CHARLES J. HAAS
Charles J. Haas, county attorney of Linn county, who enjoys the
distinction of being the only democrat elected in 1906 and again in
1908, was born in Central City, Iowa, on the 14th of December, 1867,
and is a son of William and Virginia (Gillilan) Haas. The father came
from the vicinity of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and settled in Linn county
in pioneer times. He had been educated in the schools of his native
state and was a young man of twenty-one years when he arrived in Linn
county. He accepted whatever employment he could secure and carefully
saving his earnings was at length enabled to purchase about forty acres
of land near Central City. Subsequently he disposed of that and
acquired another farm near Central City, which is still known as the
Haas homestead and comprises about two hundred and twenty-five acres of
rich land which was carefully cultivated by the father for many years
and transformed into productive fields. He is now living retired and is
one of the respected citizens of his community. unto him and his wife
have been born six children: Charles J.; Mamie, who has departed this
life; Josie; Frank, who wedded Miss Mary Rider; Paul, who is deceased;
and Irma.
The Haas family is an old one in America. The parents of
William Haas were Charles and Sarah (Aten) Haas. The former was born in
New Jersey, removing to Pennsylvania in his boyhood, and he, too,
followed agricultural pursuits.
Charles J. Haas, reared in this county, attended the district
schools and worked on the farm during his boyhood days, dividing his
time between the acquirement of an education and the labors of the
fields. After he was seventeen years of age he pursued a course in
Duncan's Commercial College in Davenport and subsequently engaged in
teaching school for a few years. He then went to Valparaiso, Indiana,
where he spent two years in study, after which he resumed the teacher's
profession. Later he turned his attention to the study of law, which he
also pursued in the Northern Indiana Law School at Valparaiso, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1891. He was then admitted to
the bar in Porter county, Indiana, and also admitted to practice before
the supreme court of that state. He returned, however, to Iowa, and
again engaged in teaching school for a few years. In 1895 he took up
his abode in Marion, where he has since resided, giving his attention
to the practice of law. In 1897 he was elected city attorney and filled
the position in an acceptable manner for three terms. In November,
1900, he formed a partnership with D. E. Voris, with offices in the
Farmers & Merchants Bank building and enjoyed a good clientage
in
the private practice of law until the fall of 1906, when he was elected
county attorney. In 1908 he was reelected and was the only democratic
candidate who received a majority in those two years - a fact which
indicates his personal popularity and the confidence and trust reposed
in his professional ability,. He is now filling the office in most
creditable manner for the second term and is justly accounted one of
the foremost representatives of the Linn county bar.
Mr. Haas belongs to the Trojan Lodge, No. 268, A. F. & A.
M., to Mariola Lodge, No. 8, K. P., of which he is past chancellor,
while in 1907 he was a member of the judiciary committee of the grand
lodge. He also holds membership with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and is a past noble grand. His life has been characterized by
steady progress along lines demanding keep intellectuality, and in the
practice of law he displays careful analysis, clear reasoning and sound
logic, whereby he has won many notable verdicts.
Source: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest
Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II, Chicago, The pioneer
Publishing Company, 1911, page 303-4.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
CLARENCE E. HAHN
Among the sturdy, energetic and successful farmers and stock
raisers of Franklin township, who thoroughly understand the vocation
which they follow and are consequently enabled to carry on their
calling with profit to themselves, is the subject of this sketch, whose
farm is on section 16, Franklin township. He was born in Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1858, and in 1862 came to Iowa with his
parents, Amos and Henrietta (Barnes) Hahn, whose entire lives up to
that time had been passed in the Keystone state. On the paternal side
our subject's ancestors came from Holland, but the Barnes family
originated in Scotland. On coming to this state Amos Hahn first located
near Lisbon, in Franklin township, Linn county, but later removed to
section 3 in the same township, where he purchased a farm of one
hundred and sixty-five acres, making it his home throughout the
remainder of his life. He died February 12, 1897, and his wife departed
this life December 20, 1896 both being buried in the Lisbon cemetery.
They had five children: Sarah, now the wife of William Dixon, of Linn
Grove, Linn township; Clarence E., our subject; Frank, who married
Hattie Leese, and is a carpenter and contractor of Mt. Vernon; Ella,
wife of John Hoodmaker, who runs a dray and hack line in Mt. Vernon;
and Philip, who married Ella Davis and is engaged in teaming in Mt.
