Jackson County IA Archives Biographies.....Walters, Samuel March 14, 1840 - 
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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa
Author: J. W. Ellis

History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910, J. W. Ellis 

SAMUEL WALTERS. 

Dr. Samuel Walters, who has been a resident of Jackson county for a number of 
years, now makes his home in Spragueville, where he is engaged in the practice 
of veterinary surgery. He was born in Pennsylvania, March 15, 1840, and is the 
only child of George and Elizabeth Walters, who were also natives of the 
Keystone state. Toward the close of their lives they settled in Illinois, 
which remained their home until their deaths. 
Dr. Walters received the advantages of a common school education, which was 
supplemented by the practical experience in agriculture he obtained while 
assisting his father in cultivating the home farm. He was thus busily engaged 
until after the inauguration of the Civil war, when, in 1862, he enlisted in 
Company B, Seventy-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. In the three years of 
his service he participated in a number of fiercely contested battles, among 
which may be mentioned that of Perry Hill, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga and 
Missionary Ridge. At the culmination of hostilities he was mustered out of the 
army in Tennessee and returned to Illinois, whence he came to Jackson county, 
Iowa, and located on a farm in Van Buren township. For some years he was 
engaged in agricultural pursuits but for a quarter of a century has devoted 
his time to the practice of veterinary surgery, in which he has met with good 
success. He owns a nice home in Spragueville, where he now resides. 
It was in 1866 that Dr. Walters wedded Miss Clara E. Shaw, a native of Ohio 
and a daughter of Joseph and Hope Shaw. They have eight children, as follows: 
Frank E.; Samuel, who is at home; Emma, the wife of William Lillie, of this 
county; Viola, the wife of William Dalton, of Clinton county, Iowa; Lila, who 
is the wife of Clarence Berk, of Springfield, Illinois; Bernice, who married 
Oliver Byers, of Illinois; Nellie, the wife of Emil Stacker, of Clinton 
county; and Isabel, who is a nurse and lives in Chicago. 
Dr. Walters still holds to the Dunkard faith, in which he was reared, and 
gives his political endorsement to the republican party. He believes in its 
principles and rejoices in its success, but he has never been an aspirant for 
official preferment. On the contrary he has been content to devote himself to 
his workmaking good use of all his opportunities, and as the years have gone 
he has steadily progressed, winning a good home for himself and family. The 
uprightness of his life is worthy of emulation, while the fact that he belongs 
to the rapidly diminishing fraternity of Grand Army veterans, makes even his 
presence an inspiration to the patriotism of the young men and women who come 
in contact with him. 





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