Saum, S. A.

SAUM, ELLIS

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SAUM, S. A.
of Saum, Davis & Co., manufacturers of improved pumps; Kellogg; born in Highland Co., Ohio, in 1834; moved to Knox Co., Ill., in 1853, and located in this county in 1855. Married Miss Rachel E. ELLIS in 1856; she was born in Knox Co., Ill., in 1837; they have one child--Fred A., born Dec. 25, 1859. Are members of the Christian Church; he is a Greenbacker in politics. Enlisted in the 28th I. V. I. in 1862; mustered out in August, 1865; was in thirteen engagements with his regiment, including Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Winchester, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill. His company is manufacturing, as a specialty, their deep well iron cylinder pumps on an extensive scale, and have supplied a large scope of country with these pumps during the last seven years. He is a lineal descendant in a direct line from Nicholas Saum, who emigrated to this country from Germany, and located in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., several years prior to the Revolutionary War, in which one of his sons was killed. During the late war, there were six of this family on each side, one of whom was killed or died on each side. ~ "Kellogg Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)