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

[page 478]

     J. A. LANE is one of the pioneers of Iowa, having settled in Clayton
     County, in 1856.  He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July
     25, 1822, and is a son of ROBERT and ELIZABETH (ARMENT) LANE. Although
     reared to the life of a farmer, he worked at the shoemaking trade for
     many years.  The public schools of that day had not advanced to their
     present high standing, and Mr. LANE received a limited education in
     the common schools of his native county.  He was married March 14,
     1849, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Miss ANN JANE MARKS, a
     daughter of WILLIAM and ANN MARKS.  Mr. LANE removed from Clayton
     County to Cherokee County, in 1869, and took a homestead of eighty
     acres of Government land.  He was one of the first settlers in the
     neighborhood, and endured many privations incident to pioneer life.
     He now owns 200 acres of land in Silver and Pilot Townships, which
     is well improved with good buildings and a fine grove.  Mr. and Mrs.
     LANE have had born to them six children: HENRY M., JOHN, ALBERT A.,
     MARTHA LOVE, LIBBIE LOVE and A. W., residing at home.  Mrs. ANN LANE
     died April 7, 1889.  She was a worthy and beloved member of the
     Methodist Episcopal Church.

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