IOWA
STATE CENSUS REPORTS
1846 - 1876
There were no Putnams or Putmans listed.
He is the eldest son of Elijah Putman and Elizabeth Duff. His wife is Elizabeth Moran. He was born back in Fulton County Illinois on March 8, 1818. He married Elizabeth R. Moran (born in Maryland February 24, 1820) in Canton, Illinois on March 7, 1839. According to a researcher, she died August 31, 1896 and is buried in the Mount Olive Cemetery in Fremont County, Iowa. I find him alive and well in 1900 at age 82 living with his son Howard Putman. He will fie in the early 1900s. Southern Putman Family.
He is a son of Daniel Putman and Prudence Skelton. He was born in Anderson County South Carolina on May 18, 1794, and moved to Warren County, Kentucky as a child, then to Gibson County, Indiana and to Fulton County, Illinois before heading even further west. His wife is Elizabeth Duff was born in Anderson, Pendleton County, South Carolina on April 16, 1798. Elijah died in Davis County on June 5, 1863 and Elizabeth died there on January 24, 1887. Both are buried in the Dunnville Cemetery, Bloomfield, Iowa. Southern Putman Family.
He is from New York and his wife’s name is Theodocia. They are in Benton County Iowa in 1870 and Jewell County Kansas by 1880. New York Dutch Family.
3 males, 2 females. Here is a guy we have yet to figure. He was born in Vermont and popped up here single in 1850. He married Rachel Philbrick here on December 5, 1850 and they are here in 1860 and 1870. John will die here in 1874. Rachel will remarry A. S. Constantine and be with him and the kids in Bon Homme County, South Dakota in 1880. See that listing, because the story then continues on into Missouri.
N. (NATHAN) W. PUTMAN Fairfield, Fayette County
1 male. 3 females. He is a son of Johannes or John A. and Diantha Putman from Montgomery County, New York. His wife is Sally Ann. His dad died in New York in 1846, his mom remarried and they all came here in the early 1850s. Nathan is in Plymouth County Iowa in 1860. Dutch Family from New York.
4 males, 3 females. He is a son of Reding Putman and Stacy Combs from South Carolina out to Fulton County Illinois. James Daniel Putman was one of two children born in Butler County, Kentucky during the short period that Reding and Stacy moved back to that state. He was born on February 13, 1819. He went with the family to both Illinois and to then to Arkansas. On August 15, 1840, James Putman married Diadema (Damie) Smith in Washington County, Arkansas. Diadema was born in Indiana in 1821. From here they will go to Logan County, Illinois with seven children by 1860. They are in Fulton County Illinois in 1870, and in 1880 they are in Ellsworth County, Kansas. Southern Putman family.
EVE PUTNAM Putnam Township, Linn County
5 males, 3 females. A widow.
A. V. (ABRAHAM VEDDER) PUTMAN Franklin, Lynn County
4 males, 3 females. Abraham is a son of Matthew (Mattius) Putman and Nancy Ann Vedder and was born in Montgomery County, New York March 29, 1813. He is a printer and his wife is Sarah Houghton. The family was in Morgan County, Illinois in 1840, and in Lee County Iowa in 1850. . I don’t find them in 1860, but Sarah is alone with the kids in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas in 1870 and 1880. Don’t know what happened as Abe won’t die until 1885 and it will be back in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York. New York Dutch family.
BENNETT PUTNAM Lake Prairie, Marion County
3 males, 1 female. Bennett Putman was a son of Reding Putman and Stacy Combs. He was born in Fulton County, Illinois on December 16, 1825. Like the other children, he went to Arkansas with his parents, but he was gone by the 1850 census in Arkansas. He must have returned to Illinois in the mid 1840s. He was in Fulton County, Illinois in the 1850 Illinois Census along with his wife, Susannah M. Effner, who he married in Fulton County, and a young son, Reding, six months old. His occupation was listed as being a Physician. Bennett's wife Susan died about 1856 or 1857, and he then married Martha Ann Burckhalter in Jasper County, Iowa on September 29, 1857. They are there in 1860. They will be back in Washington County, Arkansas near his father in 1870, and then briefly in Rice County Kansas in 1880. Then he will return to Springdale Arkansas where he will be the first postmaster. He is also a preacher and deacon in the Baptist Church there, and will die in the 1890s. His dad Reding is my great great grandfather. Southern Putman Family.
