Field, L. S.

FIELD

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Date: 9/17/2008 at 13:55:08

L. S. Field

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.159, Macedonia Twp.)
L. S. Field, lumber merchant, Carson, was born in Bakersfield, Franklin Co., Vt., May 22, 1846; his father, Alanson Field, born in Bakersfield, Vt., July 6, 1820; his forefathers were brought to America as members of Burgoyne's army, during the Revolution, his father being in the bagttle of Plattsburg. Subject's mother, P. W. (Cutler) Field, was born in Bakersfield, Vt., Nov. 2, 1817, and is the mother of four children, of whom two are in the West. Mr. Field attended the common schools of his native State, and also the Academy of Bakersfield. He worked on a farm in his native State till coming West in 1866, when he landed at Council Bluffs, having come there by boat, there being no railroads at that time. He spent his first winter in a saw-mill, his second as a school teacher in Pottawattamie County. The following five years were spent as civil engineer on the railroad lines of the R. I. & Pacific, B. & M. and various other lines; leaving this he spent about one year in Council Bluffs. In 1874, he went into the lumber business at Avoca, Pottawattamie County, where he remained in the same business till locating in Carson, in 1880; thence he opened the first yard in town. Mr. Fied married Miss Ella T. Adams, in Ottumwa, Iowa, January 27, 1874. She was born in Ottumwa August 13, 1850. Her father, John J. Adams, was born in Abingdon, Va., April 8, 1807, came to Iowa in 1836, locating at Burlington, then not as large as Carson now is. Her mother, Evaline Trueman Adams, was born in Kentucky February 22, 1812; was the mother of two children. She died August 13, 1850 at Ottumwa, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Field have four children - John A., Arthur L., Pearl I. and George A. Mr. Field is a Republican, and a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 444, at Carson. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.