Charles Henry Coryell was born on March 30, 1851, in Aurora, Illinois, to A. C. and Mary Coryell. His father was a carpenter who owned $4,000 of real estate by 1850. The family lived in Oswego, Illinois, and his father died in the 1850s. They moved to Bennezette, Iowa, around 1865, and by 1870, he was working as a farm laborer. He married Susan May Trindle on April 20, 1876, and they had at least four children: Fannie, born around 1878; Lyman, born around 1887; Ira, born around 1891; and George, born around 1895. He earned a living as a farmer. They moved to Chikaskia, Kansas, in the late 1800s and then to Jackson, Iowa, in the early 1900s. They moved to Six Mile Grove, Minnesota, in the 1910s. By 1930, they were living in their daughter Fannie’s household in Pittsford, Iowa. His wife died in 1930. He moved to Dumont, Iowa, in the 1930s, and he died there of “hepatic carcinoma” on April 29, 1945.

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