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biography from Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
SAMUEL STORM, deceased, was a farmer on section 9, Cedar Township. He was born in Ross County, Ohio, Jan. 25, 1836, and was a son of Jacob and Hannah (King) Storm, the former of whom died in Ross County, Ohio, but his widow yet survives, and lives in Muscatine, Iowa. Samuel Storm was married to Zenetta Cooper, who was born in Highland County, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1840, and is the daughter of John and Eliza J. (Reed) Cooper, the former of whom lives in Ohio, and the latter died in that State about the year 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Storm became the parents of eight children: Hannah E., born July 29, 1861; Henry, Feb. 23, 1863; Jennie, March 19, 1865; Cora B., Dec. 25, 1869; Allen, Dec. 16, 1871; Frank, Jan. 21, 1873; Della, born May 4, 1871, died Jan. 28, 1885; Bird O., born Sept 12, 1879. Samuel Storm died Dec. 8, 1884. His widow still survives, and is the owner of 180 acres of land, all in good cultivation and well improved. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject was a man of most excellent character, high-minded, honorable, and generous to a fault, which qualities commended him to a host of friends, by whom he was greatly esteemed.
Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887
Mahaska County, Iowa Genealogy