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

[page 623]

    WILLIAM LIKE, a progressive and successful farmer of Spring Township,
    was born in Onondaga County, New York, October 9, 1832.  His parents
    were DAVID and MARY (ABRAMS) LIKE, also natives of New York and of
    German ancestry.  When sixteen years of age WILLIAM'S father gave
    him his time and he went to work on the Erie Canal, and until he was
    twenty-one he was employed in various duties in connection with the
    canal and farm.  He then returned to his father's farm and devoted the
    principal part of the following seven years to farming.  Mr. LIKE was
    married April 3, 1859, in Cattaraugus County, New York, to Miss HANSI
    E. BUTLER, who was born in that county January 23, 1840.  In 1866 they
    came to Jones County, Iowa, where they passed the next three and a half
    years.  Then they removed to Cherokee County in the spring of 1870, and
    Mr. LIKE entered a homestead in section 30, Afton Township; there they
    resided until 1882, when they removed to their present farm, on which
    they have since lived.  Mr. LIKE is engaged in mixed farming, and has
    done well since coming to the county; his possessions amounted to about
    $600, including stock, implements, etc., and he now owns an elegant
    farm of 320 acres, and is surrounded with every convenience for his
    business.  Mr. and Mrs. LIKE are the parents of four children, two
    sons and two daughters: ALICE P. is the wife of EMERY SECOR, of Afton
    Township; WILLIAM H., GEORGE E. and NELLIE MAY, of Spring Township.
    Our subject is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican
    party, and the people of his township have attested their confidence
    in him by calling him to fill many of the offices discharging public
    business.  He and his wife are honored members of the Methodist
    Episcopal Church; he is steward of that body.  They are numbered with
    the reliable, substantial citizens of Cherokee County.

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