SAMUEL S. KING
Samuel S. King resides on section 21. His farm consists of three eighties in the south half of section 21, and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 28, and the south half of the southeast quarter of 22, making a farm of three hundred and sixty acres in all. Mr. King came here in the spring of 1871. The first year of his residence here he broke one hundred and twenty acres and erected a small frame dwelling. In 1882 he built an elegant and commodious residence, costing about three thousand dollars. It is one of the handsomest cottages in the county. He has one hundred and twenty apple trees and a grove of about three acres. He has also, a good house and grove on section 22. Mr. King is engaged principally in stock raising and is an energetic and successful farmer. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1833. He was raised in his native State and came to Iowa in 1855. He lived about seven years in Jackson county, where he improved a farm, then removed to Cedar county from whence he came to Cass county at the time above stated. He learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, in Pennsylvania, which occupation he has followed to a considerable extent. Mrs. King was formerly Mary Jane Martin, a daughter of Eli Martin, of this town. They have six children--Ella, wife of David Rogers, of Adair county; Judson, Lucy, Eli, Frank and Orlin.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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. 770-771.