Vernon.
Clarence E. Hahn began his education in the Glenwood school,
and completed it in the Mt. Vernon public school, and after laying
aside his text books at the age of seventeen years he devoted his
entire time and attention to the operation of the home farm. Six years
later the family removed to the farm which he now owns and occupies,
and he managed the same until his father's death. He has since
purchased the interests of the other heirs, and has made many
improvements upon the place, the model country residence being
surrounded by beautiful trees, which forms a most attractive spot in
the landscape.
At Anamosa, Iowa, August 31, 1899, Mr. Hahn married Miss
Catherine McDonnell, who was born in Fairview township, Jones county,
Iowa, January 22, 1865. Her father, John McDonnell, was a native of
County Clare, Ireland, and in 1853 came to America on the British
Queen, a sailing vessel, which was three months in crossing the
Atlantic at that time. He landed in New York, and engaged in farming in
the Empire state for seven years before coming to Iowa. Locating in
Jones county, he worked as a farm hand until 1857, and then purchased
eighty acres of land in Brown township, Linn county, where he still
continues to reside. He has added to his original purchase from time to
time, however, until he now has two hundred and forty acres of very
valuable and productive land. His parents, two brothers and two sisters
also came to the United States. While in New York he became acquainted
with Margaret Lynch, who was working in the same family where he was
employed, and their friendship ripening into love they were afterward
married at Cascade, Jones county, Iowa. She was born in County
Kilkenny, Ireland, and she came to the new world in 1855 on the steamer
Lucy Thompson, which sailed from Liverpool to New York. Two years later
she went to Dubuque, where she made her home until her marriage. She
died November 18, 1891. The McDonnell family lived originally in
Scotland, and from that country went to Ireland. Mrs. Hahn is the third
in order of birth in a family of eight children, the others being Mary,
who resides with her father; William, who died in 1889, at the age of
twenty-seven years; Thomas, who died in 1893, at the age of
twenty-eight; Margaret, also at home with her father; Alice, wife of
Albert Dunn, of Linn township, this county; Lucy, at home; and Louis,
who now manages his father's farm.
In his social relations Mr. Hahn is a prominent member of
Bethlehem Lodge, No. 3, K. of P., of Mt. Vernon, of which he is past
chancellor, and he also belongs to the Modern Brotherhood of America.
In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and he has most capably and
satisfactorily filled the office of road supervisor in his district.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
25-26.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
DANIEL
SEWARD HAHN
One of the oldest pioneers who yet lives to tell of the trials and
struggles through which the early settlers passed in establishing homes
in Linn County, is the gentleman whose name heads this
notice. He
came here in 1837, and for a period of half a century has been closely
identified with the development of the county, and has gained a
reputation for honesty and straightforward dealing second to none
within her boundaries. He has witnessed the county's
development
from a wild, uncultivated tract of land to one of the richest and most
productive agricultural districts in the State, and has contributed his
quota to her advancement in these directions.
Daniel
Hahn was born in Butler County, Ohio, June 8, 1809. His
father,
Joseph Hahn, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his father, the paternal
grandfather of our subject, at one time owned the site of the present
thriving and populous city of Cincinnati. The grandfather was
killed by the Indians at North Bend, while there for the purpose of
selling a tract of land to raise money to pay the balance which he owed
on the site of the city of Cincinnati. It is not certain
whether
the grandfather was born in this country or not, but if not, he was of
German parentage.
The father of our
subject was born in Pennsylvania, but after the death of his father the
family removed to Butler County, Ohio, where they secured land and
where our subject's father was reared to manhood. He followed
the
vocation of farming, and continued to reside in Butler County until
1820, when he removed to Indiana, settling near Crawfordsville and
clearing a farm. He removed from the latter county to Knox
County, I11., where he was a pioneer, and where he also improved a farm
and erected thereon a good set of frame buildings, and was busily
engaged at farm work until his death, which occurred in 1850.
The
maiden name of our subject's mother was Susannah Seward, who was a
native of York State and a cousin of the Hon. W. H. Seward.
