Crawford County IA Archives Biographies.....Blackman, Jerome 1824 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

JEROME BLACKMAN, one of the early settlers of Crawford county, Iowa, was born in
Oneida county, New York, November 4, 1840, son of Nathaniel and Eliza Blackman,
both natives of New York, who died in Illinois.

  Jerome was reared in his native State until the family moved to Kenosha,
Wisconsin, when he was seven years old, where they lived two years and then
removed to McHenry county, Illinois. He was reared to farm life, receiving his
education in the public schools of his county, remaining at home until he was
twenty-one, when he began to work for himself. He enlisted September 11, 1861,
in Company I, Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, being mustered out as
First Sergeant at the close of the war. After the war was over he returned to
Illinois and. remained there until the fall of 1868, when he came to Crawford
county, Iowa, and after two years he purchased a tract of 160 acres of prairie
land, which he greatly improved. He erected, from twelve-foot posts, a house
22x14 feet, but he now has a good frame residence, 22x16 feet, with sixteen feet
added to the original. He also has a good stable and barn, where he keeps his
stock and grain. Eighty acres of this farm is in a fine state of cultivation,
and he carries on general farming.

  In the fall of 1862 he was married to Celia Harper, of Illinois, of which
State she was a native. They have a family of ten children, as follows: Frankie,
wife of John Duff, of Defiance, Shelby county, Iowa; William, Edwin, Guy, John,
Claudia, _____ ____, Carl, Alice and Amie, all at home, except the married
daughter.

  Mr. Black man is a member of John A. Logan Post, No. 68, G. A. R. Politically
he is a Republican, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and they are among the most respected of the families of the county.

  In addition to his other propety, Mr. Blackman purchased, in 1889, a farm of
eighty acres, on section 19, Denison township, which was unimproved when he came
into possession of it, but which, under his skillful management, has developed
into a fine farm.

  There is no doubt but that Mr. Blackman is one of the most prominent men in
the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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