Senator William Fields Vermillion View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 12/28/1894
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 13 (1870)
Home County: Appanoose
William Fields Vermillion
Appanoose County

CAPTAIN W. F. VERMILION, of Centerville, died at his home, December 28, after a brief illness. He was an early settler in Appanoose County, having located at Iconium in 1857. He was commissioned Captain of Company F, in the 36th Regiment of Iowa Infantry Volunteers, early in 1862, and served gallantly through the rebellion. At the close of the war he entered upon the practice of the law at Centerville, and in 1869 was elected to the State Senate. He was an intelligent and useful legislator and acquired a wide acquaintance in the State during his term of four years.

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