Representative Alonzo White Sharp View All Years
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Alonzo White Sharp
Wayne County
Born in the town of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, July 5, 1823, on the day the last negro slave in the Empire State was liberated. When eight years of age he accompanied his father to Auburn, Cayuga County, and when twelve years of age to Hillsdale County, .Michigan. His father was a farmer and to this occupation he was reared, working at it until twenty-five years of age, when he engaged in the mercantile business in Hillsdale, which he continued about six years. In 1854 he came to lowa and entered Walnut Township, Wayne County. The following year he came with his 5 children and settled on his land, his wife having died in Michigan in 1852. He afterward sold all his land except the northwest quarter of the section. He was married in 1844 to Mary Moore, a native of Ontario County, New York, who died, as before stated, in 1852. ln November 1855, Mr. Sharp married Cecilia Janet Greenman, who was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, In 1846 the family removed to Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa. In politics Mr. Sharp is a Democrat and represented Wayne County in the State Legislature in 1857. He was a prominent and active man in promoting all measures of public benefit.
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