Johnson County << 1893 Index
Poweshiek County
Iowa County

Portrait and Biographical Record of Johnson, Poweshiek and Iowa counties, Iowa
Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893.

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Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton.

Pardon A. Alderman, whose finely improved homestead of one hundred and sixty acres is pleasantly located upon section 14, Scott Township, John son County, Iowa, is a thorough and practical farmer, having devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and successfully won a leading position among the tillers of the soil. Mr. Alderman has held various official positions of trust in the township, and is widely known and highly respected. Out subject was born in Ohio, on the Western Reserve, October 10, 1845. The Alderman family are of remote English ancestry, but the paternal grandfather, Frederick Alderman, and his son Christopher, the father of Pardon, were of New England nativity. Grandfather Alderman was an energetic and ambitious man and, making his home in the West, died in Rock Island County, Ill. The mother of our subject, Sarah Winslow, was a descendant of an old English family, many of whose members have achieved honorable distinction. She was born in New England, but removed to Ohio with her parents, where her father died.

Mr. Alderman remained in his birthplace until he was about eight years of age, when he came with his parents to Rock Island County, Ill., where they located until 1858, then settling in Cedar County, near Davenport, continuing to make this part of Iowa their residence for a period of seven years. In 1865, the father and mother, with their family, made their home in Johnson County, where they enjoyed the esteem and confidence of many friends. Pardon A. is the eldest of the large family of ten sons and daughters, and remained with his parents until his marriage, upon September 3, 1867, when, in Cedar County, Iowa, he was united in marriage with Miss Marion H. Lincoln, who was born in New York, near the town of Ellington, June 20, 1849. The parents of Mrs. Alderman, Ira and Cynthia (Tracy) Lincoln, were honored residents of Cedar County, where they located in 1865; settling near Deming they remained in that neighborhood until the spring of 1868, when they came to Johnson County. Mr. Lincoln was a New Englander by birth, but with this wife, a native of New York, had long been a resident of Crawford County, Pa., when he determined to locate in Iowa, and in 1865 made the journey hither. Mr. Lincoln died deeply regretted in Scott Township, January 16, 1881. Mrs. Lincoln had passed away January 1, 1880, her husband surviving her but a little more than one year.

Mrs. Alderman was the eldest of her parents' family and was educated in the excellent schools of her early home. Our subject and his estimable wife have been blessed by the birth of three bright and intelligent children, Jesse I., Sylvia M. and Raymond P., who have received the best possible advantages for a thorough English education and are well fitted to occupy positions of usefulness and honor. The family are active in the promotion of the good work and benevolent enterprise of their locality, and possess the high regard of all who have the pleasure of their acquaintance. The homestead, with its commodious and attractive buildings and comfortable family residence, is the abode of hospitality and the scene of many a social gathering. Our subject has - while giving his time mainly to farming duties - neglected no means of keeping himself thoroughly informed on the current events of the day, and is numbered among the substantial citizens of the United States, to whose busy and honest industry and broad intelligence the Nation owes its rapid progress and enviable place among the nations of the earth.