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OXENRIDER, SAM., farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Lacona; born March 31, 1844, in Morril county, Ohio; his parents came to this county in 1854, and settled in this township; he has lived here ever since; he enlisted in the army January 16, 1865, in Co. G, 10th Iowa Infantry, and served to the close of the war; was honorably discharged Sept. 2, 1865; was in the battle of Saltcatcher River, S. C., and several other skirmishes; he was educated in common schools and Howe’s Academy, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; he is a teacher by profession, as he is so afflicted with asthma that he can do but little manual labor; although but a boy when he came here, and being thrown upon his own resources, he has made for himself and family a farm of 160 acres, which he superintends, with the assistance of his excellent wife; he has traveled through more than half the States and Territories in the Union; has seen the ups and downs of pioneer life; has chased the deer where Lacona now stands, and listened to the yelp of the wolf and the hooting owls; he was married March 4, 1869, to Elizabeth E., daughter of J. M. Cochran, of this county; they have four children: Leona M., Myrtle L., Cecil H. and Lora E.; Leona and Cecil died in infancy.