(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 794)

H. B. Cornick is engaged in buying and selling stock in Manly. He was born in Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wis., July 3, 1851. When he was five years old his parents went, to St. Ansgar, Mitchell Co., Iowa. he worked there fifteen years, fol­lowing farming and assisting his father in a steam saw mill. In 1870 he moved to Carpenter and lived three years, buy­ing and selling grain. He married Fan­nie Thompson, August, 1875. She was born in Leeds, Columbia Co., Wis., May 9, 1857. They have three children- Lanthe, Florence and Zella. He is the present justice of the peace, being elected in 1882. In 1876 he was constable of Kensett.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 11, 2006