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Joseph T. Stratton The
record of the subject of this review is that of an enterprising gentleman who
worthily upholds an honored family name and whose life has been very intimately
associated with the material prosperity and general advancement of Clear Creek
Township, Jasper County, during the most progressive period of its history, and
Mr. Stratton has always been found on the right side of questions looking to the
progress of this locality in any way. Joseph
T. Stratton was born in this Township on October 21, 1871, and he has been
content to spend his life right here at home, thereby obtaining as good, if not
better, opportunities as could be found anywhere else and at the same time he
has had the associations of the community in which his parents were pioneers.
He is the son of James and Mary (Streeter) Stratton, the father born in
Scotland, from which country he emigrated to the United States in early life,
married here and established his permanent home, dying in Clear Creek Township,
Jasper County, Iowa, on August 4, 1895, at the age of sixty-four years and six
months; his wife, who was born in the state of New York on April 24, 1835, died
May 1, 1912; Joseph T. was the second of a family of four children, the others
being Henry, who lives in Collins, Story County; Mrs. Elsie Clapper, of
Independence Township; Edward lives at Maxwell, Iowa.
They were all born in Clear Creek Township. Joseph T. Stratton worked on his father's farm when a boy and attended the district schools and he has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and stock raising, being regarded as an exceptionally good judge of horses; he is the owner of some of the finest horses in this locality. One of his mares took second prize at the International Stock Show at Chicago, 1910. He also owns one of the finest young horses to be seen in the state. He owns one hundred and eighty-six acres of the home place and ten acres in another part of Clear Creek Township, all of which he has kept well improved and under a high state of cultivation. He has a good home and outbuildings, everything about the place denoting excellent management. Politically,
Mr. Stratton is a Republican; he has been constable of this Township.
Fraternally, he belongs to Crescent Camp No. 2358, Modern Woodmen of
America, of Collins. Mr. Stratton was married on April 23, 1896, to Edith
Warrell, who was born in this County, September 22, 1879) the daughter of
Charles and Eva (Clapper) Warrell; the mother was born in Ohio and is now
residing in Collins; the father lived in Jasper County a number of years. There are
four children in the Warrell family, namely: Edith, wife of Mr. Stratton, of
this sketch, being the eldest; Mrs. Lola Penquite is living in Colfax; Oral
lives in Montana; Mrs. Mabel Halterman, of Collins.
The older children were born in Jasper County and the younger ones in
Story County. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stratton, named as follows: Eva, born August 15, 1898; Cora, born November 8, 1900; Earl, born October 1, 1902; Leola, born July 12, 1904; James T., born August 23, 1907. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1119. |
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