George A. Oliver

As printed in 1890

GEORGE A. OLIVER, a member of the Arm 11 s of Oliver Bros. & Tillson. attorney'S-at law, 51 in the city of Onawa, is a native of Woodbury County, Iowa, having been born at Sergeant's Bluff, January 17. 1858, and is the son of the Hon. Addison and Hannah (Towne) Oliver, mentioned elsewhere in this volume. While an infant in arms not 3'et a year old, he was brought to Monona County' b3' his parents, and has here grown to manhood, in the city of Onawa. He received his education in the schools of that community, and after graduating from its highest department, entered the academic branch of the Iowa State University', at Iowa City, where he pursued his studies during the terms of 1877-8. Entering the Law Department of the same institution, in the fall of the latter 3'ear, he was graduated therefrom in 1879. In 1881 he was appointed Railway Postal Clerk on the Illinois Central Railroad, on the route from Ft. Dodge to Sioux City. In 1883 his run was extended from Dubuque to Sioux City, and he remained in that position until March, 1866. In the latter month he was transferred to the Chicago,

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Mr. Oliver was united in marriage, October 9, 1884, with Jliss Cora A. Woodward, a native of Grant Township, this county, who was born October 9, 1861, and is a daughter of Joseph D. Woodward, who settled in that part of the county in 1857, and a history of whom appears elsewhere. By this union there have been born two children — George E., born Jaiuiary- 19, 1886, and Eva A., whose birth took place August 24, 1887.

In his political views Mr. Oliver is a stanch Republican, and is a fair representative of the rising young men of that party. He has served as Justice of the Peace in Onawa, and has talents that mark him out for high political preferment..Socially he is a member of Monona Lodge, No. 1 84, Knights of P3'this, of which body he w.as one of the organizers. Mrs. Oliver is a consistent member of the Congregational Church.

\ OMN PPRRIN. of Sioux Township, deserves special mention as being th.e oldest living resident of that subdivision of the county, I having settled there with his father in the fall of 1855. He was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, near Council Bluffs, Sei)tember 15, 1849, and having been in this county from childhood, has been closely connected with the growth and development of the same.

John Perrin's father, Charles Perrin, was born in Washington County, N. Y., April 2o, 1812, and on attaining manhood, was united in marriage with Hannah M. Williams, who was born in Vermont, a'bout 1811. The family came to Iowa in an early day. and settled in Pottawattamie County, and in 1855 made a permanent settlement in Sioux Township, Monona County, where the father of our subject died. March 26, 1889.

John Perrin, the third in a family of eight children horn to his parents, was reared upon a farm in this county, and received his education in the rough pioneer schools of the neighborhood. On reaching the age of twenty-one years, he started out to engage in life's battle for himself, adopting the vocation to which he had been bred, that of farming, which he has followed ever since. In 1880, he purchased eighty acres of land on section 36, in Sioux Township, to which he has since added eighty acres more, and has brought the whole of it to a high state of cultivation, and has it well-improved.

Miss Anna Meachan, a native of Massachusetts, and daughter of Solomon and Mariah D. Meachan, was the choice of Mr. Perrin for a life partner, and winning her consent, they were united in marriage December 27, 1882. Since that happy event three interesting children have brought light and joy to their household, to whom they have given the names of Lillie M., George W., and Roy F.

As printed in History of Monona County, Iowa; containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the Gove (1890). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.