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I came from Greenville, Ohio, to lowa with my parents in 1855. I was two years old when I arrived at Irwin. My father used to team and haul freight from Iowa City, thirty miles away. in those years. The'winters Very cold and many snow storms and blizzards oomnred on the ttien blealit prairies of this Igreat State of Iowa.' In a •few' ^years' the'railroad war completed to ^Mwfengo, IowKT- Then it wSs that all freight was hauled from Marengo, until the C. &"n W. was built to Belle
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