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         SILAS CHRISMON, of Wapello Township, is one of the few remaining pioneers now living who came to Louisa County in 1836. He is a native of Madison County, N. Y., born in 1816. His parents were both natives of the same State, and of German parentage. The grandfather of our subject settled where New York City now stands before the Revolutionary War. He was a farmer by occupation, as was his father.

Mr. Chrismon was reared to farm life, and that has been his vocation through life. He remained in his native State until the summer of 1836, when he came to Burlington, Iowa, and in the fall of the same year he came to Louisa County, with John Millard, and has been a resident of this county since. In 1838 he carried the mail from Burlington to Davenport. At one time he owned forty-eight acres of land in this township, and also bought land in Keokuk County.

Mr. Chrismon has been married three times, his first wife being Matilda Atchison, by whom he had one child, but mother and child died soon after the birth of the latter. He was subsequently united in marriage with Eliza Galy, by whom he had four . . .

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. . . children, all of whom are deceased with the exception of Letta, now Mrs. Owens. After the death of Mrs. Chrismon he wedded a Mrs. Nelson, by whom he had one child, a son, Silas. Mrs. Chrismon died about 1878, and Mr. Chrismon now makes his home with his son-in-law.