J. R. HERBERT was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, on September 23, 1814. At age thirty, he moved to Hardin County, Ohio, and remained there until he traded his lands in Ohio for eight hundred acres of land here in Brighton Township in 1867. His lands included all of Section 2 and part of Section 4. J. R. Herbert later gave parts of this farm to his sons. He married Hannah Barton in 1836 in Ohio and their children were Franklin, George, Joseph, Henry and John. John died at age eighteen, Henry was later the sheriff of Audubon County, and the other three sons all had farms adjoining the 117 acres remaining which J. R. Herbert had retained for hisown use. When Joseph R. Herbert arrived in the northeast part of Brighton Township in 1867, he was the only settler between Indian and Buck Creek in that part of the township. He died in Marne and his wife died in 1904.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pp. 29-30. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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