Benjamin SEVERSON ¹

  General Notes:

1860 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Otter Creek Twp: Benjamin "Servison", 22, farmer, $500 real estate, $100 personal property, b. OH; Catherine, 21, b. OH. (Listed next to James N. & Margaret Howe on census.)

1870 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Marion Twp: Benjamin Servison (Lewison?), 35, farmer, $2400 real estate, $600 personal property, b, OH; Catherine, 33, keeping house, b. IN; Anna, 6, b. IA; Richard, 4, b. IA.

1880 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Otter Creek Twp: Benjamin Severson, 48, farmer, b. OH, father b. VA, mother b. NY; wife "Catharin", 41, keeping house, b. OH, parents b. OH; son-in-law Wm. Hutcheons, 20, farm hand, married during census yr, b. MI, parents b. OH; dau. Fannie Hutcheons, 17, keeping house, married during census yr, b. IA, father b. OH, mother b. VA. (Listed next to Richard Jackman, Horatio Smith and John Dicken on census.)

1895 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Otter Creek: Benjamin Serveson, 62, b. OH; "Catharina" D. Serveson, 55, b. OH; "Fanna" Serveson, 84, b. OH.

Benjamin married Catherine D. JACKMAN. (Catherine D. JACKMAN was born in Feb 1839 in OH ² and died after 1920 in perhaps NE ³.)