Nicholas SALTZMAN

SALTZMAN, EGLEY, GRIMON, SMITH

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/22/2010 at 07:29:27

Record News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
July 31, 1908

NICHOLAS SALTZMAN

Nicholas SALTZMAN, of Poe Township, one of the first settlers of Ringgold County, reached his 80th birthday on Friday, July 24, 1909. The event was properly celebrated in the family and many relatives and friends enjoyed the occasion, and helped to make the aged ones happy.

Those present were, his brother Chris SALTZMAN and wife of Mount Ayr, J. C. SALTZMAN and three children of St. Paul, Minnesota, Simon SALTZMAN and family, Noah SALTZMAN and family, Henry GRIMON and family, Edith and Fay SMITH, granddaughters of Jamesport, Mo. Special friends graced the occasion.

Mr. SALTZMAN is a native of Nancy, France, born in 1828. In 1853, the family embarked at Havre for America and after a voyage of twenty-eight days, arrived in New York. Thence they went to Buffalo and thence to Sandusky, Ohio, and thence in 1855, to Ringgold County. He soon located on a large farm of 420 acres in Poe Township and still remains on the old homestead.

He was married to Miss Anna EGLEY, a native of France. They had seven children.

Mr. SALTZMAN has been noted as an industrious, economical and good common sense farmer and has in all respects been very successful.

He now lives in an independent and happy retirement and enjoys the respect of all friends and acquaintances.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2010