Born on January 29, 1821 in Alexandria, Licking County, Ohio. He died on June 19, 1879 in New Sharon, Mahaska, Iowa. He married Rodelia Schuyler on October 23, 1842, and Miranda Amelia Phillips on August 7, 1851. A party of six white men came into Des Moines township, Mahaska County, April 26, 1843. This party was composed of Ephriam Munsell, Harry Brewer, Scribner, Isaac DeWitt, Harvey Case, and Phillip Schuyler. This party first camped on what was known as Stumbo Bottom. There were at that time Indian huts here and there all along the Muchakinock. These men put their axes in their knapsacks, without handles, so they could not be seen by the dragoons, and when they wished to use them made handles with a butcher knife. On their way into the country they passed a burning wagon which had been set on fire by the dragoons for transgressing on forbidden territory. When the party came to Muchakinock they were kindly treated by the Indians, who showed them a tiny spring of water and told them of the best places for farms. One night they camped in the hollow trunk of a fallen tree, large enough to stand erect in. A day later they encamped in the Indian huts, which they had deserted, on the Muchakinock. He was a Mahaska county supervisor in 1861 and 1862. He was elected as a the representative to the Iowa General Assembly in 1864.