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CHAPTER V.THE FIRST SETTLERS. (Cont'd)From History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915)
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THE HERRICKS.Henry Heyricke, or Herrick, was tenth in lineal descent from Eyrick last named. He was born at Beaumont, England, August 6, 1604, and was named by command of Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I. His sponsors were Sir David Murray, Sir John Spellman and Lady Aston. He emigrated to Virginia; thence to Salem, Massachusetts, where he married Editha, daughter of Flugh and Alice Laskin. They were members of the First church in Salem, 1629. He was made a freeman, May 18, 1631. They moved to Bass River, now Beverly, Massachusetts, July 4, 1667, where they joined the church the same year. They were founders of the Herrick family in New England. Their descendants are numerous and are well settled over the Northern and Western states. Alvin Herrick was supposed to have descended from Henry Herrick, of Salem, Massachusetts, 1629, but his ancestry has not been traced. He was the son of Elisha Herrick and was born in Westfield, Massachusetts. He married Pauline Leffingwell. He was a dairyman at Westfield. He moved to Chautauqua, New York, as early as 1844; thence to Buffalo, New York; thence to Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1850. In the spring of 1853 he migrated again, and arrived in Audubon county in June, of that year, year, accompanied by his son, Urbane, and family.  ALVIN HERRICKAlvin Herrick's children were as follow: Caroline, married Lucius Collins; Edson, married Mrs. Mary A. West, nee Bigelow; Sarah Ann, married John Benedict; Urbane, married Charlotte Spurling and Keziah Smith; Coit, married Helen Bartlett; Emerson, married Mary Seiford; Curtis, married Hannah Holdcroft; Mary, married Richard Gault; Elisha, never married; Augustus C., married ____ Teters; Judson deForest, married Mrs. Louisa Strickland, nee Roeser; Orra, married William Arnett; Lawrence, married Helen Teters. Edson Herrick married Mrs. Mary A. West, nee Bigelow, who had a son, named C. Dwight West, by her former husband. They came here from Beloit, Wisconsin, bringing with them her son, who still lives here. But, fearing Indian troubles, they returned to Wisconsin, and came back to Audubon county in June, 1856. He was a farmer and a Democrat. He entered the northwest quarter of section 15, Exira township, but settled on an adjoining tract in the northeast corner of section 16, where William Carpenter and other afterwards lived. He next built a residence farther west in the same section, which he sold to G. T. Poage. It contained one of the first plastered rooms in the county. About 1864 he bought the farm first improved by his brother, Urbane Herrick, in sections 8 and 9, Exira township, where his son-in-law, Walter B. Temple, now lives, and where he lived until near the time of his death. He was a medium-sized man, with dark complexion, hair and eyes. His name may justly go down to posterity as a model citizen. He was one who had no enemies. Neither should his particular by-word, "By Jocks," be forgotten. He survived his wife, but both have been dead many years. Their children were: Ella Mary, who married Walter B. Temple; Ida F., married Henry B. Houston, and is dead; Lilly Ann, married Elihu Myers; Emma P., married J. Mack Love; Julius Earl, married Jessie Wilcutt; Cora, married, first, Grant Brown and, second, Lloyd Hinkle, and Laura B. died unmarried. Urbane Herrick married, first, Charlotte Spurling, who died, and he then married Keziah Smith. He was a farmer and a Democrat. He came from Beloit, Wisconsin, with his father in 1853. He entered and settled on the place where Walter B. Temple, Esq., now lives, which he sold to a Doctor Hager, in Illinois, who sold it to Edson Herrick about 1864. He then settled on and improved the farm in section 36 in Hamlin township, where Willie Jenson now lives. Then he moved to lot 12, in section 3, Exira township, and built the present residence in the northeast corner thereof. It embraced the townsite of Exira Heights and the site of the school house at Exira. He was justice of the peace and sheriff. He was a small man, with dark complexion, hair and eyes. He died at Exira many years ago, and his widow is now the wife of Frank Persing, of Exira. The children by his first wife were, Urbane Scott, deceased, who married Clara M. Blackmar; Orra D., married Samuel Beers; Lorinda D., married Hiram Young; Rosa M., married Clark Gray. By his second wife, Mr. Herrick became the father of three children: Robie K., who married first, John Peterman and, second, Michael Flynn; Mary E., married Hans P. Hansen, and Maggie E., married Grant Smith and J. O. Howard. Judson DeForest Herrick, who was born in Chautauqua, New York, in 1844, came to Audubon county from Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1854. He went to California in 1863; returned to Audubon county in 1865, and moved to Bear Grove, Iowa, and there married Mrs. Louisa Strickland, nee Roeser. He later returned to Audubon county and settled on a farm in section 31, in Greeley township, where he lived many years. He is now retired and lives in the town of Exira. He is a Democrat. Physically, he is a small man, with dark complexion, hair and eyes. His children are: Alvin, who married Sarah Winchell; Lenora, married John Crees; Curtis, married Edna White; Herbert, married Harriet Jenkins, and Essie M., married George Scott. |