She
died in Butler County, Ohio. Our subject was the fourth in
order
of birth of his parents' family of five children, and the youngest of
four sons and the only child now living. He was but five
years
old when his mother died, and twelve years of age when the family
removed to Indiana, and there lived to attain his majority.
His
opportunity of acquiring an education was limited, as there were no
free schools in those days, and what education he received was through
the instruction of a private tutor.
Mr.
Hahn married, in 1830, Permelia Epperson, who was born in Tennessee and
reared in Kentucky. He leased a tract of land in Montgomery
County, Ind., after his marriage, and lived there until 1834, engaged
the while in farming. He then, accompanied by his wife and
four
children, started for Illinois overland, bringing his household goods
with him. Arriving in that State, he located at Henderson
Grove,
and worked his father's land until the fall of 1836. He then
moved to Mercer County, that State, but could not obtain a clear title
to land desired in that county, and in the spring of 1837, in company
with his brother-in-law, Charles Moberley, started for the Black Hawk
purchase. They had one horse, and on their journey purchased
corn
and bread sufficient to satisfy their hunger. They, however,
remained only a short time when they returned to Illinois and, with two
yoke of oxen, came to this State and located in Cedar County, where his
brother-in-law had a claim. Remaining with him a short time,
our
subject then came to this county and located on the identical tract of
land on which he now resides. He broke a few acres, erected a
log
house on his claim, and in July returned to Illinois for his family,
and brought them and his household goods to his new home with his
faithful ox-teams. At this time he was the owner of two yoke
of
oxen, a mare and a colt, four cows and about fifty cents in
money. He put in a crop of buckwheat on his brother-in-law's
sod
land, which, after harvesting and placing in a bin, he was extremely
discouraged to see the angry flames destroy, and he was consequently
obliged in buy buckwheat, which he ground in a coffee-mill to keep the
wife and children from starving. The following year he raised
a
crop of winter wheat which he reaped with a sickle and threshed with a
flail. The nearest mill was on Rock Creek, twenty miles
distant. Wild game of all kinds was plenty, and had it not
been
so the early pioneers would have had an extremely hard time to keep
from starving to death, and our subject still retains possession of the
old gun which he had in those days, and with which he killed many a
deer, the same gun having been owned by his father. Mr. Hahn
was
always fearless, and was a terror to horse-thieves who roamed the
country during the early settlement of this county. His life
was
threatened by them time after time, and he always went armed and
prepared for any emergency that might arise. The land when he
first came here was unsurveyed, and the log cabin in which he first
lived was covered with shakes, and he even lived in it for several
months without ever having a floor.
After
the land came into the market our subject entered eighty acres, which
took nearly all the money he had. This he had made off the
land
by raising wheat, corn ami pork, which he sold at Muscatine and
Dubuque. He afterward entered other land as he could obtain
the
means to do so, and the last eighty acres of his claim he paid for with
money received from a man who came along while he was confined to the
house, sick, and who bought some hogs from him and paid him just enough
money to enter his last eighty acres. He entered in all 280
acres, and is now the proprietor of 258 acres of the identical land
which he entered from the Government almost fifty years ago.
He
has a fine stone quarry, good timber and running water on his place,
and from the insignificant price which he paid for it, it has advanced
in value until it is now a handsome competency on which he can live and
enjoy his declining years in peace and quiet. His place is on
section 15, Franklin Township.
Mr. and
Mrs. Hahn became the parents of eleven children, six sons and five
daughters. The faithful wife and mother departed this life
Nov.
16, 1881. Five sons are still living. Charles is a
resident
of Johnson County, Iowa; Joseph, of Osborn County, Kan.; Daniel, of the
little city of Mt. Vernon, in this State; and Sarah, the wife of
William Murray, lives in California; Mary E. married Edward Haley, of
Franklin Township; Jane became the wife of George Johns, and lives in
Mt. Vernon; Elias lives in Kansas; Permelia lives in Mt. Vernon, and
John manages the old homestead.
Mr.
Hahn, politically, affiliates with the Democratic party. He
cast
his first vote for Gen. Jackson, and has remained firm in the faith of
his early manhood, and is perfectly satisfied with President
Cleveland's administration. In religion he is an old school
predestinarian Baptist.
