Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
Kleiboeker Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Conrow 
Birth1801, Burlington New Jersey
DeathJun 1880, Le Claire, Scott County, Iowa
Spouses
Birth1807, Pennsylvania
Death1885
BurialGlendale Cemetery, Le Claire, Scott County, Iowa
FatherGeorge Huffman (1775-1839)
MotherJulianne Frey (1787-1823)
Marriage7 Jan 1829, Lancaster County PA
Notes for William Conrow
Left Dublin between 1820 and 1830 to sail to America. Another item says he was born in Burlingtion NJ.
William and Sarah were on the way to Austin Texas, Stopped at Smith’s Island near Rock Island Illinois, and Sarah was pregnant, so they stopped there. He farmed near Le Claire Iowa, and bought land when it was still a territory.
In Iowa from 1839-1936?
Note from Minnie Roller (1861-1941) to Janet Woolley: “My grandmother Smith’s father, William Conrow came from Dublin, Ireland where he had been a college professor. He taught schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and married Sarah Huffman from Lancaster, PA. They spoke of her as Pennsylvania Dutch. With their two children they were on their way to Texas where he had 2 uncles, George and Jacob Austin. Austin, (the capital of Texas) was named for one of them. They had come by way of Michigan where she had relatives. They came down the Mississippi to Smith’s Island below LeClaire where she had another sister, the wife of my great great uncle Ira Smith for whom the island was named. They liked the place so well and were so tired of traveling. Grandma Smith was to arrive before long, the Blackhawk War settlement had been made and white settlers were buying land at I think, $1.25 an acre so Granddad Conrow bought that land where Ruth and Marion still own part of. Incidentally it was with my equity in this land and the land out here in Iowa County that Grandad Roller had acquired (Aunt Jennie had owned it for so many years) that I was able to pay off the mortgage on our farm.”
Actually, Austin was named after Stephen Fuller Austin, one of the early settlers in Texas whose dad, Moses Austin got a Spanish Land grant and helped to settle 300 Americans in Spanish Texas. But has Ira Fuller Smith and Stephen Fuller Austin both have the same middle perhaps there is a connection. Ira Fuller Smith’s grandmother was Elizabeth Fuller. Perhaps somehow there is some connection.
The BlackHawk war was in 1832, and “Grandma Smith” was born in 1839. Land allottment after the war started in 1837, so likely that the land was for sale yet in 1839, the Conrow’s date of arrival in Le Claire Iowa.
William and Sarah were on the way to Austin Texas, Stopped at Smith’s Island near Rock Island Illinois, and Sarah was pregnant, so they stopped there. He farmed near Le Claire Iowa, and bought land when it was still a territory.
In Iowa from 1839-1936?
Note from Minnie Roller (1861-1941) to Janet Woolley: “My grandmother Smith’s father, William Conrow came from Dublin, Ireland where he had been a college professor. He taught schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and married Sarah Huffman from Lancaster, PA. They spoke of her as Pennsylvania Dutch. With their two children they were on their way to Texas where he had 2 uncles, George and Jacob Austin. Austin, (the capital of Texas) was named for one of them. They had come by way of Michigan where she had relatives. They came down the Mississippi to Smith’s Island below LeClaire where she had another sister, the wife of my great great uncle Ira Smith for whom the island was named. They liked the place so well and were so tired of traveling. Grandma Smith was to arrive before long, the Blackhawk War settlement had been made and white settlers were buying land at I think, $1.25 an acre so Granddad Conrow bought that land where Ruth and Marion still own part of. Incidentally it was with my equity in this land and the land out here in Iowa County that Grandad Roller had acquired (Aunt Jennie had owned it for so many years) that I was able to pay off the mortgage on our farm.”
Actually, Austin was named after Stephen Fuller Austin, one of the early settlers in Texas whose dad, Moses Austin got a Spanish Land grant and helped to settle 300 Americans in Spanish Texas. But has Ira Fuller Smith and Stephen Fuller Austin both have the same middle perhaps there is a connection. Ira Fuller Smith’s grandmother was Elizabeth Fuller. Perhaps somehow there is some connection.
The BlackHawk war was in 1832, and “Grandma Smith” was born in 1839. Land allottment after the war started in 1837, so likely that the land was for sale yet in 1839, the Conrow’s date of arrival in Le Claire Iowa.