the fence, and this law has proved a great blessing to the agriculturists of the State. Mr. Maxwell served two terms as representative, comprising four years, and one term as State Senator, which speaks louder than words can do as to his ability and the estimation in which he was held by his fellow-citizens. The measures which he upheld were always for the people and by the people, and to him may be traced the direct cause of the erection of the many commodious and substantial brick schoolhouses which dot the fertile prairies of Story County. He was married three times, but his union to Miss Caroline Ingersoll took place in 1858, and unto them were born four sons: Sidney I. (who is a farmer by occupation, a resident of Cambridge, and was married to Miss Lizzie Hall, a native of Iowa), Harry I., George C. (who is engaged in merchandising in Cambridge) and Willie (who died in infancy). Mr. Maxwell was a successful man of business, and with his sons built up a splendid practice throughout Story County, and especially in the vicinity of Cambridge. During twenty-three years of mercantile experience he accumulated a large fortune, to which his sons, who are enterprising business men, are constantly adding. His death occurred on August 2, 1889, from a stroke of paralysis, and he was mourned not only by his immediate and sorrowing household, but by the entire populace of Story County, who knew him as a man of principle, honor and sterling worth. His remains were interred in the Iowa Centre Cemetery, where a beautiful monument was erected above his grave by his wife and children as a tribute of their loving remembrance and respect. He was, as is his wife, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and always contributed liberally of his means in the support of benevolent institutions. His sons, Harry I. and George, expect to locate soon in Rocky Ford, Colo., where they will engage in genera] merchandising. These young gentlemen possess much business acumen, tact and true business principles, and when they go to their new home they will bear with them the good-will of all who have known them from boyhood, as well as that of their later acquaintances.
Mrs. Angeline Maxwell is the relict of the late Hon. George M. Maxwell, a sketch of whom immediately precedes this. Her parents were born in Ohio, her father in 1801 and his wife in 1806. The former was a brick and stone mason by trade, but also gave considerable attention to agriculture, his death occurring at the age of forty-four, his wife passing from life at the age of eighty years. To them a family of five children were born: William (who is a farmer of Johnson County, Iowa), Martha (the wife of Henry Walker, a tiller of the soil in Johnson County), Louisa (wife of Z. S. Cray, a farmer of Page County) and Angeline (the subject of this sketch). She obtained a good common-school education in Iowa, and after reaching womanhood was first married to a Mr. Harkell, a native of New York, who died during the late war while serving with Sherman, being with that general on his famous march to the sea. His widow was married to lion. George M. Maxwell on the 5th of April, 1867, and to their union a family of eight children were born: Adda (who was educated in the schools of Cambridge, and took a full course in the Iowa City Commercial College, being now engaged in teaching in Story County), Fannie (who was also educated in the schools of Cambridge), Grace (who died at the age of four years), Caleb (who is fourteen years of age, assists his mother on the farm), Ole, Nathaniel Van, Marietta (aged eight years), and John A. Logan (aged five years). Mrs. Maxwell's daughters are members of the Methodist Epis-