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Edward Nixon. 1815 – 1900.
Married #1 Mary Ann Phelps Nixon.
EDWARD NIXON, a retired farmer and merchant of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was born in Washington County, Ohio, June 3, 1815, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Nixon. His father was a native of Bedford County, Pa.; his mother was born in Delaware. His father was previously married, and had eight children by that marriage. His mother was also previously married to Jonathan Jennings, and had nine children by her first marriage.
Four children were born of the latter marriage, making the united family of twenty-one members. Sarah Nixon, 9 Oct 1811 – 1888, married John Chambers; Rosanna Nixon, 14 May 1813 – 1838, married Peter Snider; Edward Nixon, 1815 – 1899; Harriet Nixon 24 Jul 1817 – 1904, married Samuel Rightmire.
Mr. Nixon spent his youth on his father's farm. At sixteen years of age was bound out to learn the trade of a tailor, which he served an apprenticeship of nearly five years, and then moved to Guyandotte, VA, with his employer, at the age of twenty-one.
There he married on April 2, 1840 Miss Mary Ann Phelps, daughter of Samuel Phelps of Massachusetts. Six children were born of this union, four sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Edward Herbert, born May 26, 1842; Mary Virginia, 1843; Thomas, baby; Samuel Edwin, 1849; Sarah; and William A.,1857.
Oldest is son Edward Herbert Nixon, born May 26, 1842, enlisted in the late war in January, 1863, in the 9th Iowa Infantry, Company A, and served till the close of the war. He then went to Poughkeepsie, NY, to take a regular course in Eastman's Business College, and graduated in 1866. He married Miss Kate Stewart, of Walla Walla, Wash. Terr., and is now Deputy Postmaster at that place, and is largely interested in ranching in Whitman County, where he has nearly 500 acres of land. He had three children, two girls and a boy - Stella, Laura and Edward S.
His second child by his first marriage is Mary Virginia, wife of Hugh Cozier, residing in Canaan Township, Henry County. She had three children, one boy and two girls: Caddie A., Mary F. and John Edward.
Mr. Nixon's third child, Thomas, died at age eighteen months.
The fourth, Samuel Edwin, became a prominent physician of Burlington, Iowa. He married Miss Lucy Wilcox; they had one child, a son, George Edward.
The fifth child, Sarah, taught school in Washington Territory.
The sixth child, William A., is a farmer of Northwestern Idaho.
Mr. Nixon followed the tailoring business till 1851, when, foreseeing the Civil War, he decided to remove his family northward; and he came to Iowa by team, after one month upon the road. He removed to Jackson County, and improved a farm there, where he resided until the spring of 1865. Mr. Nixon lost his first wife by death in September, 1863. He married again in June 1865, to Miss Hepsibah Phelps [born in Medford, Mass.], a sister of his first wife.
In 1865, they moved to Danville, Des Moines County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until January, 1867. He then moved to Henry County, and purchased a farm in Canaan Township, which was then quite new; and he was engaged in farming there for eleven years. In the fall of 1886, he came to Mt. Pleasant, and retired from active work. He has a handsome and commodious residence in the southern part of the city.
Mr. Nixon served four years as a Justice of the Peace in Jackson County, and ten years in Canaan Township, Henry County, and has held other local offices. In politics, in his early life he was a Whig, and he has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a member for fifty-five years. He is a genial, bright, intelligent gentleman, ripe with experience of seventy-two years' experience with the world.
(Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa; Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, p. 402-3.)
Contributor: TiaTxAkAttny (49010502)
Edward Nixon. 1815 – 1900.
Married #1 Mary Ann Phelps Nixon.
EDWARD NIXON, a retired farmer and merchant of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was born in Washington County, Ohio, June 3, 1815, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Nixon. His father was a native of Bedford County, Pa.; his mother was born in Delaware. His father was previously married, and had eight children by that marriage. His mother was also previously married to Jonathan Jennings, and had nine children by her first marriage.
Four children were born of the latter marriage, making the united family of twenty-one members. Sarah Nixon, 9 Oct 1811 – 1888, married John Chambers; Rosanna Nixon, 14 May 1813 – 1838, married Peter Snider; Edward Nixon, 1815 – 1899; Harriet Nixon 24 Jul 1817 – 1904, married Samuel Rightmire.
Mr. Nixon spent his youth on his father's farm. At sixteen years of age was bound out to learn the trade of a tailor, which he served an apprenticeship of nearly five years, and then moved to Guyandotte, VA, with his employer, at the age of twenty-one.
There he married on April 2, 1840 Miss Mary Ann Phelps, daughter of Samuel Phelps of Massachusetts. Six children were born of this union, four sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Edward Herbert, born May 26, 1842; Mary Virginia, 1843; Thomas, baby; Samuel Edwin, 1849; Sarah; and William A.,1857.
