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

[page 476]

    NOAH WILSON FURGASON, one of the early pioneers, has been identified
    with the history of Cherokee County since 1867.  His birthplace is
    Marietta, Ohio, the oldest town in that State, and the date is August
    12, 1846.  His parents, JAMES and ELIVRA (MORSE) FURGASON, were natives
    of Maryland and Ohio respectively.  The father was a tanner by trade.
    NOAH W. received unusually good educational advantages.  When the call
    for men to go to the defense of this nation and her institutions was
    made, he was not a laggard in responding.  He enlisted May 28, 1862,
    in Company A, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving
    four months was honorably discharged.  During his first service to the
    country he participated in the engagement at Harper's Ferry, and was
    there taken prisoner by STONEWALL JACKSON'S men.  He re-enlisted Oct-
    ober 6, 1863, in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Volunteer
    Infantry, and served until October 18, 1865; he was with General
    SHERMAN on his immortal march to Atlanta; was with General THOMAS at
    Nashville, Tennessee, and also at Franklin, Tennessee.  His regiment
    was then ordered to Texas, and he was stationed for a time near Port
    Lavaca, and after peace was declared he returned to his home in Ohio,
    where he resided until he came to Cherokee County in 1867.  He came by
    rail to Denison, and thence overland to Cherokee.  The first season he
    engaged in breaking prairie; the winter of 1867-'68 was spent in
    teaching school in the northeast corner of Cherokee Township, this
    being one of the first schools taught outside the town of Cherokee.
    In 1869 Mr. FURGASON purchased eighty acres of land in Cedar Township,
    on which he has since resided; he also owns eight acres in Spring
    Township.  He was married December 19, 1869, to Miss FANNY M. CANNON,
    of Afton Township, a successful teacher.  She is a daughter of E. D.
    and EMILY (OVIATT) CANNON.  Three children have been born of this
    union: WALTER M., LEWIS O., LETHA EDNA. Politically Mr. FURGASON cast
    his suffrage with the Republican party.

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