Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 950
EGBERT S. SCALES

The high rank taken by Harrison county in the sovereign state of Iowa is the result of incessant and intelligent effort on the part of her citizenry, aided by the wonderful fertility of the soil. However, this must, of necessity, take second rank, when it is remembered that the moral and intellectual standards of any community spring from the standards and ideals of the individual citizen. In the method of advanced idea in the tilling and using of her soil it is apparent that the men and women of Harrison county are such as may well cause her to point back to her history and that of her people with pride.

A farmer and stockman, who aids in upholding the community standards, is Egbert S. SCALES, who was born in Harrison county on October 18, 1872, the son of James and Alice (SMITH) SCALES, the former of whom was born in Ireland, and died in 1900. Alice SCALES was born in Jefferson county, Iowa, March 18, 1853, and died in 1903.

Coming from Ireland to Ohio, at the age of seventeen, James SCALES soon after moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he enlisted in Company C, of the Second Iowa Cavalry. Receiving his discharge at Davenport and moved to Harrison county in 1864, where he worked as a laborer for about eight years, and gradually accumulating capital, he finally bought the farm which now belongs to his son Egbert. This land was cultivated and added to from time to time, until the owner's death in 1901.

As did so many successful men of his time, Mr. SCALES received only a common school education, being born and reared on the farm on which he is now living, where he attended the district school. His father presented him with forty acres of land in 1893, which he cultivated so diligently and with such thrift that he was enabled to purchase the home place, which is located in the northwest part of Magnolia township. The land boasts of extensive improvements, while the entire tract of two hundred and forty acres has a well-groomed appearance, very pleasing to the eye.

Mr. SCALES was married in 1901 to Irene MAULE, whose birth occurred May 8, 1879. One child, Arlon, has blessed the union. Arlon lives with his parents. Mrs. SCALES is native to Raglan township.

Mr. SCALES is a breeder of Poland-China hogs and grade Polled-Angus cattle. He gives his support to the Republican party, and his fraternal relations are established by membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Whole-hearted and optimistic, Mr. SCALES exudes the spirit of the free and limitless West.

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