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Peter Strong
Born July, 1821

PETER STRONG, farmer, Jackson Twp., Sec. 1.; P.O. Center Junction; born in July, 1821, in Perthshire, Scotland; in 1856, came to Columbiana Co, Ohio; June 13, 1858, he came to Jones Co. He owns 200 acres of land. Married Ann Smith December 8, 1842; she was born in Perthshire, Scotland. Republican; Presbyterian.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 613.

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Bradley Stuart
Born October 10, 1814

BRADLEY STUART, attorney at law and Justice of the Peace, Monticello; is a native of Columbia Co., N.Y., and was born October 10, 1814; from an early age, he was brought up in the State of Connecticut; he came to Iowa June 1, 1857, and located in Jones Co.; engaged in farming near town and continued for eight years and then moved in town. In 1864, he enlisted in Co. D, 9th 1.V.I., and served under Gen. Sherman; he was in the battles of Resaca, Atlanta and in all the battles to Savannah. After the war closed, he returned here; in the fall of 1874 he was elected Justice of the Peace and was afterwards re-elected to the same office. In 1838, he married Ann Murray, in Erie Co., N.Y.; she was a native of England.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 684.

George Stuhler
Born April 11, 1822

GEORGE STUHLER, dealer in boots and shoes, Monticello; is a native of Germany and was born April 11, 1822; he grew up to manhood and learned his business there; he emigrated to America in 1849; the following year, in 1850, he came to Iowa and located in Muscatine and lived there five years; then came to Canton, Jackson Co., and lived there five years; he came to Monticello and established his present business, and has built up a large trade and is the oldest boot and shoe house in Monticello. He married Miss Catharine Ristz, a native of Germany, March 2, 1852; they have three children—George, engaged in the grocery trade; William, in the store with his father, and Fred, at home. They attend the Congregational Church.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 684.

J. H. J. Stutt
Born May 3, 1867

J. H. J. Stutt, one of the well known stockmen and farmers of Lovell township, was born in Wayne township, this county, May 3, 1867, and is a son of John and Mary (Harms) Stutt, both natives of Germany. John Stutt, however, came to this country in his young manhood, in 1861, and from the first closely identified himself with affairs here, for shortly after his arrival in the state of Illinois, he enlisted in the Union army. He served valiantly throughout the course of the Civil war and then at its close came to Jones county, Iowa, where he found work with John Jacobs, of Scotch Grove township. The next year, however, he returned to Germany to wed the woman he had courted before coming to this country, and when he crossed the ocean again he came immediately to Jones county, once more entering the employ of Mr. Jacobs. After one year's experience on the farm he located in Wayne Center, where he remained for two or three years, afterward buying a tract of land in Wayne township. That has been his home ever since and is his residence today. During the two score years and more that have passed, however, he has invested extensively in real estate, at one time owning three hundred and twenty acres. Some of this he has disposed of but he is still possessed of two hundred acres, and is still an active representative of the agricultural interests.

J. H. J. Stutt was reared at home under the careful guidance of his parents, attending the common schools, from which he received a good preparation for the responsibilities of life. At the age of twenty-two he began his business career as a farmer. He bought first one hundred and twenty acres of land west of Lambert, in Wayne township, on which he lived for about two years. Then he sold that tract, buying instead two hundred and forty acres at Langworthy, one hundred acres of which he sold the next year. There upon he rented one hundred, nineteen and a half acres, adjoining the one hundred and forty acres he still held, and after three years' satisfactory experience in its cultivation, added that tract to his possessions. Ever on the alert to profit from opportunity, his investments did not cease there nor his real-estate operations, for in 1902 he bought four hundred and eighty acres of land in South Dakota, which he traded in 1905 for his present farm in Lovell township. It embraces four hundred, eighteen and a half acres and was formerly known as the old Hosford place. To it Mr. Stutt removed January 10, 1906, and has since made it his home. He still owns in addition one hundred, nineteen and a half acres of his Wayne township farm, besides one hundred and fifty-four acres two miles north of Anamosa, having purchased it during the spring of 1909, and a tract of one hundred and sixty acres one mile west of Langworthy, all rich and arable lands. Although he has been most successful as a tiller of the soil, with a view to winning the largest returns from his vocation, he has embarked in other enterprises connected with the farm. Since he was twenty he has been engaged in threshing and now owns a modern traction engine of twenty-two horse-power and a gasoline engine of fifteen horse-power, both of which have proven not only a welcome source of revenue to him but also of great accommodation to men in his vicinity. Almost from the time that he began his life as an agriculturist he has been interested in buying and shipping stock, and as he has developed this branch of his business with characteristic energy and ability he has become well and widely known as one of the important stockmen of his section of the county. Endowed with a high degree of business acumen, industrious and progressive, these qualities have been the means of his success in his undertakings. In consequence he enjoys a handsome competence and the satisfaction that comes from the knowledge that his work is well accomplished.

