years. Subsequently, on account of rheumatism, he became unable to work, but his children, with loving devotion, stood ready to care for him in his old age. He came to Cambridge, Story County, Iowa, and made his home among them until his death, dying at the residence of Mrs. Miami Netterfield (to whom he was a great comfort). He was laid to rest in the Cambridge Cemetery, removed from the troubles and labors of a life of vicissitude. An earnest farmer himself, he reared his children to a life of agricultural pursuits. Of his forty-three grandchildren thirty-one are living; also eight great-grandchildren. A nice gravestone stands at the head of his grave. Mr. Netterfield was born and reared near Eagleville, Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he lived with his parents to the age of sixteen. He was the eldest of six children, only one of whom, besides himself, lived to be grown—Gamaliel. His parents were Samuel and Sarah Netterfield, the former a good old-fashioned man 'and something of a minister, while his mother was an excellent Christian. woman. She died when Binajah was sixteen. At the end of two years the father married again, after which the boys took care of themselves. Gamaliel learned blacksmithing. Binajah worked out for awhile, and then went to sea for his health, after which he returned to the old homestead in Ohio. Desiring to find a locality where he might make money, he started for the West, not knowing where he would stop, but finally settled at Woodstock, McHenry County, Ill., where he worked three years for a farmer by the name of G. W. Phelps. His habits of economy and energy soon gained for him quite a sum of money, besides a team and wagon, when, having taken the Iowa fever, as some called it, he started by himself on another western trip, and in five days landed at his brother's home in Jones County, Iowa. Within nine days from this time he was married to Miss Hanks, verifying the prediction which he had made to his friends in Ohio that he was going to Iowa for a wife. After their marriage, they hired out to a large farmer at $22 per month (including the team), thus continuing for nearly a year, when they went near Des Moines, and for nine months also worked for a farmer and stock-dealer. During this time they practiced rigid economy, saving everything possible in order to obtain a home. Coming to Story County, they rented a farm two years, and in the meanwhile succeeded in purchasing the place on which Mrs. Netterfield is now living. Her mind frequently recurs to the days of her first experience in Iowa—a contrast, indeed, to the possibilities and conveniences of the present, for when she and her husband first came here, the region, being new and unsettled, did not hold forth many promises of future prosperity. Rapid progress was made, however, in clearing and draining the country, and the farm on which they first settled, although at that time low and wet, has been converted into one of the finest tracts in this section of the State. At that time the town of Cambridge contained about six houses, and some of the other towns were but little larger. Mr. and Mrs. Netterfield's union resulted in the birth of one son and two daughters: Lydia E. (who was the wife of James E. Shafer, conductor of a creamery, died at the age of twenty-one years, leaving a little daughter, Gracie, who is now eight years of age), Emma L. (who was born on the old homestead in Story County, in 1865, is a well educated young lady, 'and although she is now living with her mother, she expects to make the dressmaker and milliner's trade her life work), Samuel Warren (the only son, is engaged in tilling the old home farm, and although he spent a short time in Dakota, he