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L. D. Boyd ~ Jeannette Nicoll

Red Oak, Iowa

NICOLL, DAVID, an ex-member of the house of representatives in the Iowa
legislature, a minister of the United Presbyterian church, and a farmer in Battle township, Ida county, Iowa was born in Delaware county. N.Y., February 22, 1841. He was the son of Andrew and Margaret George Nicoll, and was the eighth born of their family of ten children. His father was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1797, and grew to manhood and married there. He emigrated to America in 1839 and located on a farm in Delaware county, N. Y., where the rest of his life was spent. His death occurred in March, 1870. His wife survived him until April, 1890, and died at Clarence, Cedar county, Iowa. All but two of the children are still living. They are: Elizabeth, wife of John Beckwith, deceased; William, married and living in Delaware county, N. Y.; James, deceased; Andrew, married and living in Tarkio, Mo.; Margaret, wife of John G. Russell, living in Delaware county, N. Y.; Ann, wife of Allen Elijah, living in Clarence, Cedar county, Iowa; Christina, widow of John D. Imrie, living in Red Oak, Iowa; David, the subject of this sketch; Jane, wife of William Imrie, of Napa City, Cal., and JEANNETTE, wife of L. D. BOYD, of Red Oak, Iowa.

Source:  page 400; Gue, B.F. Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa. Des Moines: Conaway & Shaw Publishers, 1899.

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