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Marriage: Children:
  1. Henry Anson Prizer: Birth: 4 JUL 1856 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 19 DEC 1912 in Corona, San Diego Co., CA

  2. Ellen J. Prizer: Birth: 26 DEC 1857 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 29 MAR 1939 in Muscatine, Muscatine Co., IA

  3. Mary Elizabeth Prizer: Birth: 29 JUL 1860 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 16 OCT 1862 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA

  4. Emma Laura Prizer: Birth: 27 FEB 1863 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 16 FEB 1865 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA

  5. Eugene Arthur Prizer: Birth: 13 NOV 1865 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 29 DEC 1914 in Merced, CA

  6. Walter E. Prizer: Birth: 8 SEP 1868 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: SEP 1868 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA

  7. Harriet Elizabeth Prizer: Birth: 9 SEP 1868 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA. Death: 1941 in Brighton, Washington Co., IA


Sources
1. Title:   1880 Federal Census

Notes
a. Note:   Brighton Papers (about 1940)
 The following articles about her grandfather and father were handed to us by Miss Harriett Prizer, who had written them some time ago:
  John W. Prizer:
 My dear father, John W. Prizer, was born on October 8, 1825 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He grew to manhood there and received only a common school education. In the fall of 1840 he bid adieu to his old home and came to Iowa and located in Brighton. When the gold fever broke out during that season he determined to see the gold fields in California and in company with a few of his neighbors received his outfit at the expense of Mr. Friend of Brighton. He remained there until 1854. He was President-cashier at the National Bank for many years, and dry goods merchant for many more years. In 1878 he was elected to the State Senate for a full term of four years as a Republican. He was never an office seeker. He was a stern man and a man of sterling integrity, one who never stooped to the low tricks of the professional politicians, and was an honest and highly respected man. He married Charlotte Moore, daughter of Anson Moore, in September 1855. He was the father of six children, all dead but Miss Harriett Prizer, who lives in Brighton.
  HON. JOHN W. PRIZER, of Brighton, is a native of Dauphin County, Pa., born Oct. 8, 1825. His father, Henry J. Prizer, was born in Chester County, Pa., in 1792, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Miss Rebecca Jackson, born in Dauphin County, Pa., in 1797. They were of Scotch and Irish descent, and were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living: Oliver H., a practicing physician in Brighton; Sarah, the wife of Edward Scott, of Brighton; Mary, the wife of D. W. Cauffman, residing in Colorado Springs, Col.; John W., the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, the wife of Henry Hopple, of Millerstown, Perry, Co., Pa.; Jane C., now the wife of Rev. T. C. Wortz, a Methodist Episcopal minister, now stationed at Albion, Neb. Mr. Prizer was a staunch supporter of Gen. Jackson in his day; he was a man of more than ordinary ability, and well posted in the affairs of his time. He died in 1831. Mrs. Prizer died in 1859; she was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was highly respected for her Christian virtues.
  The subject of this sketch was reared in Perry County, Pa. When six years of age his father died, and at nine he was put out on a farm to earn his own living, consequently, his early education was sadly neglected. In the schools he obtained but little knowledge, and that which he has attained has been by subsequent reading and contact with the brainy men of the nation. In 1849, he left his native State with a view of going to California, but his step met with such determined opposition from his mother, that he abandoned the idea and came to Washington County, Iowa, and located in Brighton. Still he could not give up his cherished desire to visit the new Eldorado, so in the spring of 1850, in company with twelve others he started with teams, and made the long and tedious journey overland. On arriving in California, he engaged in mining and trading, and there remained four years, enduring all the hardship of that early day. In 1854, he returned to Brighton, but that year there was a rush on Kansas, and in June he went there, but remained only a short time, returning again to Brighton, where he has since continued to reside. On his return, he at once embarked in the mercantile business in company with D. W. Cauffman, under the firm of Cauffman & Prizer, in which business he continued until 1872, when, in company with others, he organized the Brighton National Bank, and was elected Cashier of the same, which position he filled for five years. He then resigned the position and embarked in the boot and shoe trade, though not severing his connection with the bank altogether, for he was elected its Vice President.
  Mr. Prizer was married, Sept. 6, 1855, to Miss Charlotte Moore, a daughter of Anson Moore, of Brighton, and one of the early settlers of the county. She was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1831. By this union there were four children, two sons and two daughters: Henry A., now engaged in the dry-goods business at Brighton; Ellen J., the wife of N. Roseberger, attorney-at-law, Muscatine, Iowa; Eugene, a member of the firm of J. W. Prizer & Co.; and Hattie E. In politics Mr. Prizer is one of the stanch Republicans of the State of Iowa, and was interested in the party in this State. He has held several local offices, and in 1879, was elected to the State Senate from the district comprising the counties of Washington and Louisa. While he was a member of the Assembly, the question of the submission of the Prohibition Amendment was asked for by many persons in the State, and Mr. Prizer was among the number of those favorable to granting the request, and as a Senator voted for it. When the question was submitted to a vote of the people, he favored an adoption of the amendment, believing it to be right.
  Mr. Prizer is now leading a retired life, and in his community, and wherever he is known, he is respected for the stability of his character and his true worth as a citizen. No man enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens in a higher degree. Always the friend of education, he has done much to advance the interests of the public schools. In every good work calculated to build up Brighton or Washington County, he has ever been in the front. When he arrived in the county, he was in limited circumstances, but through close attention to his business, and that energy and push that have always characterized him, he has been enabled to lay by sufficient to keep him in his old age. He is living with his family in a very pleasant home in the village of Brighton, surrounded by such comforts as may be acquired by the use of wealth rightly spent, coupled with good taste.


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