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

[page 615]

    REV. D. R. STANFORD is one of the prominent pioneers of Cedar Township.
    He came to the county in 1869, and located on a a homestead of Govern-
    ment land of 160 acres, which he has since improved and made his home.
    He was born in Bershire, Massachusetts, May 12, 1819, and is a son of
    EBENEZER and MARY (HAWKS) STANFORD.  They were the parents of five
    daughters and seven sons, of whom our subject was the oldest.  Mr.
    STANFORD was united in marriage, May 9, 1843, to Miss MARTHA PECK, a
    native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of OBED and LYDIA (ALLEN) PECK.
    In 1868 he removed to Dane County, Wisconsin, and in 1869 to Cherokee
    County, Iowa, as before stated.  Eight children have been born to Mr.
    and Mrs. STANFORD: LEROY, MARGARET (died aged sixteen), SUSAN, JAMES
    H., MOSES A., MARY ANNA, ABBIE and CORRINNA.  Mr. STANFORD has been an
    ordained minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church for the past forty
    years, and has done faithful work in his Master's cause.  His neighbors
    and friends have displayed the confidence which they have in him by
    calling him to fill most of the township offices, the duties of which
    he has discharged with unfailing energy and integrity.  His children
    have received a good education, and most of them have been successful
    teachers, and a credit to their parents' training and teaching.

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