Seaman, Wallace

SEAMAN

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/9/2021 at 20:49:02

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.698

SEAMAN, WALLACE, farmer, Union Township, Sec. 27; P. O. Sandyville; born in Clinton county, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1826; here he grew to manhood, and making the best of the opportunities afforded in those days, he received a very liberal education, so that at the age of nineteen he began teaching, which occupation he followed in the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for eighteen years; he came to this county in 1858, when he combined farming with his profession, teaching winters and farming summers, till Aug. 25, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. B, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry; he served to the close of the war, when he was discharged, in September, 1865; he was in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, Esperanza, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely, and many others in which the regiment was engaged; returning to his home at the close of the war, he resumed farming; he owns a large farm of 160 acres of improved land; he was married April 19, 1859, to Miss Eliza Ditmers, a native of Ohio; they have three children: Editha A., Samuel D., Emma M., all living.