1. The Dows family, from which Stephen Leland 2. John Adams Chandler Born 3. The Arthur Tappan Averill ancestry traces back to 16. Andrew Jackson and Miss Isabella B. Hostetter were united in marriage in Explore your place in history Dows descended, originally spelled the name at Fryeburg, Maine in 1833 he Captain John Averill who was commissioned under Dubuque, Iowa. Mrs. Jackson was a native of Lancaster County Pa., the daughter Dowse. The great-grandfather of Stephen L. was of the ninth generation of the crown of Great Britain. The next in descent was of Abraham and Lydia (White) Hostetter, natives of Pennsylvania and of German resided in Charleston at the outbreak of the family settled in New England. John Averill, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. ancestry, on the father’s side, and pure American on the side of the mother, she being The Colonial and Revolutionary War Revolution, and at the time of the battle of (see Chandler Pump connections 4. About 1652, John Upton came to America and able to trace her progenitors very nearly back to the landing of the Mayflower. Bunker Hill his property was destroyed. in Block 95 Lot 11 also) settled at what was then Salem Village, now known Family Connections as Danvers Mass., Francis J. Upton was several 17. Captain William Ives was born in England, and came to Boston in the ship “Truelove” in 1633. generations in line from this family. In 1639 he located at New Haven, Connecticut. His name appears in the civil compact dated June 4, 1639, 18. The family lineage of Edward Winslow and in the allotment to the first settlers. Also the family history includes Revolutionary War soldiers including can be traced back to THE Edward Lent Ives, who served at Valley Forge. Charles J. Ives, President of BCR&N Railroad is a descendent. Winslow, Mayflower passenger and leader of the Plymouth Colony. 103 105 107 (Serving 3 terms as governor and ambassador to the Wampanoag) 5. Sampson C. Bever was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Our Edward WInslow was associated in 1808. His paternal grandfather joined the Revolutionary with the local railroads, the BCR&N Army, as a private at Morristown, New Jersey, under 92 and the CRANDIC. 62 66 94 96 98 100 102 General Washington. His maternal grandfather emigrated 58 & 60 64 68 70 104 111 113 115 117 to America during the Revolutionary War, locating in [GAR] Washington County, Pennsylvania. 6. Susan Emery, daughter of Nathan Emery and Cornelia Broadhead, wife of Nicholas Brown. Through her mother, Cornelia Broadhead, she was descended from 19. Alexander and John Fellows Ely, M.D., Captain Daniel Broadhead. Sharing a common ancestry were descendants of Nathaniel Ely, of with is wife, Nicholas Broadhead Brown, through his Thomas Hooker’s congregation, about mother he was also a descendant of Daniel Broadhead. 200 that received a special permit from 7. Although the Van Metre name is more commonly King Charles I to emigrate to the New connected with other areas of Linn and Benton Counties, England colony and there to worship Ezra Van Metre is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. The family God without restriction. They sailed from first stopped at Cedar Rapids where their son Ezra was Ipswich in 1634 and settled in Newtown, practicing law and editing and publishing the Cedar now Cambridge Massachusetts. Rapids Times. Josina was the daughter of and Ezra the In 1636 Nathaniel Ely removed to VAULT grandson of Johonnes Van Metre Jr. a Revolutionary War Hartford, Connecticut. soldier serving as Captain of Berkeley County Militia in 20. Orville N. Hull was a native of Warren West Virginia. County, N. Y. The grandfather of Orville Hull, Daniel Hull, and his wife, Ruth 8. Susan Harriet Greene (Mrs. Algernon Sidney Belt) was Barnum, were natives of Connecticut, the daughter of Hon. George Greene and Harriet Merritt she having been connected with Greene. The Merritt family, of whom Mrs. Greene was a the family of P. T. Barnum. The great- member, settled in the central portion of Connecticut grandfather, as well as his wife, Elinore, some twenty-five years prior to the Revolution. 