BIOGRAPHY: Shuey, William H.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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Colonel WILLIAM H. SHUEY, of Western Linn County, Iowa, was born in Augusta County, 
Virginia, August 11, 1803.  His father, Jacob Shuey, was born on the same farm June 20, 1797, and died 
at Shueyville, Iowa, in 1867.  His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Lowman, daughter of Bernard 
Lowman, of Middlebrook, Virginia.  She was born June13, 1804 and resides in Western, Iowa.  The 
grandfather, Lewis Shuey, was born near Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1754; was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war; removed to Virginia in 1795; and died in 1839.  Lewis Shuey's father and 
grandfather, whose name was Philip Shuey, were born in France – were Huguenots, and on account of 
persecutions in that country, came to America about the year 1699.

	William H. Shuey, the subject of this sketch, was raised on a farm, and like most of farmer's 
sons in that day, worked through the Summer, and attended school in Winter.  He attended a classical 
school one year, and gave special attention to the study of land surveying, and has been for the last 
thirty years a practical surveyor.  In the early part of his life he gave some attention to school teaching in 
his neighborhood during the winter months. 

	On the 10th of April, 1847, he was married to Catherine V. Baker, daughter of Frederick Baker 
of Boonsborough, Washington County, Maryland.  By this union there ar four children living, Frederick 
B., Ann E., Ella V., and William H.

	In the days of Virginia militia, when "big musters" were the days for which all others were 
made, he took his part in home military duty.  At the age of twenty-one he was elected captain of an 
armed and uniformed company, called the Middlebrook Rifles, and at the age of twenty-seven colonel 
of the 93rd Reg. of Virginia Militia, and still has the original commission signed by John B. Floyed, then 
Governor of Virginia.  All able-bodied men from the age of twenty-one to forty-five in that state, were 
compelled to do military duty, and on the parades and drills of that time, he was frequently associated 
with men who afterwards became noted in the Confederate service, such as Generals 
Stonewall Jackson, Imboden, Magruder and Baldwin.

	In 1852, he became editor of the North-Western Observer, a Whig paper at Buchanan, Upsheer 
County, West Virginia, and in 1854 settled at Shueyville, Johnson County, Iowa, and engaged in 
farming.  In 1861 he went into the army, and served as Captain of Co. F, 14th Iowa Infantry.  This 
regiment commenced active duties at Donaldson, then Shiloh, and at the battles of Corinth, October 3d 
and 4th, 1862.  Captain Shuey was the senior officer of his regiment.  He was with his regiment in the 
campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi, and in Banks' Red River expedition in 1864.  For a good part 
of this year he was on General A. J. Smith's staff, and won his respect as a brave and efficient officer.  
Captain Shuey served his three years in the army, and was honorably discharged November, 1864.

	From 1865 to 1868, he served as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Johnson County, and 
one of the years as chairman, and in the two following years he was a member of the Board of 
Supervisors of Linn County.  He has been residing in Western since 1868.

	Colonel Shuey was connected with the Western College Advocate and Reporter as one of the 
editors, the most of the time from 1856 to 864, and with the Western Gazette from its first number in 
1869 till the time of its discontinuance, with the exception of one year, when it was edited by A. H. 
Neidig, now of the Cedar Rapids Republican.  In politics he is a Republican.  He has been a member of 
the U.B. Church for over thirty-seven years.  His father and mother and grandparents on both sides were 
members of that church.  He is one of the incorporators of Western College, and much is 	due to his 
exertions and influence for the present location of the college, and he has been every since one of its 
warmest friends. 

	Having given his attention to the study and practice of law, he was admitted to practice at 
Marion in 1874, and has established an office at Western, where he attends to all business pertaining to 
his profession.  He is also engaged in mercantile pursuits.  Full of business, he is always willing to assist 
in every enterprise which has for its object the material, intellectual and moral advancement of the 
community.  He shares in a large degree the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens.