Excerpt from History of Louisa County, Iowa, Vol. 2: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1911
No compendium such as this volume defines in its essential limitations will serve to offer a fitting memorial to the life and record of Hon. E. Frank Brockway, a man whose sterling worth in many relations of life made him a valued citizen, whose memory is enshrined in the hearts of many who knew him, while his name is honored by all who know aught of his active career.
He was born in Brockwayville, Harrison county, Pennsylvania, in 1832. his parents being James M. and Lydia (Goff) Brockway. They were also natives of the Keystone state and there they were married and spent the early years of their domestic life. Prior to his marriage James M. Brockway had been engaged in the lumber business in Pennsylvania and had also operated a sawmill, but after locating in Iowa he followed farming only. In 1840 he built a raft with a cabin on it, a sort of a crude house-boat, and placing all of hi? household goods within, together with his wife and eight children, started down the Ohio river for Iowa. When they reached the Mississippi they came north to Muscatine, where they landed, having been en route six weeks. Mr. Brockway filed upon some government land in Orono township, Muscatine county, in the cultivation of which he engaged until his death in 1874. Of the eight children horn unto Mr. and Mrs. Brockway only two survive: Emmet, who is living in Marshalltown, Iowa; and Albina, who is the widow of James R. Letts, of Grand View township. Those deceased are: Lafayette, Elmira, Judson, E. Frank, Emmet and George. The mother of these children only survived about sixteen years after they located in Iowa, her demise occurring in 1856.
E. Frank Brockway was the fourth child born unto his parents. He was a lad of eight years when the family settled in Muscatine county, in whose district schools he acquired the greater portion of his preliminary education, this being later supplemented by a collegiate course, Having decided to become an agriculturist after leaving college he engaged in farming and stock-raising, which vocation continued to occupy his attention during the remainder of his life, He commenced his agricultural career on a farm which he had entered from the government in Orono township, Muscatine county. This he operated until 1866, when he sold and moved to Washington county, Iowa, where he acquired by purchase from time to time six hundred and forty acres of fine land.
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