11. Isaac W. Carroll and Miss Mary C. Steadman were were natives of Connecticut, and 9. T h e Shearer family was founded in America during united in marriage in Cedar Rapids. Through the their ancestors came to the United colonial days and several participated in the Revolutionary marriage of her father, Mr. E. H. Steadman, to Miss Adeline States from Hull, England, soon after War. In the family of James Shearer, were three sons, of Elliott, the daughter of Simeon and Lucy (Putnam) Elliott, the settlement in New England. The whom John was the eldest. As the colonists resolved to Mary Steadman Carroll, was a cousin of Gen. Putnam, of great-grandfather of Orville Hull, on throw off British oppression he joined the Continental the mother’s side, was a, soldier in the

Revolutionary fame. BLOCK 181 Army as corporal, while his brother served as a lieutenant. Revolutionary War, and the farm that has Other members of the family in the Revolutionary war, 12. Major Jacob Harmon Camburn, M. D. His paternal been in the family for five generations, included Thomas and Reuben Shearer. Noah was a soldier great-grandfather, the father of Levi Camburn was a was received from the Government for

101 colonial and fought throughout the Revolutionary War. BLOCKS 174-177 104 107 110 113 of the Revolutionary war, participating in the latter part of 20 1 20 116 services rendered during that struggle. 1 56 20 1 1048 1050 119 21 2 21 2 20 1 1068 122 55 21 2 1070 1088 125 22 3 22 3 21 2 1090 1108 54 22 3 1110 1128 23 4 23 4 22 3 1130 53 23 4 1148 1150 1168 24 5 24 5 23 4 1054 1170 1188 1190 that struggle. John Little Shearer, a son of Noah, married 52 25 24 5 24 139 � 138 1052 1074 1208 1210 6 25 6 5 � 131 1072 13. The ancestry of the Cyrus W. Eaton family is traced back 51 26 25 6 25 � 130� 1094 1092 1114 1 7 26 7 6 129 1112 50 26 7 � 128� 1134 1132 27 8 27 8 26 7 102 1154 49 27 8 105 1152 1174 1172 28 9 28 9 27 8 108 1194 1192 2 48 28 9 111 1214 1212 29 10 29 10 28 9 114 Elizabeth Ann Weare, commonly called by her relatives 47 29 10 117 30 11 30 11 29 10 1056 1058 1076 120 3 to their arrival from England about the year 1636 or 1637 46 30 11 1078 123 4 31 12 30 11 1096 1098 126 31 12 31 1116 1118 45 32 13 12 31 12 1136 32 13 32 1138 1156 6 5 44 33 14 13 32 13 1158 1176 1178 33 14 33 1196 1198 43 34 15 34 14 33 14 1062 1060 1082 1216 1218 BLOCK 180 15 34 1080 Many member of the “Betsy,” the eldest child of John and Cynthia (Ashley) 15 1102 7 42 35 16 35 34 15 1100 1122 1120 8 9 and they settled at Reading, Mass. He arrived in Cedar 16 35 16 1142 41 36 17 35 16 1140 36 17 36 1162 1160 1182 40 37 18 17 36 17 103 1180 12 11 37 18 37 106 1102 1200 1222 10 39 38 19 38 18 37 18 109 1220 19 38 19 137 112 115 Weare. Cynthia Ashley Weare can be traced back to 38 19 � 136� 135 118 13 14 Ashley Chapter and the � 134 1064 1066 1084 121 15 16 Rapids in 1869, where he embarked in the wholesale � 133� 132 1086 124 BLOCK 179 � 1104 1106 1124 127 1126 1144 21 20 19 BL 178 BLOCKS 128 - 139 1146 1164 1166 18 17 1184 1186 1204 1206 1224 1226 22 23 24 25 Colonel Samuel Ashley an officer serving under the colonial 26 27 28 29 30 Mayflower Chapter of the and retail hardware business known as Jones and Eaton 24 41 40 39 38 37 31 23 36 35 34 33 22 42 43 32 government. Of the Volunteers, he raised 21 44 45 46 47 48 Daughters of the Hardware. (This same store has been associated with the BLOCK 182 20 61 60 49 50 51 19 59 58 57 56 18 55 54 53 168 17 62 52 167 165 63 64 65 164 66 67 68 a regiment, commanded and furnished money to the men 163 80 79 69 70 71 are located at Oak HIll Cemetery Camp family and R. C. Rock.) BLOCKS 163 - 168 78 77 76 75 81 74 73 72 82 83 84 85 86 until the state could reimburse him. 95 94 87 88 93 92 91 90 89 The Weare family is of English origin; the name in 14. Dr. E. L. Mansfield. His grandfather, Samuel Mansfield, America can be traced to 1638. Nathaniel Weare was was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and at the battle 21. Walter Brewster Mack had the record of his family back to his great-great-grandfather, John Mack, who was born in 1698, and his wife, Isabella Brown, who was the daughter of the Earl of an early proprietor of Newberry New Hampshire, and of Brandywine received a gunshot wound through the Montague. N. H. Robert, the son of John, and