Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-31

and Mrs. Battin when, this afternoon,
their grown children and their fam
lilies, and friends and other relatives.
numbering in all 100 people, assembled
at the Battin home. 80 North First
avenue, to recall the happy event of
fifty years ago, when these old people
were young; when the grandmother
was flushing bride, and grandpa in
all the vigor of his sturdy young man
hood.
Both From columbiana County Ohio.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Battin We're born
in Columbiana county, Ohio, the coun-
ty from which so many of the early
settlers Of this county came when
they were seeking new homes In what
was then the far west.
William Battin was a son of John
and Sarah d. Battin, and was born
June "a, 1889. Elizabeth B. Malmsber-
ry was the daughter Of Isaac and Mar
garet Malmsberry, and first saw the
light at Damascus, o., on Jan. 81, 1886.
The young people were married at
Salem, O., Dec. 81, 1857, and soon aft
erward came to this county, which
has been their home practically all of
the time since.
Reared a Large Family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Battin have reared a
large family, Of which they are just
ly proud. 4 Eleven children were born
to them, and nine are now living, two
having died in infancy. All Of the
schildren have married and are honest
and prosperous, and with the excep-
ton Of three of the daughters, all were
here today to be with their parents
on the anniversary of their wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Battin's children are
Horace M. Battin, OF Milwaukee;
Isaac Howard Battin, Of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich; Mrs. Sarah Price, of this
city; John W. Battin. of Stevens
Point, Wis; Mrs. Margaret L. Pear
lin Battin, Of this city; Mrs. Jennie G..
Lehman, of Liscomb; Mrs. Cora Dav-
idson, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; and Mrs.
Helen M. Raley, Of New Haven, Conn.,
Good Mother; Good Literature.
For the proper rearing of his chill
dren Mr.. Battin cheerfully gives the
credit to their good mother and the
fact that good literature was provided
for the children when they were
young. Mr.. and Mrs. Battin were both
reared in the Friends church, as were
also their children. The father and
mother sprung from the good old-fash-
toned Quaker stock. Mr.. Battin's faith
er was a Virginian, and his mother a
North Carolinian. So opposed were
they, however, to the slave traffic, that
both moved into the. free territory of
Ohio, that they might rear their fam
lilies under different environments. In
fact, DR.. John Howard Mr.. Battin's
maternal grandfather, set free his
many slaves in North Carolina before
leaving his native state, and parceled
out his land, dividing it up among the
blacks. so that they could live and earn
a competence for their families.
A Lifelong Republican.
Mr.. Battin has been a lifelong re-
publican. He voted for John c. FIRE.
mont for president, and for every sue
ceeding republican candidate for pres
ident since that time. Over fifty years
ago, in March, 1857, Mr.. Battin sub
scribed for the Lafayette Journal, pub
lished in what is now the town of AL
bion, and has continued to be a sub
scriber to that paper thru all of it's
ownerships and names,
never missing a single year that his
name was not on the books of the pa
per as a paid-up subscriber. The pa
per is now known as the Times-Re-
publican.
The Way to Grow Old.
Mr. Battin gives the following rule as