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

[page 511-512]

    E. H. WHITEHOUSE has been identified with the interests of Cherokee
    County, Iowa, since the year 1870.  He was born at Smithfield, Somer-
    set County, Maine, May 29, 1853, and is the third son of ISAAC and
    MARY C. (RANKINS) WHITEHOUSE.  ISAAC WHITEHOUSE, a retired farmer
    of Cherokee, was born at Smithfield, Maine, November 11, 1816, and
    is the son of ROBERT WHITEHOUSE, a descendant of an English family,
    who for many generations were farmers.  ROBERT WHITEHOUSE married
    BETSEY FARNHAM, a native of New Hampshire, and a daughter of BENJAMIN
    FARNHAM, of Hollandish descent.  MARY C. (RANKINS) WHITEHOUSE, mother
    of our subject, was a native of Maine, and the daughter of JOSEPH and
    JOHANNA (PERKINS) RANKINS.  ISAAC WHITEHOUSE and family removed from
    Maine to Boone County, Iowa, about 1867, and in the spring of 1869
    they came to Cherokee County.  The father bought a homestead and added
    more land to it, on which he lived until he removed to Cherokee in
    1822.  E. H. WHITEHOUSE was about fourteen years old when his parents
    went to Boone County, Iowa.  He passed his school days in Smithfield,
    Maine, and when the family removed from Boone County to Cherokee County
    he started out in life for himself.  That he found it a royal road does
    not appear from his experience.  He began by breaking prairie with a
    three-horse team, sleeping in a tent at night.  He purchased 160 acres
    in Silver Township, and carried on a general farming business until he
    came to Cherokee in 1888.  He has had some training in the use of
    carpenter's tools, and after settling in town he formed a co-partner-
    ship with FRANK JONES and they engaged in the manufacture of wagons,
    buggies and sleighs; they opened a general repair shop in connection
    with the business, to which they added a blacksmith shop.  In December,
    1879, Mr. WHITEHOUSE was married to Miss EMMA LITTLE, a daughter of
    WILLIAM and REBECCA LITTLE, who removed from Pennsylvania to Cherokee.
    Mr. WHITEHOUSE owns a good farm in Silver Township and a comfortable
    residence in the town of Cherokee.  He has traveled extensively through
    the States and Territories of the West, but has come to the conclusion
    that Cherokee County is the enchanted spot.

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