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Surname: Chew, McCutchen, Shoe
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Chew, Richard
Posted by Celia Davis on Wed, 13 Sep 2000
Surname: Chew, McCutchen, Shoe
from reprint of Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record by Lewis
Publishing, 1886. p.71.
RICHARD L. CHEW, living on section 31, Doyle Township, was born in Floyd
County, Indiana, March 29, 1845, a son of Richard A. and Jane (McCutchen)
Chew, the father a native of Floyd County, born August 18, 1817. They were
the parents of fourteen children, of whom nine still survive-- John W.,
Samuel F., Allen W, Lawson S., George H., Hannah R., Frances S., Emma J.
and Richard L., our subject.
The father came with his family to Clarke County, Iowa, in the fall of
1854, and has since made his home in Doyle Township, where he has eighty-six
acres of land under excellent cultivation. He has always followed agricultural
pursuits. He is a member of the United Brethren church.
Richard L. Chew, whose name heads this sketch, was also reared to agricultural
pursuits, which e has made his life work. He has lived in Clarke and Decatur
counties with the exception of three years in St. Clair County, Missouri,
and the time spent in the late war, since about nine years of age, he having
come with his parents in 1854.
He enlisted in Company I, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, being in that companys
service about eleven months.
October 26, 1865, he was married to Margaret Shoe, a daughter of Christopher
Shoe, who is living in St. Clair County, Missouri. Of the five children
born to them but two are living--Frances A. and Albert A. In connection
with his general farming Mr. Chew devotes some attention to stock-raising.
He is meeting with good success in his farming, and has a good farm of
130 acres, where he resides. He has served his township as trustee. He
is a member of the Methodist church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity
and the Grand Army of the Republic.
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