My Genealogy Hound

IRVING J. CUNNINGHAM. Prominent among the early settlers and successful farmers of Lincoln township is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Lorain county, Ohio, Jan, 30, 1843. He was reared on a farm, and educated in Medina county, and is the son of James and Rebecca Cunningham, natives of Ohio. His father was a minister and died in 1857, leaving a wife and three children, named Orrin, W. J., and the subject of this sketch, who worked on the farm until 1869, when his mother sold out and moved to Jasper county, Mo., and settled on their present farm in 1870. Our subject was married to Mary H. Bawbell Dec. 30, 1861, in Medina county, Ohio; she was born in Rochester, N. Y., April 14, 1842, and is the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bawbell, who were born in England. Her father was justice of the peace for many years, also a notary public. Mr. Cunningham has 150 acres of land, all under cultivation, and well watered with seven living springs. He raises on an average forty bushels of corn and about twenty of wheat to the acre, and handles from fifty to seventy-five head of cattle and about the same number of hogs each year. Mr. Cunningham joined the order of Odd Fellows. Himself and wife are members of the Church of United Brethren. He is one of the old and substantial settlers that Jasper county may well feel proud of.