(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 845)

Floyd T. Spudling located on section 20, near Northwood, in 1866, when it was an unbroken prairie. He is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Valpman) Spudling, and was born in Orange Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1828. He received an academic education in his native State. He was married in 1847 to Sarah J. Parker. They have three children living-James H., Mary Elizabeth and Andrew. He emigrated to Rosendale, Wis., in 1850 where he remained sixteen years, then removed to his present home in Worth Co., Iowa. He has acquired all he possesses since he came here. He has a fine improved farm valued at $50 per acre. The trees surrounding his home are two feet in diameter and were his own planting.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 28, 2008