This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Solomon, Stone Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nk.2ADI/763 Message Board Post: Mills County Republican 9 Jul 1880 Last Sunday morning at Glenwood after a lingering illness, Joel Solomon, Esq. passed quietly from earth at the advanced age of eighty years. Mr. Solomon was the father of Hon. D. H. Solomon and the father-in-law of Hon. Jno. Y. Stone. In 1856, Mr. Solomon removed to Glenwood from Fulton county, Illinois of which county he was a prominent citizen. He was for years clerk of the county, when the great departed Stephen A. Douglass was the presiding judge and Abraham Lincoln a practicing lawyer. The qualities that commended the deceased in his early days he retained in his new home. For a quarter of a century he has been a vigorous and honorable worker here in life's strife. His business reputation as a real estate dealer is known favorably throughout all southwestern Iowa. Public spirited, of generous impulses, a faithful friend, a kind father and upright citizen and honest man, Mr. Solomon leaves a name which others more known to some might well envy.