I. S. SMITH.

I. S. Smith (or "Scott" Smith, as he is familiarly and universaily called and known) was the seventh child of a family of ten children born to Jesse and Elizabeth M. (Johnson) Smith. The father was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 1832, and was the son of John B. and Sarah Smith. In 1862 he married Elizabeth M. Johnson, who was the daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Cramer) Johnson. She was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1840. After their marriage-about three years-Jesse Smith removed with his family from Pennsylvania to Iowa, and settled first in Scott county, on a farm. Five years later the family moved to Jasper county and purchased eighty acres of land in Buena Vista township; later other lands were added to this and at the present time Mr. Smith's holdings consist of two hundred and eighty acres upon which the son, Scott, the subject of this review, resides, the father having retired and moved to Newton in 1904, buying property there. Here Mr. Smith died, January 11, 1911.

The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Smith are as follows: John B., born 1863, died in 1872; Joseph J., born in 1864, married Grace Young, lives in California; William Richard, born 1866, died in 1878; Edward B., born 1868, married Charlotte Castleman, lives on what was formerly a part of the old Smith homestead, and adjoining, in Buena Vista township; James A., born 1871, died 1878, of diphtheria; Frank, born 1873, died in infancy; Scott, of this sketch, born 1874; Alice May, born 1876, married Garrett Hasselman, lives on a farm in Marion county, near Oskaloosa; Anna M., born 1880, married John Philips, who died, and later she married Sherman Sanderson, resides in South Dakota; Charles H., born 1883, married May Callison, lives in Redfield, Iowa.

Jesse Smith was active in church affairs before his health failed. He helped build, financially and with his labor, the Baptist church at Killduff, of which he and his wife are charter members.

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Scott Smith began to work for himself at the age of twenty years. rented a place from his father and farmed it for a while. In 1901 he bought one hundred and sixty acres in Buena Vista township, which he farmed for three years, when he sold it to Ike Barda and moved to Newton, but one year later he moved back on his father's farm where he has since resided.

On February 15, 1899, Scott Smith was united in marriage to Anna M. Hill, daughter of J. B. and Elizabeth (Stanley) Hill, both natives of Indiana, she being the seventh child born in a family of eight. Mr. Hill, her father,

was a large landowner in Buena Vista township, and a very fine man. He departed this life in 1900, at his old home place in Buena Vista township, his wife surviving him and now lives in Kellogg.

To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born four children, as follows: Clarence, born April 26, 1900; Florence, born January 2, 1906; Ruth, born June 30, 1908, died September 2, 1909; Ester Evelin, born June 10, 1911. Besides farming, Mr. Smith owns and operates in partnership with his brother-in-law, Bert Hill, a threshing machine, also owning a fine automobile and is a progressive farmer. Fraternally, he is a member of the Iowa State Grange in Buena Vista. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Pleasant View. Mr. Smith has since bought the place on which he lives, his father's old homestead.

E. L. DUNCAN.

An honored pioneer and progressive farmer is E. L. Duncan, of Poweshiek, Jasper county, he being a member of a sterling old family, members of which have done much in the general development of the western part of the county and who have always been regarded as among the leading citizens of this locality in every respect.

Mr. Duncan was born on the farm which he now owns, December 24, 1858. He is the son of Lieut. E. D. and L. B. (Whitney) Duncan, the former born in Adams county, Illinois, on January 1, 1828, and the latter in Hancock county, Illinois, in 1831. They were married in 1852 and the following year they came to Jasper county, Iowa. The paternal grand father was a native of Kentucky, and the Whitneys were originally of Vermont.

