Cal., would cost $1,000, and he then gave up the California project for the time and located at Weston, Mo., from where, after a time of hard toil, he started across the continent with ox-teams. In crossing the plains they experienced many hardships and privations, and at Carson River cholera entered the company, and took ten out of the band of sixty originally composing the company. After arriving in California, Mr. Kyle mined for two and one-half years, and then returned to his home in Rock County, Wis., and on January 13, 1853, Miss Jeannette McArthur, a native of Scotland, became his wife. He continued in Rock County, Wis., until 1864, engaged in various pursuits, but in the spring of that year he and his brother, T. J., made a trip to Idaho, with two loads of merchandise, and this venture proved a complete success. Returning to Wisconsin, he at once set out in a wagon with his family for Story County, Iowa, and upon arriving there he purchased forty acres of raw prairie land, totally unimproved. At that time there were but few settlers in the county, there being but twelve or fifteen residences in sight of his present home. Mr. Kyle has added eighty-eight acres to his original tract, and now has his entire farm under cultivation and well improved, with all necessary buildings, etc. He is quite extensively engaged in stock-raising, making a specialty of graded cattle, and in this he has been very successful. He and wife are both worthy members of the Reformed Presbyterian society, and are zealous workers in the same. They are the parents of the following children: Nettie (deceased), Mary (deceased), Ellen, Nancy and Maggie (at home), Willie (deceased), Mary E. ( wife of Charles Kingsbury, a farmer of Story County), and T. J. (at home). James A. Dale, the little son of their deceased daughter Nettie, makes his home with his grandparents, and lends gladness to their home. Mr. Kyle affiliates with Arcade Lodge No. 249, A. F. & A. M., Ames, Iowa, and is an admirer of the principles of the Farmer's Alliance, being under the impression that its mission is a good one. He belongs to the Republican party.
Daniel Lamb, farmer, Maxwell, Iowa. An esteemed resident of Collins Township, Mr. Lamb is now in his sixty-seventh year, having been born in Henry County, Ind., on the 21st of January, 1824. His parents, Zeno and Martha (Hutson) Lamb, were natives of North Carolina. The father moved to Indiana at an early day, settling first in Wayne, and then in Henry County, where he helped clear the wilderness, and there resided until 1854. In the spring of that year he moved to Iowa, settled in Story County, and entered the land where our subject now resides. There his death occurred in the spring of 1885. He held a number of local offices, justice of the peace, etc. His wife died about 1873. Daniel Lamb, the eldest of five children, grew to manhood in Indiana, and was married there, first in 1846, to Mrs. Mariam Whitson, a widow, and the daughter of Jesse Draper. Mrs. Lamb was born in Ohio, and with her parents moved to Indiana. After Mr. Whitson's death, she and Daniel Lamb moved to a farm in Henry County, which he cleared of heavy timber. There he resided until the fall of 1855, when he sold out, and moved to Iowa, locating in Story County. He bought the land of his father, and now has his place improved, and on it has erected a good dwelling and substantial out-buildings. On this farm Mrs. Lamb died, in 1873, leaving six children: Zeno (married, and resides in Wyoming), Mary (wife of Oliver Conner, of Calhoun County, Iowa), Josiah (in this county), Delphia (wife of William Sanderson, of Kansas), Jesse (in California) and Josephine, wife of Henry Meese, of Jasper County). Two children died in early child-