HIRAM W. STUDLEY
Hiram W. Studley, one of the prominent men of Union township, was born in in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on the 24th day of November, 1834, and there grew to manhood. He emigrated to Rock Island, Illinois, in 1855, and a portion of the three following years was deputy county clerk of Rock Island county, Illinois; enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, in October, 1858, and served five years in the Seventh United States Infantry, and was discharged, at New York city, in 1863, as quarter-master sergeant. On his discharge he was employed in the quartermaster's department at New York, until October, 1864, when he went to Nashville, Tennessee, to serve as chief clerk under Brevet-Colonel F. J. Crilly, chief quartermaster United States military railroads, where he remained until March, 1866, when the officer was relieved and ordered to Washington, D. C, where he remained until August, 1867, when the officer was again ordered to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and where he remained in the employ of the quartermaster's department United. States Army, until November 1, 1871. He left the service, and was engaged as salesman in a wholesale house in Philadelphia, until his settlement, in January, 1875, in Cass county, Iowa, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 14, and made some fine improvements. He was married December 5, 1861, at Richland Grove, Illinois, to Lydia M. Trego, a daughter of Seth D. and Martha K. Trego, of Mercer county, Illinois. They have had three children: Charles E., Samuel and Anne M. Samuel was born July 13, 1868, in Massachusetts, and died in May, 1871, at Philadelphia. Mr. Studley has held the offices of township treasurer and justice of the peace. He was president of the school board, and has been entrusted with several other township offices.
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. 742-743.