the great-grandfather of Walter, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving under Col. Reed and Gen. Stark, and after the close of his military career his name is of frequent occurrence in the town records upper portion of his hip which never healed and from he settled in Leicester, Vt., where his eldest son, John, the grandfather of Walter was born John Mack held a commission in the War of 1812, and was for many years a Government contractor for the early in 1638. Nathaniel Weare, the third of the name, which he eventually died. A native of Germany, he went supply of timber and lumber in the building of harbors on Lake Erie. had two sons, Peter Weare, known as Captain Weare, and to England, joined the British army, and came to this 22. Among the prominent attorneys and influential citizens of Cedar Rapids is Colonel Charles A. Clark. He was born in Sangerville, Maine, in 1841, and belongs to a family, which was founded in this country Mishech Weare. John Weare was a descendent of the country as a British soldier. His sympathies were with the by Hugh Clark, who came from England in 1640 and located in Massachusetts. William G. Clark, the Colonel’s father was a life-long resident of the old Pine Tree state. In early life William married Miss older son, Peter Weare / Elijah Weare / Peter John Weare / colonists, and on arrival in this country, he deserted from Elizabeth White Stevens, a daughter of Dr. Whiting Stevens. The Stevens family was of English origin and among the early Puritans who came to this country. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Clark were born eleven children, of whom Colonel Charles A. Clark is third in order of birth. On the 19th of December 1863, in Sangerville, Maine, Colonel Clark was united in marriage with Miss Helen E. Brockway, a native of that Jonathan (who married Cynthia Ashley). Meshech Weare the British army. town and a schoolmate. Her father, Cyrus Brockway, was a prominent manufacturer, proprietor of Brockway’s Mills at Sangerville, and a representative of an old pioneer family of that locality. an important figures in Revolutionary War. He was the first 15. The father of Dr. A. H. Taylor crossed the Alleghenies president (governor) of New Hampshire and also served as where he took up land and planted an orchard. The 23. The Daniels Brothers buried at Oak Hill Cemetery were Lowell & Lawson Daniels their father being Otis Daniels, who was born in Medway, Norfolk county, Massachusett in 1786. His ancestors, who were from Wales, became residents of Massachusetts in colonial times, and the family was well represented in the Revolutionary War. president of the council, chief justice, and chairman of the Indians drove them back, and they did not venture Committee of Safety. to return for seven years, but once more established 24. Thomas Z. Cook and Joseph Sutherland Cook were the sons of Robert and Elizabeth (Sutherland) Cook. His mother was born in Canada and was a daughter of Capt. Sutherland of the British Army, and themselves in the same locality. The Indians had pulled a native of Scotland. 10. H. S. Camp, was a native of Hartford, Vt., where he was 25. Isaac Mosher Preston was born at Bennington, Vermont in 1813. His grandfather, Levi Preston, was born in England in 1736. They immigrated to America soon after, and settled first in Massachusetts, then born in 1807. His parents were Abel and Annie (Manning) up nearly all the apple trees, but a few remained to become of bearing age. The grandfather of Dr. A. H. Taylor moved to the granite hills of Bennington, Vermont. When the Revolutionary War broke out he joined with the colonists and did honorable service.2011 His family was as follows: John, Phebe, Mary, Ephraim, Camp, natives of Old Milford and Sharon Conn., Elizabeth, Levi, Hannah. Ephraim, the father of the Isaac Preston, served a short time in the Revolutionary army; married Anna Hoag, by whom he had four daughters and one son, he was married a second respectively. Father (Abel) served in the Revolutionary was Alexander Taylor, a soldier of the Revolution. The Government employed him as a surveyor, and when not time to Sarah Maxwell, of Rhode Island, and by her had six children, Colonel Preston