(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 740)

Augusta Couse was born in Madison Co., N. Y. Oct. 8, 1830. He is the son of Andrew and Emily (Wetmore) Couse, the father a native of Madison Co., N. Y., the mother of Oneida county, in the same State. In 1835 or 1836 they removed to Erie Co., Penn., where Augustus grew to manhood, and received a common school education. In 1855 he went to Columbia Co., Wis., and engaged in farming near Columbus. He married Sarah Smith, a native of Yates Co., N. Y., born Oct. 8, 1840. He remained in Columbia county until 1872, when he came to Worth Co., Iowa, and settled on section 22, in Danville township, where he still lives. Mr. and Mrs. Couse are the parents of three children - Emma, wife of C. O. Burkhart; Minnie N. and Harvey A. The parents of Mr. Couse went to Lake Co., Ohio, where the father died in 1874, aged seventy-five years; the mother is living at San Jose, Cal., aged eighty-one years.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, Sept. 4, 2005