Orin Jerome, engaged in farming and stock-raising in Eden Township, resides on section 16, where he owns eighty acres of Carroll County’s best land; was born in Lake, Illinois, December 3, 1838. He was reared to the avocation of a farmer in his native State, remaining there till seventeen years of age. He then went to Missouri and enlisted in Company H, Seventh Missouri Black Hawk Cavalry, and participated in the engagements of Springfield, Lone Jack and many others of minor importance, and was wounded at Lone Jack. He served under the first enlistment eighteen months, when he was discharged and went to Carroll County, Iowa. June 3, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company E, Third Iowa Infantry, and served until the close of the war, when he was discharged at Goldsboro, South Carolina. He then returned to his home in Carroll County and began improving his farm, which he has now under a fine state of cultivation. He was united in marriage in the fall of 1860 to Miss Jane Hampton, a daughter of Isaiah and Ann Hampton, natives of Kentucky and Adair County, Missouri, respectively, and subsequently became residents of Carroll County, Iowa. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome, of whom only one Is living, a son, Thomas, who was born in Carroll County. Of their children who are deceased, John died in Missouri, and Minerva and Louis died in Carroll County, Iowa. In his political views Mr. Jerome affiliates with the Greenback party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the lodge at Coon Rapids, Iowa.

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