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Representative Simeon Smead View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 10/1/1845
Birth Place: Townshend, Vermont
Party Affiliation: Whig
Assemblies Served:
House: LA4 (1841)
Home County: Henry
Simeon Smead
Henry County
Born on June 10, 1800, in Townshend, Windham County, Vermont, Simeon Smead served as both town supervisor and commissioner of common schools in Little Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1823. By 1837, he had moved to Burlington, Iowa. On November 29, 1841, he married Jane Melissa White in Henry County, Iowa. Smead was elected as a representative from Henry County to the House of Representatives for the Fourth Legislative Assembly of Iowa Territory, serving from December 1841 to December 1842. He died October 1, 1845, in Henry County.
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