JACOB PUTMAN Allens Grove, Scott County
2 males, 3 females. They were here in 1849 and 1850. His wife is Docia and the kids are Chauncy, Permelia and Margaret. I don’t find them in 1860. They are in Benton County Iowa in 1870 and Jewell County Kansas by 1880. New York Dutch Family.
1 male, 3 females. He is a son of George Putman and
Charlotte Crosthwait from Fulton County, Illinois. He is married to Philena
Murphy. They are in Freemont County in 1860.
JACOB PUTNAM Franklin, Washington County
5 males, 5 females. He is a son of Jacob Putman and Rachel Adams from Hampshire County Virginia. He was born on April 4, 1822. He married Mary Ellen Edmundson in Allegany County, Maryland June 22, 1842. Ellen was a daughter of Thomas Edmundson and Anastasia Slagle, and was born March 16, 1822. The family moved to Washington County, Iowa in about 1853. They lived in Marion Township, about seven miles from Washington, Iowa. They had nine children. Jacob died in July of 1894 and Mary Ellen died in March of 1883. This is a German family that came to Maryland in the early 1700s.
1856 IOWA STATE CENSUS
C. S. PUTNAM
Bradford Township, Chickasaw County
He is 24 IA single and boarding.
ABRAM (ABRAHAM) PUTMAN
Bloomfield, Davis County
He is 38 IN, Elizabeth Moran his wife is 36 MD and they have Sarah A. 16 IL, Elijah 14 IL, Julia 13 IL, Louisa 8 IA, Howard 6 IA, Pierce 4 IA and Harriet 2 IA. He is a son of Elijah Putman and Elizabeth Duff from Fulton County Illinois and then here. They are here in 1860 with 2 more kids, and then will be in Schuyler County, Missouri in 1870. Southern Putman family.
D. T. (DANIEL THOMAS PUTMAN Soap Creek, Davis County
He is a farmer 34 IL. His wife Jeanette Roundey 29 NY, Stiles H. 6 IA, Giles L. 8 IA, Miles A.7 IA, Daniel (really Thomas Harvey) 1 IA. He is a son of Elijah Putman and Elizabeth Duff from Fulton County Illinois and then here in Davis County. He was born January 19, 1822 in Fulton County, and died August 11, 1902. He married Jeanetta Roundey on August 4, 1847. One source states her name was Roundeye and she was an Indian. At any rate, she was born in New York on August 20, 1826 and died July 4, 1904.
They moved to Davis County in the 1840s, and were there in the 1850 through 1900 census reports. Southern Putman family.
ELIJAH PUTMAN Soap Creek, Davis County
He is 62 SC and his wife Elizabeth Duff is 58 SC and they now have at home Phebe 18 IL, Mary Ann 15 IL and Jasper N. (Newton) 13 IL. Elijah is a son of Daniel Putman and Prudence Skelton. He was born May 18, 1794 in Anderson County, SC, and the family moved to Warren County, Kentucky, then to Gibson County, Indiana and to Fulton County, Illinois before heading even further west. He married Elizabeth Duff on April 18, 1817 in Gibson County. Elizabeth Duff was the eldest daughter of Abraham Duff and Verlinda Combs Duff. She was born in Anderson, Pendleton County, South Carolina on April 16, 1798. He and Elizabeth will, however, now remain here all their lives. Elijah died in Davis County on June 5, 1863 and Elizabeth died there on January 24, 1887. Both are buried in the Dunnville Cemetery, Bloomfield, Iowa. Southern Putman family.
SIMEON (WALKER) PUTNAM
Milo Township, Delaware County
He is 52 ME a farmer. His wife Rhoda Watson is 51 ME and they have Melvin 18 PA, Wesley 14 IL and Orlando 11 IL. He was born in 1806 in Anson Township, Somerset County, Maine. He is a son of John Putnam and Lucinda Walker of Anson, Maine. John's folks were John Putnam and Joanna Eames of Medford and then Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Simeon married Rhoda Watson in New Portland, Somerset County on October 6, 1826. This John was number 876 in Eben's book. John's folks were Israel Putnam and Sarah Hutchinson of Bedford, Massachusetts. Israel was number 329. His folks were Israel Putnam (126) and Sarah Bacon of Salem and then Bedford, Massachusetts. They were in De Kalb County, Illinois in 1850 and in Kane County, Illinois in 1840. They are here in Delaware Township in 1870. Then they both turn up alive and well in Wausau, Wisconsin in the 1880 at age 71 each.
