Isaac Newton Goar (1851 - 1939)

Born 29 Mar 1851 in Tipton, Tipton, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Jane (Thomas) Goar — married 25 Oct 1874 in Indiana, USA

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1939 at age 88 in Calloway, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

An excerpt from "Settling the Seven Valleys: Seven Valleys Regional History 1872-1982", Editor Mrs Fred (Lorraine) Smith. Printed by Long Valley Queen, Callaway, Nebraska.

Isaac Newton Goar, son of Henry Goar and Martha Ellen Smith, was born April 29, 1851. He was the fourth child and son of this family. He was born in Cicero Township, near Jackson Station, Tipton County, Indiana. He spent his early life as other boys of that age, working in the summer and going to school in the winter, after all the fall work was done. He attended school at the Goar school; this school was a country school of all grades. The Goar school house served as a community center for church, Sunday School and other activities.

He was growing up at the time the homestead was being changed from a forest to a cultivated farm. He helped to clear away the woodlands by splitting rails for fences and ditching the land, and was of material help to his father in changing this new farm into a well-cultivated farm. He continued to work on his father's farm during the summer and fall seasons, going to school in the winter until he had reached the age of almost 21 years. In the year 1872 he attended a special school conducted by a well-known educator, Alexander Hopkins. The school was conducted at Kokomo, Indiana; he attended it for a term of 15 weeks. The following winter, the term of 1872-73, he taught school. After this term of school, he returned to his father's farm where he continued farming.

He married Mary Jane Thomas, a neighbor's daughter, on October 25, 1873. His wife was born in Indiana on June 5, 1853. He bought one acre of ground from his parents, on which he built a home where he lived with his family, farming a portion of his father's farm, where he became known as one of the best farmers in the county. He attributes much of his success in life to the advice of his father and a kinsman, a near neighbor, Martin Kendall, who married a daughter of Elizabeth Goar Walker. Mrs Kendall being a granddaughter of James and Sally Farley Goar, of whom he says "a truer pioneer never made a home in the forest, he was a first class neighbor and citizen".

After investigating the west, I.N. Goar decided to move to Custer County, Nebraska, in 1883. This was an unsettled country. Here he began the life of an early settler. Near the farm where he first located was Lodi. After many years of hardships and pioneering, such as few would endure today, he established himself as a farmer and stock raiser, and was successful in his efforts.

In 1894 he was elected a representative to the House of Nebraska Legislature from Custer County. He was elected as representative of the Populist Party. After serving through the session of 1895, he returned to hs farm. Here he continued until about 1910, when after disposing of his stock and much of his farm land he removed to Rosenberg, Texas. Here he built one of the most substantial homes in the town and continued to live in this home.

Four children were born to I.N. and Mary J. Goar. Oscar Goar was born October 17, 1876. Maud (Goar) Mahoney was born February 13, 1879. Clarissa (Goar) Lattin was born August 15, 1881. Thomas H. Goar was born September 18, 1885. I.N. Goar and wife believed in education, and made it possible that each of their children received high school and college education.

Sources

• WikiTree profile Goar-23 created through the import of Hoffman Family Tree.ged on Sep 11, 2011 by JJ Prior. See the Changes page for the details of edits by JJ and others.

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #38845464