H.B. (Henry) JACK, a prominent farmer of Pottawattamie County, was born in Licking County, Ohio, and is of English descent. His great grandfather came from England and settled in Virginia, and his grandfather, James Jack, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a native of Pennsylvania and moved to Wheeling, Virginia in 1802 and afterward went to Muskingum County, Ohio, where he owned a good farm, and where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1847, at the age of eighty years. Both himself and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the former was an industrious and honorable man. His son, John Jack, the father of our subject, was born November 19, 1797 in Pennsylvania and at the age of five years went with his father to Wheeling, Virginia. At the age of nineteen years he went to Muskingum County where he was married to a widow lady named McDowell, formerly Delilah Dean, who had four children by her former marriage, viz.: Commodore P., Mary A., Emily and Cynthia. Mr. and Mrs. Jack were the parents of six children: James, Charles, Hugh, John W., Henry B. and Delilah. After marriage Mr. Jack removed to Perry County and in 1833 to Licking County, where he was among the early settlers. He remained there until 1859 when he moved to Jasper County, Iowa, settling on a new farm, which, with the assistance of his son Henry B., he converted into a fine farm. He died in Pottawattamie County, in April 1880 at the age of eighty-two years. His wife died July 12, 1887 at the age of one hundred years, three months and twelve days. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in which Mr. jack was a steward and class leader.

Henry B., the subject of this sketch was born April 14, 1834 in Licking County, Ohio. In 1859 at the age of twenty-five years he came to Jasper County, Iowa with his father. August 2, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served to the close of the war. He was in the battles of Port Gibson, May 1, 1863; Champion Hill, May 16, 1863; Black River bridge, May 17, 1863; the assault on Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, where he was taken prisoner, but in fourteen days was paroled and exchanged, and in October following returned to service; was also in the battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864. He was wounded at Port Gibson and at Winchester, and was in the hospital; was also injured by a fall in the hatchway of a vessel at St. Louis, and was in the hospital three months. He has since suffered from disability caused by his service in the army, and should have a pension.

After the war, like many of the soldiers who risked their lives for their country, he returned to his old home and engaged in farming. After his marriage he settled in Jasper County and in 1873 removed to Lincoln Township, Pottawattamie County, and in 1889 came to Valley Township and settled on his present farm. He is a member of John A. Dix Post, G.A.R., of Walnut, Iowa, and is a stanch Republican. As a soldier hi record should be preserved and handed down to his children as one who did not hesitate to offer his life for her defense, and as one who never flinched when duty called. His children's children should tell the story of their grandfather's battles and sufferings as a soldier in the great war, which saved the Union. The descendants of Mr. Jack on both sides have honorable ancestors, who helped to found the country in peace as well as to save it in war.

He was married in 1870 to Ella E. Kellogg who was born in Litchfield, Herkimer County, New York, December 21, 1845, and received a good education at Madison, Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Nathaniel and Sara (Fellows) Kellogg. The father was born in Paris, Oneida County, New York and in 1847 settled in Wisconsin, where he was among the early settlers. In 1869 he moved to Missouri. His father was a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and was in the War of 1812. He descended from three brothers who came over in the Mayflower; one settled in Connecticut, from whom Mr. Kellogg is descended; one in New Hampshire and one in Vermont. The name was originally spelled Kellogue.

Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Kellogg were the parents of eleven children, viz.: Mary A., Edwin M., Almira M., Augustus H., Lucy D., Charles H., Jennie A., George D., Ella E., Emma A. and Ruth E., all of whom lived to maturity. The father lived to the age of eighty-seven years, dying at the home of one of his daughters in Fort Scott, Kansas; his wife is still living at the age of eighty-five years.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack have had seven children: John, deceased at five years; Henry H., Sarah D., Lillie E., Charles B., Viola E., and one who died in infancy.