A lithographic portrait of Mr. Hahn is shown on another page of this
work.
Source: portrait
and biographical sketch (verbatim transcription): “Portrait
and
Biographical Album of Linn County, Iowa”, 1887, pages 377 - 379,
portrait on page 376
Submitted by: Eric & Marcia Driggs
H. S. HALE
Among those who fought so gallantly for the preservation of the Union
during the dark days of the Rebellion and have always been numbered
among the most public-spirited and loyal citizens of the community in
which they reside is H. S. Hale, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, who was for many
years identified with the business interests of that place, but is now
living a retired life.
A native of New Hampshire, he was born June 3, 1833, and is a
son of Joseph W. and Susan (Emerson Hale, both of whom were born in
Barrington, New Hampshire, and died in Conway, that state. In order of
birth their children were as follows: Lorenzo T., who married Hannah
Hill, served fourteen months in the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry during the Civil war, and is now a resident of Conway; Lydia
married Silas Von Dexter, and both are now deceased; Susan died
unmarried; John married Ann Willey and lives in Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Mary
is the wife of George Perry, of Des Moines, Iowa; H. S. is the next of
the family; and Thomas married Addie Holman and during the Civil war
enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was
discharged on account of illness at Helena, Arkansas, and died soon
after his return home; and Edgar is engaged in the mining business in
Colorado.
During his boyhood H. S. Hale attended the district schools of
his native state through the winter. On leaving home at the age of
eighteen years he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and obtained
employment in the ship yard, where he worked on the Great Republic, the
largest sailing vessel which had been built up to that time. He
remained there from 1852 until 1859, and in the fall of the latter year
came to Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where he worked as a laborer until the Civil
war broke out.
In 1862, Mr. Hale enlisted at Mt. Vernon, in Company F,
Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and went into camp at Muscatine,
Iowa, whence he went to St. Louis and later to Helena, Arkansas, where
the regiment remained through the winter. While in camp the regiment
made three expeditions first to Moose Lake, then up the St. Francis
river and up the White river to DuBall’s Bluff. In April they started
the Vicksburg campaign, and took part in the skirmishes at Grand Gulf
and Port Gibson; the battles of Champion Hills, Raymond and Jackson;
and the siege of Vicksburg. After the surrender of that stronghold July
4, 1863, the regiment went in pursuit of General Johnston’s forces, to
Jackson, Mississippi, but on the 17th of that month returned to
Vicksburg. They next went to Natchez, Mississippi, and later to
Carrolton, Louisiana, and were in a number of skirmishes during the
fall and winter. The next spring they went with General Banks on the
Red river expedition, and returned to New Orleans in June, 1864. There
they embarked on a large vessel, known as the Star of the West, and
went down the Mississippi, across the Gulf and up the coast to
Washington, D. C. They joined General Sheridan in the Shenadoah Valley
in July, and were in and around Harpers Ferry until the battle of
Winchester, September 19. They also took part in the famous engagement
at Cedar creek on the 19th of October, when General Sheridan made his
memorable ride. Our subject heard the General say, “We will camp this
evening where you left this morning.” He went with his command to
Harrisburg, and from there to Stephenson’s Station, where they remained
in camp through the winter. In April, 1865, they went to Washington,
and there took passage on board a ship for Morehead City, North
Carolina, and from there went to Gouldsburg, that state. On their
return to Morehead City they shipped for Susannah, and on reaching
there were ordered to Augusta, Georgia. They finally returned to
Savannah, where they were mustered out of service July 17, 1865. They
returned to Davenport, Iowa, by way of Washington, D. C., and were
discharged on the 2nd of August.
On again taking up his residence in Mt. Vernon, Mr. Hale was
engaged in the lumber and grain business for three years, and later
followed contracting and painting. He purchased six acres of land in
what is now the heart of Mt. Vernon, which was divided into town lots.
He has steadily prospered owning to the increase in value of his
property, and his good business ability, and is now able to lay aside
all business cares, and spend the remainder of his life in ease and
quiet. He still owns some property which he rents.
