Putnam, G. M.

PUTNAM

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 7/31/2008 at 16:36:15

G. M. Putnam

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.103, Grove Twp.)
G. M. Putnam, farmer, P. O. Carson, born in New Hampshire in 1837, son of George and Elizabeth (Perkins) Putnam; he died in this State, November 12, 872; she is still iving in this State. They had nine children, eight of whom are still living. Subject received a common-school education, commenced life as a farmer and was married in Illinois, in 1868, to Emily A. Jackson, born December 16, 1842, and daughter of William and Maria (Moulton) Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam have six children, viz.: Fred, Edith, William, Myrtle, Blanche and Frances. Subject has held some township (Grove) offices; is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican; enlisted in Company A, Seventy-fifth Illinois Infantry; mustered out June, 1865; was in the battles of Stone River, Perryville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, Tenn., and others. He moved from New Hampshire to Illinois in 1853, thence to Iowa in 1873, when he bought 160 acres of land for $9 per acre, which is worth at least $30 per acre. There is a small young orchard of about one acre and some natural and artificial timber on the place.