HIRAM WHIPPLE
Hiram Whipple, one of the early settlers of Cass county, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, January 28, 1814. He is a son of Oliver Whipple, who was married in Worcester county, Massachusetts, to Mary Fassum, by whom he had nine children, eight of whom lived to an adult age. Mrs. Whipple died in Vermont, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was elected a member of the Legislature, and held several local offices. Hiram Whipple grew to manhood in Vermont. He was there married in 1840, to Hannah F. Cram. Two children were born to them---Oscar H., who was killed in July, 1870, by an accidental shot, and Helen F., wife of Stanley S. Baldwin, of California. In 1842 Mr. Whipple emigrated to Clermont county, Ohio, where he was engaged in farming, also as agent for a large grain and stock firm. In the fall of 1853, he came to Cass county, Iowa, and settled upon section 5, township 76, range 36, near Atlantic. At that time there was no village at Atlantic, Lewis, or Griswold, and the prairies were wild and unbroken. He remained upon the place where he first settled four years, then sold out and purchased land four miles south of Atlantic. In the spring of 1882, he moved to Atlantic, and in September 1884, came to Griswold where he is engaged in selling fancy goods and notions. Politically, Mr. Whipple is a Democrat.
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. 827-828.
