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STILES, HORACE, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O. Denmark; born at Lyndeboro, Hillsboro Co., N. H., in 1816; at the age of 11, left an orphan, was given to a family by name Sargent, and by them taken to Steuben Co., N. Y.; remaining with them eleven years; then began life upon his own responsibility; came to Lee Co., and in the spring of 1839, entered forty acres of land in Washington Tp., Sec. 2; this he improved, and retained until 1847, then sold and purchased 160 acres on Sec. 6 of the same township. March 26, 1850, he married Rachel, daughter of Joel Vanhyning, a pioneer of Lee Co.; she was born in Logan Co., Ohio, Nov. 4, 1829, and died at York, Neb., April 14, 1873, leaving five children — Mary, born Aug. 6, 1851, the wife of Joseph Hunter, of York, Neb.; Rodney, born Oct. 26, 1853, a farmer of Lee Co.; Celia, born Sept. 20, 1855, the wife of Ray Hart, of this county; Amelia, born March 12, 1860; Martha, born Sept. 21, 1871. In 1853, Mr. S. removed to Warren Co., Iowa, where he improved a farm, and remained until 1868, when he returned to his present place of residence, where he owns eighty acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Nov. 14, 1877, he married Almira Kindall, daughter of Stephen Mandigo, of Canton, Iowa; she was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., and married Wm. Hunter, who died, leaving three children — Mary E., Nov. 9, 1851, the wife of John James, of Burlington; Stephen J., born Sept. 5, 1857; Sarah M., born Sept. 20, 1860; she afterward became the wife of James Kendall, who died, leaving no children. The first Mrs. Stiles was a member of the Baptist Church at Denmark.