Lieut. E. D. Duncan, mentioned above, enlisted in 1861 in Company B, Thirteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and he was commissioned second lieutenant on October 21st following. In March, 1862, the regiment was ordered to the support of General Grant, and on March 8th they left Jefferson City, went to St. Louis and thence down the river to Pittsburg Landing, reaching there March 23d. During the first day's battle at Shiloh this regiment was under constant fire for ten hours, making a gallant resistance, after which it was found that twenty-four had been killed. one hundred and thirtynine wounded and nine were missing. Among the killed was Lieut E. D. Duncan, who, on April 6, 1862, gallantly gave his life for his country, in the first battle of his regiment. His brave deeds during that great battle and his name have been honored and perpetuated by the naming of the Grand Army

post at Colfax, the E. D. Duncan Post No. 253. He had come to the front as a leading citizen through merit and ability. He was a Republican and was influential in local affairs. He served very capably as township trustee, also township clerk, in fact, filled all the local offices in Poweshiek township. He was a member of the first board of managers of the Jasper County Agricultural Society in 1856 and in 1860 he served on the board. His widow is residing in Independence township. this county. Two children were born to them: Louise K. is the wife of G. A. Rumbaugh and they live in Jasper county; E. L. Duncan, of this review, was the second in order of birth.

The subject grew to maturity on the home farm which he helped develop, and he received his education in the neighboring schools. His fine farm consists of four hundred and twenty acres of as valuable land as the township can boast, and he has kept it under a high state of improvement, carrying on general farming and stock raising in a most successful manner. He has a very pleasant home and substantial outbuildings.

Mr. Duncan has been township assessor for the past ten years, his long service giving sufficient evidence of his popularity and of his fidelity to his public duties. He is a stanch Republican in politics.

Mr. Duncan was married to Mary Gardner, daughter of William Gardner and wife of Jasper county, who emigrated to this county from Canada in 1868. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan the following children have been born: Harry G., Donald W., Ruth, Agnes and T. Darwin, all at home.

FRED RICHARDSON.

Among the representative farmers of Jasper county is Fred Richardson, who has a comfortable home in Richland township where he is carrying on the various departments of his enterprise with that discretion and energy which are sure to find their sequel, quite naturally, in definite success. Having always been a hard worker, a good manager and a man of economical habits, and, being fortunately situated in a thriving farming community, it is no wonder that he has made a very satisfactory living and has laid by something for the "rainy days" ahead.

Mr. Richardson was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, April 9, 1876, and he is the son of James and Louisa (Clark) Richardson, the father born in Ohio in 1845, and the mother a native of Marion county, Iowa. The maternal grandfather, Green T. Clark, came to Marion county, this state, in 1840, being among the earliest settlers, and he staked off a claim before the county was

established, and began life on the wild prairie when neighbors were few and far remote, in fact that section of the state had not so much as been surveyed. The father of the subject came to Pella, Iowa, in 1855, during the winter of that year, and although the country was not calculated to favorably impress one in its winter aspects, he knew that it had a great future and here he made his permanent home. He had been in Dallas county, Iowa, just previously, but did not like it there. He finally became the owner of two hundred and fifty acres of good land in Mahaska county and was well fixed. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His death occurred in the spring of 1904 at an advanced age. His family consisted of the following children: Clark, Elsworth, Charles M., Alta Erma, Clara (deceased) and Fred. The father took a great interest in his children and was careful in their training.

Fred Richardson, of this review, attended school in Mahaska county and grew to manhood there. When twenty-four years of age he began renting land in order to get a start, having come to Richland township, Jasper county, to a farm of one hundred and seventy-eight acres, belonging to George and Levi Richardson of Newton. He has been here twelve years and has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a Republican.

On February 15, 1900, Mr. Richardson was married to Mayme Elizabeth. Grandia, who was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, the daughter of Anthony Grandia, and this union has resulted in the birth of these children: Harold Emmett, Ralph Roy, Irma Viola and Esther Grace.

ABRAHAM ADAMSON.

One of the best known of all the early settlers of Jasper county, as well as one of the most sincerely revered, is the subject of this review. A volume of the keenest interest might well be written of his long and useful life did space permit, and it would indeed be a difficult task for the biographer to say more in praise of Mr. Adamsson than is his due.

To begin with, his birth was peculiar, he having been born while hist father and mother were enroute by wagon from Missouri to Iowa. When within one day's journey from their destination, the cavalcade of settlers was halted there, at the home of a settler named Ingerman, in Marion county, Iowa, March 31, 1846, the subject of this sketch was ushered into the world. His father, Evan Adamson, a native of Tennessee, and his mother, Elizabeth Miller, a native of North Carolina, had been married in Madison