OATMAN, A. G.

OATMAN, ADAMS

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:25:02

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

A. G. OATMAN, retired farmer, De Witt; was born in Middletown, Rutland Co., Vt., in 1829; his parents, Ira and Lovica Oatman, removed to St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., about 1827; his mother died in 1834; he returned to Vermont and lived in the family of his mother's brother until he was of age; he went to Wisconsin in the fall of 1851; in the spring of 1853, he went to California and engaged in mining remained in California six years; returned to Vermont in 1859. Married, in October of the same year, Ellen S. Adams, of Vermont. Came to Clinton Co. in February, 1861, and bought a farm in Eden Township the following year; he retired from the farm in the spring of 1877, and came to De Witt; he built a fine residence in 1878, where he now resides.