being next to the youngest. In 1814 his parents moved to Onondaga County, New York, where his father died in 1849, his War for four years. mother having died in 1832. At the age of sixteen, Isaac Preston learned the carpenter and joiner’s trade, and continued at that business till 1840, when he resolved to study law. In 1842 he moved to Iowa, employed elsewhere, made his home in Pennsylvania. and entered the office of Asa Calkin, of Iowa City, and was admitted to the bar in 1842 in Marion, where he continued to practice. © 2004 The Thoresen Project Due to Space limitations on the map side, information for some of our families had to be edited. was forced to resign in June of that year. Subsequently he again entered the service as surgeon of the Sixth Iowa Calvary, with the rank of major, and went to Dakota, The Rest of the Story. where he served as medical director on the staff of General Sully, a son of the noted painter, who was sent to that section to quell the Indian outbreaks. When the war Complete information is repeated on this side. It was impossible to include all families connected to the Daughters/ Sons of the was over the Doctor was honorably discharged in November 1865, and returned to Cedar Rapids. He has practiced very little since then except among old friends. American Revolution, but if your family has a special story please share it with us. 13. The ancestry of the Cyrus W. Eaton family is traced back to their arrival from England about the year 1636 or 1637 and they settled at Reading, Mass. He arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1869, where he embarked in the wholesale and retail hardware business known as Jones and Eaton Hardware. (This same store has been associated 1. The Dows family, from which Stephen Leland Dows descended, originally spelled the name Dowse. They were among the early settlers in Massachusetts, coming with the Camp family and R. C. Rock.) from England only a few years after the Plymouth Colony arrived. They located near Boston. The great-grandfather of Stephen L. resided in Charleston at the outbreak of the Revolution, and at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill his property was destroyed. 14. Dr. E. L. Mansfield was a son of Martin and Margaret (Durham) Mansfield, natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland respectively, and who moved to Ohio early after their marriage. His grandfather, Samuel Mansfield, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and at the battle of Brandywine received a gunshot wound through the upper 2. John Adams Chandler Born at Fryeburg, Maine, January 13, 1833 he was of the ninth generation of family settled in New England; in 1851 the family moved to portion of his hip which never healed and from which he eventually died. He was a native of Germany, he went to England, joined the British army, and came to this Wisconsin where he learned the trade of millwright and the manufacture of furniture; in 1863 removed to Monticello, Iowa, where the Chandler Pump Company was country as a British soldier. His sympathies were with the colonists, and on arrival in this country, he deserted from the British army, joined the colonial forces, and did organized; In 1890 the business moved to Cedar Rapids; he was president of the company until his death in 1903. (See Chandler Pump connections in Block 95 Lot 11 also) valiant service in the field of battle for the country he loved. 3. Arthur Tappan Averill was born at Highgate Springs, Franklin County, Vermont, on September 14, 1843. His ancestry traces back to Captain John Averill who was 15. At an early day the father of Dr. A. H. Taylor crossed the Alleghenies where he took up land and planted an orchard. The Indians drove them back, and they did not commissioned under the crown of Great Britain and settled first in Northfield, Massachusetts, but in 1752 removed to township number 1, Vermont. The next in venture to return for seven years, but once more established themselves in the same locality. The Indians had pulled up nearly all the apple trees, but a few remaining descent was John Averill, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. to become of bearing age. The grandfather of Dr. A. H. Taylor was Alexander Taylor, who took pride in calling himself a soldier of the Revolution. The Government 4. Over 200 years ago, about 1652, John Upton, who was a Scotchman by birth, came to America and settled at what was then Salem Village, now known as Danvers employed him as a surveyor, and when not employed elsewhere, made his home in Pennsylvania. Mass., Francis J. Upton, President of the Star Wagon Company, of Cedar Rapids, was several generations in line from this family. 