wounded), Nashville, Wise's Forks, N. C., and was also in many skirmishes. His company was in 124 actions from the time of enlistment until discharged, and during this time Mr. Confare received but one slight wound on the temple, but the hard service has impaired his health. He is an active Republican in politics, and has held many local positions of trust. He was supervisor of his township, and has served as school director for three years. Mr. and Mrs. Confare are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are honored and esteemed citizens. Mr. Confare emigrated to Story County in the spring of 1869, engaged in tilling the soil, and is now the owner of eighty acres of good farming land. On this he has a neat residence, and good, substantial outbuildings. In 1883 he spent part of the year in Colorado.
Falcon M. Confare, farmer and stock breeder, Nevada, Iowa. This young but prosperous agriculturist of Story County was originally from Indiana, his birth occurring in Wayne County April 25, 1860, and is the son of Benjamin and Permelia D. (Murray) Confare. The father was born in Butler County, Ohio, July 20, 1834, and is the son of John Con-fare, a native of Pennsylvania, who went to the Buckeye State when a young man, and was there married to Miss Mary Sartman, a native of Ohio. John Confare was a farmer by occupation and a plasterer by trade. He moved to Indiana in 1846, locating in Wayne County, where he resided until an old man, after which he came to Iowa and resided with our subject until his death, which occurred in March, 1887. He served three years in the late war. His wife survives him, and is now seventy-three years of age. She resides in Indiana with her daughter. Benjamin Confare, father of Falcon, reached manhood in Wayne County, Ind., and remained with his father until twenty-one years of age. He was married there, November 27, 1856, to Miss Permelia D. Murray, a native of Indiana, and the daughter of Veniah Murray. This wife died August 20, 1863, and left one son, Falcon M. After his marriage Mr. Confare farmed in In diana until after the war, when he moved to Iowa (1868), and located in Story County, north of Nevada. He has been a resident of the same ever since. On December 26, 1868, in Carroll County, Ind., he was married to Miss G. M. Thompson, a native of Carroll County, Ind., and the daughter of Henry Thompson. Three children were born to this union : William, Florence and Katie. Mr. and Mrs. Confare are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and socially Mr. Confare is past master in the I. O. O. F. He has held several local positions of honor and trust. His son, Falcon M. Confare, who was the only child born to his first marriage, received a common-school education, and when about ten years of age came to Story County. He began farming for himself in Milford Township when about twenty-one years of age, and became the owner of 240 acres. In February, 1884, he sold that farm, and in the fall of the same year bought his present home in Nevada Township, on Section 21, three miles southeast of Nevada. He has 160 acres of well-improved land, and is actively engaged in farming and stock -breeding. For a number of years he has been giving attention to breeding horses, and now owns Honest John III, which he purchased when it was about three years of age. The horse was imported in May, 1887, by Frank Curtis, is of English shire stock, and is one of the fine horses of the county. In 1882 our subject was married to Miss May Harrison, who was born in Nevada in 1864, and who is the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Harrison, residents of Nevada. Two Mr. and Mrs. Confare