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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

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        CORNELIUS W. DEEDS settled where he now resides, on the southeast
     quarter of section 2, of Benton township, in July, 1864. He purchased
     his land of the government, and has, of course, made all of his
     improvements. His first house was a log cabin, in which he lived until
     he built his present residence in 1882. He has an apple orchard, con-
     taining about four hundred bearing trees. His farm contains eighty
     acres. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1835. In
     1841 his father removed to Lee county, Iowa.  CORNELIUS was reared a
     farmer and has always been engaged in that occupation. He was married
     to ARTEMISIA MAPES, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of SOLOMON MAPES,
     who died in Audubon county, Iowa, in 1882, at the age of eighty-two
     years.  Mr. DEEDS' father, JOHN DEEDS, enlisted in the Thirty-seventh
     Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and died while in the service, at Alton
     Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. DEEDS have five children - LILA, ETNA E.,
     CAPITOLA G., ELIHU and ADA U. The eldest two were born in Lee county,
     the others here.

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