Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013,
                           All Rights Reserved
                          U.S. Data Repository

    Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
=========================================================================
U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization.
Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain
the consent of the transcriber prior to use.
Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so.
=========================================================================
Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Co.,
Springfield, Ill: 1884


  -582-

        J. O. H. SPINNEY came to Victoria township, Cass county, in March,
     1877, having previously bought the southwest quarter of section 14,
     which was at that time an unimproved prairie.  Since his settlement
     he has purchased other land,and now owns 800 acres of land.  He has
     planted a fine orchard, built a dwelling house, and has erected
     necessary farm buildings for sheltering stock and grain.  Mr. SPINNEY
     was born in Freedom, Maine, on the 9th of November, 1837. He was there
     reared and educated in the public school.  At the opening of the war
     he enlisted in the service, being in most of the principal battles. He
     was honored by several minor promotions, and in June, 1862, he was
     promoted to fourth duty sergeant, and so remained until 1864, when he
     was made first lieutenant.  A few weeks later he was made captain of
     his company, and so remained until the close of the war.  In the
     winter of 1865, he was detailed as clerk at the Brigade headquarters
     and in the spring was appointed marshal, at Iuka, Mississippi.  He was
     honorably discharged in November, 1865, and went to Stark county,
     Illinois, where he had moved before the war, and worked at the car-
     penter's trade until 1869, when he went to the Pacific coast, where he
     entered large tracts of timber land, and was engaged as depositor at
     the land office in Olympia, Washington Territory.  In 1870, he con-
     cluded to return east, and traded the timber land which he had entered
     for the land which he now owns in Cass county.  On his return home he
     resumed the management of the water cure at Davenport, for two years,
     when he returned to Stark county, and there remained until coming to
     his present location, in 1877.  Mr. SPINNEY was married on the 1st of
     January, 1866, to JULIA H. BEVILLE, a native of New York.  They have
     been blessed with three sons — BURTON A., LOUIS B. and HOWARD H.

===========================================================================
If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access the more free
online information about Cass County, Iowa, by going to the following URL:
http://www.us-data.org/ia/cass/
===========================================================================