Seebold, Joseph

SEEBOLD

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/30/2008 at 13:36:37

Joseph Seebold

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.228, Rockford Twp.)
Joseph Seebold, farmer, P. O. Loveland, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1826, and went to Michigan while small. He made Michigan his home till 1850, when he crossed the plains to California, stopping in Iowa for some weeks. He remained in California for five years. While there, he was mining most of the time. Then he returned to Michigan in June, 1855, remaining there till December of the same year, and then came to this county, arriving here about the 1st of January, 1856. He crossed the State by stge. It was storming badly, and the driver got lost on the prairie and night came on. Mr. Seebold was the only passenger, so they tied the horses to the coach and went inside, tore up the carpeting of the stage, and in that and what robes they had wrapped up for the night, but it was all they could do to keep from freezing. The next morning, aid was sent for, but they had managed to find the way into the station before it came. He was married at Magnolia, Iowa, January 12, 1856, by Judge Hardy, then Judge of Harrison County, to Miss Jane Palmer. She had come to Harrison County with her uncle, from Michigan, in 1852. They have nine children, five boys and four girls, all of whom are at home. In April, 1856, our subject came to Rockford Township, and has been in it ever since, and about twenty-three years on his present farm. In 1864, he went into the service, going into the Third Iowa Battery, O. H. Lyons commander, in Gen. Solomon's division, then at Little Rock, Ark., and then removed to Fort Smith, Ark. This was the last battery mustered out of the Seventh Army Corps. He is a Republican in politics. His farming is general, but for a fwe years he has turned his attention to sorghum, raising sorghum cane to quite an extent. His farm is well improved. When first coming here, in 1856, there was only one house on the Missouri bottom between Loveland and Calhoun, Harrison County.