McCollam, Joseph

MCCOLLAM

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 15:31:35

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.630

McCOLLAM, JOSEPH, attorney at law and justice of the peace, White Breast Township, P. O. Lacona; born October 3, 1829, in Harrison county, Ohio; moved to Van Buren county, Iowa, in 1851, and to this county and settled in this township in 1866; he was educated in the common schools, studied law on the shoe-bench (being a shoemaker by trade), in Van Buren county, Iowa; he was admitted to the bar in this county, in 1868, by Judge Maxwell; he practiced nearly ten years before he was admitted to the bar; has held every office in the town, and been county supervisor, and is now justice of the peace; he was married December 27, 1857, to Louisa M., daughter of John Gilbert, of Van Buren county, Iowa; they have had four children: Jas. W., Octavia J., Ida M., Lenora; Ida is dead.