Conrad Wareham, a native of Germany born in 1819, came to Clayton County at sixteen in 1835, by the account in the 1916 History of Clayton County. He enlisted when war with Mexico threatened, was stationed at Fort Atchison, Iowa, when he married Ann Barrett, a native of Ireland, and died in 1863. Their son Lyman C. Wareham, born in 1856, farmed until he was thirty-four, then kept a store at Strawberry Point, and owned land in Boardman Township and in Fayette County. Lyman's son William worked in South Dakota and northeast Iowa before opening a billiard hall and bowling alley at Strawberry Point in 1915. Every fact below is cited to the 1916 county history.
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Conrad Wareham and Ann (Barrett) Warehamborn 1819Most recent in our records
William Warehamborn 1882Tap a name to jump to that person.
Pioneer soldier and settler
Farmer and merchant, Strawberry Point
Lyman C. Wareham is a native of Clayton county, where he was born July 29, 1856, and he is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this favored section of the Hawkeye state. He is now living virtually retired, with an attractive home at Strawberry
Point, and the gracious prosperity that is his stands in evidence of the success which he achieved as an exponent of agricultural industry and as a progressive merchant. He is a son of Conrad and Ann (Barrett) Wareham, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Ireland. Conrad Wareham was born in the year 1819 and was sixteen years of age at the time of becoming a resident of Clayton county, in 1835. He enlisted as a soldier of the Union when the Mexican war was threatened, and he was stationed with his command at Fort Atchison, Iowa, at the time of his marriage. He died December 28, 1863. His widow was summoned to the life eternal on the 13th of December, 1875, and of their children the first two, Phoebe and Frances are deceased; George resides at Elkader; Julia is deceased; Lyman C, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Emeline is the wife of Philip Hickey and they reside in the state of Colorado; Virginia is deceased; Kate is the wife of William Hyde, of Oldham, South Dakota, and Conrad is deceased. By his first marriage the father had one son, John, and the latter is now deceased. Lyman C. Wareham continued his activities as a farmer and stock-raiser until he was thirty-four years of age, and thereafter he gave his attention to mercantile pursuits for many years — up to the time of his retirement from active business. He is the owner of a valuable farm of one hundred and twenty-seven acres in Boardman township, this county, and a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Putnam township, Fayette county, besides his attractive residence property at Strawberry Point. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he is affiliated with the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. In 1876 Mr. Wareham wedded Miss Melissa Wood. They became the parents of six children: Conrad is engaged in the drug business in Tama county; Mollie is deceased; William is individually mentioned on other pages of this publication; Hannah is the widow of Ernest Frederick and resides in South Dakota; John is engaged in the drug business at Reinbeck, Grundy county, and the sixth child died in infancy. On the 23d of December, 1914, Mr. Wareham contracted a second marriage, by his union with Miss Emma Gratke, who was born and reared in Delaware county, this state, a daughter of the late Samuel Gratke. Mrs. Wareham presides most graciously over the pleasant home and has made the same a center of generous hospitality and good cheer.
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Billiard hall and bowling alley owner, Strawberry Point
William Wareham, the popular proprietor of a well equipped billiard and pool hall and bowling alley in the village of Strawberry Point, has been a resident of Clayton county from the time of his birth, which here occurred on the 25th of January, 1882, and he is a son of Lyman and Melissa (Wood) Wareham, who likewise were born and reared in this county, where the respective families settled in the early pioneer period of the county's history. The subject of this sketch was fourth in order of birth in a family of six children and the eldest is Conrad, who is now a resident of Dysart, Tama county; Mollie died young and the next child was a son who died in infancy; Hannah resides at Timber Lake, South Dakota, and John F. is now a resident of Reinbeck, Grundy county, Iowa. William
Wareham continued his studies in the public schools until he had profited by the facilities of the high school at Elkader, and when about seventeen years of age he left the parental home and went to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he remained one year. He passed the following year in Sioux City, Iowa, from which place he went to Madison, South Dakota, whence, two years later, he returned to his native county and became associated with his father's mercantile business at Strawberry Point. This alliance continued five years and for seven months thereafter he was connected with a similar line of enterprise at Arlington, Fayette county. Thereafter he passed one year at Lamont, Buchanan county, and eighteen months at Crandall, South Dakota. For a period of about three years he resided at Florence, South Dakota, and he then returned to Strawberry Point, where, on the ist of April, 1915, he established the business and amusement enterprise which he has since successfully conducted. Mr. Wareham has had no desire to participate in the practical activities of politics but gives a loyal support to the cause of the Democratic party. On the 4th of July, 1909, he wedded Miss Elizabeth Irene Manley, who was born and reared in Buchanan county, this state, and their two children are Irene Elizabeth and Conrad Lyman.
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