Born in Spencer County, Indiana, December 11, 1828. He obtained a common-school education and commenced teaching in his 18th year. He was nominated by the Democratic party in his native county for the Legislature of 1852, but declined the nomination, as he had determined to migrate to the state of lowa, which he did in the fall of the same year, settling near Bloomfield in Davis County. Shortly afterward he went to Bloomfield and commenced the publication of the Bloomfield Democrat. In November, 1854, he married Miss Mary Ann Ellis. of Coshocton, Ohio. On March 25, 1961 his wife died. In September 1856, he was appointed Register of the United States District Land Office at Council Bluffs, which office he held for two years, then resigned, returned to Bloomfield and engaged in the banking business in company with his brother-in-law, John W. Ellis. In 1861, he was elected to the State Senate, and in March, 1862, was married to his second wife, Rebecca Smith. Mr. Pollard moved to Lee County in 1868. He was elected, in 1871, Superintendent of the public schools of the county. He was a Democrat of the old Jefferson and Jackson school, always ready to take the stump for his party friends, but no office seeker.
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