When the FRAZIER family came to this county, Council Bluffs was their nearest post-office and nearest trading point.
Samuel L. was born in Putnam County, Ind., June 1, 1849, and with his parents came to Harrison County, helping his father and attending the district school. When he was twenty-one years of age, his father gave himself and brother, George N., eighty acres - forty each - on sections 6 and 7, of St. John's Township, with a part of the tract in Calhoun, to which our subject moved in August, 1873, and erected a frame house, sixteen feet square. He now owns two hundred and thirty-four acres, one half of which is under the plow, and forty-five acres in timber land.
He was married, February 24, 1870. to Angeline MURPHY, a native of Indiana, the daughter of John and Zilphia A. MURPHY, and born, October 14, 1853. By this marriage union, six children were born -- Dora M., December 5, 1871; Estella, January 12, 1874; Albert, March 31, 1876; Inez, November 2, 1878; Florence Effie, July 13, 1881 and Herald R., September 22, 1884.
Mr. and Mrs. FRAZIER are members of the Christian Church, and in his politics Mr. FRAZIER is a supporter of the Republican party.
Source: 1891 History of Harrison County Iowa, pp. 312-313.
When the FRAZIER family came to this county, Council Bluffs was their nearest post-office and nearest trading point.
Samuel L. was born in Putnam County, Ind., June 1, 1849, and with his parents came to Harrison County, helping his father and attending the district school. When he was twenty-one years of age, his father gave himself and brother, George N., eighty acres - forty each - on sections 6 and 7, of St. John's Township, with a part of the tract in Calhoun, to which our subject moved in August, 1873, and erected a frame house, sixteen feet square. He now owns two hundred and thirty-four acres, one half of which is under the plow, and forty-five acres in timber land.
He was married, February 24, 1870. to Angeline MURPHY, a native of Indiana, the daughter of John and Zilphia A. MURPHY, and born, October 14, 1853. By this marriage union, six children were born -- Dora M., December 5, 1871; Estella, January 12, 1874; Albert, March 31, 1876; Inez, November 2, 1878; Florence Effie, July 13, 1881 and Herald R., September 22, 1884.
Mr. and Mrs. FRAZIER are members of the Christian Church, and in his politics Mr. FRAZIER is a supporter of the Republican party.
Source: 1891 History of Harrison County Iowa, pp. 312-313.
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