I know a Riddle family from Iowa. They lived between Ely and Solon (Cedar Rapids - Iowa City area) but I NEVER heard they were related to Nelson Riddle. The father of the family (the one carrying the Riddle name) was not around (I think he had passed on) but his 2 daughters still live in the area. Could you provide more information? Don Elias On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:49:32 -0800 "John and Chere Negaard" <[email protected]> writes: > Back in mid-October someone was seeking information about a > Riddle > family. I really don't know much about the family except that I > remember > Nelson Riddle the songwriter, arranger, and I believe orchestra > leader, > popular in the 1950s and 1960s and maybe beyond that. > > I live in southern California and a few years ago when my > mother was in > a nursing home for a while a brother of Nelson Riddle was in the > same > nursing home in Torrance, California. I don't remember the man's > first > name, but he did say his family was from Iowa. > > Chere (Glaze) > Negaard > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Back in mid-October someone was seeking information about a Riddle family. I really don't know much about the family except that I remember Nelson Riddle the songwriter, arranger, and I believe orchestra leader, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and maybe beyond that. I live in southern California and a few years ago when my mother was in a nursing home for a while a brother of Nelson Riddle was in the same nursing home in Torrance, California. I don't remember the man's first name, but he did say his family was from Iowa. Chere (Glaze) Negaard

