1890 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Story County, Iowa

of William and Jane (Neal) McCullough, both natives of South Carolina. The mother died at the age of forty-two and the father at eighty years of age. The children living are: Isabella (resides in Keokuk, Iowa, and is the widow of Marion Beatty), Adaline (resides in Peoria, Ill., and is the wife of Thomas Leve, who is baggage-master of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad), and William (residing in Republic County, Kas.). The latter married Miss Anna Mullen. Mrs. Tichenor secured a limited education in the old subscription schools in Indiana, and was married to Joseph Tichenor on April 3, 1855 in Scott County, Ind. Shortly afterward they emigrated to Iowa, and there engaged in cultivating the soil. Their marriage was blessed by the birth of seven children-five sons and two daughters: Eldert (married Miss Nettie Wiseman, and is engaged in farming in Story County), Belle (resides in Story County, and is the wife of William Hogue, a farmer), Eva died at the age of fourteen years), Carleton and Joseph (twins), (both deceased, the former at the age of twenty-seven years and the latter when young; Carleton married Miss Mary Whittaker and left a little boy), Edward (is a farmer and resides on the home place), and Oliver (resides on the home place). Mrs. Tichenor is a worthy member of the Evangelical Society, as was also her husband, and is a liberal supporter of all benevolent and religious institutions. The society numbers about thirty members, and is prospering finely. Mrs. Tichenor came to Story County in 1855, and has witnessed the marvelous growth of the same since that time. She is the owner of 160 acres of good prairie land, and also has 20 acres in timber. She lost her husband on June 15, 1877, and his remains are interred in the Mullen Cemetery, near the home. Mrs. Tichenor expects to spend the balance of her days in Story County surrounded by her children and many warm friends. Joseph Tichenor (deceased) was a native of Delaware, born in 1814, and always cultivated the soil. He was an honorable, upright man, and was respected by all acquainted with him. He was a Republican in politics. He started life a poor boy, but by industry and economy had accumulated considerable property at the time of his demise, which occurred on June 15, 1877, from cancer of the stomach.

John W. Torry, farmer and stock-raiser, Collins, Iowa. Story County is quite fortunate in having among her foreign-born element men whose industry, strict attention to business, economy and perseverance, have produced such substantial results in the different affairs with which they have connected themselves. Mr. Torry belongs to this class, for, originally from England, his location in this country dates from 1868. He was born in Lincolnshire on the 10th of April, 1844, and is the son of William and Jane (Baker) Torry, both natives of England. The father died in 1846, and the mother in 1857. John W. Torry was the third of four children, and is the only survivor. He was obliged to start out to fight life's battles for himsef when thirteen years of age, and as a consequence obtained but very little schooling. He emigrated to the States in 1868, locating in Kane County, Ill., and began working on a farm by the year. This he continued for five years, and was married on the 5th of December, 1872, to Miss Mary Fothergill, a native of Illinois, born in Kane County, Ill., and the daughter of John Fothergill, a native of England. Mr. Torry then rented a farm and engaged in tilling the soil up to 1885, when he moved to Iowa and bought 160 acres of land, where he now lives, and which had some slight improve-