Homer H. Field (1825-1920)

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Posted By: Lynn (email)
Date: 4/17/2015 at 21:27:28

Homer H. Field was born at Atwater, Ohio, May 9, 1825, and died at the Old Soldiers' Home near Los Angeles, California, April 17, 1920. He went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1841 and learned the chairmaking trade. In 1845 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the Mexican War as a member of Company E, First Regiment Ohio Volunteers. In 1850 he removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, and in 1856 to Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was deputy sheriff and deputy provost marshal from 1862 to 1865, sheriff of Pottawattamie County from 1865 to 1868, a member of the city council of Council Bluffs for nine years between 1868 and 1875, chief of police from 1881 to 1884, a member of the board of education three terms, the last time as its president, and was justice of the peace from 1893 to 1895 and from 1905 to 1907. In 1907 he, with Hon. Joseph R. Reed, wrote a history of Pottawattamie County. As an expert violinist trained by Joseph Tasso, he was a professional musician for twenty-five years after coming to Council Bluffs.

From the Annals of Iowa 1921