T. M. CROWNER was born in Richland County, Ohio, on October 29, 1831. He was raised in Ohio until age twenty-three, when he moved to Griggsville, Illinois, where he married Mary Halferty in 1854. This family lived in various counties of Illinois, then in Cedar County, Iowa for a short time, before moving to Cass County. In October, 1878, Mr. Crowner purchased a 175-acre farm on the southeast quarter of Section 27 of Brighton Township, now known as the Scybert farm.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 25. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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