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

[page 399]

  ELIAS DUBES, a prominent farmer of Silver Township, entered eighty
  acres of Government land in Cherokee County in 1868, and his family
  have been residents of the county since 1870.  He was born September
  17, 1828, in York County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of JACOB and
  BETSEY (MOTTER) DUBES, his mother being the daughter of English
  parents.  At the age of twenty-one years ELIAS removed to Carroll
  County, Ohio, remaining there one year, when he returned to Harri-
  son County.  There he was married January 8, 1852, to Miss HANNAH
  SAWVEL, a daughter of MICHAEL and SARAH (WARNER) SAWVEL, natives
  of York County, Pennsylvania.  The father died at the age of seventy-
  seven, and the mother lived to be sixty-five years old.  Mrs. DUBES
  was born in Harrison County, Ohio.  In 1853 the tide of emigration
  flowing westward, Mr. DUBES emigrated to Iowa and settled in Clayton
  County;  thence he removed to Allamakee County, Iowa, where he im-
  proved 120 acres of land.  In August, 1862, he left the peaceful
  pursuit of agriculture to engage in the defense of the Union; he
  enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company I,
  and served two years and a half; he participated in the battles of
  Clifton, Jackson, Mississippi, and Holly Springs, Arkansas.  He was
  honorably discharged on account of physical disability, when he re-
  turned to Allamakee County, where he lived until he came to Cherokee
  County.  Mr. DUBES now owns 360 acres of land in Silver Township, and
  forty acres in Diamond.  His dwelling was built in 1883 at a cost of
  $2,300, and is one of the handsomest farm residences in the county;
  he has a large and substantial barn, a modern windmill supplying water
  for livestock, and stock scales; there is a large grove adding to the
  comfort of the place, and all the indications are that Mr. DUBES is a
  successful farmer.  He and his wife are the parents of seven children:
  LUCINDA CLARA, wife of J. P. McDOWELL, of Diamond Township; MICHAEL
  FRANCIS, of Silver Township; SARAH E., wife of H. M. LANE, of Silver
  Township; DANIEL, of Diamond Township, and MAGGIE A., at home; two
  children have died.  FLORA J., in 1881, in her thirteenth year; AMANDA
  E., in 1882, in her twenty-first year.  Mr. DUBES is a member of the
  Republican party, and has served his township seventeen years as
  treasurer, eight years as trustee, and two years as justice of the
  peace, and his county as coroner; he has filled these offices with
  credit to himself and honor to his constituency.  He and his wife
  are members of the Baptist Church, and their house was for many
  years known as the Baptist headquarters.  Mr. DUBES is a member of
  the General Custer Post, No. 25, G.A.R.  He is frank and genial in
  manner, and is honored and respected by many friends.


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