Anthony Waggoner, a native of France and a carpenter by trade, brought his family from Ohio to a Jones County farm in 1854; his only son by his first wife, Charles B. Waggoner, born in Hardin County, Ohio, in 1838, built every building on his 160 acres on section 22 and married Mary May in 1863. Their son J. F. Waggoner, born on the homestead in 1866, farmed 120 acres on the same section and raised Poland China hogs. Barnhart Waggoner, born in Alsace in 1803, came to New York City in 1827, to Ohio in 1833 and to Jones County in 1852, and his daughter Eliza, born in Jackson Township in 1857, married William M. Byerly in 1878. Every fact below is cited to the 1910 History of Jones County.
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Carpenter and farmer; came to Jones County in 1854
Farmer and carpenter, section 22, Jackson Township
CHARLES B. WAGGONER.
Charles B. Waggoner, who is residing on his well developed farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section 22. Jackson township, is one of the representative farmers of Jones county, as well as one of its best citizens. He was born in Hardin county, Ohio. September 15. 1838, a son of Anthony and Ruth (King) Waggoner, natives of France and New York state, respectively. Anthony Waggoner became a resident of New York state in boyhood and there learned the trade of a carpenter. After his marriage he emigrated to Ohio in search of better opportunities. He was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife when his son Charles B.. their only child, was but two weeks old. Later, he married again and had three sons and three daughters, by that union. Losing his second wife, he married a third time, and his daughter by this union, Abiah, married Charles Waggoner, of Cedar Rapids, who although bearing the same name, is not a relative of the family as far as is known.
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Farmer and hog raiser, Jackson Township
J. F. WAGGONER.
The farmer of today dominates the situation in Iowa because he holds the balance of power. There are three million more Americans engaged in farming today than in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits, and Iowa is one of the states that contributes many agriculturists to the United States. One of the thoroughly modern farmers of Jones county is J. F. Waggoner, of Jackson township, who was born in that township on his father's homestead, February 26, 1866. He is a son of Charles and Mary (May) Waggoner, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and the second in order of birth in their family of four children.
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Came to Jones County in 1852
Daughter of Barnhart; wife of William M. Byerly
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