A. M. WAKEFIELD
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Among the more prominent and substantial class of citizens we do not fail to mention A. M. Wakefield, who is a native of Newport, Kentucky, and was born on the 24th of July, 1851. The family came to Cass county in 1853, and located in Atlantic township. He was reared and educated on a farm in Franklin township, and remained at home until he had reached the age of twenty-three years, when he purchased a farm in Union township, and broke the land and commenced the stock business. His business has increased, until it attained proportions, which placed him among the foremost stockmen in western Iowa. He ships stock to all parts of the country, and has shipped for the part year most of his stock to Chicago and Nebraska. Mr. Wakefield has three hundred and eighty acres of good cultivated land, most of which is in pasture. His farm has an orchard attached, and he has commenced the improvements of his place, and in the course of a few years his farm will be one of the best in the county. Mr. Wakefield was married in January, 1884, to Harriet Cook, a native of Ohio. Mr. W. is a member of the I. O. O. F., being Inside Guard of that lodge.
NOTE: Portraits Index entry for Mrs. A. M. Wakefield directs to page 519. Page 519 contains the above portrait labelled Mrs. Ida Wakefield.
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. 836. Portraits, pp. 518-519.
