Individual Details
Theodore Elihu "T. E." Alderman
(8 Sep 1825 - 20 Jan 1906)
Having already said something of Mr. Alderman's farm I must now say more about it. He has just finished a new barn, more valuable than the one burnt July 3,1886, and which occurred since my first description of the farm. This barn just completed, (December 1886,) cost about $1 600. It has a heavy stone basement story and will hold, it is claimed, forty horses placed in regular order. The barn is forty-two by seventy feet—covering 2,940 square feet of ground. Posts twenty-four feet and work well done; and still there are barns in the county covering more ground. He has another one twenty-four by one hundred feet with a stone basement sixteen feet post, covering 2,400 square feet. A third one thirty-six by sixty feet, but does not have a stone basement. He has yet two other barns on the premises. When viewing barns and a splendid brick residence, the view of the group is that of quite a village. Mr. Alderman expects to have a large well so as to furnish water, by pipes or otherwise, to all his barn yards for stock purposes. The water is to be raised by windmill power and thrown into the pipe or conductor so the water can reach the barn yard.
He has also a contract with a, party to tile-ditch nine thousand rods of tiling on this nine hundred and sixty acre farm, much of it is already done. When all are considered it is the most valuable farm in Story County.
Yet as good a barn as the new one is Mr. William Golden, of Indian Creek Township, can beat it, I now believe. Mr. Golden's is octagonel in shape-covering about 3,824 square feet of ground, with a magnificent stone basement. It has a nice spire started for the clouds. It is, however, described elsewhere. It is surely class one as is Mr. Alderman's. Mr. M. Erickson, near Roland, described in the history of Howard Township, has one of the fine barns of the county. It is thirty-two by one hundred and thirtytwo and covers 4,224 square feet, and is high No. 1.
I am aware there are many valuable barns, dwellings, etc., in Story County I could not get round to see—yes many.
But I must say good for T. E. Alderman—the old settler—he
who built the first house in Nevada, September 8, 1853, and moved into it October 11, 1853.
The first child born in Nevada, and the first to die, was a daughter of Mr. Alderman's, whom he named "Mary Nevada." Mr. Joseph M. Thrift, of Boone County, who had been one of the locating commissioners of the county seat for Story County, also named a daughter of his "Sierra Nevada." These two gentlemen surely admired the name "Nevada," as was verified by each naming a daughter by that name. Mr. Alderman's daughter, "Mary Nevada," died December 16, 1854—thirty-two years ago.
Events
Families
Spouse | Hannah A. Reynolds (1832 - 1899) |
Child | Oscar Baker "Ock" Alderman (1851 - 1919) |
Child | Mary Nevada Alderman (1854 - 1854) |
Child | Ida Caroline Alderman (1856 - 1871) |
Child | Minnie Alderman (1860 - 1956) |
Child | Edwin Theodore "Ed" Alderman (1862 - 1927) |
Child | Ulysses Sherman Alderman (1865 - 1926) |
Father | Elihu Huff Alderman (1792 - 1850) |
Mother | Sarah Baker (1796 - 1873) |
Sibling | Mary Ann Alderman (1823 - 1865) |
Sibling | Sarah Ann Alderman (1827 - ) |
Sibling | Job Tilghman Alderman (1832 - 1847) |
Sibling | Electra Alderman (1834 - 1838) |
Notes
Census (family)
70-68-71 T.E. ALDERMAN 30 M M 10 Ohio /Native/ /Militia/ /Land Owner/ Merchant Nevada70-68-71 Hannah A. ALDERMAN 23 F M 8 Ohio Nevada
70-68-71 Osker ALDERMAN 4 M Iowa Nevada
Census (family)
455, 414, T E Alderman, 36 M, Stove Store, 3500, 3000, OhioHannah, 34, Ohio
Oskar B., 8 M, Iowa
Ida, 3 F, Iowa
Census (family)
T. E. ALDERMAN Self M Male W 54 OH Hardware Merchant NY MDHannah ALDERMAN Wife M Female W 47 OH Keeping House NY NY
Minnie ALDERMAN Dau S Female W 19 IA OH OH
Edwin ALDERMAN Son S Male W 17 IA OH OH
Lysses ALDERMAN Son S Male W 14 IA OH OH
Census (family)
Theodore E. ALDERMAN 69 M M Ohio ? Merchant None Nevada 4th Ward 457a-11Hannah A. ALDERMAN 62 F M Ohio ?p House Nevada 4th Ward 457a-11
Edwin T. ALDERMAN 32 M S Ia Story ?mber Nevada 4th Ward 457a-11-
Census
Alderman, U S, Head, WM, ug 1865, 35, Married 10 yrs, IA OH OH BarristerMittie N, Wife, WF, Nov 1868, 31, Married 10 yrs, 1 child born & living, IA Norway Norway
Ralph, Son,WM, Dec 1890, 9, single, IA IA IA
Alderman TE, Father, WM, Sep 1825, Wd, OH OH OH retired
Endnotes
1. Verne R. Spear, assisted by Patricia Finch Harjung and Leonard R. Alderman, compiler, The descendants of William Alderman who settled first at Windsor, Connecticut and later Simsbury, Connecticut 1671 - 2002 (South Deerfield, MA:,), p 72.
2. Story County, Iowa 1856 Census Database, Story County IAGenWeb online [http://iastory.com/1856/1856Form.mvc], accessed 2008.
3. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1860 > IOWA > STORY > NEVADA Series: M653 Roll: 339 Page: 757.
4. Story County 1895 Census , Story County IAGenWeb online [http://iastory.com/1895/1895Form.mvc], accessed May 2008.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 > IOWA > STORY > 4-WD NEVADA Series: T623 Roll: 460 Page: 125.