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 GEORGE A. JOHNSTON. Within nearly two decades of professional activity at Creston, judicial center of Union County, Mr. Johnston has gained secure vantage ground as one of the able and representative members of the bar of this county, and his practice is now of substantial and important order, the while he is valued as a loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizen. Mr. Johnston is a scion of families that were founded in the southern part of our national domain in the Colonial period of American history, and his father grained pioneer prestige in Iowa. Mr. Johnston was born in Wayne County, this state, July 1, 1877, and is a son of Andrew Duncan Johnston and Sarah Jane (Tedford) Johnston, the former of whom was born near Madisonville, Tennessee, and the latter in the State of Indiana. Andrew D. Johnston was a son of Samuel Johnston, who likewise was born in the Madisonville district of Tennessee and whose father had become the owner of one of the large and valuable plantations in that part of Eastern Tennessee, as well as owner of a large retinue of slaves. Samuel Johnston's wife, whose family name was Duncan, was conscientiously opposed to slavery, and he thus was led to refuse his heritage of slaves, other property having been given him instead, while his younger brothers became the owners of the old home plantation. He came with his family to Iowa in the year 1854, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, with secure standing as sterling pioneers of the Hawkeye State. Andrew D. Johnston came with his parents to Iowa in 1854 and the family home was established in Louisa County, where he continued his association with farm enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war brought to him a higher duty. He enlisted as a member of Company C, Eleventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, proceeded with this command to the front, and in his service of three years and eight months he lived up to the full tension of conflict, through participation in major and minor engagements. After the close of the war he removed to Wayne County, where he became a prosperous farmer and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, secure in the high esteem of all whom knew them. He was commander of his post of the Grand Army of the Republic and at the time of his death, was a Republican in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Johnston, as before stated, was born in Indiana, and she was a daughter of William H. and Polly M. (Orr) Tedford, who were born and reared in Tennessee, where their marriage occurred and whence they later removed to Indiana, from which state they came to Iowa as pioneers of the year 1854. After completing his high school studies George A. Johnston, dependent largely upon his own resources, found ways and means to follow the course of his ambitious purpose, that of preparing himself for the legal profession. In the law department of Drake University, Des Moines, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1912, and his admission to the bar of his native state was virtually coincident with his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and his initiating the practice of his profession at Creston, which fine little city has since continued the central stage of his law practice, extended into the various courts of Iowa, including the Supreme Court and the Federal courts. He has long controlled a substantial and representative general practice. He served four years as county attorney and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party. In addition to his home place in Creston Mr. Johnston is the owner of a fine stock farm in Union County, the same being devoted in large measure to the breeding and raising of Hereford cattle and Belgian draft horses. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, has membership in the Union County Bar Association and the Iowa State Bar Association, and his wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in her home city. The year 1899 recorded the marriage of Mr. Johnston to Miss Sadie Frances Fisher, who was born and reared in Ringgold County, this state, and whose father, S. H. Fisher, came to Iowa in 1866, from Illinois, he having become one of the substantial farmers in Ringgold County. Neva Jane, eldest of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, is the wife of Donald F. Henry, a farmer and stockman near Shannon City, Union County; Paul Fisher, the elder son, is an ensign in the United States navy and at the time this writing, in the fall of 1929, is in service in Chinese waters; Mildred is the wife of Hulan A. Shay, and they reside at Creston, where he is assistant manager of Armour & Company; and Elton Andrew is in service as a member of the United States Marine Corps, with which he is at present stationed in Nicaragua. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 ALLEN JOHNSTON, who came to Iowa in 1855, was one of the great men of his generation, inventor, manufacturer, creator of business industry, and directly and indirectly credited with giving to the City of Ottumwa the enterprise that have been the most productive of industrial prosperity there. He was born in a log cabin in Muskingum County, Ohio, October 24, 1848, and died at Ottumwa, Iowa, April 3, 1930. He was a son of John and Marian Johnston, his father of Scotch-Irish and his mother of English and Welsh ancestry. His father was a weaver, whose business was seriously interfered with by the coming of the power loom, and who was living on a little rented farm when his son Allen was born. Later he bought a small tract of land in the hills of Ohio, and in 1855 the family decided to come West. A brother of John Johnston had moved out to Monroe County, Iowa. John Johnston sold his Ohio farm for about eight hundred dollars and started West in October, 1855, with three horses and two wagons, and the family lived in the wagons through the winter. Allen Johnston grew up in the country about a mile from Blakesburg, Iowa. He was always fond of outdoor life, and as a boy he earned money trapping quails and fur-bearing animals. He had no formal schooling until he was eight or nine years of age, and though the duties of the farm kept him from regular attendance, he pursued his studies with a system that made it possible for him to keep up with his classes even though absent, at times two weeks or more. Allen Johnston from boyhood exemplified his greatest gift, that of intellectual curiosity and keen powers of observation, accompanied by a restless desire to improve on the conventional ways of doing things. There were few Iowa farms in that time which contained work shops, and all he had to do with was a few of the simplest tools. As a boy he made his own sled and skates, and his first practical invention was a hazelnut huller, consisting of a wooden cylinder revolving in a hollow log, both being studded with nails, and as the cylinder revolved the nails tore the husks from the hazelnuts. At the age of nineteen he went to Ottumwas to study dentistry with his brother, W. T. Johnston. His brother at that time was the local agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Allen Johnston attended school for a few months in Ottumwa. He helped his brother sell sewing machines, and early became interested in experimenting on improved attachments, the first issue of his genius being an embroidery attachment, on which he and his brother took out a patent. Subsequently he devised a ruffler, which immediately became popular and for half a century has been one of the standard attachments of all sewing machines. They started the manufacture of the ruffler at Ottumwa, the equipment consisting of a few files and chisels and a punch press, the power for which was supplied by a hand power grindstone. Subsequently several Ottumwa men became financially interested, including W. T. Majors, J. T. Hackworth and J. G. Hutchison, and also A. G. Harrow. Money was invested in new equipment, and the Johnston Ruffler Works became one of the industries that did most to give character to the City of Ottumwa as a manufacturing center. Mr. Johnston had to defend his patents through extensive litigation, since many imitations were made in Rufflers, and eventually he sold the business to a competitor in New Haven, Connecticut. It was during a business trip to England in the interest of the Johnston Ruffler Works that Capt. J. G. Hutchison met on shipboard a representative of Jon Morrell and induced the Morrell Company to establish its plant in Ottumwa. Mr. Johnston patented 130 inventions. He was the founder of the Cutlery Works of Ottumwas an din later years his manufacturing interests were chiefly represented by the Johnston Pressed Gear Company and the Johnston and Sharp Company. He had been practically retired from active business for some years, but the things he accomplished before he retired have placed his name permanently among great American inventors. Mr. Johnston fully half a century ago conceived the idea of making a flying machine. He succeeded so far as to construct a machine that lifted its own weight using a propeller much the same as in use today. However, that was long before the era of internal combustion engines, the only available source of power being steam, and Mr. Johnston finally gave up further experimenting, realizing that a flying machine would not be practical until a lighter power source was developed. The Johnston family are members of the First Presbyterian Church, and the fine old home on Court Street in Ottumwa is one of the landmarks of the city. Mr. Johnston married, February 8, 1872, at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Miss Elizabeth Wiley, of an early Iowa family of Scotch-Irish ancestry, daughter of Dr. John H. and Angeline (Antrobus) Wiley. Three children have been born to their marriage. The daughter Stella is the wife of Mr. Frank W. Sharp, of Ottumwa, and has six children, named Margaret E., Allen W., John H., Helen A., Angeline and Elizabeth. Roy Wiley Johnson, also of Ottumwa, married Jessie Fair. The second daughter, Alice M., is the wife of Leon Emmert. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

