Sanders, William

SANDERS, CHAMBERS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/5/2013 at 07:09:02

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

SANDERS, WILLIAM—Jackson Twp—pg 662-3. Superintendent of poor farm, P.O. Montezuma. Was born in Pennsylvania, May 21, 1842, and at the age of eight years accompanied his parents to Des Moines county, this State. He engaged in farming when young and continued the same until the fall of 1874, when he came to this county. He was elected superintendent of the poor farm in February, 1879, and was re-elected in March, 1880. During the war he enlisted in company E, Fifteenth Iowa infantry, October 21, 1861, and served three years and ten months, when he was honorably discharged. Was in the battles of Shiloh, Siege of Vicksburg, and others. Was married in Des Moines county, Iowa, March 4, 1865, to Miss Margaret J. Chambers. They have three children: Ida E., Alice and Jessie.