Born in Virginia November 6, 1805. His parents removed to Ohio in his childhood, and he grew up there on a farm until his eighteenth year when he began the study of the honorable profession of medicine. His course completed he began practice in Indiana, where he married and lived several years. He early took an active part and had an intelligent interest in public matters. Attached to the Whig party and an ardent disciple of Henry Clay, he bore a great part in those public movements in behalf of that statement which now make up the basis of many of the heroic political traditions of the Wabash valley. He was elected to the Indiana Senate and was active in laying the foundations of that commonwealth. He came to Iowa territory in 1840, settled in Iowa City and began the practice of his profession and took part to the politics of the period, repeatedly leading the Whig party. He was, we believe the first President of the State Agricultural Society, was a Taylor elector in 1848, and was selected as messenger to carry the vote of Iowa's Electoral College to Washington. He was appointed Register of the State's land office and laying aside that public trust lapsed into private life with the decay of the Whig party. When party ranks were re-formed he was in the van of the new Republican organization. He was as a member of the Iowa Senate, 8th and 9th General Assemblies, 1860 and 1862. He was appointed Adjutant General, an office which he surrendered early in the war to accept promotion to the post of paymaster in the regular army, which he held through the civil struggle and until he resigned it some time after the war.
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