RICHMOND, R. M.

RICHMOND

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Date: 10/7/2004 at 12:56:51

Biography reproduced from page 487 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

R. M. Richmond, son of Rufus and Ann Richmond, was born in Walworth, Wayne Co., N. Y., June 4, 1852. When three years of age, his parents moved to Dallas Co., Iowa, his father engaging in business near Dallas Centre, where he has lived ever since, except three years, which he served in the late Rebellion. Mr. Richmond lost his two oldest brothers in this Rebellion. He has two brothers and a sister living in Dallas county, and his father, at the age of seventy years, enjoying good health. His mother died in 1867. In 1869 Mr. Richmond returned to Columbia Co., N. Y., where he lived with an uncle six years, spending his school days in the Calverack College and Hudson River Institute, near Hudson City, between New York and Albany. He then spent one year in New York city. In 1876 he returned to Dallas Co., Iowa, engaging in farming and speculating, for two years. He then engaged in the mercantile business until 1881, at which time he moved to Kossuth Co., Iowa, since which he has been engaged in the real estate business in the town of Bancroft. Mr. Richmond erected one of the first buildings in this village. He now has two business houses, which he rents; also has several farms and tracts of wild land in this county.