Biography - S. W. Bland
S. W. BLAND, farmer, Sec. 32; P. O., Sigourney; born in Fountain county Indiana, May 25, 1829; in 1833, when quite young, he moved with his parents to Knox County, Illinois, and was raised on a farm and received the advantages of a common school education; from there he came to Iowa, and settled on the place where he now resides, in 1866; owns a pleasant place of seventy six acres of good land; he married Miss A. A. Williamson a native of Menard county, Illinois, in October 1850; they have five children: William H., John W., James W., Charles W., and S. O.; have lost one: George V.; Mr. and Mrs. B. are members of the M. E. Church.
Contributed by Todd Walter, extracted from the 1880 History of Keokuk County, Iowa
