Farmer, Olin; born in born in Delaware Co., Ohio, in 1818; went to Michigan in 1827, and to Iowa in 1839, and settled in Jones Co. When he crossed the Mississippi River, he had only $12 in money, and it was late in the fall and he had no winter clothes; he entered 240 acres, and now owns 257; has made all the improvements on the place; has a fine house and barn; he is now on the same land he entered first. In politics, Republican; in religion, Disciple. Has been Justice of the Peace twelve years; he was elected the first Justice when organized as a country, and was appointed Constable when a Territory, in 1839; was in the Assembly of 1858-59 as Representative; has been County Supervisor for ten or twelve years. In an early day, he took six barrels of clear side-pork to Galena, Ill.; paid $1.50 apiece for the barrels; sold for $6 per barrel, and received no money in pay. His first wife, Nancy Soesbe, was born in Michigan in 1827; married in 1846, and had nine children.