Black, Samuel S.

BLACK

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Date: 6/28/2021 at 17:00:43

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.475

SAMUEL S. BLACK
Samuel S. Black is one of the leading citizens and progressive agriculturists of Richland Township, his home being on section 21, on which farm he was born April 13, 1868. His father, Samuel Black, was a native of Virginia, in which state he continued to make his home until coming to Iowa in 1846. He entered land in Warren county, which he at once began to improve and cul­tivate, and later purchased the farm now owned and occupied by our subject. In this county he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hartman, a native of Ohio, who came to Iowa in childhood and was reared in Warren county. Here the father died in July 1879, at the age of fifty-six years, and the mother surviving him for several years, passed away on the 2nd of April 1892. In their family were four children.
During his boyhood and youth Samuel S. Black attended the public schools at Hartford and he never left the old homestead, succeeding to a part of the farm on the death of his father. On the 3rd of December 1892, he was united in marriage to Miss Alice A. Miller, who was born and reared in Palmyra township, this county, a daughter of Hon. John G. Miller. Six children bless this union, namely: Roy, Lowell, Bannie, Merritt, Fay and Floe.
Mr. and Mrs. Black began their domestic life upon the old home farm, where he has since erected a nice two-story residence and a good barn. In this place he has one hundred and forty-eight acres of rich and arable land, which he keeps under a high state of cultivation, and he also owns another farm of two hundred acres, which he rents. In connection with the cultiva­tion of the soil, lie gives considerable attention to the raising and feeding of stock, and fattens about three carloads of cattle and two carloads of hogs yearly. He is a very energetic and progressive farmer and in business affairs is notably prompt and reliable. He is independent in politics and has never sought nor desired office, preferring to give his undivided attention to his farming interests. He is well and favorably known in the community where his entire life has been passed and his best friends are those who have known him from boyhood.