Frum, Samuel B.

FRUM

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/21/2008 at 16:10:57

Samuel B. Frum

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.211, Pleasant Twp.)
S. B. Frum, farmer, P. O. Shelby, born in Monongalia County, Va., September 22, 1844, son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Boyd) Frum, both born in Monongalia County, W. Va., in 1818, are still living on their farm in this township (Pleasant). They are the parents of five boys and three girls. Subject was educated in Monongalia County, Va.; is self-educated; commenced life as an engineer, following that business for two years, when he came to this State in 1867, where he commenced farming; married in Avoca, this State, January 8, 1879, Anna G. Aldrich, born in Montrose, Lee Co., this State, August 28, 1859, daughter of P. J. and Melissa R. (Peck) Aldrich, both born in Berkshire County, Mass.; he, August 15, 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Frum have one child, Edwin Joseph, born October 23, 1879. Mrs. Frum is a member of the Episcopal Church; her husband is a Republican, a Knight Templar, a member of the Legion of Honor, been Township Clerk for seven years, School Treasurer for eight years, a member of the Board of Supervisors for three years; enlisted August 14, 1862, in Company C, Fourteenth West Virginia Infantry (Capt. O. P. Jolliffe); was in the battles of Cloyd Mountain, Lynchburg, with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, wounded July 20 at Winchester, was a color bearer in his regiment for three years. He came to Poweshiek County, this State, in 1867; to this township in 1871; bought 320 acres of wild land in partnership with his brothers and father at $8 per acre; they improved the land, divided it and subject got 80 acres as his share; since then he has bought four other tracts of eighty acres each, one of which was improved, paying, on an average, $15 per acre.

[Note: The discrepancy of West Virginia/Virginia as to his birth and where he was educated is typed as in the book.]