Silas L. Olmsted

OLMSTED

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 16:00:05

Silas L. Olmsted

Silas L. Olmsted was born in Dubuque Co., Iowa, April 12, 1847. His father was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., in September, 1811; his mother in Vermont in 1819. They came from New York to Iowa in 1844 and settled in Dubuque county and remained there until 1853, when they removed to Delaware county, where the mother died in 1865; the father is still living at Manchester, in that county, and has again married. By his first marriage he had seven children, five living, the subject of this being the third, :His father entered the ministry when about thirty years of age in the United Brethren denomination, but is now a member of the Presbyterian Church. He followed this calling about thirty years. The subject to this sketch was reared on the farm, received a common school education, and was married July 7, 1870, to Lovina Bloodgood, by whom he had one child - Eva E. Mr. Olmsted was again married in 1881 to Eliza Malone, born in Wisconsin in 1859. They have one child - William D. In December, 1875, Mr. Olmsted went to Winnebago county , where he followed school teaching about six years, when he came to Worth county and settled on on section 5, Fertile township, where he has forty acres of land. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.761