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Samuel N. Sumwalt was born in York County, Penn., June 14, 1828, and is the only child of Samuel and Lydia A. (Miller) Sumwalt, natives, respectively, of Baltimore, Md., and York County, Penn. Samuel Sumwalt was a brick-mason by trade, and lived to be eighty-three years of age. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, while his wife, who was eighty-five years old at the time of her death, was a Dunkard. Samuel N. was reared in his native county, and received a good common-school education. When nineteen years of age he learned the blacksmith’s trade with an uncle, at which he worked about ten years. In 1851 he married Caroline Wolffram, a native of Pennsylvania. Three children blessed this union, viz.: Caroline P., Mary W. and Samuel D. In 1858 they moved to Charlotte, Mich., where Mr. Sumwalt dealt in stock, and engaged in butchering. In 1862 he enlisted in Company B, Second Michigan Cavalry, and served until the close of the war, taking part in the battles of Franklin, Nashville and Columbia. After the war he returned to his home in Michigan, and in 1867 removed to Missouri, where for about thirteen years he was employed at the Meramec Iron Works. Mrs. Sumwalt died in 1874, and the following year Mr. Sumwalt married Anna Hamby, who was born in North Carolina August 14, 1854. To this union have been born six children, five of whom are living, viz.: Lulie S., William, L. Gracie, Sue and Lydia A. Mr. Sumwalt located on his present farm in 1880, which consists of 280 acres of the best land on the Meramec River. He votes the Democratic ticket, and in religion affiliates with the Lutheran Church.