Oldest is son Edward Herbert Nixon, born May 26, 1842, enlisted in the late war in January, 1863, in the 9th Iowa Infantry, Company A, and served till the close of the war. He then went to Poughkeepsie, NY, to take a regular course in Eastman's Business College, and graduated in 1866. He married Miss Kate Stewart, of Walla Walla, Wash. Terr., and is now Deputy Postmaster at that place, and is largely interested in ranching in Whitman County, where he has nearly 500 acres of land. He had three children, two girls and a boy - Stella, Laura and Edward S.
His second child by his first marriage is Mary Virginia, wife of Hugh Cozier, residing in Canaan Township, Henry County. She had three children, one boy and two girls: Caddie A., Mary F. and John Edward.
Mr. Nixon's third child, Thomas, died at age eighteen months.
The fourth, Samuel Edwin, became a prominent physician of Burlington, Iowa. He married Miss Lucy Wilcox; they had one child, a son, George Edward.
The fifth child, Sarah, taught school in Washington Territory.
The sixth child, William A., is a farmer of Northwestern Idaho.
Mr. Nixon followed the tailoring business till 1851, when, foreseeing the Civil War, he decided to remove his family northward; and he came to Iowa by team, after one month upon the road. He removed to Jackson County, and improved a farm there, where he resided until the spring of 1865. Mr. Nixon lost his first wife by death in September, 1863. He married again in June 1865, to Miss Hepsibah Phelps [born in Medford, Mass.], a sister of his first wife.
In 1865, they moved to Danville, Des Moines County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until January, 1867. He then moved to Henry County, and purchased a farm in Canaan Township, which was then quite new; and he was engaged in farming there for eleven years. In the fall of 1886, he came to Mt. Pleasant, and retired from active work. He has a handsome and commodious residence in the southern part of the city.
Mr. Nixon served four years as a Justice of the Peace in Jackson County, and ten years in Canaan Township, Henry County, and has held other local offices. In politics, in his early life he was a Whig, and he has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a member for fifty-five years. He is a genial, bright, intelligent gentleman, ripe with experience of seventy-two years' experience with the world.
(Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa; Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, p. 402-3.)
Contributor: TiaTxAkAttny (49010502)
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Edward Nixon. 1815 – 1900.
Married #1 Mary Ann Phelps Nixon.
EDWARD NIXON, a retired farmer and merchant of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was born in Washington County, Ohio, June 3, 1815, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Nixon. His father was a native of Bedford County, Pa.; his mother was born in Delaware. His father was previously married, and had eight children by that marriage. His mother was also previously married to Jonathan Jennings, and had nine children by her first marriage.
Four children were born of the latter marriage, making the united family of twenty-one members. Sarah Nixon, 9 Oct 1811 – 1888, married John Chambers; Rosanna Nixon, 14 May 1813 – 1838, married Peter Snider; Edward Nixon, 1815 – 1899; Harriet Nixon 24 Jul 1817 – 1904, married Samuel Rightmire.
Mr. Nixon spent his youth on his father's farm. At sixteen years of age was bound out to learn the trade of a tailor, which he served an apprenticeship of nearly five years, and then moved to Guyandotte, VA, with his employer, at the age of twenty-one.
There he married on April 2, 1840 Miss Mary Ann Phelps, daughter of Samuel Phelps of Massachusetts. Six children were born of this union, four sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Edward Herbert, born May 26, 1842; Mary Virginia, 1843; Thomas, baby; Samuel Edwin, 1849; Sarah; and William A.,1857.
Oldest is son Edward Herbert Nixon, born May 26, 1842, enlisted in the late war in January, 1863, in the 9th Iowa Infantry, Company A, and served till the close of the war. He then went to Poughkeepsie, NY, to take a regular course in Eastman's Business College, and graduated in 1866. He married Miss Kate Stewart, of Walla Walla, Wash. Terr., and is now Deputy Postmaster at that place, and is largely interested in ranching in Whitman County, where he has nearly 500 acres of land. He had three children, two girls and a boy - Stella, Laura and Edward S.
His second child by his first marriage is Mary Virginia, wife of Hugh Cozier, residing in Canaan Township, Henry County. She had three children, one boy and two girls: Caddie A., Mary F. and John Edward.
Mr. Nixon's third child, Thomas, died at age eighteen months.
The fourth, Samuel Edwin, became a prominent physician of Burlington, Iowa. He married Miss Lucy Wilcox; they had one child, a son, George Edward.
The fifth child, Sarah, taught school in Washington Territory.
The sixth child, William A., is a farmer of Northwestern Idaho.
