BIOGRAPHY: Saum, George
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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   GEORGE SAUM  was born in Highland County, Ohio, April 22, 1814.
   The family is of German extraction, and came to America and settled in 
Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, and engaged in agriculture.
   His great-grandfather was in the revoluntionary war under Washington, and
aided in establishing our national independence.  His grandfather, Nicholas
Saum, was born, married, lived and died in Virginia.  He was thrice married,
his second wife being a Miss Deupes, the grandmother of the subject of this 
sketch.  He was in the Indian wars that afflicted the early settlers of 
Virginia, and suffered the perils and hardships incident to pioneer life in
a wilderness of savages.  His father, Jacob Saum, left Virginia when he was
twenty-six years of age, and moved to Highland County, Ohio.  He had previously
married Barbary Mowrey, of Shenandoah Valley, and had a family of nine children,
four of whom died young.  The names of those living are as follows: 1st, 
Nicholas; 2d, Polly; 3d, George; 4th, Lucinda; and 5th, Anna.
    I.  NICHOLAS married Keziah Russell, and has a family of seven children,
all still living.  He is a farmer, and resides in De Kalb County, Illinois, 
engaged in raising blooded stock, cattle, horses, etc.
   II.  POLLY married Mr. Starry, of Virginia, in Warren County, Indiana; 
had a family; moved to Jones County, Iowa, where she still lives a widow, 
Mr. Starry having died some years ago.  Her living children are Jabez, 
Daniel, Jacob, Lewis, Elizabeth and Polly.  She resides in Rome Township
   IV.  LUCINDA married a Cronkite, of Indiana, and moved to Jones 
County, Iowa, about 1839.  She has a family of seven children. She is a 
widow, and resides in Rome Township.
   V.  ANNA married Mr. Kisling, and had two children, and died in 
Warren County, Indiana.
   Mr. Saum, as we have stated, was born in Ohio, and spent his childhood 
and youth in that state, and in 1829 he moved with his parents to Warren 
County, Indiana, and remained there ten years, and in 1839 emigrated to 
Iowa, stopped awhile in Lee County, and finally located in Rome 
Township, in Jones County, where he still resides.
   During several years he has been engaged in farming and stock-raising 
with good success.
   He married Susannah Stingley, of Warren County, Indiana, and has the 
following family:
   I.  JACOB D. married Anna Haugher, of Jones County, Iowa, and with 
Ira, Elvey and Mary, their children, reside in Cedar County, at Clarence.
   II.  NICHOLAS married Philena Duey, and has four children --Luna, 
Amber, Cora and Ray -- and resides in Rome Township.
   III.  POLLY A. married Robert Johnson; has Frank and Alma; resides in 
Rome Township.
   IV.  JOSEPHUS married Charlotte Miller, of Rome; has Arthur and 
George; resides in Rome Township.
   V.  HIRAM married Emily Zimmerman; resides in Rome.
   VI.  ELIZA Married William Peet; resides in Rome Township.
   VII.   MAHALA married Henry Hines, and has two children; resides in 
Rome.
   VII.  GEORGE M. is unmarried; resides in Cedar County.
   IX.  SUSANNAH P. married Lewis Parsons; has one child; resides in 
Fairview Township, Jones County, Iowa.
   Mr. Saum has not been an office seeker, and still has served the people 
in various positions, as they have demanded his services, -- not shirking 
the responsibilities that are imposed by citizenship.  He has held, among 
other offices, that of justice of the peace for many years.
   Politically, Mr. Saum has firmly held and believed the old Jeffersonian 
faith and has always voted the democratic ticket.
   When he first came to Iowa the country was a wilderness, with here and 
there a settler, and he knows what it is to endure the trials and deprivations 
of border life.  Wolves were numerous; deer and elk were to be seen in 
large numbers; and his neighbors were like angels' visits -- few and far 
between.
   Anamosa at that time had neither a local habitation nor a name, and the 
nearest place to market and to mill was many miles away.
   He places these facts upon the record, not to gratify personal vanity, but 
that his children and grandchildren, and so on for generations to come, 
may know what their ancestors had to endure in order to furnish a home.
   Mr. Saum is a friend of education, and aids cheerfully any literary 
enterprise, like this, in order that the facts of the early settlement of Iowa 
may be perpetuated.