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Jacob Mowbey
Born August 17, 1817 | ||||||||
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JACOB MOWBEY, deceased; he was born August 17, 1817, in Ohio. In 1853, he came to Jones Co. In 1854, they removed to their present farm; died in December, 1874. He married Hellen Snyder October 16, 1858; she was born in Virginia; she owns 330 acres of land; have eight children—Emery S., Cymantha V., William O., John V., Jennetta, Carrie V., Lyman and Alida E.; he had seven children by a former marriage. All the improvements on his farm have been made by Mr. Mowrey since coming to it. Family reside on Sec. 6; P.O. Anamosa.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 613. |
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Philip Moyer
Born December 19, 1808 | ||||||||
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PHILIP MOYER, farmer, Sec. 21; P.O. Analnosa; born December 19, 1808, in Center Co., Penn.; hc came to Stark Co., Ohio, when a boy, thence to Marion Co., Ohio; in 1853, he came to Jones Co.; owns 130 acres land. Married Elizabeth Spade in 1831; she was born in 1818 in Pennsylvania, died in 1866; have ten children—Margaret, John, Albert, Levina, Eliza, Daniel, Harvey, Elizabeth, Samuel and Catharine. Second marriage to Mary Bechtol in 1868; she was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. Samuel enlisted in 1863 and served till the end of the war. Democrat; member of the Lutheran Church.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 569. | |||||||||
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Maurice Mulconnery
Born March 12, 1826 | ||||||||
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MAURICE MULCONNERY, farmer, Section 28, Township 19, Range 13, P. O. Neosho Rapids, was born in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, March 12, 1826. Came to the United States in 1847, and for the next ten years he was engaged in railroad construction, principally in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1857, he settled in Jones County, Iowa, and bought a farm of 200 acres. In addition to the operation of this farm, he was for thirteen years engaged in railroad contracting, in Iowa. In the spring of 1870, he came to Kansas, locating in Jackson Township, east and adjoining the town site of Neosho Rapids. He bought at that time 800 acres of land to which he has added, by subsequent purchases, 480 acres, all of which he now farms. He has made valuable improvements upon his farm, including a fine and commodious dwelling, and necessary farm buildings.
Has an orchard of about 200 fruit trees. He is largely engaged in raising cattle and hogs, feeding all his crops, which are principally corn, to his own stock. In the spring of 1882, he had a contract for one and a half miles of heavy rock work, on the Kansas City & Emporia R'y, near Neosho Rapids. He married Miss Catharine McCabe, of Galena, Ill., August 13, 1857, by which marriage he has had twelve children, of whom Michael J., John S., Annie T., Nellie A., Catharine, James P., and Margaret J. are living. Mr. and Mrs. Mulconnery are members of the Catholic Church. From The History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler, A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL, 1883, and was submitted by Elaine Bukove. | |||||||||
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David Munsinger
Born 1823 | ||||||||
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DAVID MUNSINGER, farmer, Rome Twp., Sec. 22; P.O. Olin; born in Germany in 1823; came to Iowa in 1824; settled in Ohio, and came to Iowa in 1868. Owns ninety-six acres; made part of the improvements. In politics, Republican; in religion, liberal. Has been Road Supervisor and Trustee. His wife, Mary A. Palmer, born in Ohio, in 1833. Married in 1851, and have eleven children—Emma (now Mrs. Foreman), Mary (now Mrs. Alex. Foreman), Charles, Frank, Eli, George, Burdell and Willie, twins, Anna, Frank, Rollo.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 650. | |||||||||
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E. R. Murdock
Born 1824 | ||||||||
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E. R. MURDOCK, farmer, Castle Grove Twp., Sec. 36; P.O. Monticello; was born in Delaware Go., N.Y., in 1824; when he was 10 years of age, his father removed to Tioga Co., Penn., where he lived till 32 years of age; he then went to Wisconsin, where he lived till the fall of 1862, when he came to Jones Co., and settled on his present farm; he has 135 acres of land.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 700. | |||||||||
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C. J. Murfield
Born September 3, 1857 | ||||||||
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C. J. Murfield, who is filling the office of county supervisor, making a creditable record by his faithfulness and promptness in the performance of every duty that devolves upon him in this- connection, was born in Greenfield township, Jones county, September 3, 1857. The days of his boyhood and youth were here passed in the usual manner of farm lads, the labors of field and meadow early becoming familiar to him. His father, J. S. Murfield, had come to this county in pioneer times, settling in Highland Grove, while from the government he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Greenfield. It was a wild and uncultivated tract, upon which not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made, but with characteristic energy he began its conversion into rich and productive fields, his labors being in time rewarded with good crops. He married Miss Mary E. Bancroft. Upon the home farm they reared their family consisting of five sons and three daughters, of whom C. J. Murfield was the fifth in order of birth.
At the usual age, our subject entered the public schools and therein mastered the common branches of learning through the winter seasons, while in the summer months, he attended to the labors of the field that were assigned him by parental authority. Thus he gained broad practical experience in the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. He has ever been a man of enterprise and diligence, carefully performing the tasks that have devolved upon him, doing with all his might whatever his hand has found to do. Throughout his business life he has followed farming and has devoted considerable attention to the breeding of shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. In 1884, Mr. Murfield was united in marriage to Miss Arra Belle Gregory, a daughter of Samuel Wesley Gregory, who became one of the early settlers of Cedar county, Iowa. He married Miss Isabelle McKay and Mrs. Murfield is the only living child of that marriage. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murfield are well known in this part of the county, having a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. At the present time Mr. Murfield is serving as county supervisor and his election was more remarkable in that he was the candidate on the democratic ticket and lives in a district which usually gives a large republican majority. He is appreciative of and adheres to his settled plan of equal rights to all and special privileges to none. He is well known in fraternal circles, affiliating with White Rose Lodge, NO. 79, K.P., of Martelle, and with the D.0.K.K., at Maquoketa, Iowa, of which he is a charter member. He has attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to Lodge NO. 46, A.F.&A.M., at Anamosa, while in the consistory at Clinton, Iowa, he has attained the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is likewise a member of the Mystic Shrine at Cedar Rapids. His salient qualities are such as have won for him the confidence and regard from all and he is popular and prominent in social and fraternal circles, in politics and in business life, in all which his reliability is recognized as one of his most pronounced traits. From History of Jones County, Iowa, Past and Present, R. M. Corbitt, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910, p. 246. | |||||||||
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J. S. Murfield
Born October 4, 1825 | ||||||||
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J. S. MURFIELD, farmer, Greenfield Twp., Sec. 14; P.O. Viroqua; born October 4, 1825, in Franklin Co., Ohio; in 1850, came to Jones Co., Iowa. Owns 365 acres of land; eighty acres of this he entered, and has made all the improvements on this farm. Married Elizabeth A. Bancroft in March, 1846; she was born in Union Co., Ohio; have eight children—Richard B., Delmar F., Charles W., Caroline M., Claudius James, Mary L., Hattie A. and John B. Has been Constable, Township Trustee, Assessor, etc.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 588. | |||||||||
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George Murphy
Born 1844 | ||||||||
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GEORGE MURPHY, farmer, Castle Grove Twp., Sec. 13; P.O. Monticello; born in Liverpool, Eng., in 1844; his parents came to New Orleans the same year; in 1845, they removed to Cincinnati, where they lived about four years; they came to Jones Co. in 1850, and settled in Castle Grove Township; his father lives with him; his mother has been dead several years. Mr. Murphy was married to Margaret Atkins; they have six children—Charles, Mary, Joanna, Lena, Frances and Ellen. Mr. Murphy has 166 3/4 acres of land; besides farming, he is engaged in the manufacture of lime.
From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 700. | |||||||||
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