In 1889 Mr. Stutt was united in marriage to Miss Catherine M. Zimmerman, of Wayne township, this county. Eight children were born to them, six of whom survive: Henry, Elizabeth, Clarence, Emil, George and Alva, all at home. Mrs. Stutt passed away May 1, 1908, being deeply mourned by the family who knew her love and care. On the 19th of October, 1909, Mr. Stutt married Catherine M. Valster, a native of Germany.

Politically Mr. Stutt has allied himself with the democratic party, but has evinced no desire to participate in local politics. He has given his religious allegiance, as did his parents before him, to the faith of the German Lutheran church, up to whose tenets he has endeavored to live.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Past and Present, R. M. Corbitt, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910, p. 301.

John Stutt
Born 1838

JOHN STUTT, farmer, Wayne Twp., Sec. 15; P.O. Monticello; born in Germany in 1838; came to this country in 1858, and to Jones Co. in 1865. His wife's maiden name was Mary Hanns, a native of Germany; they were married in 1866; have five children—Henry, John, Herman, Meta and Edward. Mr. Stutt owns 160 acres of land. He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, in the 34th Ill. V.I., Company D; enlisted in 1861, and was discharged in 1862; re-enlisted in the Marine Brigade, and was discharged in 1864; was in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Vicksburg, etc. All the family are Lutherans; Mr. Stutt is a Republican.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 635.
Note: Wife's maiden name is Harms.

Henry Suhr
Born November 10, 1830

HENRY SUHR, furniture dealer, Monticello; was born in Prussia November 10, 1830; he grew up to manhood and learned his business there; he emigrated to America in 1861; he lived in Peekskill, N.Y.; he came to Jones Co., Iowa, in 1811 and located at Monticello and engaged in the furniture business; he has built up a good trade and does the leading business here; during the present year, he built the brick store he now occupies. In April, 1860, he married Johanna Rohn, from Prussia; they have five children—Max, Johanna, Lena, Matilda and George.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 684, and submitted by Lesley & Renee Franks

Ann Sullivan
Born 1844

MRS. ANN SULLIVAN, farmer, Wayne Twp., Sec. 29; P.O. Anamosa; born in Springfield, Ill., in 1844; came to Jones Co. in 1869, where she has since resided. Her husband, Mr. John Sullivan, died in January, 1871; they were married in 1862; have had five children, three of whom are living—Daniel, Mary and James; those dead were named Michael and Ellen. Mrs. Sullivan and her children are Catholics. She owns seventy-six acres of land.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 635.

John D. Sullivan
Born 1807

JOHN D. SULLIVAN, farmer, Richland Twp., Sec. 3; P.O. Cascade, Dubuque County; son of John and Margaret Sullivan; was born on the farm he now owns October 29, 1810; his father was a native of Ireland and was born in 1807; he came to this country in 1835, and entered the farm where his son now resides. His mother was born in Virginia in 1810; she was married in Illinois in 1827 to David Lindsay; had three children by this marriage, none of whom are living; she became a widow, and on January 1, 1810, she married Mr. Sullivan; she has four children by her second marriage—John D., William T. (lives in Daviess Co., Mo., and is editor of a paper called the Northern Missourian), Robert F. (resides in Franklin Co., Iowa), Dennis (lives in Richland Township, Jones Co., Iowa). John D. was married to Helen M. Simmons, who was born in Canada; she died July 13, 1877. Mr. Sullivan has five children—Adda, William H., Emma J., John F. and Charles M. Mr. Sullivan was for about one year a member of Co. C, 2d I.V.I.; entered the army in 1864. His brother, William T., enlisted in Co. K, 17th I.V.I., in 1861; served till the close of the war.

From History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 691.