Youman, Elias

YOUMAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 3/14/2008 at 14:45:59

Elias Youman

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.152, Lincoln Twp.)
Elias Youman, farmer, P. O. Walnut, born in Albany County, N. Y., May 14, 1824, son of Bartholomew and Sally (Saulter) Youman; he, a farmer, born in Greene County, N. Y., died about the year 1862; she, born in New York State, died in 1874, and was the mother of nine children, viz., Samuel, Hannah, Betsy, John, Elias, Stephen, David, Jesse and Ambrose. Subject received a common school education; commenced life as a farmer, and married in Brunswick, Ohio, September 19, 1848, Sarah A. Barber, born in New York State April 28, 1831, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Barber, both natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Youman are the parents of the following children, viz., Orrin, born May 1, 1851; Mary E., born May 1, 1853; Adelina, December 12, 18681; Clement, March 12, 1868. Subject is a Democrat, and was Township Clerk in 1880.