Combs, James D.
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Combs, James D.
| Celia52 (View posts) | Posted: 17 May 2001 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Combs, Bailey, Smith
from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 185
JAMES D. COMBS, an active and enterprising farmer of Osceola Township, was born near Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, October 19, 1845; the youngest son of James and Mary (Bailey) Combs, who were natives of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the State of Virginia respectively. James D. passed his youth on the home farm in his native county, and received his education in the common schools of his neighborhood. At the age of eighteen years he went to Virginia, where he was married in 1865, to Miss Caroline Smith, of Wood County, that State. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.
Mr. Combs left Virginia two years after his marriage, and in January, 1868, settled on a farm in Clarke County, Iowa, located near Woodburn. He subsequently removed to the southern part of the county where he operated a saw mill for five years. In 1881 he settled on his present farm in Osceola Township, where he has since been extensively engaged in farming, devoting considerable attention to raising stock. Quiet, unassuming, industrious and strictly honorable in all his dealings, he has gained the confidence of all with whom he has business or social intercourse.
JAMES D. COMBS, an active and enterprising farmer of Osceola Township, was born near Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, October 19, 1845; the youngest son of James and Mary (Bailey) Combs, who were natives of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the State of Virginia respectively. James D. passed his youth on the home farm in his native county, and received his education in the common schools of his neighborhood. At the age of eighteen years he went to Virginia, where he was married in 1865, to Miss Caroline Smith, of Wood County, that State. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.
Mr. Combs left Virginia two years after his marriage, and in January, 1868, settled on a farm in Clarke County, Iowa, located near Woodburn. He subsequently removed to the southern part of the county where he operated a saw mill for five years. In 1881 he settled on his present farm in Osceola Township, where he has since been extensively engaged in farming, devoting considerable attention to raising stock. Quiet, unassuming, industrious and strictly honorable in all his dealings, he has gained the confidence of all with whom he has business or social intercourse.