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FAY, Wooster
Submitted by: Mona Sarratt Knight to Pottawattamie Co IAGenExchange
Wooster FAY, of Lewis Twp., is a native of Franklin Co., Vermont, born Nov
18, 1819, the son of Jonathan and Ruth (Elsworth) Fay. The parents were
natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and of Scotch and English
origin.
They had three children: Addison, a resident of Bowling Green, Ohio;
Wooster,
our subject; and Hollis, deceased in 1868. WOOSTER FAY, our subject, was
reared in his native state until he was 15 years of age, when his family
removed to Wood Co., Ohio. He was reared to farm life and received his
education in the common schools. When the family went to Wood County it was
a
new country, they being among the pioneers. They improved a farm which they
entered from the Government, and here he lost his parents. He remained in
Wood Co. 21 years, and in 1855 came west to Iowa. In the spring of 1856 he
came to Pottawattamie Co. and purchased a farm of 200 acres of partially
improved land, in what is now Keg Creek Township. In the fall of 1856 he
removed with his family to Pottawattamie County where they commenced life
again in a new country and for the second time became a pioneer. He remained
in Keg Creek Township until April 1889, when he removed to his present home
on section 4, Lewis Township. He has a comfortable little home with three
acres of land and here he expects to spend his remaining days. He has
labored
hard in assisting in the development of Pottawattamie County, having
improved
176 acres of prairie land, which he disposed of at various times, and has
also purchased other land. The home farm is on sections 20, 28, and 29, Keg
Creek. This he improved and made his home until he removed to his present
place. He dealt in stock principally, in connection with his farming and the
last 12 or 13 years he has taken special pride in the rearing of a better
grade of stock, in the short-horn class. Politically he is a Republican and
has represented his county as a member of the Board of Supervisors for six
years from 1874 to 1880. He represented his township in the state
legislature
for three terms and a half, and in all of his political career he has never
asked a man to vote for him. Mr. Fay was married in wood Co., Ohio, November
9, 1846, to CHARLOTTE M. McMILLAN, who was born in Seneca Co., Ohio, March
10, 1826. She was the daughter of Morrison and Clarissa (Brown) McMillan,
natives of New York and Canada and of Scotch origin. Mr. and Mrs. FAY have
four children: Emma, born Oct 15, 1847, is the wife of Samuel H. Hopkins
residing in Macedonia, Pottawattamie County, Iowa; Morrison M., a resident
of
Franklin Co., Nebraska, born August 27, 1849; Jane, born July 10, 1851, wife
of Logan Reynolds; Isoletta, born June 8, 1866, wife of James Pershell,
residing in Lincoln Co., Washington. The family are among the most worthy
and
respected citizens of the county and have, by their honesty and integrity,
won a large circle of friends.
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1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County Iowa, by The
Lewis
Publishing Co
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