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

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          NATHAN B. MIDDAUGH was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August
       11, 1825.  His father, JAMES MIDDAUGH was a farmer. His mother died
       when he was young. His father's death occurred in 1863, in Allen
       county, Indiana, where the family had removed in 1853. In 1865,
       NATHAN B. moved to Warren county, Illinois, and in the fall of 1868,
       to Henry county, Iowa.  He remained there until 1873, when he came
       to Cass county. He arrived here in the month of March, having pre-
       viously visited the county and purchased the farm he now owns and
       occupies on section 3, of Bear Grove township. He was married
       September 10, 1846, to SARAH R. BELL, who was born in Belmont
       county, Ohio, in 1827. They have seven children — JAMES F., a
       farmer, residing in Washington Territory; ANNA, wife of WILLIAM J.
       FARMER, of Dakota; ALICE E., wife of GEORGE GLAZIER, of Cincinnati,
       Ohio; MINERVA J., wife of L. E. MILLER, of Atlantic township; KENYON
       R., and CLIFFORD R., in Dakota, ELMER E., at home.

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