Representative Samuel Bloomfield McCall View All Years
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Samuel Bloomfield McCall
Boone County
Born in the State of Indiana. He moved to Dallas County, Iowa, in 1846, and to Boone County in 1847, two years before the county was organized. He was the first man to act in an official capacity in the county, acting as organizing sheriff, as already stated. He was elected county judge in 1851, and reelected in 1853. In 1854 he was elected a member of the Legislature by the voters of Boone, Story, Green and other counties. In 1857 he was again elected county judge. In 1861 he entered the service of the Union in the Civil war as captain of Company E, Third Regiment, Iowa Volunteers, where he served three years. He returned to Boonesboro, where he lived until about 1870, when he went west. For about sixteen years he held a position in the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica, California.
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