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Howell L. Churchill Mr. Churchill was born May 13, 1849) Green
County, Wisconsin, and he is the son of L. M. and Eliza (Smith) Churchill, both
natives of Dutchess County, New York. The
paternal grandfather, Edward Churchill, served in the Revolutionary War in the
capacity of attendant upon one of its well-known generals.
He was a traveling shoemaker, in which way he made a very comfortable
living; later in life he bought a farm in New York.
He reached the remarkable age of one hundred and two years, having
retained his faculties up to the time
of his death; he was a very intellectual man and wielded considerable influence
in the affairs of his community. L. M. Churchill left New York
in 1848 and went to Wisconsin, where he bought land, owning two hundred acres,
which he subsequently sold and moved to Iowa in 1866, settling in Fairview
Township, Jasper County, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres near
Fairmount, and there he made his home for a number of years. At the time of his
death, which occurred in his eighty-third year, he had retired from active labor
and was living in
Monroe. He was born in 1807. He was
twice married, the immediate subject of this sketch being a child by the second
marriage. By the first marriage the
following children were born: Charles, who died at the age of eighty-two years
in California; he was for many years a farmer in Fairview Township, this County;
Harvey, who died in Newton, at the age of seventy-two years, was retired at the
time of his death; Edward is the owner of the Churchill hotel in Newton; Mary,
now deceased, was the wife of John Climer, a farmer of Mound Prairie Township.
By the second marriage of L. M. Churchill the following children were
born: Mason, a retired farmer at
Prairie City; Urias was a soldier in the Union Army and was killed at the battle
of Resaca, Georgia; Smith, who served during the Civil War in Company K,
Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, is now practicing law in Omaha,
Nebraska; Harriet, who married Marshal Ogg, lives in Fairview Township, Mr. Ogg
owning and operating the far mad joining that of the subject; Sally, deceased,
was the wife of Edward Scarborough, a farmer of Cass County, Iowa.
The mother of these children died at the age of sixty-seven years. Howell
L. Churchill, of this review, began working for himself when he became of age.
He had assisted with the development of his father's farm and had attended the
common schools in his district. He
rented his father's farm for a while and four years later, in 1874) he bought
the homestead, which consists of one hundred and sixty acres, and in 1892 he
bought one hundred and twenty acres joining the homestead on the south, making
in all two hundred and eighty acres of Jasper County's best land. On December 21, 1870, Mr.
Churchill was united in marriage with Emma Robinson, who was born December 10,
1849, in the State of Maine. She is the daughter of Cyrus and Harriet (Pierce)
Robinson, both natives of Maine. The family came to Wisconsin in 1853 and
engaged in farming, and in 1868 they moved to Jasper County, Iowa, buying land
in Fairview Township. This was
afterwards sold and the father retired from active work, moving his family to
the village of Monroe, buying property there.
Mr. Robinson, who became well known in this locality, died at the age of
seventy-four years. Mrs. Robinson
died when sixty-nine years old. Mrs. Churchill is one of a family of six children, namely:
Cyrus, who was a soldier in the Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
during the Civil War, died during his enlistment; Franklin died when twenty
years of age; Lucy married Mason Churchill, a brother of the subject; Calista
married Judson Mitchell, for many years a grocer at Monroe, this County, but who
is now deceased; she is living at Topeka, Kansas; Charles West died in infancy. Eight
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, as follows: Delia died in
infancy; Charles died at the age of two years; Olo is living at home; Calista
died at the age of eleven months; Levi married Florence Martin and they live on
the subject's farm; Harvey married
Bessie Farmer and lives on a farm in Fairview Township; Roy married Nell Main;
they, too, live on the farm of the subject and have two sons, the only
grandchildren in the family; Guy is now attending the Central University at
Pella. He is taking a course in
music, in which he is quite gifted; when only thirteen years old he was
graduated from the country schools. He
gives every promise of a future replete with success. In
1909, after a busy and successful career as an agriculturist, Mr. Churchill
retired from the farm, moving to the town of Monroe, where he purchased a modern and pleasant home and is now regarded as one of
the community's best citizens, a good neighbor, a true friend and a man of
progressive ideas. He is a deacon
in the Baptist Church of this place, having been a member of this denomination
since he was twenty-two years of age. He was also a deacon in the Fairmount
Baptist Church and superintendent of the Sunday school there for a number of
years. Mrs. Churchill was also a
teacher in the Sunday school there. Politically,
Mr. Churchill has always been a Republican. The
Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912
B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1178. |
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