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

[page 514-515]

    S. A. LIBBY, an enterprising and representative citizen of Cedar
    Township, has been a resident of Cherokee County since 1882. He
    is a native of Cumberland County, Maine, born August 21, 1826,
    and is a son of JAMES and EMMA (CHASE) LIBBY, also natives of the
    State of Maine, and of English ancestry.  The father died at the
    advanced age of eighty-nine years, and the mother, when our subject
    was two years old.  He is one of a family of fourteen children, and
    was occupied with farm work until he was twenty-two years old; he
    then went to Waltham, Massachusetts, and worked at the carpenter's
    trade until 1853.  Caught in the tide of emigration, he journeyed
    to the West, and located at Cascade, Dubuque County, Iowa, where he
    had two older brothers; there he remained seven years, employed at
    his trade; at the end of this time he removed to Delaware County,
    and settled near Delhi, where he lived until 1882, when, as before
    stated, he came to Cherokee County.  For a short time he lived in
    Afton Township, and then purchased his present place, which is known
    as the Hilton farm; it contains eighty acres with a good house, barn,
    and many other improvements.  The land lies very near the town plat
    of Larrabee.  Mr. LIBBY is engaged in general farming, and he also
    works at his trade.  In 1856, in Cumberland County, Maine, occurred
    the marriage of S. A. LIBBY and Miss ANGELINE RILEY, a native of
    Oxford County, and a daughter of DAVID and SARAH (FARNHAM) RILEY.
    By this union nine children have been born: WILBUR, assessor of Cedar
    Township; EUGENE, ALVRA, ROSELLE, FLORENCE, MABEL, EVELYN, ANNETTE,
    and MELVIN (deceased).  In political thought and action Mr. LIBBY is
    a Republican.  He is now in his sixty-third year, and is one of the
    respected and highly esteemed men of the township.

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