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William
Dales One
of the owners of extensive farming interests in Mound Prairie Township is the
gentleman whose name initiates this sketch, one of Jasper County's highly
respected citizens. His valuable
property has been acquired through his own efforts, his persistency of purpose
and his determination and the prosperity which is the legitimate reward of all
earnest effort is today his. William
Dales was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, July 21, 1854, is the son of Andrew and
Mary (Gauley) Dales, both born near Belfast, Ireland, the father in 1826 and the
mother in 1827. Andrew Dales
immigrated to America when he was twenty-one years old, having been married just
before he started. He came to
Guernsey County, Ohio, later becoming the owner of eighty acres. In 1886 he
moved to Shelby County, Iowa, and there bought eighty acres and there he and his
wife spent the remainder of their lives. Politically, he is a republican and
after the Civil War he became a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
His family consisted of nine children, five sons and four daughters, of
whom the subject of this sketch was the oldest. William
Dales grew up on the home farm and assisted with the general work about the
place when a boy and he received his education in the district schools in Ohio.
Two years after his marriage he came to Jasper County, Iowa, and bought eighty
acres in Mound Prairie Township. Selling
that eighty, he bought one hundred and sixty acres, on which he erected all the
buildings and made all other necessary improvements, setting out many trees,
including walnut and willow groves. He
has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser. He keeps large
numbers of shorthorn cattle. Politically,
Mr. Dales is a Republican and he has been Township trustee and school director.
He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr.
Dales was married December 31, 1875, to Jennie E. Worthing, who was born in
Ohio, the daughter of Thomas Worthing, a farmer who joined the Union army and
was taken prisoner, confined at Andersonville and starved to death in prison. To
Mr. and Mrs. Dales the following children have been born: Mrs. Mary M. Watt,
Mrs. Agnes Maud Bond, Mrs. Minnie Pearl Leonard, Mrs. Belva Lockwood Scow, Mrs.
Ethel Newland, Bessie Zoe and William Vincent. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 687. |
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