On the 25th of November, 1859, Mr. Hale was married in
Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Abbie Hill, who was also born in New
Hampshire, January 16, 1837. Her parents, Charles and Nancy (Russell)
Hill, spent their entire lives in that state, and their remains were
interred at Conway, New Hampshire. They had six children, namely:
Hannah D., wife of Lorenzo T. Hale, of New Hampshire, brother of our
subject; Richard, who wedded Mary Chase, now deceased, and lives on the
old homestead in Conway, New Hampshire; Eunice, who married Joseph
Cloutman and died in Conway in 1884; Abbie, wife of our subject;
Charles, who was a member of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry and died in 1900; and Sarah, a resident of Conway, New
Hampshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Hale are the parents of six children: Homer, born
November 4, 1861, died July 9, 1863; Jesse, born April 28, 1867, was
married August 16, 1893, to Mary Motherall, a native of this state, and
is now a contractor in painting at Sioux Rapids, Iowa; Charles, born in
a log house at McMinnville, Warren county, Tennessee, August 1, 1870,
and is engaged in painting at Mt. Vernon. He was married, December 2,
1897, to Roxey Easterly, a native of Linn county, and they have once
child, Mary M., born in May, 1899; Grace A., born June 3, 1872, was
married, March 3, 1900, to George Towne, who is a bookkeeper in a bank
in Chicago; an infant born December 30, 1874, died December 3, 1875;
Sadie M., born September 14, 1876, lives with her parents.
Mr. Hale was reared a Whig and became a Republican on the
organization of that party, casting the first presidential vote for
John C. Fremont. He is a honored member of the Legion of Honor and W.
C. Dimmock Post, No. 400, G. A. R., while his wife is connected with
the Women’s Relief Corps and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. For over forty years they have been numbered among the leading
residents of Mt. Vernon, and they have a large circle of friends and
acquaintances throughout the county who esteem them highly for their
sterling worth.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
113-115.
Submitted by: Carrie J. Robertson of Marion
HON. JOHN T. HAMILTON (from 1901
History)
 Honored
and respected by all, there is no man in Cedar Rapids who occupies a
more enviable position in mercantile and financial circles than John T.
Hamilton, not alone on account of the brilliant success he has
achieved, but also on account on the honorable, straightforward
business policy he has ever followed.
A native of Illinois, he was born in Geneseo, Henry county, on
the 16th of October, 1843, and is a son of James Steele Hamilton, whose
birth occurred in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1812. His
paternal grandfather, Alexander Hamilton, was born in Ireland of Scotch
ancestry. The father grew to manhood in his native state, and about
1839 removed to Henry county, Illinois, where he married Miss Mary E.
Taylor, a native of Antrim, New Hampshire, and a daughter of Andrew
Taylor, who was also one of the pioneer settler of Henry country. There
the father of our subject engaged in farming throughout the greater
part of his active business life, and there he died in 1889, though he
had lived for a few years in Benton county, Iowa. He was always a
Democrat in politics and a Presbyterian in religious belief. His wife
is still living. Of their five children John T., of this review, is the
oldest; W. W. and Porter are also residents of Cedar Rapids; Sarah E.
is the wife of William Orr, of Geneseo, Illinois; and James W. died at
Coggon, this county, in 1895.
John T. Hamilton began his education in a small log school house, and
later attended the Geneseo Seminary. He remained under the parental
roof until reaching manhood, and from 1864 until 1868 was in the fire
insurance business in Geneseo. On the 2d of February of the latter year
he came to Cedar Rapids, and formed a partnership with A. T. Averill,
under the firm name of Averill & Hamilton, as dealers in farm
machinery, seeds and coal on North First street, where they continued
to carry on business in a frame building until 1873, when they built a
part of what is known as the Merchants block, now a part of the Fair,
and removed to that location. A year later Mr. Averill sold his
interest to J. R. Amidon, and business was successfully conducted under
the style of Hamilton & Amidon. Needing more commodious
quarters,
in 1883, they erected a larger block at the corner of First street and
Third avenue, where they did business until 1891, when our subject’s
brothers purchased Mr. Amidon’s interest, and the name was changed to
Hamilton Brothers. In 1899 they built a fine four-story brick block,
one hundred and twenty feet square, exclusively for their own use. They
handle seeds, coal and all kinds of vehicles, and do a large wholesale
business which extends throughout the state.
