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Henry Houser Read

Male 1851 - 1941  (89 years)


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  • Name Henry Houser Read  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Born 17 Feb 1851  Montgomery, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Gender Male 
    Find-A-Grave 158902208 
    Reference Number 11640 
    Residence 1880  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Residence 1900  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence 1910  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Residence 1920  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 1930  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 1 Apr 1940  Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Died 1941  Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Reading, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Summit Lake Cemetery
    Person ID I11640  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Joseph Edmondson Read,   b. 24 Jul 1822, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jun 1887, Yell, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Czarina Houser,   b. 22 Nov 1828, Montgomery, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Feb 1885, Yell, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 25 Dec 1849  Montgomery, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1017  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eliza Catherine Hill,   b. Nov 1850, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1946, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 95 years) 
    Married 17 Apr 1873  Logan, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F2132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 17 Feb 1851 - Montgomery, Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Apr 1873 - Logan, Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 1941 - Nobles, Minnesota, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Reading, Nobles, Minnesota, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • From the book: An Illustrated History of Nobles County, Minnesota Published 1908

      "Henry H Read, in whose honor the town in which he noe resides was named, is one of the pioneer settlers of Nobles County. He is a native of Mongomery County, Ohio, where he was born Feb. 17, 1851, son of Joseph E. and Czarina (Houser) Read, natives of Maryland and Ohio, respectively. Both parents are dead, the mother having passed away in 1884 and the father four years later. On his father's side Mr. Read is of German and Irish descent; on his mother's side, German.

      In his native county Mr. Read lived untill he was four years of age, at which time the family moved to Pulaski county, Ind., when hat part of the state was a new and wild country. Henry Read recived his education in the Pulaski county schools, finishing with a course in a graded town school in Ohio. In the fall of 1868 the Reads moved to Shelby county, Ohio, and there our subject lived, engaged in farm work, untill April 1873. He was married in Logan county, Ohio, April 17 1873, to Eliza Catherine Hill, daughter of George and Jane (Gish) Hill. Her father died in 1894; her mother in 1905. Mrs. Read's great grandfather came to America when an infant and founded the American branch of the family. Both the parents died during the trip over, and the passengers, not knowing the family, took care of the infant and named him Hill.

      After his marrieage Mr. Read moved to Worthington, arriving in that town May 2, 1873. He contested a tree clain on land upon which the village of Reading is now situated, but by reason of the grasshopper scourge changed the filing to a preemption and proved up on it. He did not at once move onto his land, but from 1873 to 1876 farmed his father's farm on Loon Lake, in Jackson county. In the last named year he took up his residence on his Summit Lake township farm, and that has been his home ever since. For a number of years Mr. and Mrs. Read lived in a little shack, which was without a floor and many other accommodations.

      When Reading was formed in 1899, Mr. Read retired from active farm work. In the early days he served as a member of the board of supervisors of Summit Lake township three or four years, was township treasurer one term, and has held the office of director or clerk of school district No. 7 nearly all of the time he has resided in the county. Mr. Read is a member of the prohibition party and a temperance worker. It has been largely through his influence that saloons have been kept out of Reading."

  • Sources 
    1. [S74] 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: T623_778; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 211.
      Record for Eliza C Read

    2. [S113] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited;), Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: 627; Family History Film: 1254627; Page: 208A; Enumeration District: 192; Image: 0419.
      Record for Henry H. Reed

    3. [S107] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626,;), Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: 1109; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 26; Image: 637.0.
      Record for Henry H Read

    4. [S114] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco;), Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: T625_845; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 157; Image: .
      Record for Henry H Read

    5. [S195] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: T627_1942; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 53-26.
      Record for Henry H Read

    6. [S115] 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was;), Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Summit Lake, Nobles, Minnesota; Roll: T624_709; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 0147; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374722.
      Record for H H Read