Mr. Nixon followed the tailoring business till 1851, when, foreseeing the Civil War, he decided to remove his family northward; and he came to Iowa by team, after one month upon the road. He removed to Jackson County, and improved a farm there, where he resided until the spring of 1865. Mr. Nixon lost his first wife by death in September, 1863. He married again in June 1865, to Miss Hepsibah Phelps [born in Medford, Mass.], a sister of his first wife.
In 1865, they moved to Danville, Des Moines County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until January, 1867. He then moved to Henry County, and purchased a farm in Canaan Township, which was then quite new; and he was engaged in farming there for eleven years. In the fall of 1886, he came to Mt. Pleasant, and retired from active work. He has a handsome and commodious residence in the southern part of the city.
Mr. Nixon served four years as a Justice of the Peace in Jackson County, and ten years in Canaan Township, Henry County, and has held other local offices. In politics, in his early life he was a Whig, and he has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a member for fifty-five years. He is a genial, bright, intelligent gentleman, ripe with experience of seventy-two years' experience with the world.
(Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa; Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, p. 402-3.)
Contributor: TiaTxAkAttny (49010502)
Edward Nixon. 1815 – 1900.
Married #1 Mary Ann Phelps Nixon.
EDWARD NIXON, a retired farmer and merchant of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was born in Washington County, Ohio, June 3, 1815, and is the son of William and Elizabeth (Stephenson) Nixon. His father was a native of Bedford County, Pa.; his mother was born in Delaware. His father was previously married, and had eight children by that marriage. His mother was also previously married to Jonathan Jennings, and had nine children by her first marriage.
Four children were born of the latter marriage, making the united family of twenty-one members. Sarah Nixon, 9 Oct 1811 – 1888, married John Chambers; Rosanna Nixon, 14 May 1813 – 1838, married Peter Snider; Edward Nixon, 1815 – 1899; Harriet Nixon 24 Jul 1817 – 1904, married Samuel Rightmire.
Mr. Nixon spent his youth on his father's farm. At sixteen years of age was bound out to learn the trade of a tailor, which he served an apprenticeship of nearly five years, and then moved to Guyandotte, VA, with his employer, at the age of twenty-one.
There he married on April 2, 1840 Miss Mary Ann Phelps, daughter of Samuel Phelps of Massachusetts. Six children were born of this union, four sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Edward Herbert, born May 26, 1842; Mary Virginia, 1843; Thomas, baby; Samuel Edwin, 1849; Sarah; and William A.,1857.
Oldest is son Edward Herbert Nixon, born May 26, 1842, enlisted in the late war in January, 1863, in the 9th Iowa Infantry, Company A, and served till the close of the war. He then went to Poughkeepsie, NY, to take a regular course in Eastman's Business College, and graduated in 1866. He married Miss Kate Stewart, of Walla Walla, Wash. Terr., and is now Deputy Postmaster at that place, and is largely interested in ranching in Whitman County, where he has nearly 500 acres of land. He had three children, two girls and a boy - Stella, Laura and Edward S.
His second child by his first marriage is Mary Virginia, wife of Hugh Cozier, residing in Canaan Township, Henry County. She had three children, one boy and two girls: Caddie A., Mary F. and John Edward.
Mr. Nixon's third child, Thomas, died at age eighteen months.
The fourth, Samuel Edwin, became a prominent physician of Burlington, Iowa. He married Miss Lucy Wilcox; they had one child, a son, George Edward.
The fifth child, Sarah, taught school in Washington Territory.
The sixth child, William A., is a farmer of Northwestern Idaho.
Mr. Nixon followed the tailoring business till 1851, when, foreseeing the Civil War, he decided to remove his family northward; and he came to Iowa by team, after one month upon the road. He removed to Jackson County, and improved a farm there, where he resided until the spring of 1865. Mr. Nixon lost his first wife by death in September, 1863. He married again in June 1865, to Miss Hepsibah Phelps [born in Medford, Mass.], a sister of his first wife.
In 1865, they moved to Danville, Des Moines County, where he was engaged in the mercantile business until January, 1867. He then moved to Henry County, and purchased a farm in Canaan Township, which was then quite new; and he was engaged in farming there for eleven years. In the fall of 1886, he came to Mt. Pleasant, and retired from active work. He has a handsome and commodious residence in the southern part of the city.
Mr. Nixon served four years as a Justice of the Peace in Jackson County, and ten years in Canaan Township, Henry County, and has held other local offices. In politics, in his early life he was a Whig, and he has been a Republican since the organization of that party. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a member for fifty-five years. He is a genial, bright, intelligent gentleman, ripe with experience of seventy-two years' experience with the world.
(Portrait and Biographical Album, Henry County, Iowa; Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, p. 402-3.)
Contributor: TiaTxAkAttny (49010502)
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