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CASE, HOSEA S., farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Denmark; born in Ashtabula Co. March 16, 1816; in 1837, in his 21st year, came to Lee Co.; on his arrival he had nothing but $5 and a good outfit of ague; during his first winter here, he broke through the ice on Skunk River, and has never had the ague since, for three years, he worked by the month whenever he could get employment, and then purchased eighty acres of land in the section where he now resides, and for three years “bached” it with Deacon Burton. Jan. 28, 1845, he married Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Wilkie, of Utica, N. Y., and daughter of Lotan Briggs, an early settler of Lee Co.; she was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1817, and died April 27, 1870; they had four children — Albert B., born Sept. 29, 1846; enlisted in the hundred-day service; was killed by the cars at the city of Des Moines, April 1, 1869; Charles B., born June 3, 1848, a farmer in Montgomery Co., Iowa; Arvilla E., born May 14, 1850, the wife of Alexander E. Stafford, a native of Ireland, now a resident of Nemaha Co., Kan.; Lotan L. was born Dec. 6, 1852, who assists in the management of the farm. March 5, 1871, Mr. Case married Mary E., daughter of his first wife by her former husband, Thomas Wilkie; she was born in the city of Utica, N. Y., March 22, 1838. Since his first purchase of eighty acres, Mr. C. has made other purchases until he now has 191 acres, valued at $45 per acre. His first wife was a member of the M. E. Church.