DOUGLAS POLKINGHARN, SR. was the oldest of Thomas A. Elizabeth A. Polkingharn, who emigrated to this country from Cornwall, England. He was born in Grant County, Wisconsin on April 23, 1858. Douglas Polkingharn left Wisconsin in 1879 with his brother and sister and widowed mother and traveled by covered wagon to Custer County, Nebraska where he homesteaded. He farmed near Westerville, Nebraska until he returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa in January, 1895. He first lived in Walnut, until moving to a farm northeast of Marne in 1899. He had two children by his first wife who died in 1888. He had five children by his second wife - Jessie, Herbert, Douglas, Jr., Arthur and Oral. Douglas Polkingharn, Sr. served for many years as Mayor of Marne. He died in 1848 at Marne, Iowa.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pp. 36-37. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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