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BROCKWAY, MARTIN, farmer, Sec. 33; P. O. Denmark; son of Titus Brockway, who was born in Ohio, 1803, and married Nancy Wilson, who was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, 1787. In 1838, they were pioneers to Lee Co., settling on Sec. 9, in this township, where they remained until his death in 1853, leaving a wife and eleven children. Martin, the youngest, was born in 1842; educated at the common schools. On Dec. 12, 1866, he married Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Susannah McElhany, nee McGregor, both of whom were born near Pittsburgh, Penn.; afterward residents of Burlington, where her mother died; her father resided in this county; died at Albia, Iowa, 1865. After their marriage, they settled in Des Moines Co., Washington Tp., where they remained until 1873, when he purchased his present property, consisting of 100 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. They have two children — Minnie L., born January, 1874, and Charles, born September, 1876. Republican in politics. Mrs. Brockway is a member of the Presbyterian Church in which her parents were members of long standing.