James A. Stambaugh

As printed in 1901

JAMES A. STAMBAUGH.

James A. Stambaugh, who is successfully carrying on farming and stock raising on section 21, Bertram township, was born in Linn county, on the 8th of Dectmljer, 1852, and is a son of Samuel Stambaugh, of whom extended mention is made in the sketch of George '. Stambaugh on another page of this volume. The father, who was a native of Pennsylvania, died on the old homestead in Bertram township, September 20, 1897. He was married in Schuyler county, Illinois, to Rachel Bryant, a native of Ohio, who died at-the home of her daughter in Marion, April 2,. 1901. By this union were 1)orn tweh'e children, of wlmm two died in infancy. The others were as follows; Mary A. is the wife of William L. Stoneking, a farmer of Bertram township; Louisa A. is the wife of William Cory, a farmer of Green. county, Iowa; Sarah E. died at the age of forty years; Samuel E. married Delia Harvev, of Lisbon. Iowa, and now resides in Santa Anna, California; Xoah B. married

Lilly Lamson, of Marif.m. Iciwa. and lives in Curtis. Oklahoma: James is the next of the family; Rachel J. is the wife of Charles Lamson, of Sumas City, Washington; George W. is represented on another page of this volume: Albert H. married Lettie Workman and resides in Browning. Schuyler county, Illinois; and Martha Eva is the wife of Zach Berry, of Marion, Iowa.

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On the 25th of June, 1882. in Linn county. Mr. Stambaugh was united in marriage-with JNIiss Louisa Berry, who was born in Illinois. August 29, 1852, a daughter of John and Polly Millner Berry, both natives of this country. She died Octnlier 1. 1883, and was laid to rest at Crab Apple, this county. She left one son, Charles L., who was born October 1, 1883, and now assists his father in the labors of the farm.

Mr. Stambaugh was again married. March y, 1887, in Marion, Iowa, his second union being with Miss Mary Ella Parker, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire, July 20, 1862. Her parents. Sanniel and Amelna (Messer) Parker, were Ixith natives of Bow, New Hampshire, the farmer burn December 30, 1821, the latter July 24, 1825. They were married at that place April 8. 1847, and for eighteen years thereafter he devoted his time to the manufacture of piano and organ keys, and in 1866 came west, locating at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the father worked at his trade of carpenter for a short time. Subsequently the_\- settled south of Mt. Vernon, where be followed milling for about a year, and then removed west of that place, where he engaged in the same occupation for five years. He next located on a farm near Bertram, and devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits for fifteen years. He then retired from active labor and removed to Cedar Rapids, where his death occurred November 1, 1894, his remains being interred in the cemetery there. His widow now resides with our subject. Their children were Frank B., who married Martha Oxley and resides in Cedar Rapids; Martha A., who died at the age of eleven months; Arzilla M., who died at the age of nineteen; 'william, who married Rosie \Miite and lives on a farm in Bertram township; Mary Ella, wife of our subject, and Charles, who married Frankie Boxwell and also resides on a farm in Bertram township. By his second marriage Mr. Staml;>augh has three children, namely: Hattie E.. born January 23, 1889; Clara E., lion April 24. 1892; and Roy, born November 5, 1899.

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As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.