SEYMOUR CARVER
Seymour Carver is a native of Cayuga county, New York, born October 14, 1817. He was reared in his native county, and when twenty years of age, went to Kane county, Illinois, where he resided until 1855. He then went to Grant county, Wisconsin, and remained until 1872. In that year he went to Kansas, where he lived until November, 1873, at which time he came to Atlantic, Cass county. In the fall of 1882, he purchased the southwest quarter of section 35, Pymosa township, where he now lives, of Crawford and Merriman. He also owns sixty-five acres in section 2, of Atlantic township. Mr. Carver was married in Illinois, June 18, 1839, to Rebecca Allen, a native of New York, who was born June 7, 1822. She moved with her parents to Pennsylvania, when a child, thence to Michigan, thence to Illinois. Mr Carver is a brother of Leonard Carver, of Atlantic. Mr. and Mrs. Carver have five sons and three daughters...Fidelia, Charles, George W., Orlinda, Loretta, Henry, Birney, and William. Mr. Carver has always voted with the Democratic party, but believes in voting for the best men, to whatever party they may chance to belong.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 564.
