dren, viz.: Christian J. C., Oscar J. C. and William M. C. Mr. and Mrs. Rygh are members of the Lutheran Church.
Joseph C. Sawtell, farmer and stock-raiser, Colo, Iowa. Joseph C. Sawtell, a well respected and widely acquainted resident of this township, was born in Lapeer, Lapeer County, Mich., in 1837, and is the son of Levi S. Sawtell, a native of Maine, born in 1810. The father was one of nine children: Bryant, Thomas, Warren, John, Levi S., Charles, Nancy ( who became the wife of John Jackson ), Dora (wife of Andrew Elliot, of Michigan) and Polly. Joseph C. Sawtell was the eldest of five children born to his parents: Charlotte, William, Melissa (now Mrs. G. W. Carpenter, of Lapeer, Mich, who is one of the most influential and trusted men in the county), and Bessie (now Mrs. O. Niles, of Lapeer, Mich.). Our subject received his education in Michigan, attained his growth in that State, and at the age of twenty years, or in 1857, located in Warren County, Ill. He enlisted in Company F, Eighty-third Volunteer Infantry, from Monmouth, August 9, 1862, and served until the close of the war. After this he returned to Illinois, and was married, in 1866, to Miss Louisa McMillen, who died in 1874, leaving a family of four children: Florence, William, Charles and Joseph A. ( who is residing in Denver, Colo.). Mr. Sawtell was married,the second time, in 1876, to Mrs. Chastina A. Bennett. He came to Story County in 1869, located where he now resides, and in connection with agricultural pursuits is also interested in the New Albany Township Stock Association & Imp. Company. He is a member of the United Brethren Church, and is one of the much esteemed and respected citizens of the county. Socially he is connected with J. B. Steadman Post No. 238, G. A. R., at Colo, Iowa.
Col. John Scott was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, April 14, 1824, his father being a cloth-fuller and woolen manufacturer of that place. Mr. Scott traces his ancestry back four generations to old Hugh Scott, who came from the North of Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania in 1670, and the most of the male members of the family have been tillers of the soil up to the present time. They belong to the sturdy Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, of the old John Knox type, that feared nothing but God, worshiped Him, with their families, morning and evening, daily and duly, and trained their children to do likewise. While a boy Col. John Scott ran barefoot during the summer months, working on the farm and in the woolen mill, and attended the district school in the winter. At the age of sixteen years he began his career as a school-teacher, receiving as compensation $16 per month. In the spring of 1843, with a friend, he explored the settled portions of Iowa Territory, traveling on foot and carrying a leather portmanteau, with a surveyor's compass._ During this trip they inspected the towns of Keosauqua, Fairfield, Washington, Iowa City, Anamosa, Cascade, Dubuque, Tipton and Bloomington (now Muscatine). The agency of the Sac and Fox Indians was visited, and two nights were spent in the building occupied by the interpreter, which may still be seen from the cars of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad when passing Agency City. Hon. Thomas S. Wilson, of Dubuque, was seen on the bench of the Territorial Court at Andrew, the county seat of Jackson County. After his return home he again began supporting himself by teaching, also studying law, and in his twenty-first year was admitted to practice, on examination, before the supreme court of Ohio. In 1845, being the only attorney in the county who espoused the principles of the Abolitionist, or Liberty party, he was tendered the nomination of that party for the office of county attorney, and received the -vote of the party, as well as