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Carlos Conwell Mr. Carlos Conwell was born in Jasper County,
May 18, 1860, and he has always been identified with agricultural pursuits of
his home district. His father,
Clark D. Conwell, was born in 1822, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, there grew
up, spent his early life and came in an early day to Iowa, and lived in this state until his death in
Jasper County, on August 14, 1887. He
married Rebecca Toppin, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, February
10, 1823, and there she grew to womanhood and they were married in their native
State, and accompanied Mr. Conwell on the long overland trip to the new State of
Iowa when it was being settled, and she reached an advanced age, dying in Jasper
County on November 10, 1910. They
had little of this world's goods when they arrived, but the soil was rich and
they were not afraid of hard work, so they had a good little farm and a
comfortable home in a few years. Their family consisted of seven children, one
of whom died in infancy, the older ones having been born in Ohio, the three
younger after the family came to Iowa; they were, R. C., born January 25, 1844,
is living in Independence Township; Carlos of this review; Clark D., born April
14, 1867, lives in this Township; Mrs. Mary C. Webb is living in Baxter, Iowa;
Mrs. J. S. Booth also lives in Baxter; Mrs. Sarah Guthrie, born March 10, 1864,
lives at Andover, South Dakota. There
are in this family twenty-one grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. Carlos Conwell supported and
cared for his aged parents until their deaths.
He has made a success of general farming and stock raising and has a neat
little farm of fifty-nine acres, part of the old homestead, which he has kept
well improved. Politically, he is
independent and he and his family affiliate with the Methodist Church. He is a member of Baxter Lodge No. 168, Knights of Pythias,
at Baxter. The Past and Present of Jasper County,
Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN,
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