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Source: A History of Cass County, Iowa
        Continental Historical Company, 1884

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
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WALDEN, Rev. Asa
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Page 578

  Rev. Asa Walden was born in Connecticut, in 1790.  At the age of seven-
teen he removed with his parents to Trumbull county, Ohio, who were among
the early settlers of that county.  He was married in Bristol, Trumbull
county, in 1813, to Mary Cline, who was born in Virginia in 1794.  Her
parents were also early settlers of Trumbull county.  When a young man he
united with the M. E. church, and later became a minister of the gospel of
that denomination.  In 1847, he removed to Ashtabula county, where he en-
gaged in preaching and farming until 1856, when he went to Wisconsin.  In
the spring of 1857, he came to Victoria, effecting a settlement on section
6, and was probably the second settler of that territory, as he come but a
short time afer his son-in-law, William Johnson.  He here united with the
Christian church, and for some time afterward preached for that denomin-
ation.  His death occurred August 7, 1861, and in 1878, the demise of his
wife took place.  There were eleven children born to them, four of whom are
still living -- Philena, widow of Mr. Lidle, who resides at present in
Harrison county, Iowa; Catherine, wife of William E. Johnson, living in
Cloud county, Kansas; Sophronia, wife of Isaac Johnson, a resident of Edna
township; and Mary A., wife of Rufus L. Peasley, resident of Harrison
county, Iowa.

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