Growing Up on An Iowa Farm, 1897-1915

Abstract

Those who lived on Iowa farms at the beginning of this century, and look back over seventy or more years, appreciate the tremendous changes which have taken place in farm life. Although many others have written about the years of transition, when we passed from the horse and buggy days to the machine age, it is hoped that this memoir will make a contribution toward preserving a picture of what life was ike on an Iowa farm during the turn of the century. ' From Clinton County to Clinton Township SO MANY PEOPLE MIGRATED from Clinton County, Iowa to Sac County during the last quarter of the nineteenth century that a township was named after the county from which they came. Among those who settled in Clinton Township was my father, Will Drury (1862-1916), who, with his friend Rob Wilson, crossed Iowa to Odebolt in the Fall of 1 880. My father was eighteen years old on October 2 of that year; Rob was about four years older.