LOVEJOY, Thomas H.

LOVEJOY, WESTON

Posted By: Larry Shoger (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 19:08:23

Thomas H. Lovejoy, postmaster of Rock Creek postoffice, to which he was appointed in 1867, and has held continuously ever since, came to Mitchell county in the spring of 1857, buying land on section 22, township 98, range 18, living in his brother's house until 1863 when he built his present home.

He was born in Sharon, Vt., Nov. 19, 1826. When he was quite young his parents moved to Royalton, where he was reared, receiving his education at the district school, completing at the select school at Barnard. When twenty-one he went to Lowell, Mass., where he was employed as an officer in the House of Correction, in East Cambridge, Mass. He married D. Maria Weston there in 1856. She was born in New Hampshire, but from two years of age lived in Massachusetts until married. They spent the winter in Vermont and in the spring came to Iowa.

He has been prominent in town affairs. He was elected the first assessor in the township, and has filled other offices of trust. He is esteemed a good citizen. They are the parents of two children - Minnie and Clara.

(Taken from History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, 1884, page 465.)