Thomas, W. H.

THOMAS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 4/3/2008 at 22:04:48

W. H. Thomas

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.81, Boomer Twp.)
W. H. Thomas, marble cutter, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co., was born in Utah Jan. 16, 1857; came to Pottawattamie Co. in October 1866, settling in Boomer Township. He is the son of Thomas Thomas, who was born in Wales, and came to America in 1853 and settled in Utah, and remained there till 1866. He and fmaily came to this county; died January 17, 1877. His wife died June 19, 1877. They left a family of eight children, of whom W. H. is the oldest, being only twenty when the family was left to his care. The family have remained together ever since, and during the five years Mr. W. H. Thomas has bought another farm of eighty acres, and ten acres in a timber lot, all in cultivation and pasture and hay land. He had partly learned his trade of marble cutter before his father died, and since has completed it, and now is engaged in following it, while his brother runs the farm. His marble shop he has on the farm, and his work finds it way into all of the cemeteries within twenty miles each way, som e of his finest monuments going to Council Bluffs cemeteries. He is a member of the Mutual Protectionists. He is Democratic in politics. Mr. Thomas was elected Assessor of the township when he was twenty-one years old, and has held it ever since; has also been Secretary of School Board for three years.