Born in Addison, Vermont, 23 February 1824, removed in 1846 to DeKalb County, Illinois, and in 1856, to New Hartford, Butler County Iowa. He married Polly Needham of New Hartford, September 5, 1848. He was a volunteer in the Union Army in the Civil War, serving throughout the war. He enlisted 1 July 1862, at New Hartford, Iowa, in Company E., 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned First Lieutenant. He was discharged at Clinton, Iowa, 20 November 1865. In 1881 he removed from Butler County to Jerauld County, South Dakota, and thence, in 1896, to Mentone, DeKalb County, Alabama. From 1846, he was engaged in farming. At the same time he practiced law from 1857 to 1894, and was County Judge in Iowa and in South Dakota. He was also District Attorney in South Dakota. From 1877 to 1879 he was engaged in the butter and cheese business in Iowa. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in South Dakota and in Alabama. He took an active part in the temperance movement while in Iowa and in South Dakota, and was a leading member of temperance societies in those states. He was elected to the Iowa Legislature in 1860 and to the Iowa State Senate in 1870.
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