SHOOP, Samuel

SHOOP

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/31/2021 at 13:47:39

Samuel Shoop
born in 1846

Samuel Shoop, a farmer of section 19, Blaine Township, Ida County, post office Ida Grove, was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1846, a son of Samuel and Mary (Garman) Shoop, natives also of that county. Grandfather Frederic Shoop was born in Germany, but when a boy came to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he afterward was married. The father of our subject was reared and educated in his native State, where, in 1864, he enlisted and served until the close of the struggle. In 1884 he came to Ida county, Iowa, where he died, in 1890. His wife died in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Shoop were the parents of five children, viz.: Sarah, widow of George Wallower, and a resident of Dauphin county, and a resident of Dauphin county; George, a resident of Arthur; Samuel, our subject; Catherine, who died in 1872, was the wife of Andrew Sarker, of Dauphin county; and John, if living, resides in the East. Samuel Shoop was reared in his native county. At the opening of the late war, he enlisted for three months in Company B, Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, and at the expiration of his term of service re-enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry for three months, He next entered Company D, Twentieth Pennsylvania Infantry, and took part in the battles of Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Weldon Railroad, Appomattox Courthouse and New Market. He participated in nineteen engagements in all, and was honorably discharged at Philadelphia in July, 1865. While in service Mr. Shoop contracted a disease, from which he has suffered greatly. After the close of the struggle he resumed farming in Dauphin County, and in 1884 he purchased 120 acres of land on section 19, Blaine township, Ida county, Iowa, now under a fine state of cultivation. He has a frame residence, 20 x 24 feet, with a wing, 16 x 14 feet, a barn, 24 x 14 feet, and two acres of his place is devoted to an orchard, shade and ornamental trees. Mr. Shoop is engaged in general farming, also in raising Italian bees. Politically, he affiliates with the Republican Party.
In Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1867, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Mary Howard, a native of that county, and a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Stump) Howard, natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania The parents afterward located in Dauphin county, where the mother died in 1880. The same year the father came to Ida County, Iowa, and his death occurred in 1887. Great-grandmother Howard lived to the advanced age of 105 yard. Mr. and Mrs. Shoop have had five children: Mary C., wife of C. W. Boyer, of Blaine Township; Simon P., who married Sarah Flathers, and resides in this township; Ida Isadora, wife of J. F. Fettro, of Ida Grove; Sarah Elizabeth; and William Mitchell, attending school in this county. Our subject and wife are members of the Evangelical Church.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.523