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         DAVID WALTER HERRICK, deceased, was a pioneer farmer of Wapello Township, of 1847, and was born near Watertown, N. Y., Dec. 6, 1821. His parents were John and Catherine (Van Schaick) Herrick. The . . .

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. . . father was a native of New York, born of English parentage, and served as a soldier during the War of 1812. The grandfather of our subject on the paternal side served in the patriot army in the Revolution. On the mother’s side the family was of Holland origin, being among the old Knickerbocker stock of New York.

David W. Herrick was reared to agricultural pursuits, and received a common-school education. He removed to Ohio in early life, and from there to Louisa County, Iowa, in 1847, settling in Wapello Township. On the 13th of November, 1848, at New Boston, Ill, he was united in marriage with Miss Zirelda Jamison, daughter of Merritt Jamison, who was a native of Fayette County, Ohio, and an early settler of Louisa County, Iowa. Fourteen children were born of their union, only three of whom lived to maturity—Kate C., Samuel J. and Anna Z. Kate C. is the wife of Milo J. Smith, President of the Wapello Canning Factory at Wapello, Iowa; Samuel J. married Miss Lou Rabold, and is engaged in the hardware and farm machinery business at Wapello; Anna Z. resides at Muscatine, Iowa.

Mr. Herrick was engaged in farming and stock-raising, and had a finely improved farm of 480 acres. He made a specialty of breeding blooded cattle, in which business he was quite successful. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Universalist in his religious views. His death occurred at his home Aug. 7, 1883. His good wife, who was a member of the same church to which her husband belonged, survived him, and died April 13, 1886. Mr. Herrick was a practical and successful farmer, an upright, honorable man, and was highly respected by all who knew him.