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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 525-526]

  G. F. COBURN, an enterprising and successful farmer of Tilden Township,
  was born in Boone County, Illinois, May 12, 1856.  He is a son of A.
  and MARY (WRIGHT) COBURN, natives of Androscoggin County, Maine, and
  it was in this county, amid the scenes of the childhood of his father
  and mother, that he also grew to manhood.  At the age of eight years
  he was taken back to the State of Maine, and there he remained until
  his eighteenth year, being trained to the occupation of a farmer, and
  receiving his education in the common schools.  In 1874 he was seized
  with the Western fever, and made a trip to Iowa, where he spent four
  years working by the month on a farm.  At the expiration of that period
  he came to Cherokee County and purchased 160 acres of land in Tilden
  Township.  There he began life in a dug-out, all alone, which is evi-
  dence abundant of his pluck and grit; he had few neighbors, and the
  country being new he necessarily encountered many hardships.  But he
  faced all of these drawbacks bravely, and is now reaping the reward
  of his industry.  As his means would permit he made further invest-
  ments in land, and to-day owns 200 acres in an advanced state of cul-
  tivation, and improved with excellent buildings.  Mr. COBURN has felt
  that duty shared by so many prairie farmers, and has planted four acres
  of beautiful grove.  Although a young man he has already attained an
  unquestionable position in the county, both from a social and finan-
  cial standpoint.  Politically he is one of the most zealous workers
  in the Republican party.  He devotes his time exclusively to farming
  and dealing in live-stock, being one of the extensive shippers in the
  township.  Mr. COBURN was united in marriage November 9, 1879, to Miss
  MARY COBURN, a daughter of ALBERT and ELIZABETH COBURN, born in the
  State of New York, June 13, 1856.  Her mother's maiden name was
  PETTINGILL.  Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. COBURN:
  ARTHUR A., JOHN W., PEARLIE E. and ALVIN G.  Mrs. COBURN is an active
  worker and a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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