16. Andrew Jackson and Miss Isabella B. Hostetter were united in marriage June 1, 1879, in the city of Dubuque, Iowa. Mrs. Jackson was a native of Lancaster County Pa., 5. Sampson C. Bever was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1808. His paternal grandfather joined the Revolutionary Army, as a private at Morristown, New Jersey, born July 12, 1846. She was the daughter of Abraham and Lydia (White) Hostetter, natives of Pennsylvania and of German ancestry, on the father’s side, and pure under General Washington. His maternal grandfather emigrated to America during the Revolutionary War, locating in Washington County, Pennsylvania. American on the side of the mother, she being able to trace her progenitors very nearly back to the landing of the Mayflower. One of these, Lydia White, was one of the 6. Susan Emery, daughter of Nathan Emery and Cornelia Broadhead, wife of Nicholas Brown, Through her mother, Cornelia Broadhead, she was descended from first white children born in the United States. Captain Daniel Broadhead, military governor of a portion of New Netherlands known as Kingston, in the state of New York. From his grandson also named Daniel were 17. Captain William Ives was born in England, and came to Boston in the ship “Truelove” in 1633. In 1639 he located at New Haven, Connecticut. His name appears in the descended three revolutionary soldiers – General Daniel Broadhead, a noted Indian fighter and close friend of . Luke Broadhead, a captain and civil compact dated June 4, 1639, and in the allotment to the first settlers. Also the family history includes Revolutionary War soldiers including Lent Ives, who served friend of LaFayette, and Garret Broadhead, a captain. Sharing a common ancestry with his wife, Nicholas Broadhead Brown, son of John and Johannah (Broadhead) at Valley Forge. Charles J. Ives, President of BCR&N Railroad is a descendent. Brown, was born in the village of Sandiston, Sussex County, New Jersey, July 10, 1814. His father, John Brown, was a native of Connecticut. Through his mother he was 18. The family lineage of Edward Winslow can be traced back to THE Edward Winslow, Mayflower passenger and leader of the Plymouth Colony. (Serving 3 terms as a descendant of Daniel Broadhead. Daniel Broadhead was for a time military governor of a part of New Netherlands under Colonel Nichols, and was located at what governor and ambassador to the Wampanoag) is now known as the town of Kingston, New York. His grandson; also named Daniel Broadhead, removed in 1733 to the Delaware water gap in what is now Monroe Our Edward Winslow was associated with the local railroads, the BCR&N and the CRANDIC. County, Pennsylvania. He had four sons, Daniel, Garret, Charles and Luke, who with their father during the Indian wars in Pennsylvania refused to leave their home, protected themselves, with others, by a stockade and maintained their stand until peace was restored. Of these sons three became officers in the Revolutionary army, 19. Alexander and John Fellows Ely, M.D., were descendants of Nathaniel Ely, of Thomas Hooker’s congregation, about 200 that received a special permit from Daniel serving as a general, Luke as captain, while Garret was also an officer. His son, Garret Broadhead, Jr., was a sergeant and was for a time in the part of the army King Charles I to emigrate to the New England colony and there to worship God without restriction. They sailed from Ipswich in 1634 and settled in Newtown, commanded by General Washington. Garret Broadhead, Jr., was the grandfather of Nicholas B. Brown. now Cambridge Massachusetts. In 1636 Nathaniel Ely removed to Hartford, Connecticut. 