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CHICKASAW COUNTY
IAGenWeb Project
Submitted by Leonard Granger
Chickasaw County
Bradford Township Pioneers
Back Row (left to right): Charles PARKER, Charles TAYLOR, Henry WAITE, W.A. McMILLAN, John BIRD, D. McMURRAY
Third Row (left to right): Alba YOUNG, James McCARTY, Wm CARTER, L.H. WELLER, Nathan THOMPSON, Smiley S. SAMPLE, E.V.R. HALL
Second Row (left to right): John FELCHER, Edward HALL, A.D. YOUNG, Sanford RIPLEY, D.J. HORTON, John B. COFFMAN
First Row (left to right): Titus HOLMES, D. HALL, S.H. NOBLE, M.L. WOODBRIDGE
Smiley S. SAMPLE:
- Son of Andrew Sample, early settler, 1854.
- Erected sawmill in Bradford.
- Opened the first store of general merchandise in Nashua 1856 (Alexander, pg 198 & 320)
- Served in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry - Co G (1883 Alexander, pg 312)
John FELCHER:
- Served in the Twenty-Seventh Iowa Infantry - Co G (1883 Alexander, pg 312)
- b. 13 Jan 1826 in New York. d. 19 Feb 1895 Nashua
D. HALL
- Early settler of Nashua (1854)
- Built first hotel in 1857 in Nashua
- Served in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry - Co G (1883 Alexander, pg 311)
Source:History of Chickasaw and Howard Co (1919), Vol I, pg 214, by Fairbairn
Source:History of Chickasaw and Howard Co (1883), by Alexander