dren, viz.: Sarah (wife of Sam Michaelson, whose sketch appears in this history), Peter, Anna, Arthur , C., Belle, Carrie, Alfred, Emma and Katie. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church at Roland.
Elisha Briley, farmer, of Franklin Township, came to Iowa, and located in Story County, in August, 1851, with his mother, who settled near where her son now lives. At that time he was in his fifteenth year, and he lived on the farm with his mother until he reached his majority, and then he entered eighty acres for himself. Having a farm of his own, the next thing was to get married; so, on April 1, 1857, he led to the altar Miss Mary M. Foster, of this county, daughter of J. G. Foster, of this county, and formerly of Indiana, and they became the parents of fourteen children: J. W. (died in infancy), Juliette (wife of James Brown, of Boone County), Elmer E. (also of Boone County, married Permelia York, of Boone County, daughter of Joseph York, of Athhole, England), Elvira F. (now the wife of Elihu Wheeler, of Boone County), Alice (died in her nineteenth year ), Eldora, and Albert, Frank P., Algernon S., John A. Logan, Jesse Fremont, Jean, Boston Corbett and Lorana J., all living at home. Financially Mr. Briley has been very successful, and now owns 300 acres of choice land, all of which is under cultivation, and has never had a mortgage or an execution floating around. In addition to farming he feeds and ships a considerable number of cattle and hogs each year. He and wife are consistent members of the United Brethren Church, and in politics he affiliates with the Republican party. Mr. Briley was born in Clay County, Ind., December 22, 1835, being a son of Absalom and Hannah (Wheeler) Briley, natives, respectively, of North Carolina and Kentucky. The Wheelers were a prominent family of. Kentucky, and one of Mrs. Briley's brothers was in the War of 1812. Absalom Briley was a farmer by occupation, and tilled the soil in Indiana until 1847, when he moved to Illinois, choosing a location in Fulton County, and the same year of his arrival he contracted the pneumonia and died, leaving his widow with a family of seven children, the eldest of whom was about eighteen years of age, and the youngest but a few years. She remained in Illinois until 1851, when, led by a desire to get land cheap for her children, she started for Boone County, Iowa, in company with her son-in-law, Warren Pickark. From May until August they lived in Boone County, and then she came here, but, the land not being in market, it was 1854 before she entered any land. In that year she entered 320 acres, and lived on it until her family all grew up and married, with the exception of Albert G., who entered the Eighth Iowa Cavalry, and after about eighteen months' service was killed in a charge near Macon, Ga. His death broke up the old household, and Mrs. Briley came to live with her son (our subject), and remained with him until her death.
Prof. J. L. Budd, in the department of horticulture and forestry of the Iowa Agricultural College, owes his nativity to the county of Westchester, N. Y., born in 1837, and is the son of Joseph and Maria (Lancaster) Budd, natives of the Empire State also. The father was of French descent and died in New York State, where he had followed agricultural pursuits all his life. The mother now resides in Orange County, N. Y. Of the seven children born to this union, five are now living. Prof. J. L. Budd became familar with the duties of the farm in early life, and received the rudiments of an education in the common schools. Later he attended the State Normal School, and finished by attending two years at Union College. In 1857 he went to Rockford, Ill., and