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1 Miscellaneous (information found at a www website - see details for specifics), http://www.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/greene/gc1887/gc1887-b.htm. DANIEL I. BLANSHAN, one of the progressive farmers of Junction Township, Greene County, was born in Onondaga County, New York, November 29, 1850, a son of Matthew and Sarah Blanshan. His youth was spent in assisting on the farm, his father being a farmer by occupation, and attending the common schools of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, and Grand Junction, Iowa. He has lived in Junction Township since the fall of 1873, and has always followed the avocation of a farmer, and by his persevering industry and good management he has acquired his present fine farm on section 2, which contains 120 acres of choice land. In connection with his general farming he devotes some attention to the raising of stock. Mr. Blanshan is a member of the Odd Fellows order. He was married January l, 1880, to Ella N. Mack, a daughter of Willard Mack, of Junction Township. They are the parents of four children -- Melvin, Sarah, Merton and Laura. Matthew Blanshan, the father of our subject, is a native of New York, born in Ulster County, January l9, 1825, his father, Daniel Blanshan, having been born in the same county. He was reared a farmer, and has followed that avocation through life. He grew to manhood in Onondaga County, New York, where his parents settled when he was but three months old, and there he was eduated in the common schools. He was married January 1, 1850, to Sarah Decker, a daughter of Isaac Decker. Of the six children born to this union, three are living -- Daniel I., the subject of this sketch; James, living in Junction Township, and William, who carries on his father's farm on section 2, of Junction Township. James married Mary Zellhoefer, and has two children -- Calista and Victor. William is married to Lena Davenport. Matthew Blanshan enlisted in the late war September l, 1864, in Company F, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, and received his discharge in August, 1865. In 1873 he came with his family to Greene County, Iowa, locating in Grand Junction, where he lived for two years. In November, 1875, he settled on section 2, Junction Township, where he owns forty acres of land, and where he has since made his home.
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