Plumb, Henry

PLUMB, HERRIMAN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:31:04

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

PLUMB, HENRY—Jefferson Twp—pg 970-1. Blacksmith and farmer, section 22, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born in Canada, July 10, 1822, where he was engaged in farming till 1840, when he moved to Jefferson county, New York, where he continued farming for two years, and then returned to Canada, living there till 1853. In 1849 he commenced learning the blacksmith trade, at which he worked there till 1853, when he moved to La Porte, Indiana, where he lived two years and a half, working at his trade; he then moved to Erie, Illinois, working at his trade till 1867, when he moved to Belle Plaine, this State, running a blacksmith shop till 1874, when he came to this county, locating where he now lives. His farm consists of eighty acres of improved land, with a good house situated on an elevation that commands a view of the surrounding country. Mr. P. was married, March 5, 1847, in Canada, to Miss J.A. Herriman, a native of Canada, aged nineteen. They have four children: W.T. (aged thirty-two; married and living in Mahaska county), Loie A. (aged thirty), Luther A. (aged twenty-four; married and living in Marshall county) and Norman H. (aged eighteen). Lost two infants: Sidney A., in 1860, and Rufus Melvin, in 1868, aged, respectively, ten months.