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David
G. Tipton Standing
for upright manhood and progressive citizenship, David G. Tipton, long one of
Jasper County's active agriculturists who is now leading a retired life in his
cozy home in Baxter, has been an influential factor not only in the material
welfare of his Township, but also the moral welfare of the same.
He is one of the loyal boys in blue, having fought for his country's
honor in its hours of direst need in the great rebellion of the sixties.
He comes of an old and highly esteemed Ohio family, the genealogy of
which is traceable to an early period in the history of that commonwealth, his
paternal grandfather being one of the very earliest settlers of Harrison County,
Ohio, when that was a mere wilderness, the haunt of wild beasts and scarcely
less wild men, and his oldest son was captured by the Indians, but effected his
escape after three days of continuous travel, enduring many hardships, and
finally found his way back to his people. David
G. Tipton was born in Harrison County, Ohio, August 4, 1836, the son of William
Tipton, who was born, reared and died in that County, this being also the
history of the subject's mother, who was known in her maidenhood as Catherine
Gregory. Their family consisted of
ten children, one of whom died in infancy, nine growing to manhood and
womanhood, named as follows: Mrs.
Mary Farmer died in Kansas; Samuel died in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Eliza George died
in Ohio; David G., of this review; John is living in Quaker City, Ohio; Mrs. Ann
Vickers died in Ohio; Aquilla died in Ohio after he left the army; William's residence is unknown. David G.
Tipton grew up on the old homestead in Harrison County, Ohio, and there received
such education as the early schools afforded. During the last year of the Civil
war he served very faithfully as a private in Company H, One Hundred and
Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the war was honorably
discharged. After the war he
returned home to again take up the pursuit so abruptly broken by the conflict,
and there he continued farming until the fall of' 1867, when he came to Jasper
County, Iowa, and here he has resided continuously to the present time. Here he became the owner of an excellent farm of one hundred
and sixty acres in Independence Township. His
wife also owns fifty-six acres of good land in this Township, part of the old
Scott homestead, all of their land being well improved and productive.
A few years ago they transferred the cares of the farm to their son,
John, and purchased a pleasant home in Baxter, where they are now spending their
declining years, enjoying the fruits of a well-earned competency.
There is a marked contrast in the aspects of this locality now and when
they arrived here forty-four years ago in an old-fashioned covered wagon, the
prairies then-having been improved but very little. Mr. Tipton's wife was known in her maidenhood as Levina
Jane Scott, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, March 23, 1847, and there she
grew to womanhood, received her education in the old-time schools and there she
and Mr. Tipton were married on November 20, 1862.
She was the daughter of John G. arid Isabel Jane (Smith) Scott, both
natives of Ohio, the father having died in Jasper County August 7, 1905. Mrs.
Scott died in Newton, Iowa, February 25, 1910.
This family arrived here in the fall of 1867. The Scott family consisted
of the following children: Robert
Alexander, of Newton; Levina, wife of Mr. Tipton, of this review; Mrs. Frances
Miskimins, born October 20, 1850, died in Independence Township, this County, on
June 18, 1908. To Mr. and Mrs. Tipton have been born four children, all
but the eldest first seeing the light of day in Independence Township, this
County. They are: Mrs. Isabella
Poag, born in Ohio, April 26, 1864, is living in Kingsbury County, South Dakota;
Alonzo, born January 14, 1869, is residing in Baxter, Iowa; Mrs. Catherine Poag,
born February 14, 1872, is residing in Malaka Township, this County; John, born
November 10, 1874, is successfully operating his father's farm in Independence
Township. Politically, Mr. Tipton is a Republican, and he has been school director in his district. He has been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and he and his wife belong to the Congregational Church, at Baxter. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1117. |
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