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

[page 548-549]

    J. B. RICKARD is a substantial and reliable member of the farming
    community of Cedar Township.  He is a native of Oswego County, New
    York, born in 1852, and is a son of H. and CHRISTINA (SNYDER) RICKARD,
    natives of Schoharie County, New York.  When J. B. was a small boy
    his parents removed to Onondaga County, New York, where they resided
    twenty-six years.  They were the parents of two children: IRVING, who
    lives in the State of New York, and J. B. the subject of this notice.
    J. B. was reared to the occupation of a farmer, and received his edu-
    cation in the common schools.  After leaving school, for five seasons
    he was engaged in boating on the canal, and afterward sailed upon the
    lakes.  In 1878 his family came to Cherokee County, and settled in
    Cedar Township.  J. B. RICKARD and his father purchased 200 acres of
    H. C. KELLOGG, and they have since sold forty-five acres for the town
    site of Larrabee.  The farm is under a good state of culitivation, and
    has many excellent improvements.  It is well watered by Gray Creek,
    making it one of the most desirable stock farms in the county.  J. B.
    RICKARD is still unmarried.  His high integrity of character and
    honesty of purpose have won him many friends in the community.

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