Gilbert S. Blackman (b. 1828)

BLACKMAN, CHAPIN

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/28/2005 at 15:15:36

Blackman, Gilbert S., farmer, Section 23; PO Eden; born in Seneca Co., Ohio in 1828, which place he left in 1848 and settled in Wisconsin, where he resided until 1851, when he started with his family and an ox team and came to this county in March and is the first settler in this town; has a farm of 125 ½ acres, valued at $30 per acre; carried the first grist to the mill at Auburn, when that building was completed. Enlisted as a private in the 49th Ohio S.V. Co. H; was promoted to Second Lieutentant of Co. I; was in the battle of Shiloh, and served about eight months, when he returned and was appointed to the Sutlership of the 27th Colored Troops, in which capacity he served about one year. Was one of the clerks of the first election ever held in this town and is serving third term of Justice of the Peace; also Township Trustee one year and is prominently known throughout the county. Married Emily F. Chapin; she was born in Onondaga Co., New York in 1831; have one child living -- G. Louis; lost one child -- Irving R.

Page 623-624, 1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa
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