Samuel Steadman

STEADMAN, PRATT, ROLLINS, SCALES, GARDNER, STONE, ROBBINS, POTTER, HUTCHINSON, TILLOTSON, WHITMAN

Posted By: Cindy Bray Lovell (email)
Date: 3/3/2007 at 11:39:05

SAMUEL STEADMAN

Samuel Steadman was born in the state of Maine, May 1,1821, town of Foxcroft. He was a son of John and Patience Steadman. His father was a millwright. Samuel, while a young man, worked out by the month, spending several seasons rafting on the Penobscot river. December 11,1843, he was married to Betsy Jane Pratt, by whom he became the father of eleven children, four dying early in life. Ella L., Lucius D., Charles E., Edwin and Wilson are known to our people. Ella married Melville Rollins, and now lives in Dresden township. Lucius married Lillie Scales, he died at Nashua. Charles married Ida Gardner and now lives in Dresden township. Edwin is in the northwest somewhere. Wilson married Lizzie Stone and lives at Alpha, Iowa.
Samuel Steadman came to Iowa the fall of 1854, locating in McKee township, Allamakee county. His first wife died in 1864, and their daughter Augusta, died in 1866. His second marriage was to Aliuda P. Robbins, May 1, 1865, by whom he had seven children: Albert W., who is married arid lives in Howard county; John A. who is single and lives in Fredericksburg; Julia A. who is the wife of Rufus Potter; Walter C, who married Laura Hutchinson and lives in Dresden township; Arthur F., who married Elfa Tillotson; George C, who married Laura Whitman; Clarence who is single, and Frank, who lives in Minnesota.
Mr. Steadman located in this township, April 23, 1869, upon section 22, where 'he lived for four years in a board shanty. He built a comfortable home in 1873, and set out an orchard from which he took seventy-five bushels of apples the season of 1884, mostly of the Dutchess and Wealthy varieties. Ho took the first premium on apples at the county fair in 1882. Mr. Steadman and his wife joined the Baptist church at Fredericksburg, March 3, 1878. He was a man of great probity. He died September 25, 1890.

From “the Fredericksburg News (Fredericksburg, Iowa)” March 22, 1906

(please note that the dates are right it was taken from a section that looked back on the history of the area.)