Plummer, Anderson

PLUMMER

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Date: 9/16/2019 at 13:54:32

Anderson Plummer

(From the 1891 Biographical History of the Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.608)
ANDERSON PLUMMER, section 8, Grove Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, is a well known and enterprising citizen. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, November 1, 1830, the son of Naman and Nancy (CONLEY) PLUMMER, both natives of Ohio. His grandfather, Jerry PLUMMER, was born in Pennsylvania and his great-grandfather PLUMMER was of English ancestry and fought in the Revolutionary War. His maternal grandfather, John CONLEY, was born in Ireland. The five children born to Naman and Nancy PLUMMER were: Minerva, Anderson, Eliza, Jerry and Margaret. The family moved from Ohio to Marion County, Indiana, where the parents spent the remainder of their days, the mother dying when the subject of this sketch was fourteen years of age, and the father in 1865. Mr. PLUMMER was a farmer all his life. In politics, he was a Democrat. He and his wife were both members of the Methodist Church and in that faith they reared their children.

Anderson PLUMMER was reared on a farm and received his education in the primitive log schoolhouse of that period. At the age of fifteen, he entered upon a three years’ apprenticeship to the carpenter’s trade, working for his board and clothes. He afterward worked for wages two years in Hamilton County, Ohio. In 1858 he removed from Ohio to Benton County, Iowa, where he worked at his trade until 1875. In that year, he came to Pottawattamie County, and located three miles northwest of Avoca, where he remained until 1880. Then he bought his present farm of John LEDERICK. This farm contains 120 acres, is divided into four fields, and is well fenced. A substantial frame house, surrounded by shade and ornamental trees and suitable out-buildings for grain and stock, are among the improvements on this place. Mr. PLUMMER has done much of the fencing and other improvements since his purchase of the farm.

At the age of twenty-five, he was married in Benton County, Iowa, to Miss Mary CONLEY, a native of Indiana and a lady of intelligence. She is the daughter of Michael and Mary CONLEY. Mr. And Mrs. PLUMMER have had three children: Charlie, who was born in October 1878; Celathiel, who died at the age of two and a half years; and Mary, who died when she was one year old.

Mr. PLUMMER is a man well informed on general topics, is frank and cordial in his manner, and is regarded as one of the leading citizens in the community in which he resides. He is a member of the Christian Church and is an earnest Sabbath-school worker. Politically he is a Republican.