SCHOONMAKER, Daniel (1883)

SCHOONMAKER, KIPP, ARNOLD, OSTRANDER, SHERMAN

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/29/2009 at 21:51:55

Daniel Schoonmaker joined the pioneer element of Jenkins township in 1856. His fine farm of 160 acres is the same where­on he at that time located. He was born in New Jersey, Nov. 17, 1827. He is a son of J. D. and Ellen Schoonmaker, and resided at Paterson, N. J. until 1856. He was married at Geneva, N. Y., July 4, 1855, to Margaret, daughter of Isaac Kipp. They had three children—Sarah, Mrs. Charles Arnold, died, aged twenty-years, leaving one child; William and Elizabeth. Mrs. Schoonmaker died in March, 1870. The father was married again in May, 1875, in Howard Co., Iowa, to Mrs. Eliza­beth, widow of Asa Ostrander, and daugh­ter of Samuel Sherman. She is a native of Michigan. Mr. Schoonmaker has been elected, twenty-two years in succession, to the office of assessor of Jenkins township.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 333.