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ELLIOTT, S. M. — Clerk in State Insurance company's office, was born July 20, 1830, in Columbiana county, Pennsylvania, where he resided until he was eighteen years of age, when he removed to Wisconsin, where he resi ded some five years. In 1858 he returned East and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad company as an engineer, remaining in that position until 1860, when he came to Iowa on a visit. He remained until the following year when he enlisted in Company K, Twenty-seventh •Iowa infantry, as second lieutenant. He remained in the service some eighteen months. Upon account of disabilities he was compelled to re sign. He then returned to Pennsylvania where he remained until 1867, when he again came West locating in Mitchell county, this State; he lived here until 1870 when he came to Des Moines and engaged in the drug business on the East Side, in which business he remained until July 1877; from that date he has been mostly in the employ of the State In surance Company. He was married in 1862 to Miss Adalade M. Jones of Mitchell county, this State.