ST. JOHN, JOHN F., of St. John Bros., lumber merchants, office and yard cor. Second and Elm sts.; residence on Third, between Main and Oak sts; born in Kilbourn, Van Buren Co., Iowa, in 1843; removed to Moulton in August, 1876; owns one-half interest in several town lots; eighty acres of land in Clay Co.; twenty-five acres in this county; interest in a coal bank near Caldwell, on what is known as Coal Siding, with notes and accounts all valued at $15,000. Married Miss Marion F. Janison in 1867; she was born in Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1847; they have two children — Richard M., born in 1868; Maggie M., born in 1877. Democrat; Liberal in religion; has been a delegate to a Democratic convention twice; is a member of I. O. O. F., 297, also Prairie General Encampment No. 81; a Knight of Pythias, Myrtle Lodge No. 6. Enlisted in the 15th Iowa Inf., Gen. Belknap, Co. K, Capt. Hedrick, in September, 1861, as Orderly Sergeant; participated at Shiloh, all through the campaign; at and about Corinth; two battles of Corinth in 1862; Champion Hills, Black River Bridge; at Vicksburg all through; veteranized Jan. 1, 1863; participated in the capture of Atlanta; promoted to First Lieutenant of 80th U. S. Colored Infantry, by a general order; mustered out in October, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa.
SOURCE: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1878, p. 516-7
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