ORM, AARON

ORM, SIMMONS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 22:00:54

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

ORM, AARON, bricklayer ; born in Hardin Co., Va., Feb. 11, 1806; when 8 years of age, his parents removed to Athens Co., Ohio, where he learned the trade of bricklayer. On the 26th of February, 1828, he married Miss Eleanor Simmons, a native of Athens Co., Ohio, born Sept. 27, 1809; they came to Iowa, arriving in Fort Madison, April 14, 1849, and he began working at his trade ; he and his sons have helped to build most of the brick buildings in this city ; Mr. Orm has laid brick every year for the past fifty-four years. They have had twelve children, nine survive —George, Franklin, Sarah, Robert, Ruth, Oliver, Martha E., Mary A. and Clara. Mr. Orm had five sons and two sons-in-law in the army ; Christopher was killed in the battle of Atlanta, and Robert and Jonathan were both wounded at the same battle ; Franklin was Captain of his company in the 17th I. V. I. Mr. and Mrs. Orm have been married and passed together fifty-one years ; on the 26th of February, 1878, they celebrated their golden wedding ; Mrs. Orm's father was 100 years old when he married his third wife, and 101 years of age when he died ; two of Mr. Orm's uncles and one aunt are over 100 years of age.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879