Pope, Lemuel I.

POPE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 3/14/2008 at 14:40:44

Lemuel I. Pope

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.151, Lincoln Twp.)
Lemuel I. Pope, farmer and mechanic, P. O. Lewis, born in Shelby County, Ind., September 18, 1825, son of Harvey and Mary (Drake) Pope; he, a farmer and mechanic, born in Connecticut, died in the fall of 1851 of 1852; she, born in Ohio, died in the winter of 1854 or 1855. They had eight children, viz., Henry Jefferson, Lemuel I., Harvey D., Hannah K., Mary H., William W., MIlton and Lottie. Subject received a common school education, attending school when he was about ten years old; he afterward went to a commercial school in Cincinnati; commenced life as a farmer, and married, in Cincinnati, June, 1851, Elizabeth Stone, born in Michigan August 3, 1831, daughter of Edward and Ann Stone, both born in England. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have ten children, viz., Lollie, Emma, Jerome, Millard, Alonzo, Forest, Ella, Ulysses, James and Joseph. Subject is a Hard-Shell Baptist, and Independent in politics; is a descendant of Lord Williams; started in life with nothing but his strong arms and equally strong will; left home when twenty-one years old; engaged in the mercantile business in his native State for two years, afterward going to Cincinnati, Ohio, as salesman for a wholesale grocery store there, remaining two years in the position, when he returned to his father's farm, working there for one year, and on other farms for about three years, when he moved to Illinois, where he rented a farm for a year, when he moved to Missouri, taking a homestead of eighty acres, living there for six years when he sold out and moved to Marion County, this State, where he worked different farms; also engaged in coal mining, and at the expiration of eight years, he moved to Wright Township, this county, and the next spring moved into this township, purchasing 400 acres of land.