Abraham Richman

As printed in 1889

BRAHAM RICHMAN, a prominent pioneer of 1845, and a leading farmer of Sweetland Township, residing on section 29, was born in Somerset, Ohio, March 18, 1822, and is a son of Evert and Mary (Scott) Richman, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. He grew to manhood in his native State, receiving a common-school education, which has been largely supplemented by observation and subsequent study. In 1845 he emigrated to Iowa, locating in Cedar County, where he continued to reside until 1850. The discovery of gold in California attracting his attention, he resolved to make a trip to that State, and crossed the plains to Oregon, from there by team to Portland, completing the trip to California by water. For about four years he remained on the Pacific Slope, when he returned to his Iowa home, coming by way of the Pacific Ocean and New York City.

In 1859 Mr. Richman was joined in wedlock with Miss Susan Dolson, a daughter of Wallace and Susan Dolson, who were natives of Orange County, N. Y., and emigrated to Schuyler County, Ill., in 1837, residing there until 1851, when they became residents of Muscatine County, Iowa. Three children have been born of their union: Wallace Clinton, a medical student in a homeopathic medical college of Chicago: Prof. Ebert Scott, who was graduated from the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, is now a professor in the Arkansas Industrial University at Fayetteville, Ark.; and Mar 3' S., who is a student of the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames.

Mr. Richman removed to his present home in Sweetland Township in 1870, since which time he has been engaged in farming. He is a man of marked individuality of character, possessing more than ordinary ability and energy, intensely actuated at all times by truth, right and justice, affection, benevolence and kindness, which, based upon a foundation of charity, enable him to accomplish much good in this life, and to gain in a high degree the esteem, friendship and love of a wide circle of acquaintances. Politically, Mr. Richman affiliates with the Republican party, but has never sought public office, believing that the office should seek the man, and not the man seek the office. Mrs. Richman was reared in the Presbyterian faith, and is a member of that church, in which her family also worships.

As printed in Portrait and biographical album of Muscatine County, Iowa (1889). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.