County Surveyor; born in Scotland, March 21, 1831; came to America in infancy; lived in the States of New York and Massachusetts; in 1839, went to New Hampshire, and lived there seventeen years. He was in the engineering corps in Connecticut and came to Iowa in 1856; after looking over the State, he settled here, and was one of the early settlers. He represented this county in the State Legislature in 1860-62 ; was elected County Surveyor in 1865, and has held the office since then. He has also held the office of Justice of the Peace; he was in the Provost Marshal's office in Tennessee one year during the war. Married Miss Catherine C. Hampton from Columbiana County, Ohio, during the war, May 24, 1860. She came to Iowa, April 11, 1840; one of the earliest settlers; they have four children.