. Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. odge. He votes with the repulilican party. Heand his wife occupy a beautiful home at theend of Second avenue. East, called Old OrchardPlace, and its hospitality is one of its mostpleasing and attractive features, making it thecenter of a cultured society circle. Honoredand respected by all, there is no man who oc-cupies a more enviable position in business cir-cles than does Oliver Samuel Ellis, who hasspent almost his entire life in this city and
. Past and present of Mahaska County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. odge. He votes with the repulilican party. Heand his wife occupy a beautiful home at theend of Second avenue. East, called Old OrchardPlace, and its hospitality is one of its mostpleasing and attractive features, making it thecenter of a cultured society circle. Honoredand respected by all, there is no man who oc-cupies a more enviable position in business cir-cles than does Oliver Samuel Ellis, who hasspent almost his entire life in this city andwhose pmminence is not alone the result of hissuccess but also has come by reason of thestraightforward business methods that he hasever followed. He has l^een watchful of op-portunities and in matters of business judgmentis rarely at fault, so that he has made judiciousinvestments that have returned a gratifyingincome. SAMUEL HESS. Samuel Hess, owning and operating a farmof three hundred acres on section 17, Richlandtownship, was born in West Virginia, August10, 1833. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth(Dawson) Hess, were natives of the Old Do-. .Mk. AXI) MRS. SA.\lfl-:L HESS. PAST AND PRESENT OF MAHASKA COUNTY. 361 miniiin. and when tlieir son was only six weeksold they removed to ^n county, Ohio,wliere the father purchased a farm and madehis liome until his death, which occurred in]8_^8. when he was fifty years of age. His wifeInnj;- >ur\i\ed him. passing- away at the age ofeighty-ti\c years. In their family were sevenchildren, of whom Samuel is the youngest. Therecord is as follows: George, who married andtlied in Ohio; John who died in Ohio aboutfour years ago: Jacoh, who died in Utah aboutsix years ago: Susan, who became the wife ofThomas Middleton and died in Ohio; ^lar-garet, who married Joseph Swisher and diedin Oliio; and Ellen, who became the wife ofJefferson Bertner and passed away in the Buck-eye state. Samuel Hess, the youngest and the only onenow li
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