Lake County OHIO Biographies.....William Eddy July 2 1836 - 
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Mary Hitchcock Mary_hitchcock@hotmail.com  December 27, 2005, 11:50 am

Author: History of Johnson County IA, 1836-1882 page 814.

William M. Eddy, farmer and stock raiser, Oxford; was born in Lake County, 
Ohio, July 2, 1836, where he spent his boyhood days until he was sixteen, and 
in 1852 went to Illinois with his parents, Benjamin and Louisa Eddy. They lived 
in Bureau County one year, then came to Oxford township in 1853, and settled on 
the farm now owned by William. Here they entered eighty acres and bought more, 
and tented out in a hay shanty until they could build a log one. Benjamin died 
July 27, 1870, and his wife, Louisa, April 16, 1878, leaving five children. The 
subject of our sketch enlisted in August, 1861 in Co. G, 8th Iowa Infantry, and 
was wounded at Vicksburg. Since the war he has given his attention to farming 
and raising stock, and now owns 304 acres of fine land and has fine buildings 
and improvements. He was married January 27, 1868 to Emetine Brant, a native of 
Pennsylvania, but who came here with her father, Samuel Brant, in 1856. They 
have five children: Allen J., born April 8, 1870; Rosetta, born November 13, 
1872; Benjamin F., born October 26, 1874; Orville W., born October 25, 1877 and 
an infant born May 1, 1882. Source: History of Johnson County IA, 1836-1882 
page 814.



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