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

[page 542-543]

    J. O. LE BARRON, the genial host of the Central House, Washta,
    Cherokee County, Iowa, was born in Cattaraugus County, New York,
    January 10, 1840, and is a son of JOSEPH and CHARLOTTE (DUNN) LE
    BARRON, natives of the States of New York and Vermont respectively.
    He lived in his native State until thirteen years of age, when his
    mother took her family and removed from Illinois to Iowa, and set-
    tled in Page County, where they made their home for sixteen years.
    In 1882 Mr. LE BARRON came to Ida County, and in 1889 he came to
    Washta, and built the Central House, which he has since conducted.
    He also owns a dray line which he runs in connection with the hotel
    business.  In the beginning of the Civil War he offered his services
    to the nation, enlisting August 13, 1861, in Company G, One Hundredth
    Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and serving until the declaration of
    peace.  He participated in many battles, among the most noted being
    Chicamauga, Missionary Ridge, Stone River, Atlanta, Nashville, Knox-
    ville, Pigeon Roost, Rocky Knob, Walnut Grove and Peach Tree Creek;
    he was also in a number of skirmishes.  In political thought and
    action he is Republican.  Mr. LE BARRON was united in marriage
    October 20, 1866, to HULDA R. DAVIS, who was born in Massachusetts,
    August 27, 1835.  They are the parents of two children, both of whom
    are deceased.  Mr. LE BARRON had one child by a former marriage; his
    name is BENJAMIN F. DAVIS, and he resides in Ida County, Iowa.  Mr.
    LE BARRON is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is one
    of the worthy residents of the county.

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