PASSMORE, Samuel B. from the Biographical History of Pottawattamie Co., Iowa


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SAMUEL B. PASSMORE was born in West Nottingham Township, Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1827, son of John W. Passmore, a 
native of the same county.  His grandfather and his 
great-grandfather, Ellis and George Passmore, were also natives of 
Pennsylvania.  The first Passmore who landed in this country was a 
Friend, came here with William Penn and settled in Pennsylvania.  
All his descendants down to the present generation have belonged to 
the Society of Friends.  The wife of John W. and the mother of 
Samuel B. Passmore was nee Deborah Brown, a native of Chester 
County, Pennsylvania.  She, is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth 
(Brown) Brown also natives of the keystone State.  John W. and 
Deborah Passmore reared four children, as follows: Ellis P., a 
resident of Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland; Samuel B., whose 
name heads this article; Elizabeth Ruth, widow of Eliphaz Cheyney, 
Westchester, Pennsylvania, and Colonel John Andrew Moore Passmore, 
No. 318 South Forty-second street, Philadelphia, a prominent 
resident of that place.  He was an officer in the late war, and is 
now manager at Philadelphia for D. Appleton & Co.  John W. Passmore 
died in June, 1848, at the age of forty-six years.  His relict has 
been for forty-four years a widow.  She is now ninety years of age 
and resides with her son Ellis in Cecil County, Maryland.  When she 
made a visit to her son in Iowa, in 1881, she was in good health 
and quite active.

Samuel B. Passmore was reared on his father's farm in Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, and received his education in the public 
schools.  March 28, 1850, he wedded Miss Hannah M. Jackson, a 
native of that County.  Her parents, Joshua and Sarah (Cook) 
Jackson, were also born in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Mr. 
Passmore and his wife remained in their native county until May 22, 
1855, when they moved to Bureau County, Illinois.  There he rented 
land and lived until 1870, when he came to Wright Township, 
Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and bought 160 acres of land; this was 
all wild prairie land.  He also bought ten acres of timber, 
situated three miles from his farm.  He was among the early 
settlers of this part of the country, and at that time deer were 
frequently seen on his premises or in view of his dwelling.  He has 
since developed his farm and it is now under a good state of 
cultivation.  Maple Grove, as he is pleased to call it, is 
considered one of the finest farms in Wright Township.  Mr. 
Passmore erected a comfortable one-and-a-half-story house, which, 
surrounded with beautiful evergreens and shrubs, makes an 
attractive home.  In 1874 he purchased 160 acres of prairie land 
which adjoined his farm, making 320 acres in one body.  He has an 
artificial grove of thirteen acres and an orchard comprising three 
acres.  His barn is 44 x 46 feet, with eighteen feet posts, and a 
rock foundation.  His farm is divided into five fields for pasture, 
meadow and grain; and among other improvements made by Mr. Passmore 
are two windmills and 1,600 rods of osage-orange and 200 rods of 
willow hedge.  He has some fine specimens of stock, both cattle and 
hogs.  Maple Grove is, indeed, a beautiful home, and one of which 
the owner should be justly proud.

Mr. Passmore and his wife have ten children, viz.: Amor C., of 
Aurora, Buchanan County, Iowa; Ella Deborah, wife of A. J. Lipp, 
Wright Township; Orlando C. resides near Linden, Dallas County, 
Iowa; Ida A., wife of J. C. Morris, Guthrie County, Iowa; Ellwood 
Lovejoy, at home; Anna Mary, wife of H. Nolta, Dexter, Dallas 
County, Iowa; Ellis P., in the nursery business at Cloverdale, 
California; Willie T., Dallas County, Iowa; Emma L., wife of N. G. 
Brown, Cass County, Iowa; and Lincoln G., at home.

Like his worthy ancestors, Mr. Passmore is a Quaker.  He, however, 
attends the Methodist Episcopal Church of Whipple; has been a 
trustee for several years and is a liberal supporter of that 
church.  He is one of the leading Republicans of his township, and 
is chairman of the Republican Central Committee.  He was formerly a 
Free Soiler, and was one of the three in his township who voted 
that ticket in 1852, the township casting 200 votes.  He has served 
in most of the township offices, is at present Township Trustee, 
and has always used his influence for the best interests of the community.

Mr. Passmore is past sixty, but bears his age lightly.  He is frank 
and cordial in his manner, with a vein of humor in his makeup, and 
he is highly esteemed by all who know him.  His family are refined 
and cultured,  and are ranked with the best society of the community.