JOHN & FREDERICK A. SEAMAN
John Seaman, and his son, Frederick August, came to Franklin township, in 1857. Mr. Seaman, the elder, was a native of Germany, who had emigrated to the "Land of the Free" in 1853. He had located near Watertown, Wisconsin, on his arrival, but removed to Cass county as stated above. He pre-empted the farm now owned by J. Pollock, on section 20, where he lived unto the day of his death, which occurred in March, 1867. Frederick A, his son, was born in Germany, in 1843, and was fourteen years old when he came here. During the war he enlisted in company I, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and served three years. After his term of service had expired he returned to this county, and now lives on section 20.
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, pp. 793.
