David Sheridan Wolgamot

As printed in 1914

DAVID SHERIDAN WOLGAMOT.

David Sheridan Wolgamot, who is a farmer residing in Fairbank township, is a native of that township, born January 10, 1865. His parents were Joseph and Atha T. (Buckmaster) Wolgamot, natives of Maryland and Holmes county, Ohio, respectively. The father served for three years in the Mexican war arid in the early fifties came with his family to this county, ca.sting in his lot with the pioneer settlers. He died in 1911, having survived his wife since 1898. A more detailed account of their lives is given in the sketch of Clinton W. Wolgamot, found on another page of this work.

David S. Wolgamot was one of the eight children born to his parents and was reared in his native township. His elementary and secondary education was acquired in the public schools of Fairbank, and he later attended the pharmaceutical department of the Iowa State University at Iowa City. He subsequently engaged in the live-stock business at Fairbank for fifteen years and during part of that time conducted a dry goods store there. In 1911 he purchased eighty acres of fine land in Fairbank township, and has since devoted the greater part of his time to the cultivation of the same. As the soil is naturally productive and as he uses practical methods in his farming he harvests annually crops which average a large yield to the acre and he shares in the prosperity which is the usual lot of the Iowa farmer. For the last few years he has also engaged in the buying and selling of land.

David S. AVolgamot was married at Fairbank on the 24th of August, 1899, to Miss Sarah E. Davis-Sanborn, who was born in Monona, Clayton county, on the ist of February, 1872. She came to Buchanan county in 1881, when a child of nine years, and as her parents were both deceased she was adopted by Merrill and Mary E. Sanborn. Her foster father is deceased, but IMrs. Sanborn resides in Fairbank. There were four children in the Davis family: Frank, who lives in Black Hawk county, this state; Mrs. Wolgamot; Warren, of Huron, South Dakota; and Mrs. Minnie Belle Reisner, of Brock, Alberta, Canada. All of these children were born in Clayton county, Iowa. Mrs., Wolgamot is a member of the Baptist church of Fairbank.

Mr. Wolgamot is a man of broad views in politics and has never allied himself with any party, preferring to vote independently. Although he has been elected to several offices in the township he has always refused to qualify. Fraternally he belongs to Fairbank Lodge, No. 148, A. F. & A. M., and to the Elks at Oelwein. His perseverance and industry have secured him a comfortable living, and he enjoys the confidence of those who know him.

As printed in History of Buchanan County, Iowa, and its people (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.