7. Although the Van Metre name is more commonly connected with other areas of Linn and Benton Counties, Ezra Van Metre is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. The family 20. Orville N. Hull was a native of Warren County, N. Y. The grandfather of Orville Hull, Daniel Hull, and his wife, Ruth Barnum, were natives of Connecticut, she having first stopped at Cedar Rapids where their son Ezra was practicing law and editing and publishing the Cedar Rapids Times. Ezra was the youngest army officer in the been connected with the family of P. T. Barnum. The great-grandfather, as well as his wife, Elinore, were natives of Connecticut, and their ancestors came to the Mexican War and came to Cedar Rapids from Ohio. As a lawyer he argued for Cedar Rapids to become the county seat rather than Marion. His mother Josina Van Metre United States from Hull, England, soon after the settlement in New England. The great-grandfather of Orville Hull, on the mother’s side, was a, soldier in the was 15 years old when she became the second wife of John Evans Van Metre, a distant relative. His great grandfather and her grandfather were brothers. Josina was the Revolutionary War, and the farm that has been in the family for five generations, was received from the Government for services rendered during that struggle. daughter of and Ezra the grandson of Johonnes Van Metre Jr. a Revolutionary War soldier serving as Captain of Berkeley County Militia in West Virginia. There is a family 21. Walter Brewster Mack had the record of his family back to his great-great-grandfather, John Mack, who was born in 1698, and his wife, Isabella Brown, who was the story that says in June 1663, Catherine du Bois and her baby were placed on a pile of logs which the Indians, her captors, were planning to set afire, but were restrained daughter of the Earl of Montague. They emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1732, and were among the first settlers in founding the town of Londonderry, N. H. from the act as she sang one hymn after another until her husband and a company of Dutch soldiers arrived to rescue them. The baby in this incident became the wife of Robert, the son of John, and the great-grandfather of Walter, was born in America. Robert was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving under Col. Reed and Joost Janse of Meteren (John Van Metre), son of Jan Joosten Van Metre who came to New Amsterdam in 1662. Gen. Stark, and after the close of his military career he settled in Leicester, Vt., where his eldest son, John, the grandfather of Walter was born April 2, 1762. John Mack 8. Susan Harriet Greene (Mrs. Algernon Sidney Belt) was the daughter of Hon. George Greene and Harriet Merritt Greene. Harriet Merritt Greene departed this life April held a commission in the War of 1812, and was for many years a Government contractor for the supply of timber and lumber in the building of harbors on Lake Erie. 25, 1850, at Dubuque, Iowa. The Merritt family, of whom Mrs. Greene was a member, settled in the central portion of Connecticut some twenty-five years prior to the 22. Among the prominent attorneys and influential citizens of Cedar Rapids is Colonel Charles A. Clark. He was born in Sangerville, Maine, in 1841, and belongs to a Revolution. Absalom Merritt, a farmer, was a native of England, and immigrated to this country about the year 1750. family, which was founded in this country by Hugh Clark, who came from England in 1640 and located in Massachusetts. William G. Clark, the Colonel’s father was 9. T h e Shearer Family was founded in America during colonial days and several of its representatives participated in the Revolutionary War. The first to come to the new a life-long resident of the old Pine Tree state. In early life William married Miss Elizabeth White Stevens, a daughter of Dr. Whiting Stevens. The Stevens family was of world was James Shearer, who on crossing the Atlantic in 1720 settled in Union, Connecticut, but later removed to Elbow Corners, now Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1726. English origin and among the early Puritans who came to this country. