Identifier: historyofclayton02pric (find matches)
Title: History of Clayton County, Iowa : from the earliest historical times down to the present : including a genealogical and biographical record of many representative families, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Price, Realto E
Subjects: Clayton County (Iowa) -- History Clayton County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : Robert O. Law Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f their livesin this county and both having been well advanced in years at thetime of death. Andrew, the eldest of their children, enlisted as asoldier of the Union in the Civil war and he died while in the gal-lant ranks of the boys in blue; Catherine Jane is the widow ofCharles McKinness and resides in the state of Missouri; Amos W.,of this review, was the next in order of birth; Ambrose resides atStrawberry Point, this county; Sarah Elizabeth is deceased; Bur-ros resides at Littleport, this county; Hannah Maria and EstherEmma are deceased, as is also Minnie, the youngest of the children.Amos W. Hughes was a lad of about six years at the time of thefamily removal to Clayton county, where he was reared to manhoodand where his educational advantages were those afforded in thepioneer schools. At the age of sixteen years, while serving asengineer in a saw mill, his left arm was caught in a center shaftand the injury was such as to necessitate the amputation of the ^ fifiJ NKW Uih 4---.Z
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L. L. HULYERSON BIOGRAPHICAL 187 arm. For many years thereafter he was engaged in the buying andshipping of live stock, and since 1914 he has been engaged in thegrain, feed and coal business at Littleport, a loyal and uprightcitizen who has secure place in popular esteem. The maiden nameof his wife was Isabel Marshall, and she has been a resident ofClayton county from the time of her birth. They have two sons,Warren J. and Raymond. Hulverson, Lars L., was born in Read township, Claytoncounty, Iowa, September 22, 1860. He was the son of Lars C. andMary Hulverson, both natives of Norway, who came to Iowa, set-tling in Clayton county on a farm, and both of whom are nowdeceased. The father took an active interest in the affairs of histownship, holding several minor offices, and he and his wife werethe parents of nine children: John, of Miller, Iowa; Nettie, who isthe wife of Andrew Larson of the same place; Christina, marriedand living in Miller, Iowa; Isabel, the wife of John Faber, of R

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