JAMES PUTMAN Burlington, Des Moines County
He is 24 OH, his wife Louisa R. Ruble is 19 IA. There is also Mary Warren 16 OH with them. He is a miller. James is a son of Ernestus Putman and Nancy Becker. He was born in Darke County Ohio December 23, 1830. He married Louisa October 17, 1854 out here. They are here in 1860 and 1870. Louisa will die in the 1870s, and he is widowed here in 1880. He will die himself here January 31,1900. Dutch family out of New York State.
BARBARA PUTMAN Vernon, Dubuque County
She is 22 PA and her daughter Emily is 5 IA. They are with her folks George and Catherine Painter from Pennsylvania. She was married to Eben Putnam July 25, 1850 and they were here in 1850. They will have another daughter Clara in 1857, and in 1860 she is with George and Catherine Painter and everyone else is gone. I am not sure if Eben is a son of Howard Putnam or Howard’s son John Howard, or Eber Putnam. Part of that family, but not positive how he fits. In the 1830 Indiana Census Howard had a son that was under 5 and Eben fits that best. Rufus listed next is a son of Howard and is probably Eben’s brother.
RUFUS PUTNAM Vernon, Dubuque County
He is 34 IN and his wife Cynthia Bradley is30 TN. They have Howard 11 IA, William F. 9 IA, John 7 IA, Albert 5 IA, Polly C. 3 IA and Asa 2 IA. James Rufus is a son of Howard Putnam and his second wife Caroline Bush from Knox County, Indiana. Rufus and Cynthia were married here January 20, 1843. They were in the 1850 census and will be here in 1860. They are living with Asa and Polly Bradley who would be Cynthia’s folks.
EVA PUTMAN Hardin Township, Hardin County
She is 56 KY and her son John L. is 18 IL. Wonder if she was the Eve in Linn County in 1854. They were in La Rue County Kentucky in 1850 living with a Hornback Family. They are both in Jasper County in 1860. She is in the County Poor House in 1880. There is a marriage record in Wythe County, Virginia of an Eva Smith marrying a Joseph Putman in 1868 (1848?). Joseph was a son of Thomas Putman and Mary Hoback. This came from the LDS/IGI. If Hoback and Hornback were the same family then there must be some connection here. On the other hand, I have no idea who Thomas Putman was so that is no help here either. Good Luck.
ROBERT PUTMAN Des Moines, Jasper County
He is 33 KY a physician. He is a son of Reding Putnam and Stacy Combs. He was born when the family was in Butler County Kentucky. They then moved to Fulton County Illinois and then to Washington County Arkansas. He was born December 16, 1823. He went to Arkansas in 1836 and was there in 1840. In 1850 he was with his uncle Harrison Putman back in Fulton County Illinois, and then over here. In 1860 he was in Arcadia Township, Morgan County, Illinois with his new wife Elizabeth Drutz. They were married in Jasper County, Iowa on May 27, 1857. They are here in 1870 and 1880. Elizabeth is shown as a widow in the 1900 census of Jasper County. In 1910, she and three daughters are in Spokane, Washington. Robert died in Prairie City, Iowa May 30, 1892. Elizabeth died in Spokane, Washington September 22, 1913. Southern Putman family.
BENNETT PUTMAN Fairview Township, Jasper County
He is a physician 30 IL, his wife Susanna Effner is 28 IL and they have Reding 6 IL and Douglas 2/12 IA. He is a son of Reding Putman and Stacy Combs his first wife. . He was born in Fulton County, Illinois on December 16, 1825. Like the other children, he went to Arkansas with his parents, but he was gone by the 1850 census in Arkansas. He must have returned to Illinois in the mid 1840s. He was in Fulton County, Illinois in the 1850 Illinois Census along with his wife, Susannah M. Effner, who he married in Fulton County, and a young son, Reding, six months old. They were here in Iowa in the 1854 census. His occupation was listed as being a Physician. Susan will die shortly, and he then will marry Martha Ann Burckhalter in Jasper County Iowa on September 29, 1857. They are there in 1860. They will be back in Washington County, Arkansas near his father in 1870, and then briefly in Rice County Kansas in 1880. Then he will return to Springdale Arkansas where he will be the first postmaster. He is also a preacher and deacon in the Baptist Church there, and will die in the 1890s. His dad Reding is my great great grandfather. Southern Putman Family.
CHARLES E. PUTNAM Algona, Kossuth County
He is listed as 22 NY single and boarding. He has just been here 1 year. He is not Charles Edwin Putnam who is currently in Davenport, Scott County.
A. V. (ABRAHAM VEDDER) PUTMAN Franklin, Linn County
He is 43 NY and is a physician. His wife Sarah Houghton is 42 NY, Cornelius V. 20 NY John B. 16 IL, S. Catherine 12 IL, and Abraham H. 5 IA. Abraham is a son of Matthew (Mattius) Putman and Nancy Ann Vedder and was born in Montgomery County New York March 29, 1813. They are in Linn County Iowa in 1854. I don’t find them in 1860, but Sarah is alone with the kids in Sulphur Springs Hopkins County, Texas in 1870 and 1880. Don’t know what happened as Abe won’t die until 1885 and it will be back in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County New York. Dutch Family from New York.
GIDEON PUTNAM Rapids Township, Linn County
He is 55 NH and his wife Sarah Rice is 51 MA. They have Clara 12 NH, William 9 NH. Gideon is a son of Gideon Sr. (number 1873 in Eben's books) and Sarah Barnes of Temple, New Hampshire. He was born in Hancock, New Hampshire January 20, 1801Gideon worked in Nashua, New Hampshire and about 1847 lost the sight in one eye in an explosion in a stone quarry. The family moved here in 1854. He will die here October 23, 1878. Sarah will die a few months earlier. New England family.
G. G. (GEORGE GIDEON) PUTMAN Rapids Township, Linn County
George is a lawyer 26 NH. Martha Ann Blackstone his wife 21 ME, and they have George W. just born IA. He is a son of the above Gideon Putnam Jr. and Sarah Rice. They were married in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1853 and are here in 1860. In 1870, he will live alongside his dad Gideon in Benton County. He is Gideon's eldest son. They have two listings, so must have moved during census time. New England family.
H. (HENRY) C. PUTNAM Morning Sun, Louisa County
He is 22 OH and just arrived in Iowa. He looks like the son of Charles Marsh Putnam and Abby Slocum Edgerton from Jersey Township, Licking County Ohio. He was there in 1850 at age 18 and missing in 1860. He is in direct line of General Israel Putnam. I next find him in Clay County, Kansas in 1870 and 1880.
ARTIMAS W. (WALTON) PUTNAM Wapello, Louisa County
He is 33 ME a farmer. His wife Louisa Drusilla Bunker is 25 ME and they have Savannah 4 ME. He is a son of Israel Putnam and Ruth Walton of Rumford, Maine. He was born there July 17, 1822 and will die in Woodruff Utah on November 4, 1914. He married Louisa January 7, 1848 back in Maine. They are with George and Dorothy (36 ME who is his sister) Eastman and family and a Thorndike family from Maine. Also here is another sister Cynthia Putnam 28 ME. She will marry George Eastman once out in Utah. They are in Greene County Iowa in 1860 and will then be off to Utah in the 1860s, having become a Mormon, and stay there all his life. His brothers Horatio Gates, Seth and Simeon will meet him there. New England family.
DAN B. (DANIEL BALDWIN) PUTNAM Le Grand Township, Marshall County
He is a farmer 65 VT. His son Nahum Daniel 29 OH and daughter Wealthy G. 20 OH are with him. Daniel Baldwin Putnam is a son of Uzziel Putnam of Cass County, Michigan. Daniel was born in Wardsboro, Windham County, Vermont. He went with his father to Ohio, and then back to Michigan where his first wife Louise Marie Ensign died. He married (Mrs.) Sarah Curran and moved to Iowa in 1854. New England family.
JOHN S. PUTNAM Kane Township, Pottawattamie County
He is 25 OH single and living/working on the farm of Alexander Marshall from Virginia.
