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Mother of Powell, Lida & Minnie
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Her children were Sarah (Mrs F. S. Turk) and Mary (Mrs John Epler).
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From "History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana"
OLIVER JOHNSON
The lineage of the Johnson family is distinctively Irish. Jeremiah Johnson, Sr., the grandfather of Oliver, early resided in Virginia, and subsequently removed to Kentucky, the Territory of Indiana ultimately becoming his home. His children were Samuel, Jeremiah, Thomas, John, Milton, Nancy, Jane, Mary, and Sarah. Of these sons, John was born Jan. 1, 1798, in Kentucky, and removed to Franklin County, Ind. In 1821, Marion County became his home. He married Miss Sarah Pursel, daughter of Peter Pursel, Esq., formerly of New Jersey, and one of the early residents of Franklin County, Ind. Their twelve children were Oliver, Luther, Volney, Newton, John V., Charles P., Louisa, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Nancy Jane, Lucinda, and Sarah. Oliver was born Nov. 22, 1821, in Franklin County, Ind., and brought with his parents while an infant to Marion County. His youth was passed at the home of his father in the various employments of the farm, interspersed with periods at the neighboring school. At the age of twenty-two he was married to Miss Pamelia Howland, daughter of Powell Howland, Esq., of Marion County. Their children are Mary E. (Mrs. Wm. A. Lowe), of Terre Haute; James P., of Terre Haute, who married Miss Rebecca Shoemaker, of the same place; Silas H., of Washington township, married to Miss Laura Wright, of the same township; and Franklin P., also of Washington township, married to Miss Georgie Ann Pursel, of Tuscola, Ill. Mr. Johnson for several years after his marriage rented a farm, but desiring to be independent of landlords, purchased a tract of land in Washington township, which was soon after sold and his present home secured. He has during his active career been engaged in farming of a general character, and is regarded as one of the most practical and successful farmers of the county. He has in politics been a lifetime Democrat, but not a working partisan. He is in religion a supporter of the Lutheran Church, of which his wife is a member.
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From pages 670 - 672 of "Past and Present of Shelby County Iowa."
ROBERT M. POMEROY.
Forty years have elapsed since Robert M. Pomeroy and his young wife came to Shelby county, Iowa, and during this time he has so managed his affairs as to become one of the wealthiest men of Shelby. He has, during the course of a long and busy life, engaged in the mercantile business, has served as a civil engineer, while for a quarter of a century, he was one of the largest farmers and most successful stock dealers of Shelby county. Since September 1, 1914, he has been in charge of the Farmers Savings Bank at Shelby, and in this capacity has demonstrated peculiar ability for this line of business. He has been prominently identified with every phase of his county's history during the time he has lived in it and has been in hearty sympathy with all public movements. He has served as township trustee, school director and county treasurer and in every official position he has demonstrated that he has the interest of his fellow-citizens at heart.
Robert M. Pomeroy, the son of William R. and Elizabeth (Maclay) Pomeroy, was born March 24. 1849, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. His father was born in the same county in 1811 and his mother was born in Con­cord, Pennsylvania, in 1822. His parents were married in 1845 and reared a family of six children, Mrs. Arabella Deihl, Henry, Robert M., John, Eliza­beth and William R. Of these six children, Arabella and Henry are de­ceased, the former being buried in Adams county, Pennsylvania. John and William R. are living a retired life. in Shelby, Iowa, while Elizabeth makes her home in Concord, Pennsylvania. William R. Pomeroy conducted a general merchandise store in Concord, Pennsylvania, for fifty years and also had a large tannery in connection with his general merchandise business. He died in 1889 and his wife died in 1875.
Robert M. Pomeroy received his elementary and high school education at Waterloo, Pennsylvania, and later attended the academy at that place until he was twenty years of age. After leaving school he clerked in a general merchandise store for three years in Parksburg, Pennsylvania, and then was connected with a civil engineer corps for one year. In 1872 he went west and settled in Louis county, Iowa, where he managed a store until 1875. He then sold out, married and came to Shelby, Iowa, where he has since lived. He went into partnership with Dr. Campbell in the general mer­chandise business and three years later sold his share and built a frame build­ing, twenty-two by eighty feet. In this building he conducted his store until 1895, when he sold out and moved to his farm of two hundred and sixty acres which he had purchased in Shelby township in 1891. He farmed this for twenty-two years and made extensive improvements upon it, so that he had one of the most valuable farms in the township. He was an extensive breeder of Clydesdale horses, Poland-China hogs and Aberdeen Polled Angus cattle. He made many exhibits at county fairs and won several premiums on his cattle, horses and hogs. He gave special attention to the raising of cattle and averaged one hundred head every year. In 1912 Mr. Pomeroy sold out his farming interest, moved back to Shelby, Iowa, and took full possession of the Farmers Savings Bank. He owns twenty acres of land inside the corporate limits in addition to his beautiful city home.
Mr. Pomeroy was married November 2, 1876, to Mary McClurkin, who was born at Morning Sun, Iowa, in 1851, the daughter of Henry and Nancy Jane McClurkin was born in Indiana. To this union four children have been born: Elizabeth, a graduate of Grinnell College; William H., of Tulsa, Oklahoma, married Norine Wilson and has one child, William Henry, Jr.; Loren, a graduate of the Dental College of Chicago, a dentist at Avoca, who married Mary Ethel Goodwin; Mrs. Alice Frum, of Dakota City, Nebraska.
Politically, Mr. Pomeroy is a member of the Republican party and has been one of his party's leaders for many years. As township trustee, as school director and as county treasurer (1882-86), he has served his fellow citizens in a very efficient manner. The family are members of the Presby­terian church and have always taken an active part in all church work.