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| HEMENWAY,
Herman Caswell, one of
the leading lawyers and republicans of eastern
Iowa and a resident of Cedar
Falls, was born in Potsdam, New York, April 1, 1834. He is
the son of Vashni Hemenway
and Eliza Goodnow Hemenway,
who were married in 1824. Vashni
Hemenway was born November 24, 1788, at Shrewsbury,
Massachusetts. He removed to Shoreham, Vermont, in 1792 and
to Potsdam, New York, about 1816. In 1850 he came west and
settled in Freeport, Illinois, removing to Lansing,
Iowa, in 1868, and died in
Cedar Falls, August 18. 1878. He was a lineal descendant of
Ralph Hemenway, who was
married to Elizabeth Hewes in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
July 5, 1634. His wife was born in Boston. Massachusetts, in
1801, and her ancestors were among the early settlers of
Massachusetts. She died in Freeport, IIinois on December 8,
1862. Both parents were teachers in
early life, and subsequently farmers by occupation.
Herman C. Hemenway received a good common school
education and was employed as a teacher for several terms.
He began his legal studies in Freeport, Illinois, in 1858
and was admitted to the practice of law in Illinois in 1860.
The next year he removed to Independence, Iowa, and in 1862
enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry and served
three years. Upon his discharge from the army he moved to
Cedar Falls and has since resided there, where he has been
continuously and actively engaged in the practice of law. He
served as a member of the General Assembly from Blackhawk
County for ten years, being a member of both House and
Senate, and has held several minor local offices. He was
married in Cedar Falls October 15, 1868, to Lanie G.
Schermerhorn, a native of Seneca County, New York. He has
always been a republican and an active and prominent factor
in the affairs of his party. He belongs to the G. A. R. and
several other civic societies. (Biographies and Portraits of
the Progressive Men in Iowa. By Benjamin F. Gue.
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 HERMAN
C. HEMENWAY, one of the prominent lawyers and Republicans of
Northern Iowa, is a native of the State of New York, having
been born at Potsdam, April 1, 1834. He acquired a good
education and taught school several years. He studied law,
was admitted to the bar, and began to practice at Freeport,
Illinois, in 1860. The next spring he removed to Iowa,
locating at Independence, enlisted in the Twenty-seventh
Volunteer Infantry and served three years in the Civil War.
At the close of his term of enlistment he settled at Cedar
Falls where he resumed the practice of law. In 1875 he was
elected Representative in the Sixteenth General Assembly,
and in 1877 he was elected to the Senate, serving in that
body in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth General Assemblies. (History of Iowa From the
Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century). |
| Census Research done by Elaine Johnson
Hemenway, Herman C - He was on the 1850 Census in Pewaukee,
Waukesha County, Wisconsin: Vashur Hemenway (age 62), Eliza
Hemenway (age 49), Asa G. Hemenway (age 24), Marilla
Hemenway, H. H. Hemenway (age 19), H. C. Hemenway (age 16),
Huldah E. Hemenway (age 14), and Samuel W. Hemenway (age
11).He was on the 1860 Census in Freeport, Stephenson
County, Illinois: Herman Hemenway (age 25, Lawyer).
He was on the 1870 Census in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk
County, Iowa: Herman C. Hemenway, (age 36, Lawyer)
He was on the 1880 Census in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk
County, Iowa: H. C. Hemenway, (age 46, lawyer), wife Loraine
G. Hemenway (age 32), Aubrey Florence (age 18, boarder).
He was on the 1900 Census in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk
County, Iowa: Herman C. Hemmway (age 66, born April
1834, lawyer, married for 32 years), Lanie G. wife, (born
Aug, 1847, age 52, married 32 years, no children.), Lucy S.
Loyce, niece (born April 1884, age 16)
He filed for a pension on Nov. 25, 1904 in Iowa.
He was on the 1910 Census in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk
County, Iowa: Hemenway, Herman (age 71, married 1 time
for 42 years, lawyer.). wife Larrie Hemenway, (age 62,
married 1 time for 42 years).
He was on the 1920 census in Cedar Falls, Ward 2. Black
Hawk County, Iowa: Herman C. Hemenway (age 85,
widowed) Lucy S. Royce, grand-niece (age 35)
I found one family tree online that listed his date of
death as January 27, 1927. I am unable, at this time, to
determine where he is buried. |
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