Sac County IA Archives Biographies.....Weltzheimer, Joshua 1833 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

JOSHUA WELTZHEIMER is one of the representative farmers of Delaware township,
Sac county, Iowa, and has been a resident here since 1885. He was born in
Fairfield county, Ohio, May 15, 1833, and was a son of Daniel and Margaret
Weltzheimer, the former a native of Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania, and the latter
of Fairfield county, Ohio, where her death occurred some years ago, and the
father died in 1870, in his seventy-eighth year. He was a farmer and reared four
sons and two daughters. Three of the sons were in the late war. George was a
member of the Forty-third Ohio Infantry, and was in North Carolina during
service and was killed; Samuel was in the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois
Infantry, serving three years in Company G.

  Our subject was reared to farm life and educated in the common schools, but in
August, 1862, when the call was made for 300,000 more men for the Union army, he
was one of the number whose names were enrolled August  6, 1862. He enlisted in
Company G, One hundred and Seventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, going
to Camp Butler, where he drilled and September 4, 1862, was mustered in the
United States service and served until the close of the war, when he was
honorably discharged June 12, 1865. He participated in the battles of Knoxville,
and was on duty in Kentucky, guarding bridges, and also in Tennessee and
Georgia. A mule fell upon him, disabling him for active service and he was
discharged in June, 1865, returning to DeWitt county, Illinois, where he engaged
in farming, remaining until 1885, when he went to Delaware township, Sac county,
Iowa. Here he bought land of M.  L. Lewis, who sold him eighty acres, partly
improved. Mr. Weltzheimer has added to it until he now owns 120 acres and has it
under a high state of improvement.

  The residence of our subject is one of those pleasant Iowa farm houses, so
well known to the late traveler through the best parts of the State. It is one
and one-half story, 16x24 feet, with an L, 12x14 feet, nicely located,
surrounded by a magnificent grove of three acres, and also a good orchard with
an abundance of small fruit. Our subject has not neglected other parts of his
surroundings, his fine barn, erected in 1890, being a substantial structure,
34x36 feet, on a rock foundation. Upon this fine farm our subject is prospering
in farming and stock-raising. 

  Our subject was married January 21,1885, in De Witt county, Illinois, to Miss
Anna Danison, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, but was reared and educated in
Illinois. She was a daughter of Artist and Sarah Danison, the father being a
native of Maryland. The mother died when Mrs. Weltzheimer was a child and the
father in De Witt county, Illinois, in 1879, leaving five sons and five
daughters. One son, Michael, was a captain in the Forty-first Illinois, Infantry.

  Our subject takes much interest in politics, voting with the Republican party.
He is one of the most prominent and esteemed of the citizens of Delaware township.


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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