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

[page 566-567]

    ARTHUR POLKINGHORN is a member of the firm of C. H. Stevens & Co.,
    dealers in farm machinery, buggies, carriages and wagons.  The firm
    was founded in 1886, and everything belonging to a first-class
    establishment can be found in their stock.  Mr. POLKINGHORN was born
    in Iowa County, Wisconsin, September 13, 1857, and is the fourth of a
    family of eight children.  His parents, STEPHEN and ELIZA J. (ARTHUR)
    POLKINGHORN, were born in England, and immediately after their mar-
    riage emigrated to America, landing in the city of New York; thence
    they continued their journey to Wisconsin, where they have since made
    their home; the father is a farmer by occupation.  ARTHUR spent his
    boyhood in the State in which he was born, dividing his time between
    the common schools and the duties that usually devolve upon a farmer's
    son.  He remained under the parental roof until he was twenty years
    old; he then went to work in a carriage and plow factory, working for
    two months in the blacksmith department. In the winter of 1879 he came
    to Ida County, Iowa, and the following fall he removed to Cherokee
    County.  He bought eighty acres of land in Sheridan Township which
    he improved and made his home for four years.  He then sold it, and
    purchased a tact of 120 acres in Sioux County, Iowa.  The two years
    following he rented a farm in Sheridan Township, and in the winter of
    1886 he moved to Cherokee and formed the partnership before described.
    Mr. POLKINGHORN was married in December, 1881, to Miss MINERVA
    WALTERS, a daughter of CHRISTOPHER and MINERVA WALTERS, and a native
    of Johnson County, Iowa.  Three children have been born of this union:
    ELMER A., MIRON S. and CARL W.  Our subject was appointed census
    enumerator in 1884-'85, and served as assessor at the same time.
    He is a member of Cherokee Lodge, No. 188, I.O.O.F.  Politically he
    affiliates with the Republican party.

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