acres; he has held the office of justice of the peace, and various township offices.