I hope this helps someone. Found in an antique store in Marshalltown, Iowa. Past and Present of Marshall County, Iowa 1912, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind Vol. 2, page 1120-21 photo on 1122 -23 (forgot to copy page 1124-sorry) Benjamin Lewis Pyle. There is a great difference in this world of ours as to how we get our property, whether by small degrees and hard toil or by suddenly making it in one or a few lucky ventures, or even by inheriting it from successful and thrifty ancestors. It makes a wonderful difference in a man's life also, whether he earns his home by severe toil, or by easy methods, or secures it from his parents. One important fact that will not be disputed, that if a man earns it from hard knocks he is much more likely to retain it than if it had been left to him by his hard-working and honest father. People of all occupations should be thrifty enough to take care of what they have, no matter how they obtain it, for they have others to consider, children who have the right to demand of parents that they save the property left to them by ancestors. Benjamin Lewis Pyle, one of the thriftiest farmers of Marietta township, Marshall county, has, by hard and consecutive endeavor and without the aid of any one, past or present, built up a splendid property and competence, and now in his declining years he is living retired and enjoying the fruits of his earlier years, so he is eminetly deserving of what he has accomplished. He came to Marshall county in the early days and has seen and taken part in its wonderful development.. Mr. Pyle was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, November 13, 1841, and he is the son of Isaac and Catherine (Rossell) Pyle, both natives of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where they grew to maturity, were educated and married. They came to Columbiana county in the thirties, being among the pioneer element, and there they lived many years, moving to Marshall county, Iowa , in 1859, spending a year in Iowa townshiip, settling in Marietta township in 1860, securing a small farm of forty acres on which he spent the balance of his life, dying on September 22, 1888, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He was a Whig, Know-Nothing and Republican, and, religiously, he belonged to the Christian Church. Benjamin L. Pyle was reared on the home farm and educated in the public schools, and he has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He came to Lousie county, Iowa, in 1857, and in March, 1859, came on to Marshall county. Here he engaged in farming and for eight years was associated with O. H. Hole in bridge building. He bought forty acres in Marietta township in 1863, adding to this until he now owns a fine farm of two hundred and forty-one acres, which he has brought up to a high state of improvement and cultivation. He has carried on general farming and stock raising very successfully and everything about his place indicates thrift and good management. He has a large, pleasant and substautial home. For a number of years he has lived practically retired from business life. Politically, Mr. Pyle is a Republican, and while he has always been interested in the affairs of his party he has never sought office, but was elected assessor for two years and school director for many years. He and his wife are members of Hicksite Friends church. On September 9, 1864. Mr. Pyle was married to Eliza M. Underwood, a native of Columbiana county, Ohio, and the daughter of Isaac and Zillah Underwood of Ohio, where they died. Mrs. Pyle came to Iowa with her uncle and aunt, the uncle dying at Albion on March 12, 1889, and the aunt passed away in March, 1860, soon after her arrival here. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pyle namely: W. M. lives in Marshalltown, Iowa; Clara I.; Charles L, is living at home and works his father's farm with his brother, Harry T., the next child in order of birth, who lives in a house adjoining his father on the west. The mother of these children was called to her reward on October 14, 1909. Mrs. Pyle was one of the good mothers of Marshall county, not only raising her own children, but she took a little girl who was left without parents, raised her and educated her well, giving her a home the same as her own children.