EDWIN HAYMAKER
Edwin Haymaker is a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he was reared and educated. He attended the Boynton district school in Orange township, where President Garfield received his preliminary education, and of whom he was a schoolmate for seven years. Mr. Haymaker was born May 10, 1838, and is the son of John F. and Maria (Ellsworth) Haymaker, who in 1854, removed to northern Iowa. In 1855 they moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where his father is now living. His mother died in August, 1854, at the age of seventy-six years. Edwin remained with his parents in Minnesota, until 1859, then went to Adams county, Illinois, where he had an uncle who was a physician, with whom it was his intention to study medicine. Changing his plans, he went to Colorado in the spring of 1860, spent one year, then went to New Mexico and spent about a year on the Santa Fe trail. In 1862 he went to Mills county, Iowa, and remained eight months, then returned to the overland route, and kept the overland stage station at Julesburg, Colorado. One year later he returned to Mills county, and there resided until the fall of 1879, when he came to Atlantic. The first of March, 1880, he removed to Lewis and began keeping hotel and livery stable. He commenced the former in the east end of the village, but subsequently built a house for that purpose, near his present place of business, the Lawton House, which was consumed by fire in the fall of 1881. He was united in marriage in October, 1862, in Mills county, Iowa, with Sophia Hammer, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one child...Cassandra. Two sons, John and Ellsworth, are deceased. Mr. Haymaker is a member of the I.O.O.F., Glenwood Lodge, No. 97.
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, pp. 552-553.