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Clark were born eleven children, of whom Colonel Charles A. Clark is third In his family were three sons, of whom John was the eldest. He was born in 1706 and in early manhood married Jane Williams. When the colonists resolved to throw off in order of birth. On the 19th of December 1863, in Sangerville, Maine, Colonel Clark was united in marriage with Miss Helen E. Brockway, a native of that town and the yoke of British oppression he joined the Continental army as corporal, while his brother served as a lieutenant and participated in many battles. Other members of a schoolmate. Her father, Cyrus Brockway, was a prominent manufacturer, proprietor of Brockway’s Mills at Sangerville, and a representative of an old pioneer family the family were also in the Revolutionary War, including Thomas and Reuben Shearer. John Shearer took part in the battles of Lexington, Saratoga and Bennington. In the of that locality. John Shearer family were eight children, of whom Noah Shearer is the next in direct line. Noah was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, participating in the latter part of that 23. The Daniels Brothers buried at Oak Hill Cemetery were Lowell & Lawson Daniels their father being Otis Daniels, who was born in Medway, Norfolk county, struggle, and was in the battle of Bennington. John Little Shearer, a son of Noah, was born in Palmer, Massachusetts, February 12, 1804. In 1832 be enlisted for service Massachusetts, April 14, 1786. His ancestors, who were from Wales, became residents of Massachusetts in colonial times, and the family was well represented in the in the Black Hawk War and subsequently secured a land warrant, which entitled him to a certain amount of land in the Mississippi valley. Subsequently he was engaged Revolutionary War. Addison & Preston Daniels, were known as two other brothers in the area but not at Oak Hill Cemetery. in merchandising in Otsego, Michigan, and while there he was married Miss Elizabeth Ann Weare, commonly called by her relatives “Betsy,” who was born in Derby Line, Vermont, April 1812, and was the eldest child of John and Cynthia (Ashley) Weare. In 1839 he came to Iowa and in 1841 located a claim in Linn County prior to the 24. Thomas Z. Cook and Joseph Sutherland Cook were the sons of Robert and Elizabeth (Sutherland) Cook. His mother was born in Canada and was a daughter of surveying of this region. His place was located 18 miles north of Marion and he settled in the spring of 1841. At that time there was only one other dwelling on the east Capt. Sutherland of the British Army, and a native of Scotland. bank of the river, which was occupied by a family named Osgood Shepard. 25. Isaac Mosher Preston was born at Bennington, Vermont in 1813. His grandfather, Levi Preston, was born in England in 1736. Levi married Deliverance, daughter of Cynthia Ashley Weare can be traced back to Colonel Samuel Ashley an officer serving under the colonial government. Of the New Hampshire Volunteers, he raised a Nicholas Mosher, who was born in 1730. They immigrated to America soon after, and settled first in Massachusetts, then moved to the granite hills of Bennington, regiment, commanded and furnished money to the men until the state could reimburse him. Vermont. When the Revolutionary War broke out he joined with the colonists in that struggle, and did honorable service. His family was as follows: John, born 1759; The Weare family is of English origin; the name in America can be traced to 1638. Nathaniel Weare was an early proprietor of Newberry New Hampshire, and his name is of Phebe, born 1761; Mary, born 1762; Ephraim, born 1764; Elizabeth, born 1766; Levi, born 1769; Hannah, born 1771. Ephraim, the father of the Isaac Preston, served a frequent occurrence in the town records early in 1638, and for twenty years thereafter. In 1659 he moved to Nantucket, where he died, leaving a son, Nathaniel Weare, who short time in the Revolutionary army; married Anna Hoag, by whom he had four daughters and one son, who, dying in 1803, he was married a second time to Sarah was born in England in 1630. He died in 1718, leaving one son, Hon. Nathaniel Weare (called also Deacon and Judge). This Nathaniel Weare, the third of the name, had two Maxwell, of Rhode Island, and by her had six children, Colonel Preston being next to the youngest. In 1814 his