H. C. (HARVEY CORNELIUS) PUTNAM Bear Creek, Poweshiek County
He is a carpenter 28 VT. His wife Sarah Ann Steward is 26 VT and they have Francis M. 6 VT, Helen 4 VT, Daniel 1 VT. Harvey Cornelius is a son of Harvey Putnam and Rebecca Steward and was born in Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont on October 19, 1825. He and Sarah were married January 1, 1850 in Cherry Creek, Chautaugua County, New York. His father Harvey was a son of Joshua Putnam and Lucy Lothrop. Harvey Senior was number 2664 in Eben's numbering system. They just got here but, he will be here in Iowa until his death June 17, 1909. Sarah will die here February 5, 1911. New Englanders.
CHARLES E. (EDWIN) PUTNAM Davenport, Scott County
He is a lawyer 29 NY. His wife Mary Louisa Duncan is 24 IL and they have Joseph D. 8 months old. The son won’t make it to 1860. He is a son of Benjamin Risley Putnam from Saratoga, New York. Ben is number 1381 and Charles number 2976 in Eben's books. Charles passed the bar in New York and went to Warren County, Georgia to join his brother Gideon there in the 1840s. He then moved to Illinois and then to here. He'll be around here all his life. New England family.
F. PUTNAM Davenport, Scott County
She is 30 NY and is single. She has been here a year and is a clerk.
FREDERICK PUTNAM (PUTTMANN) Davenport, Scott County
He is 32 GERMANY and his wife Christina is 32 GER too. They have Charley 2 NY and Frederick less than a year IA. They are here in 1880 and in Woodbury County from 1900 on.
BENJAMIN PUTMAN Pleasant Valley, Scott County
He is a farmer 24 OH and single. He is Benjamin Perkins Putnam. He is a son of Douglas Putnam and Mary Ann Hildreth. He was with his father Douglas in Hamar, Washington County OH in 1840 and 1850. He will marry Lydia Edgerson in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio on February 14, 1860 and head back out here to farm. His grandfather was a part of the original Ohio Company coming from Massachusetts. Douglas is number 1572 in Eben's books, Ben number 3241.The line goes back through General Israel.
He is 35 VA, his wife Ellen Emundson is 35 VA. They have Rachel 11 VA, Stacy Ann 10 VA, Jacob 8 VA, Thomas 6 VA, John 5 VA, Hannah 2 VA, Charles less than a year IA. He is a son of Jacob Putman and Rachel Adams from Hampshire County Virginia. Also there is his mother Rachel 70 VA. She had remarried as her name was listed as Rachel Cresap. Charles Cresap had died in the early 1850s, and she joined her son. He was born on April 4, 1822. He married Mary Ellen Edmundson in Allegany County, Maryland June 22, 1842. Ellen was a daughter of Thomas Edmundson and Anastasia Slagle, and was born March 16, 1822. The family moved to Washington County, Iowa in about 1853. They lived in Marion Township, about seven miles from Washington, Iowa. They had nine children. Jacob died in July of 1894 and Mary Ellen died in March of 1883. This is a German family that came to Maryland in the early 1700s.
She is 20 NY living with David and Amanda Carol also from New York.
W. H. (WILLIAM HENRY) & ISRAEL PUTNAM Decorah, Winneshiek County
William is 24 NY, his wife Lucy E. Ladd 22 NY and Estelle (Georgia Estella) 3 NY. Also here is his brother Israel 22 NY. These are sons of Elisha Putnam (906) and Elizabeth Brown from Essex County New York. Elisha was a son of Tarrant Putnam (334) and his second wife Eunice Porter of Danvers Massachusetts. William and Israel were home there in 1850 and will all be in Minnesota by 1860, Israel by 1857. William will be in Le Sueur County, Israel in Rice County. William was born January 5, 1831 and Israel November 6, 1834. William married Lucy October 3, 1850. Israel will marry Eudora Ray in the 1870s. He will die in the late 1870s and Eudora will go back home to Grafton New Hampshire and be there in 1880. Then William’s wife Lucy will die in Minnesota March 13, 1881 and Eudora will venture out here again and marry William here on May 6, 1882. William will die in Minnesota June 20, 1894. Eudora will say enough is enough and go back home to New Hampshire and die there of cancer on February 14, 1895.
1866 & 1876 IOWA STATE CENSUSES
There were no Putnams or Putmans indexed.