Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse: Prepared for Use of Members of the Family; Containing the Incidents of More Than Fifty Years' Practice at the Bar in the State of Iowa (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse: Prepared for Use of Members of the Family; Containing the Incidents of More Than Fifty Years' Practice at the Bar in the State of Iowa

I promised your father that I would write you a long letter containing in detail something of a biography of myself. He assures me it is not intended for publication, but only for your perusal and for such friends of the family as may now or here after deem it interesting to know something of those of the family who have preceded them.

In Washington county, in the state of. Maryland, near the little stream of Antietam creek, where was fought one of the memorable battles of our Civil War, there is located a quaint, old fashioned village called Sharpsburg. The inhabitants of the Village and neighborhood were in a large part Germans or of German descent.

On one corner of the public square there still remains, in fairly good repair, an old fashioned stone dwelling house. In this house on the first day of April, A. D. 1829, I was born, as were also my two older brothers, Joseph Gabriel and John Daniel, born respectively June 25, 1826, and November 30, 1827. This stone house at one time belonged to my grand father, Gabriel Nourse, who was the son of James Nourse. The ancestors of the latter are given in a book now in the possession of your mother, entitled James Nourse cmd his Descendants.

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