The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
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 vs'as 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 even- ing 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 191 1 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 hun- dred 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 at- tended 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 ]\Ionroe, from which he was graduated in 1898, after which he taught school very acceptably for two years ; but he has pre- ferred farming and he is making good.
On February 21, 191 1, ^Ir. Xolin 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 countv.
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Source: Past and Present of Jasper County, Iowa. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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