WHITMORE, Samuel - History

WHITMORE, ROSS, MITCHELL, RODGERS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 2/26/2006 at 14:21:02

"Iowa Historical Record", 1899

Samuel WHITMORE was a farmer of Locust Grove Twp., and that he was a man of influence in the county may be gathered from the trusts committed to him, in after years.

Mr. WHITMORE, like all the delegation from Jefferson County, with the exception of Mr. ROSS, was not a public speaker. He came to Iowa in 1842 from Ohio, where he had amassed a considerable amount of property in contracting work on canals. In 1852 he was elected to the State Legislature, his colleagues being H. B. MITCHELL and W. J. RODGERS; and so bad were the roads at that day, that to reach Iowa City they were compelled to go by way of Richland, to avoid crossing Walnut Creek, that stream not yet having been bridged.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s).