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McCLENAHAN, AUGUSTUS
Among the prominent and successful farmers of Mills county, Iowa, who enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens must be named the subject of the present review, Augustus McClenahan, who resides upon section 11, Anderson township. He was born in Trader's Point, Iowa, August 18, 1848. He was the son of Robert McClenahan, who was born in Kentucky, in 1807, and died at Trader's Point, Iowa, on December 10, 1852. While still a very young man Robert McClenahan took up his residence in Stark county, Ohio, teaching school there, also in central Illinois, and after his removal to Iowa. In Ohio he made the acquaintance of, and married, Lucy A. Richards, of Stark county, a daughter of Augustus Richards and his wife, who belonged to the old Doggett family of Virginia Mr. and Mrs. McClenahan came to Iowa in 1846 and were among the very first settlers of Mills county, where they reared their family: Mary Ellen, the wife of Daniel Hougas; Frances Elizabeth, the wife of G. P. Schenck, of Montgomery county; and our subject. The father lived until death at Trader's Point, after which the mother married Jeremiah Bunker and bore him one daughter, now Mrs. Gifford, a resident of Carson, Iowa. Mr. Bunker died in Nebraska, and she survived many years, passing away in June 1897.
Brought up on a farm and accustomed to agriculture, our subject has made a success of his life work. His educational advantages, like those of many others of his day, were limited but native good sense and a sterling character have supplied all deficiencies. It was on the 23d of October, 1872, that he was married to Miss Mary I Schenck, a native of Indiana, who was born in 1850 and was a daughter of James M. and Alzina (Fisher) Schenck, both of whom are deceased.
Our subject remained on the farm where his mother had settled in 1855, also becoming the possessor of a land warrant of eighty acres from his grandfather Richards, who had been a soldier of the war of 1812. He now has a finely stocked and well cultivated farm of three hundred and twenty-six acres with eight acres of timber land additional. He raises corn, wheat, oats, but principally corn, some years harvesting from six to eight thousand bushels in all. He also raises Poland China hogs and breeds colts, and owns some twenty horses.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. McClenahan have grown up around their hearth to be the comfort of their declining years. The oldest child was an infant that died when but five months old; Maud is the wife of R. E. Stone and has a little son, Sylvan; Pearl May is a teacher and lives at home; Robert Vernon and Lucy Edna, twins, are eighteen years old and live at home; Edna is a graduate of the Henderson high school; Ralph W.; and Inez, a bright little ten year old school girl. Pearl May was graduated at Shenandoah College and taught her first term of school in the Henderson high school, remaining a year. She is accomplished in music, and the musical talent seems to have been given to the whole family.
As a Republican Mr. McClenahan has always done his whole political duty, and his neighbors have honored him with their confidence, appointing him school director for twenty-five years. He was made treasurer before he was twenty-one years old.
Few homes are more happily placed than that of our genial subject and his excellent wife. Generous and liberal-minded, Mr. McClenahan makes friends in every direction, and is much interested in making his children happy by providing them with educational advantages. A new library is being added to the other comforts of the home.
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