Constance, there is also another good place to find and locate old towns and villages of long ago. It is located at. www.iowaghosttowns.com Mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oregon Rain" <[email protected]> To: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa Brazile is Appanoose county. A great web site to use for connecting Iowa towns to their counties http://iagenweb.org/state/places/a.htm Constance ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa >I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from >where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this >town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, >Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, >still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might >help. _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Listers Has anyone ever heard of the above name, Develow? It has been used as a middle name by my great grandfather and a couple of his grandchildren - no one knows where it came from though. What do you think about putting it through the Soundex ??? Thank you, Karenfayef

Have you tried "Devereaux"? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Develow > Hello Listers > > Has anyone ever heard of the above name, Develow? It has been used as a > middle name by my great grandfather and a couple of his grandchildren - no > one > knows > where it came from though. > > What do you think about putting it through the Soundex ??? > > Thank you, Karenfayef > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

For those searching what town is in what county: http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi RC

In 1860 the household of Lewis & Christeane Finney is in Des Moines twp, Jefferson co. (NARA film pg 205, Ancestry's index as pg 21 which was the original census pg number.) Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. J. Brotherton" <[email protected]> To: "Iowa Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:30 PM Subject: [IOWA] Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa > I have a Finney family living in Fairfield in 1850 and on the census the job is listed as cole maker (at least that is > what is looks like to me). Would this be another name for a coal miner? Does anyone have further information on Lewis > Finney, wife Christinia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1403 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

I believe the occ. is cabinet maker. May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. J. Brotherton" <[email protected]> To: "Iowa Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:30 PM Subject: [IOWA] Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa > I have a Finney family living in Fairfield in 1850 and on the census the job is listed as cole maker (at least that is > what is looks like to me). Would this be another name for a coal miner? Does anyone have further information on Lewis > Finney, wife Christinia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1403 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

Hi Wanda, Brazil is in Appanoose County Tina ---- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa >I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from >where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this >town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, >Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, >still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might >help. > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I have a Finney family living in Fairfield in 1850 and on the census the job is listed as cole maker (at least that is what is looks like to me). Would this be another name for a coal miner? Does anyone have further information on Lewis Finney, wife Christinia. Dolores in Colorado [email protected]

In addition Wanda, the book "American Place Names of Long Ago", authored by Gilbert S. Bahn lists it as BRAZIL in Appanoose co. It had an express office and a population of 426. This data was compiled by Mr. Bahn from the 1890 census before the census was destroyed. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 4:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa > I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1403 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

Wanda. Ia place names, past & present list it as BRAZILE in Appanoose co., but on the Appanoose co. page it's listed as BRAZIL in Bellair twp, Appanoose co. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 4:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa > I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1403 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!

I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might help.

