Slocum, S.

SLOCUM

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/13/2008 at 13:46:53

S. Slocum

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.74, Belknap Twp.)
S. Slocum, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Huron County, Ohio, December 24, 1835; son of G. A. and Mary (Harroune) Slocum; he was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., May 10, 1811, is a shoemaker by trade, but has been engaged in farming in Belknap Township, Pottawattamie County, since Augsut, 1854. Subject's mother was born in New Hampshire December 17, 1811, and died December 13, 1878. Our subject was named by his grandfather Slocum after one of the latter's comrades in the Revolution. Until twenty-one years of age, Mr. Slocum worked at home, then after farming two years, he went to Council Bluffs and learned the carpenter trade, at which he began to work in 1860. He built the second log house and the third frame house in Belknap Township. Mr. Slocum continued to work at his trade till 1870, when he came to his prsent farm of sixty acres, situated 100 rods from the Oakland depot. He devotes the most of his time to gardening, occasionally working at his trade. He was married, in March, 1857, to Marilla Belknap, born Septemger 21, 1836, died September 21, 1863. Her father, Orin Belknap, born in Kentucky, was the first settler in Belknap Township, which was named after him. Her mother, Ann Draper, was born in Ohio, and died in this county about 1856. Mr. Slocum has by his first wife one child - George Orin, now in Las Vegas, New Mexico, engaged in the coal and coke business. Mr. Slocum was again married, in Center Township, January 3, 1867, to Emeline Reed, born in Mercer County, Ill., January 23, 1843, daughter of Enos and Elizabeth (Rishling) Reed; he was born in South Carolina March 9, 1795, and died in Mercer County, Ill.; she was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 10, 1805; is now living in this county with her children. This second union has resulted in two children - Fred and Hattie Grace. Mr. Slocum is a member of the M. E. Church. In politics, he is a Republican, and believes in prohibition.