Wetmore, H. C.

WETMORE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2008 at 14:16:13

H. C. Wetmore

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.249, Valley Twp.)
H. C. Wetmore, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in Ohio in 1848, son of O. E. and M. F. (Williamson) Wetmore. He was educated mostly in Ohio, but also attended Abingdon College, Illinois. The mother of subject is still living. His father died when our subject was but eight years old. Mr. Wetmore attended school till about twenty years of age, and then went to teaching and farming, which occupation he has continued since. He has two sisters, one near Carson, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, and the other in Michigan. Mr. Wetmore was married, in November, 1874, to Miss Emma E. Peterson, born in New York; her father and mother are living in Summit County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore have no children of their own, but have a girl which they are raising. Mr. Wetmore came from Ohio to Pottawattamie County, Iowa in the spring of 1878, and settled on his present farm of eighty acres. Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore are members of the Christian Church. Politically, Mr. Wetmore is a Democrat.