Edmund Hillman

DONNELLY, HILLMAN, TRAVIS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/7/2004 at 11:12:20

Edmund Hillman, Walnut twp., of the firm of E. & J. D. Hillman; was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, near Camden, June 1818; his parents moved to Preble county, Ohio, when he was quite young; he was raised there; he married Miss Anna Donnelly in 1839, a native of Pennsylvania; in the fall of 1841, he emigrated to Des Moines county, Iowa; came to this county in the fall of 1869; has been engaged in the mercantile business at Peru seven years; have two sons and one daughter: John D., on of the firm, Mary E., now Mrs. S. N. Travis, and Z. T.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 562