SADDORIS, Samuel

SADDORIS, WERUM, MUMMEY, DWIRE

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:10:58

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

SAMUEL SADDORIS, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. DeWitt; born in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, 1816; he removed to Holmes Co., Ohio, where he resided till 1845, when he came to Davenport, Iowa; he purchased and improved a farm near Davenport, and lived there seven years; resided in Davenport for twelve years, engaged in real estate business; he then exchanged his home in Davenport for forty acres of the farm which he now owns of 540 acres in Clinton Co., the most of which is under a fine state of cultivation; has also 240 acres in Boone Co. Mr. Saddoris and Mr. Harrison Dwire were the organizers of the Grange movement in Clinton Co.; he was instrumental in organizing the Farmers' Store in De Witt in 1874; he is Secretary of the Farmers' Insurance Company, of Clinton, Jackson and Scott Cos. He married Miss Eliza Werum, a native of Germany, then of Ohio; have eight children-Harriet Mummey, Charles, an extensive farmer of Orange Township; Thomas, an extensive farmer of Boone Co., Iowa; Nancy E., Mary C., William H., Clifford E. and Samuel, Jr.; the last five reside at home.