DANIEL B. WALTERS

DANIEL B. WALTERS has become a prominent and well-known citizen of Fairview Township. He came to the county in 1877. He was born near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1823, and is a son of Anthony and Elizabeth WaIters.
He was reared on a farm in Pennsylvania, and was married when he was twenty-five years of age, to Miss Margaret Byers, who is a native of Pennsylvania. In 1853 our subject removed to Stephenson County, Illinois, where he improved a good farm and lived several years; he then sold out and went to Jo Daviess County, Illinois, near Warren, where he improved another farm. He remained two years and then went to Jasper County, Iowa, near Newton, where he improved a farm and lived eight years. He then sold and rented in PottawattamieCounty, near Walnut, for two years. In the spring of 1877 he came to Shelby County, and located on his present farm of 160 acres. He also owns fifty acres in the north part of the township, and 160 acres of improved land in Lincoln Township. The home farm is one of the best improved in the township; there is a fine house built in modern style, surrounded with shade and ornamental trees, large, fine barns, and all conveniences for farming in good style. Mr. WaIters and wife have twelve children-Jacob, Jeremiah, Abram, Anthony, Daniel, Albert, William, Ed, Court, Jennie, Laura and Ella. Mr. WaIters is a Republican, and always has been one. He is honorable in all his business transactions, and is one of Shelby County's solid and reliable citizens

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pg. 501. Transcribed by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs.