HISTORY OF STORY COUNTY, IOWA, By W. O. Payne, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1911, page 493 & 494. "HENRY NEWTON BURROUGHS - Henry Newton Burroughs, a well known resident of Story county, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, on the 3d of December, 1844, a son of Thomas H. and Hannah (Cole) Burroughs. The father was also a native of the Buckeye state, having been born in Fairfield county. The mother was born in Chautauqua county, New York, and accompanied her parents on their removal to Delaware county, Ohio, where she was united in marriage to Thomas H. Burroughs. In 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs went to what was then termed the west, locating on a farm in Jones county, Iowa, near the Cedar county line, their post-office address was Pioneer. They made their home there for over twenty years and about 1876 removed to Marshall county, where they continued to live until 1891, when they removed to Pocahontas county. Here in 1896 the father died, having passed the eighty-fourth milestone of life's journey. The mother is still living at the venerable age of eighty-five years and makes her home with a daughter at Rolfe. Henry Newton Burroughs was reared on the farm, acquiring his education in the district schools. His introduction to the mysteries of the three "R's" took place in a little log schoolhouse, where rough slab benches served for seats and the rod played a very conspicuous part in the curriculum. Work formed a very important feature in the education of the young people of that period, each member of the family being assigned regular duties which they were expected to perform. Mr. Burroughs remained at home assisting his father in the work of the farm until he was twenty-five years of age, when he engaged in farming for himself, operating a portion of the homestead. At the end of a year he and his brother, A. C. Burroughs, bought two hundred and forty acres in Jones county, which they cultivated in partnership for eighteen years. In 1889 they sold their land and for the following nine years Mr. Burroughs farmed on rented land. In the spring of 1899 he bought eighty acres on section 23, Indian Creek township, this county, and here he has ever since resided. In recent years he has leased the most of his tillable land, doing but little farming himself. In 1895 Mr. Burroughs was united in marriage to Miss Martha Clementine Byers, of Maxwell, Iowa. They attend the Presbyterian church, in which they hold membership and of which Mr. Burroughs has been an elder for years. He casts his ballot with the democratic party, feeling the policy of that party best subserves the interests of the public at large. He has never aspired to public office as a reward of party fealty but has devoted his life to private rather than public interests. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity through membership in Herald Lodge, No. 455, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Burroughs is one of the representative men of Indian Creek township and by his high standard of life and honorable business dealings has won and held the respect and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact."