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Isaac A. Poland, son of Joseph and America (Calender) Poland, was born in Kentucky in 1844. The parents were natives of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively, and the grandfather, Jacob Poland, was also a native of Tennessee. He was drafted for the Black Hawk War, but did not serve, having furnished a substitute. He was a farmer by occupation, and reared a family of twelve children. Joseph Poland grew to maturity in Kentucky, having moved from Tennessee to that State when eleven years of age. He was married in Kentucky, and in the spring of 1857 he removed with his family to Southwest Missouri by wagon with oxen. They arrived in Lawrence County, Mo., in April, and settled on a large farm, where they remained until the breaking out of the late war, when Joseph served in the Home Guards or State Militia. He remained on this farm until his death, which occurred about 1880. To his marriage were born six children, only two now living, Isaac A., and Melinda S., wife of Mr. Hunt. Those deceased were named John H., James R., Willie A. and Joseph B. The mother of these children died in 1855, and the father was afterward married three times. By the next to the last marriage were born two children, Fannie L. and Martha J., who are now deceased. Isaac A. was thirteen years old when his parents moved to Southwest Missouri, where he attained his growth and where he received a fair education in the common schools of his neighborhood. He belonged to the State Militia during the close of the war, and in 1863 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and to Indiana, but returned in 1865 to the home place and commenced attending school. In 1867 Isaac A. Poland married Miss Martha J. Hunt, a native of Southwest Missouri, born in Lawrence County in 1843, and the daughter of Lewis Hunt and Evelyn (Allen) Hunt, who were the parents of ten children (eight now living): John J., Daniel J., Jonathan W., Willie A., Juliette, Martha J., Susan M., Virgie E., Atlanta and Mary. Martha J. and Mary are both deceased. The mother of these children makes her home with Isaac A. Poland, and is sixty-five years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Poland were born three children: Henry C., Joseph S. and Lientia S. (twins). The mother of these children died July 26, 1886. She was an active worker in the Baptist Church, of which she has been a member since a small girl. She was a loving mother and a good woman. Mr. Poland is a member of the Baptist Church, and his son, Henry C., is deacon of the same church. They are owners of 240 acres of land, eighty acres of which are timber land.