Mr. Hamilton has not confined his attention alone to this line of
trade, but has become prominent in banking circles. He was a
stockholder of the City National Bank, and one of the organizers of the
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, which was the first savings bank established
in the city. Its capital stock has been increased from fifty to one
hundred thousand dollars, and it now has a surplus of thirty-five
thousand dollars, while its deposits amount to one million two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, which is the heaviest of any savings bank
in the city. They began business at No. 8 First street, but in 1896
removed to their new six-story building, the two lower stories of which
are of Sioux Falls jasper. The vaults are all steel lined. Mr. Hamilton
has served as president of this bank since its incorporation, and not a
little of its success is due to his able management and sound
judgement. In 1898 the old City National Bank was re-organized as the
Citizen National Bank, of which he was a director, but he finally sold
his interests there, and bought stock in the Merchants National Bank,
of which he was elected president in July, 1899. It has a capital stock
of one hundred thousand dollars and is the oldest national bank in the
city, as well as one of the most solid financial institutions in the
state. Mr. Hamilton was one of the re-organizers of the Cedar Rapids
Light & Power Company, of which he was president from January,
1893, until selling out his interest in the same in December, 1899, and
he made the enterprise an eminent success.
On the 16th of October, 1873, Mr. Hamilton married Miss Sarah A. Jones,
of St. Andrews, Quebec, and of the four children born to them two are
still living, namely: James E., who is now assistant cashier of the
Merchants National Bank; and Mabel Faun. Our subject attends and
supports the Episcopal church, of which his wife is an earnest member,
and he has served as vestryman in the same. The family is quite
prominent socially.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Hamilton is a member of Crescent Lodge,
No. 25, F. & A. M., of which he was master three years; has
also
served as high priest of Trowell Chapter, No. 49, R. A. M.; is a member
of Iowa Consistory, No. 1; and Apollo Commandery, No. 26, K. T., of
which he was the first commander, and held that office two terms. He
was also a charter member of Star of the West Lodge, No. 1, K. P. He is
one of the prominent Democrats of the city and in 1878 was elected
mayor, in which capacity he served for one year. He was a member of the
board of supervisors for three years early in the ‘80s, and during that
period bridges were built across the Cedar river at First avenue, Cedar
Rapids, Center Point and Palo. For six years he was a prominent member
of the Iowa legislature, and was speaker of the twenty-third general
assembly. In 1890 he was elected to congress from the fifth district of
Iowa, and took his seat in December, 1891, becoming a member of several
important committees. He was a candidate for re-election, but his
district being strongly Republican he was defeated. As a business man
he possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his plans
readily and is determined in their execution; and his close application
to business and his excellent management have brought him to the high
degree of prosperity which is to-day his.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
86-90.
Submitted by: Carrie J. Robertson of Marion
HON. JOHN T. HAMILTON (from 1911
History)
 The
analyzation of the life work of John T. Hamilton indicates that
tireless energy, keen persistence, honesty of purpose, genius for
devising the right thing at the right time, joined to every day common
sense and guided by resistless will power, are the chief
characteristics of the man. While he has gained notable success it has
not been alone the goal for which he was striving. He has never been
unmindful of the duties of citizenship and while advancing individual
interests has promoted public progress.
John T. Hamilton was born in Henry county, Illinois, on the
16th day of October, 1843, and is a son of James S. and Mary B.
(Taylor) Hamilton, the former a native of Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, and the latter of Antrim, New Hampshire. The American
ancestors came from the north of Ireland and were of Scotch-Irish
lineage. The parents of John T. Hamilton were married in Henry County,
Illinois, to which district they had accompanied their respective
parents. Later James S. Hamilton turned his attention to agricultural
pursuits with which he was identified during the active years of his
life. On his retirement he removed to Geneseo, Illinois, where he
resided until his death, which occurred when he was seventy-seven years
of age. His wife also passed away there at the advanced age of
eighty-two years. The Hamiltons were Scotch Presbyterian in religious
faith, while the mother’s people were of the Unitarian belief.
