Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (1813 - 1894)

Born 20 Dec 1813 in Harford, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Clark) Kirkwood — married 21 Dec 1843 in Troy Township, Richland, Ohio, United States

Died 1 Sep 1894 at age 80 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States

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Preceded by 13th US Secretary Carl Schurz Preceded by 4th Governor Ralph P. Lowe Preceded by 8th Governor Cyrus C. Carpenter Preceded by James Harlan Preceded by George G. Wright

Samuel J. Kirkwood 14th United States Secretary of the Interior 1881—1882 5th Governor of Iowa 1860—1864 9th Governor 1876—1877 US Senator (Class 3) from Iowa 1866—1857 US Senator (Class 2) from Iowa 1877—1881

Succeeded by 15th US Secretary Henry M. Teller Succeeded by 6th Governor William M. Stone Succeeded by 10th Governor Joshua G. Newbold Succeeded by James Harlan Succeeded by James W. McDill

Biography

Samuel Kirkwood is Notable.

He married Jane Clark, who was the sister of Phoebe Clark who married Edward Lucas, son of Robert Lucas, a Territorial Governor of Iowa.

Rachel is an adopted daughter and not a biological child

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Kirkwood

• Fact: Title Governor
• Fact: Residence Iowa

• Fact: Residence (1850) Madison, Richland, Ohio, United States
• Fact: Occupation (from January 11, 1860 to January 14, 1864 and from January 13, 1876 to February 1, 1877) Governor of Iowa Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1870) Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Burial (1894) Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States of America
• Fact: Obituary (01 Sep 1894) Utah, United States
• Fact: Residence (01 Sep 1894) Iowa
• Fact: Obituary (02 Sep 1894) Evansville, Indiana
• Fact: Obituary (03 Sep 1894) Elkhart, Indiana
• Fact: Military Service (1861-1949) Iowa, United States
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813 – September 1, 1894), was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.

Samuel J. Kirkwood was born in 1813 in Harford County, Maryland. At age 17, he began teaching school and had as one of his pupils his cousin Daniel Kirkwood, who later achieved prominence as a mathematician and astronomer.[1] Samuel spent part of his youth in Washington, D.C.,[2] then joined his father in moving to Ohio in 1835.[3] There he became a well-known anti-slavery Republican. He was elected to several state offices and worked closely with Thomas Bartley, the future governor of Ohio, in the 1840s.

Jane and Samuel Kirkwood, 1852. In 1855 Kirkwood moved to Iowa, living northwest of Iowa City, and became involved with the Clark family, also from Ohio, in a milling venture, and then with the Clark and Lucas families in land speculation. Kirkwood married Jane Clark, the sister of Ezekiel Clark, and thus became the brother-in-law of Edward Lucas, son of Robert Lucas. Although Kirkwood intended to leave politics behind him in Ohio, he took an interest in the newly founded Republican Party. Summoned from his mill at Coralville and still coated in flour dust, Kirkwood gave a rousing speech at the founding meeting of the Iowa Republican Party in February 1856. Many people credited Kirkwood’s speech and subsequent work with the success of the Republican Party in Iowa; that year he was elected to the Iowa Senate serving from 1856 to 1859.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Kirkwood

• Fact: Title Governor
• Fact: Residence Iowa

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 22 October 2020, 13:27), entry for Samuel Jordan Kirkwood(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LW62-6D8); contributed by various users.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 April 2020, 18:23), entry for Samuel Jordan Kirkwood(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LW62-6D8); contributed by various users.
• "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XDVC-74V : 25 March 2020), Samuel J. Kirkwood, 1843.
• "Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1861-1949," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q23N-SNXF : 17 March 2018), Samuel J Kirkwood, 1861-1949; citing Iowa, United States, Military Service, State Historical Department, Des Moines; FHL microfilm 1,487,405.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD2P-JWC : 11 August 2017), Sam'L J Kirkwood, Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 227, sheet 169B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,347.
• "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMN-3Y9P : 17 March 2018), Saml J Kirkwood, 01 Sep 1894; citing Death, Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, page 48, offices of county clerk from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,738,603.
• "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSF-59R8 : 17 March 2018), Samuel J Kirkwood, 01 Sep 1894; citing Ogden Standard Examiner 4, The University of Utah. J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City.
• "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMN-VYMY : 17 March 2018), Saml J Kirkwood, 01 Sep 1894; citing Death, Iowa, Allamakee, Iowa, United States, page 48, offices of county clerk from various counties; FHL microfilm 986,019.
• "Iowa, Adjutant General's Office, Grave Registration Service, Cemetery Records, 1800-2000", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CML8-DCMM : 11 February 2020), Samuel J, Kirkwood, .
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-FK6L : 11 September 2019), Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, ; Burial, Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States of America, Oakland Cemetery; citing record ID 7503624, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Samuel J. Kirkwood on Wikipedia
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Civil War Times Illustrated - May 1981
• George F. Skoch, "Iowa’s Graybeards,” Civil War Times Illustrated, Vol. 20, no. 2, (May 1981): 46.