THOMAS W. DAY, farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section
27, Madison Township, Clarke County, was born in Clay County, Indiana, October
23, 1841, his father being a native of Wayne County, Kentucky. Our subject was
reared to agricultural pursuits which he has made the principal vocation of his
life, and in his youth received a common school education. In 1854 the father
came with his family to Iowa, locating in Des Moines County, and in 1855
removed to Clarke County, when he settled with his family in what is now
Jackson township. The surrounding country was then in a wild state, and was
principally inhabited with Indians and wild animals. During the late war our subject enlisted in
Company B., Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, and served faithfully for three years. He
participated in the battles of Springfield, Missouri, Saline River and Poison
Springs, Arkansas, and Prairie De Hand, besides others of minor
importance. Mr. Day was united in
marriage October 4, 1871, to Margaret Little, a daughter of Hugh Little, a
resident of Madison Township, Clarke County. Six children have been born to
this union, of whom two are deceased. Those living are – Bryan, Mary J., Roy
and Rubie. Mr. Day came to his present farm in 1871, where he has since resided
with the exception of three years spent in Rice County, Kansas. He has met with
fair success in his farming pursuits, and now owns sixty acres where he
resides, in Madison township, besides a farm of 160 acres in Rice County,
Kansas. Mr. Day is an active and enterprising citizen, and is at present
serving as township trustee and constable. He is a member of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke
County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 237-8