John T. Hamilton, spending his boyhood days under the parental
roof, acquired his education in the public schools and in the Geneseo
Seminary. When he put aside his text-books he turned his attention to
the fire insurance business, selling insurance to the farmers for three
years, at the end of which time the company which he represented
failed. He was given a note for his three years’ salary but he never
realized on it. The year 1868 witnessed his arrival in Cedar Rapids. He
reached this city on the 2d of February, and from that time until the
following October represented C. H. McCormick of Chicago, in the reaper
business, but anxious to engage in business on his own account he
formed a partnership, under the firm style of Averill &
Hamilton,
and on the 1st of October, 1868, entered the agricultural implement
business, thus laying a foundation for the extensive enterprise of
Hamilton Brothers, one of the largest houses of its kind in Iowa. Late
in the fall of 1873 Mr. Arverill sold his interests to John R. Amidon
and the style of the firm became Hamilton & Amidon. In the
spring
of 1891 Mr. Hamilton’s brothers, W. W. and Porter Hamilton, acquired
Mr. Amidon‘s interest in the business, which has since been conducted
under the firm name of Hamilton Brothers. Theirs is one of the most
widely known implement houses of the west. They have maintained a high
standard in the personnel of the house, in their business methods and
in the character of the service rendered to the public. In 1899 the
firm erected a commodious brick business block one hundred and twenty
by one hundred and twenty feet and four stories and basement in height.
It is one of the best structures in Cedar Rapids and at this point the
firm handles farm machinery, farm wagons, buggies, binder twine and
seeds and coal. The trade of the house extends largely throughout the
west and the business is constantly expanding along substantial lines,
each year recording an increase in its volume.
Not only has John T. Hamilton been instrumental in developing
and promoting the extensive commercial enterprise conducted under the
name of Hamilton Brothers, but has also been one of the active
promoters of financial interests in this city. In May, 1883, on the
organization of the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank, he became president of
the institution, which he had helped to organize, and has since
remained its chief executive officer. On the 1st of July, 1899, he
became identified with the Merchants National Bank and was elected its
president, since which time he has filled the office. In these
connections he has kept abreast with the rapid development manifest in
financial centers, constantly broadening the policy of the institutions
of which he is at the head and at the same time tempering the
progressive spirit with safe conservatism. He is also a stockholder and
one of the directors of the Cedar Rapids Hotel Company, owners of the
Montrose Hotel, and is a stockholder of the Acme Fire Insurance Company
of Cedar Rapids.
His business interests, extensive, varied and important as
they are, do not cover the field of his activities, for in public
relations Mr. Hamilton has done work as effective, far-reaching and
beneficial as are his business interests. He is a recognized leader of
the democratic party in Iowa and in 1878 was called to the mayoralty,
thus guiding the municipal affairs of the city after a residence here
of only ten years. In the early ‘5Os he was chosen a member of the
board of supervisors of Linn county for a term of three years and still
higher honors awaited him in his election to the state legislature in
which he served in the twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third
general assemblies, being three times chosen a member of the house and
honored with the speakership in the twenty-third assembly—the year of
the deadlock. He was elected to the fifty-second United States
congress, and from 1906 to 1909 served as a member of the board of
control of state institutions. He was first appointed to fill an
unexpired term of two years because of the death of Judge Kinnie and at
the expiration of that time he was reappointed for six years, but
resigned a year or so later. The fact of his reelection to office is
the highest encomium that can be paid to the service that has ever been
characterized by unfaltering loyalty to duty, prompted by high sense of
conscientious obligation and patriotism.
Mr. Hamilton laid the foundation of an attractive home life in
his marriage, on the 16th of October, 1873, to Sarah Ann, daughter of
Edward and Phoebe (McArthur) Jones of St. Andrews, Canada, and unto
them have been born four children, of whom two are yet living: James
E., second vice president of the Merchants National Bank; and Mabel
Fawn, the wife of Robert S. Cook, purchasing agent for the Cedar Rapids
& Iowa City Railway and Light Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton
hold
membership in the Episcopal church, in which he is one of the
vestrymen. He is highly ranked in Masonry, holding membership in
Crescent Lodge, No. 25, A. F. & A. M.: Trowel Chapter, No. 49,
R.
