May 31, 1850 – Iowa City pioneer lawyer & entrepreneur Gilman Folsom receives payment from a client in New York City.
Did you know that in the earliest days of Iowa City – there were many young men and women living back in the east that dreamed of starting a whole new life in the American west? One such man was this guy you see pictured here – Gilman Folsom.
Gilman was born in 1818 in New Hampshire and caught the “go-west-young-man-go west” bug, moving here to Iowa City in 1841. This young man came here to practice law, and according to all the records we’ve found, he did just that. But, much like it is today, starting a new business from scratch was no easy deal, and it sounds as though Gilman had some pretty lean years here in the Hawkeye State, before he finally got himself established.
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