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- History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa
Springfield, Ill: Union Publishing Co., 1884.
Mitchell County
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Phineas Case
Phineas Case is a resident of section 7, township 97, range 15, locating in 1868. He was born at Cannonsville, is the town of Tompkins, Delaware Co., N.Y., Aug. 11, 1823, being the son of James L. and Betsey F. (Preston) Case. While at home he followed the calling of his father, farming and lumbering, notably running lumber down the Delaware River to Philadelphia, to market. In 1845 he went to Boone Co., Ill., working on farms during the summer and teaching in the winter. He enlisted at Fort Dearborn, Chicago, in April, 1848, and started for Mexico, but before arriving at the scene of hostilities, the war had closed. At Vera Cruz they were turned back, and discharged at St. Louis. He received a 160 acre land grant from the government, which he located in Franklin township, De Kalb Co., Ill. In 1851 he married Miss L. A. Humphrey, settling at once on his land, which he made his home until 1866 when he moved to Beloit, Wis. In 1868 he disposed of his property in Beloit, removing to Lincoln township, his present home, upon which he has excellent buildings and improvements. They are the parents of seven children: George M., Frank N., Zeph A., Carrie, James, Mark and Annie.
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Case #753 at WWW.Genforum.com:
pat case Date: July 14, 1999 at 19:30:02
In Reply to: Loggers by profession by Michele Roth
I don't know if this is the same branch because I could not find Ephraim Alpha in the siblings of James Case of cannonsville NY. I have not been able to connect him to a Phineas Case who died in Cannonsville in 1823 and had married Nancy Leonard the daughter of the owner of the lumber mill. James m. Betsy Preston and his sons Frederick, Phineas and maybe more were lumber pilots along the delaware and later the Wisiconsin,Missouri and Mississippi rivers. They moved to Wisconsin and Iowa. I have proof James was in Iowa in 1857 but I think he went back east after he sold his house in Iowa
From the Delaware Co. Web site:
Cemetery Removals in Cannonsville:
Name Dates Interested Party Cemetery Removed to
CASE, -- NONE
CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, -- UNCLAIMED
CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, -- NONE
CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, -- NONE
CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, ANN -1808 NONE
CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, JAMES L. -1863 HATHAWAY, MARGARET M. (MRS.
EDGAR B.) NOT INDICATED CANNONSVILLE PEPACTON
CASE, PHINEHAS -1826 NONE
ALEX WOODBECK married ANN CASE, 1ST wife; OLIVE BULLOCK, 2nd wife and
CATHERINE HENDERSON was his 3rd wife. ESTHER WOODBECK married MR. ROOT; RUTH WOODBECK married JOHN WEBSTER and NELSON WOODBECK married JOANNA OWENS.
From Munsell's History of Delaware Co., Town of Tompkins:
Phineas Case came in 1789, married Nancy Leonard and settled a mile below "the City," on the south side of the river. He died many years ago.
From History of Cannonsville:
James Leonard, the father of Udney Leonard, deceased, long known as a respectable citizen of the town, came with his family at the same time. He, too, was a native of New Jersey. Five years before the Revolutionary war he removed to the vicinity of Lake Champlain, where Udney Leonard was born. On the breaking out of the war his situation was too much exposed to the Indian incursions, and he prudently resolved to secure comparative safety by abandoning his improvements, which he did, and returned to his native State, about twenty-five miles from New York, where he remained till 1786. Then, induced by the representations of Dickinson and others, who described in glowing terms the beauty and fertility of the land on the Delaware, he concluded to make it is his home. Mr. Leonard took up or located on what was then supposed to be State land, on the east side of the river, a little below Cannonsville, on the flats occupied by his descendants and by William McGibbon, Dr. Phineas Case, Alexander Crawford and W. Storrs. Here, for several years, he was engaged in farming profitably, clearing up his land and raising cattle. The wolves killed nearly all his sheep, and the bears his hogs, so that for many years he had to give up raising them.
Presbyterian Church, Cannonsville
The Presbyterian church was formed in 1828 by the Rev. Elisha Wise as a Congregational church, with twenty members, chiefly from the Deposit church. The records are lost, but some of the name of the constituent members remembered, including Memucan and Jemina Lowry, Huldah and Phoebe Case, Analasson Underwood, Beulah Crawford, Catharine Ostram, Diodamia Storrs, Timothy Hale, Peter and Andrew Huyck, Joseph Crawford and wife, Phineas Case, Mrs. Britton, Jane Galley, Isabel Howland and Lydia Hathaway.
Alexander Crawford was born in the town of Tompkins, Delaware county, February 8th, 1808, and is a son of
Alexander and Beulah Crawford. He has been a farmer since 1826. December 13th, 1838, he married Ann, daughter of Phineas and Nancy Case. She died October 22nd, 1864. Their children are Nancy L. and Alexander. Mr. Crawford's present wife was Mrs. Caroline Henderson. The children of Mrs. Crawford by her former husband are William Emmet and Herbert D.
Benjamin Hathaway was born in Tompkins, February 22, 1810,
When but nineteen years of age, Mr. Hathaway married Elizabeth Case, of Tompkins, a daughter of Phineas and Nancy (Leonard) Case; but she passed away when fifty years old, leaving the following children: Harriet; Lydia; Jennie; Amasa J.; Robert and Edwin, now deceased. His second marriage was with Sibyl E. Blake, a native of Chenango County, and a daughter of Ithuel Blake; and she became the mother of one child, John M. Hathaway.
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