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William
Harvey Nolin One
of the honored vocations from the earliest ages has been husbandry and as a
usual thing men of worthy impulses have been patrons of agriculture. The free
outdoor life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that
independence of mind and self-reliance which characterizes true manhood and the
boy is indeed fortunate who is reared in close touch with nature in the
healthful, life-inspiring labor of the fields. Among
the enterprising young farmers of Fairview township, Jasper County, Iowa, is
William Harvey Nolin, who was born in Marion County, Iowa, February 21, 1885.
He is the son of Cyrus Nolin and wife, a complete sketch of whom appears
elsewhere in this volume. The subject was the second in a family of four
children, the others being, Robert George, now deceased; Elvin Meek; Mary Alice
Blanch. William
H. Nolin attended school at Sunny Point and he grew up on the home farm,
assisting with the general work there when a boy. On the evening of his twenty-first birthday he was married,
and he then began renting land of his father-in-law, and the year following he
rented of his father. In 1911 he
and his brother, Elvin, bought a portion of the James A. Tool farm of one
hundred and twenty acres, renting other land also, operating two hundred and
eighty acres in all. The two live
together and work the place together and they are making a success as general
farmers and stock raisers, making a specialty of Poland-China hogs, Belgian and
Shetland horses and light Brahma chickens. William
H. Nolin is independent in politics, voting always for the best man, regardless
of party. He is a prohibitionist in
belief. He belongs to Tool's Chapel
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr.
Nolin was married on February 21, 1906, to Grace Lucile Jarnagin, who was born
December 19, 1884, in Marion County. She
is the daughter of Alpheus Jarnagin, who came from Illinois to Iowa in 1865.
Mrs. Nolin attended the Enterprise district school in Fairview Township,
this County. To
the subject and wife three children have been born, namely: Karl William, Burt
Roscoe and Harold Elvin. Elvin Meek Nolin, mentioned above, as in partnership
with the immediate subject of this sketch in operating the farms in this
township, was born October 4, 1887, in Fairview township, this County.
He attended the rural schools and the high school at Monroe, from which
he was graduated in 1898, after which he taught school very acceptably for two
years; but he has preferred farming and he is making good. On
February 21, 1911, Mr. Nolin was married to Cattolina Fennema, who was born in
1890, the daughter of John F. and Wilhelmina L. (Dejong) Fennema.
These parents, who are of Holland descent, are farmers in Marion County. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 592. |
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