Brazile is Appanoose county. A great web site to use for connecting Iowa towns to their counties http://iagenweb.org/state/places/a.htm Constance ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Spainhower" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] Brazil, Iowa >I have a postcard sent to Brazil, Iowa Oct. l, 1912. Can't tell from >where. I cannot locate it on my Iowa map. Can someone tell me where this >town was located. The card is of 4 men sitting out in front of a store, >Can not read name, Looks as tho may have had political card in window, >still cannot read it either. Thought perhaps locating "Brazil." Iowa might >help.

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A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 VERON JOHNSON. Aside from any distinction which may attach to him as a member of one of the pioneer families of Fremont County, Vernon Johnson, of Sidney, has gained prominence as one of the leading members of the legal profession of the county, and at various times has been the incumbent of official positions in which he has shown marked executive capacity, being at present president of the school board of Sidney. He is a man of broad views and practical principles, which combine to make him a valuable and constructive citizen. Mr. Johnson was born on the old home farm in Fremont County, June 2, 1881, and is a son of L. L. and Viola Jane (Carr) Johnson. His paternal grandfather was John Nelson Johnson, who was born in North Carolina, where he was reared and educated, and in young manhood took up a homestead in Fremont County, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1866. Mr. Johnson was a man of great industry and accumulated some 1,500 acres of land, which, in those early days, was taxed at only twelve dollars. L. L. Johnson was born in the same house in which his son was later to be born, in 1859, and passed all of his active career as an agriculturist in Fremont County, although he is now retired and living at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has always been active in the Presbyterian Church. A Republican in his political views, he had the full confidence of his fellow citizens and for seventeen years served in the capacity of township assessor. Mr. johnson married Viola Jane Carr, who was born at Wayne, Indiana, a daughter of John Carr who was born in Virginia, and went thence to Indiana, following which he came to Iowa about 1866 and spent the rest of his life in farming in Fremont County. Mrs. Johnson also survives, and she and her husband are th parents of six children: Vernon, of this review; Dr. W. C., who is engaged in the practice of surgery at Los Angeles, California; Dr. C. O., a veterinary surgeon of Silver City, Iowa; Hon. Clyde C., a prominent member of the bench and bar of Columbia Heights, Minnesota; Dell, who is connected with the Iowa State Highway Commission; and James W., of Ames, Iowa, one of the chief engineers of the department of materials and tests. The early education of Vernon Johnson was acquired in the country schools of Fremont County, following which he took a course in the high school at Thurman, and following his graduation was principal of the public schools of Hastings, Iowa. After three years he entered the law department of the Iowa State University from which he was graduated in 1913, and in 1914 commenced practice at Sidney. In the same year he was elected county attorney, and held that office from 1915 for six years, at the end of which time he resumed private practice, in which he continued to be engaged with constantly growing success. Mr. Johnson is recognized as a reliable and capable lawyer, who has a high standing in his profession, and is a member of the Fremont County Bar Association, the Iowa State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In addition to his extensive practice he has a number of other interests and is a member of the board of directors of the Fremont County Savings Bank of Sidney. His religious connection is with the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a trustee for several years. Fraternally Mr. Johnson is a York Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the Knights of Pythias. A Republican in his political allegiance, he has long been active in his party, and was a member of the central committee thereof in 1920. At present he is serving capably as president of the school board of Sidney, and during the World war was food administrator for Fremont County, and active in all the drives. In June, 1907, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage with Miss Margaret M. Hixson, who was born and educated at Memphis, Missouri, and is a daughter of L. W. Hixson, who spent his life in agricultural pursuits in Missouri. They have no children. Debbie Clough Gerischer _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) _http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm) _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)

Am interested in information on low-cost microfilm readers - with a printer - is most desired. I thought some of you might have home versions that don't have to stand up to the heavy duty use like they do in a library. You can contact me personally or maybe others on the list are also interested. Barbara Lane Hug, Coordinator of the Jasper Co. IAGenWeb site at http://iagenweb.org/jasper State Coordinator of IAGenWeb at http://iagenweb.org/ [email protected]