Timberman, Isaiah

TIMBERMAN

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 20:36:53

Isaiah Timberman

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.607)
ISAIAH TIMBERMAN is a prominent farmer of Center Township, Pottawattamie County. His great-grandfather, Christian Timberman, came from Germany before the Revolutionary War and settled in New Jersey. His son, Jacob, was born on a farm in that state, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, being in the battles of Trenton and Germantown. He was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware and passed the fearful winter at Valley Forge, when the patriots left blood upon the snow from their bare feet. He was married to Hannah HOGATE, a native of America, and they had five children: Gideon, Hannah, Betsy and Priscilla. The father lived to the age of seventy-five years, and died on his farm in Gloucester County, New Jersey, twenty miles from Philadelphia. He was a patriot who did not hesitate to risk his life for his country. Christian TIMBERMAN, the father of our subject, was born on his father's farm and received a common-school education. He married Elizabeth DUFFLE, and to them were born three children: John, James and Hannah. The mother died, and the father again was married in New Jersey to Sarah CASSIDAY, daughter of James and Sarah (BARBER) CASSIDAY, and to them were born eight children: Ruth, Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane, Mary (deceased), Ann and Isaiah, and one who died in infancy. In 1837 the father moved to Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and then removed to a farm near that city, where he died in 1866 at the age of eighty years. He was a member of the Methodist Chuch, but later in life joined the United Brethern Church, in which he took great interest and was also a steward.

Isaiah TIMBERMAN, our subject, was born October 15, 1829, on a farm in Gloucester County, New Jersey, and was eight years of age when he went with his father to Ohio. He well remembers the trip by steamer, down the Ohio, and also remembers the political campaign of 1840, called the Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign, in which W. H. Harrison was elected President. He learned farming in early life, and at the age of sixteen he learned the trade of light carriage maker. In March 1855, Mr. TIMBERMAN went to Kansas and took up 160 acres of Government land in Coffey County. This was in the midst of Kansas troubles, and on the road they were stopped and questioned by the Missourians, but allowed to go through. He remained in Coffey County until the great drouth of 1860, when he left there and came to Iowa, settling in Harrison County, where he lived two years. Here Mr. TIMBERMAN lost his left foot and leg, which were cut off by a mowing machine. In 1863 he moved to Council Bluffs, and in 1868 came to Valley Township, which was then Center Township. He sold this place and came to his present farm of 160 acres in 1874. He has been greatly assisted in improving this farm by his faithful wife and sons. Mr. TIMBERMAN was a soldier in the late Civil War for a short time, and did service at Fort Lincoln, Kansas, under the celebrated chief, General Jim Lane. He is a typical American pioneer, having struggled to make a home for himself and family, and well known as an honest man, whose word is as good as his bond.

He was married November 25, 1850 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Miss E. M. COOK, daughter of Zaccheus and Mary (MURPHY) COOK. The father was a native of New Jersey and was a wool carder by trade. He died when still a young man, and was the father of five children: Athalinda, Oliver, Rachel, Elizabeth and Amy. Mrs. COOK was a member of the Methodist Church and is yet living with her eldest daughter at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. TIMBERMAN were the parents of eleven children, viz.: Oliver P., Sarah J., Mary A., Alpha, Amy L. (deceased), John W., Charles H., James A., Edward F. and two who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Timberman are members of the methodist Church and politically Mr. TIMBERMAN is a Republican.

Their daughter, Mary A., married Azro BOYD, and they have one son, Clarence O. She was again married to Albert MAXWELL, a carpenter of Seattle, Washington, and by this marriage there is one child, Allen K. Sarah J. married William MAXWELL, a farmer of Center Township, and they have three children, Amy P., Cloyd G. and Ivy M. Alpha married Monroe MAXWELL, a farmer of Nebraska, and by this marriage there are two children: Goldie M and Silvia J. John W. is a farmer of Valley Township and is married to Mallie MORRIS. Oliver P., a farmer of Valley Township, was married to Ida POLLOCK, and they have one child, Ethel P.