These marriage records have been transcribed from the images attached to this page These images represent a transcribed typed copy of a different handwritten transcription compiled as part of the Iowa Genealogical Records Series, Book XIII, of the Iowa DAR
First Marriages in Mahaska County, Iowa, 1844-1849 Read More »
President and principal of Oskaloosa College, Oskaloosa; born in Nelson county, Ky., March 4, 1834; when only eight years of age he removed to Bureau county, Illinois, and was reared and educated there, and then attended Abingdon College, and graduated in the class of “59.” After graduating he came to Winterset, Madison county, and engaged in teaching, taking charge of the academy in connection with preaching, he remained there two years, then came here and in connection with his brother they established this school in September, 1861; since then he has been connected with it, and this institution owes much
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