Rev. Samuel Whisler

Rev. Samuel Whisler, is a native of Pennsylvania, and is aged sixty-five years. He settled in Edna township, where he continues to live, in 1855, and W. F. Brenton is the only neighbor he now has who was there when he came. Edward Porter came out the same fall, and bought Wm. S. Townsend's farm, which was the pioneer farm of that corner of the county.

From "History of Cass County, Iowa Together With Brief Mention of Old Settlers," by Lafe Young, Atlantic, Iowa, Telegraph Steam Printing House, 1877, pg. 75.