parents moved to Onondaga County, New York, where sons, Peter Weare, known as Captain Weare, and Mishech Weare. John Weare was a descendent of the older son, Peter Weare / Elijah Weare / Peter John Weare / Jonathan his father died in 1849, his mother having died in 1832. (who married Cynthia Ashley). Meshech Weare was one of the most important figures in Revolutionary War New Hampshire. He was the first president (governor) of New At the age of sixteen, Isaac Preston learned the carpenter and joiner’s trade, and continued at that business till 1840, when he resolved to study law. In 1842 he moved Hampshire and also served as president of the council, chief justice, and chairman of the Committee of Safety. to Iowa, and entered the office of Asa Calkin, of Iowa City, and was admitted to the bar in 1842 in Marion, where he continued to practice. December 19, 1845, he was 10. H. S. Camp, a retired merchant of Cedar Rapids, came to the Hawkeye State in 1861. He was a native of Hartford, Vt., where he was born in 1807. His parents were Abel appointed by Governor Clark District Attorney for the Eighteenth District of Iowa Territory, and discharged the duties of that office for two years. February 17, 1846, he and Annie (Manning) Camp, natives of Old Milford and Sharon Conn., respectively. The father (Abel) served in the Revolutionary War for four years. H. S. and Elizabeth was commissioned by Governor Clark colonel of the 3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 2d Division of the Militia of Iowa, and assisted in organizing troops for the Mexican War, (Raymond) Camp were the grandparents of Lulu Camp Douglas, first wife of Walter Douglas. but was not called into active service. He was elected Probate Judge for Linn County in 1843. March 3, 1847, he was commissioned by President Polk, District Attorney for the State and District of Iowa, and continued in that position until the close of Polk’s administration. In 1848 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the 11. Isaac W. Carroll and Miss Mary C. Steadman were united in marriage at the home of the bride in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Carroll is a native of Meigs County, Ohio, and General Assembly of Iowa, and two years later to the State Senate. was born Oct. 6, 1839, coming with her parents to Iowa while a young girl. Her father, Mr. E H. Steadman, was a native of Vermont, of New England parentage, where Colonel Preston was married in Seneca County, New York, April 3, 1837, to Mary J., the daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Watson) Facer, natives of England and he had come with his father, Rev. Eli Steadman, a Baptist minister. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Gates; she was a native of Vermont, immigrated to Ohio Massachusetts respectively, and by her has two sons Joseph H., born in 1839 and Edmund C., born in 1841, who married Deborah, daughter of A. J. Twogood. with her husband. Afterward Mr. Steadman married Miss Adeline Elliott, who was a native of Meigs County, and the daughter of Simeon and Lucy (Putnam) Elliott. They came from Salem, Mass.; the father was a leader in politics, and one of the best-educated men in the State of Ohio, also possessing considerable literary talent. Lucy Putnam was a cousin of Gen. Putnam, of Revolutionary fame. 12. Major Jacob Harmon Camburn, M. D. was the fifth generation removed from the first Camburn who came from Glasgow, Scotland, as one of the first to settle Oak Hill Cemetery Association Oak Hill Cemetery is non-profit lot owner association in New Jersey. His paternal great-grandfather, the father of Levi Camburn was a colonial and fought throughout the Revolutionary War. The Doctor was born in dedicated to preserving the heritage of Linn County, Iowa. New York, December 8, 1823. In 1845 Dr. Camburn came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was engaged in practice here for some years. During the Civil War he received the 1705 Mt. Vernon Rd. S. E. ©2011 The Thoresen Project appointment as regimental surgeon of the Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, and went to the front with his regiment in February, 1862, but soon afterward was taken ill and Cedar Rapids Iowa