Whipple, William W.

WHIPPLE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2008 at 16:27:16

William W. Whipple

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.250, Valley Twp.)
William W. Whipple, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in McKean County, Penn., in 1837, son of Samule and Mercia Whipple; mother died in 1842, father in 1867; for most of his life, the latter was a lumberman, but a few years before his death, he followed farming. Mr. Whipple has one brother and two sisters in Wisconsin. He received his education in Pennsylvania; moved from there when he was seventeen years old, and went to Portage County, Wis., and remained five years, engaged in lumbering. He next went to Adams County, Wis., and went to farming; remained in Adams County till 1864, when he enlisted in Company E., Thirty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteers, and served till the close of the war. He was in the battle of Fort Steadman, before Petersburg and at its capture. After the close of the war, he stayed in Wisconsin about one year, and then went to Minnesota, where he followed farming most of the time. In 1860, Mr. Whipple was married to Miss Phylena Seward, born in New York, daughter of Enos Seward and slightly related to William H. Seward. Mrs. Whipple died march 11, 1863, and was the mother of one son who died October 17, 1864. Mr. Whipple was again married in Minnesota, in 1869, to Miss Annie E. Holloway, born in Maine, daughter of Levi Holloway. By his second wife Mr. Whipple has two children - Eugene W., born August 6, 1871; and Albert L., born in December, 1876. Mr. Whipple lived in Minnesota till 1869, when he moved to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and settled in Valley Township, one and a half miles east of Hancock. In 1872, he bought eight acres of prairie at $10 per acre. In 1872, he bought eighty acres of prairie at $9 per acre, and, in 1874, forty acres at $10 per acre. his farm is all under cultivation, with good improvements, good buildings and orchards. He sold his farm in 1882 for $30 per acre. He is a member of the A. H. T. A.; also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Hancock and Superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics, he is a Republican.