Resident of Penn township post office North Liberty. He was born in Huntington County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1831. He left there in 1855, and settled in Stevenson County, Illinois, and in 1860 came to North Liberty, Penn Township. He graduated at Jefferson College, PA, in 1854, and began the practice of medicine in PA; in that year practiced in Stevenson County, Illinois, and continued the practice of medicine until he entered the army, as captain of Company E., Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry. He was made assistant surgeon of the Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry, December 27, 1862. He was married in 1855 to Miss Winafred Duff. He is a republican in politics, and holds an appointment at the Iowa Distillery. He represented Johnson County in the Thirteenth Iowa General Assembly, 1870.