Tiffany, Fremont Lincoln

TIFFANY, CAMPBELL, TRIPP, SIGEL, LEONARD, STOCK, DEWITT, SMITH

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Date: 10/22/2009 at 19:35:45

Tiffany, Fremont Lincoln

Upon the roll of representative citizens and energetic agriculturists of Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, appears the name of Fremont Lincoln Tiffany, who has been a resident of this community since his advent into "the struggle which men call life," having never cared to risk the caprices of fate and fortune in other countries, well knowing that right here at home existed as good if not better opportunities than could be met with elsewhere. He has, practically unaided, worked his own way to a position of precedence in local affairs, while his conduct has ever been such as to inspire the confidence of those who have been thrown into contact with him.

Mr. Tiffany was born in the township where he still resides on August 18, 1860, and here he grew up on the home farm and was educated in the local schools. He is the son of Sylvester and Esther (Campbell) Tiffany, the father born in Erie County, New York, March 11, 1825, and he came to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1842, and for a number of years worked in the lead mines of that place. In 1849 he came to Jasper County, but continued this journey, went to California, a member of that famous band of gold hunters, being one of thousands. He returned to Jasper County, Iowa, in 1853, and here continued to make this his home until his death, which occurred in Clear Creek Township, August 30, 1910, having reached an advanced age. He had outlived his wife over twenty years. She was born on November 21, 1831, came to Jasper County in 1855, and her death occurred at Colfax, this county, on April 3, 1889. Their family consisted of four children, two sons and two daughters, namely: Mrs. Martha R. Tripp, born May 27, 1858, lives at Colfax; Fremont L., of this review; Franz Sigel, born July 4, 1864, lives in Clear Creek Township; Mrs. Mary Eliza Leonard lives in Boulder, Colorado. These children were all born at the homestead now occupied by the subject, who owns one hundred and twenty acres of the home farm and two hundred and thirteen acres near the hamlet of Clyde, known as the R. R. Hampton place. He has kept them both under a high state of improvement and cultivation and for a long time successfully carried on general farming and stock raising on a large scale. He has a pleasant home in the midst of attractive surroundings.

On February 18, 1880, Mr. Tiffany was united in marriage with Mary Ellen Stock, who was born in Clear Creek Township, this county, December 13, 1863, and here she was reared and educated, her mother and grandmother being among the earliest settlers of this vicinity, having come here in 1851. Her father, Joseph Stock, was born in Ohio, August 30, 1842, and his death occurred in Colfax, August 7, 1908. His wife was known in her maidenhood as Rachel DeWitt, and was born in Bradford County, Indiana, February 9, 1847, and she is still living at Colfax. There were three children in this family, of which Mrs. Tiffany is the eldest; Joseph Riley Stock died in this township, October 23, 1888; Mrs. Leecy Ann Smith lives at Carpenter, Wyoming.

Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany, named as follows: Clara V., born March 23, 1882, was graduated from the high school at Colfax in the class of 1900, and she was graduated from Drake University in 1904; she is still with her parents on the farm; Carl Tiffany was born May 9, 1884 and lives on his farm in Clear Creek Township; Emma Alta, born May 21, 1886, who attended the Colfax high school, was taking, a training course when she died at the Methodist Hospital at Des Moines, while acting as nurse; Ray was born July 31, 1888, and is living in Collins Township; Joseph Sylvester, born January 25, 1897, is at home, assisting his father with the farm work. Miss Clara Tiffany is in possession of the plat of Palmyra, an embryo city to be located on the E. H. Keyes farm, south of Clyde. This instrument is signed by Elias H. Keyes, William Southern and Emeritta Southern, and Joseph Dodd, Jr., justice of the peace. It was signed September 8, 1855. They also possess an "Arnold's Vocabulary," published in 1784.

Politically, Mr. Tiffany is a Republican, and he has been a member of the school board in his district. Fraternally, he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Mingo. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1261