A. M.; Apollo Commandery, No. 26, Knights Templar; Iowa Consistory, No.
2, A. & A. S. R.; and El Kahir Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. He is
also
a demitted member of the Star of the West Lodge, No. 1, K. P., of which
he was one of the organizers, and is a member of Cedar Rapids Lodge,
No. 251, B. P. 0. E. Such is the history of John T. Hamilton, who by
the consensus of public opinion is accorded a prominent position in the
commercial and political circles of Iowa. Those who differ from him in
opinion entertain for him the highest admiration and respect because of
his known loyalty to his honest convictions and because of the
straightforward policy he has ever followed in commercial pursuits. His
life has been varied in activity and its effects hare been so
far-reaching and beneficial as to become not only an integral part of
the history of Cedar Rapids, but also of the state.
Source: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest
Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II, Chicago, The pioneer
Publishing Company, 1911, page 52-6.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
I. S. HANNA
For many years I. S. Hanna, of Coggon, was one of the active
and progressive business men of this county, as well as one of its most
reliable and honored citizens and he is now enjoying a well-earned
rest, free from the cares and responsibilities of his business life. A
native of Pennsylvania, he was born in Fayette county, September 14,
1845, but his parents only resided there about two years when they
moved back to Mahoning county, Ohio, where they had formerly resided.
In 1854 he came to Iowa with his parents, Henry D. and Mary Hanna, who
located in Jackson county. There the father worked at his trade, that
of wagon making, until 1860, when he removed to Clayton county, Iowa,
and turned his attention to farming In 1863 he came to Linn county and
purchased an unimproved tract of land in Bowlder township for four
dollars per acre, and at one commenced to improve the farm. In 1864,
during the dark days of the Rebellion, he enlisted in Company E,
Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry. In the early part of his
service he was injured by being thrown from a car. From the effects of
that injury he was discharged in November, 1864. After his return from
the army he located at Hopkinton, Iowa, where the family had resided
during his absence, but resided there only a short time, and then
returned to this county and resumed the operation of his farm in
Bowlder township. He subsequently engaged in farming on another place
in that township until 1873, when he sold out and removed to Jones
county, Iowa, where he carried on the merchandising and creamery
business and also bought and shipped grain. There he resided until his
death, which occurred July 16, 1881. The mother of our subject had died
in 1849, and the father subsequently wedded Miss Mary Dice, who
departed this life October 26, 1890. By the first union there were two
children: I. S., our subject; and Martha A., who died in infancy. The
children born of the second marriage were Charles M., now a resident of
Manchester, Iowa; Clara M., deceased; and Maggie J., a resident of West
Liberty, Iowa. They were all educated in the public schools of this
county.
Like his father, I. S. Hanna also decided to shoulder his gun
and fight for his country in her hour of peril. Although only sixteen
years of age, he enlisted on the 15th of August 1862, in Company E.,
Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel James I. Gilbert
and Captain Thomas G. Drips. He was then living in Clayton county,
Iowa. This regiment participated in many important engagements and a
large number of skirmishes, including the battles of Fort De Russy,
Pleasant Hill, Kane River, Old Oaks and Tupelo, Louisiana; Old Town
Creek, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee, under General Thomas; and
Fort Blakely, Alabama, taking part in the last named engagement April
9, 1865, -the day of Lee's surrender. During the last ten months of his
service Mr. Hanna was leader of the regimental brass band and played an
E flat instrument. He was never wounded nor injured during his entire
service, and when hostilities ceased was honorably discharged at
Clinton, Iowa, August 8, 1865.
Returning from the war Mr. Hanna rejoined the family in Linn
county, they having located in Bowlder township during his service.
After assisting his father on the farm for a short time, he commenced
work at the plasterer's and stone mason's trades, following those
occupations all through the northeastern part of the county.
On the 12th of December, 1868, Mr. Hanna married Miss Maria
Green, a native of Dubuque county, in 1845, and a daughter of Thomas P.
and Mercy (Hancock) Green, who were among the first settlers to locate
here. The father was born in 1805 and followed farming throughout his
active business life. He lived in the house in Coggon now occupied by
our subject, it being the old Green homestead. For a time he resided in
Delaware county, but returned to this county and lived retired with his
children on the old homestead until his death, which occurred May 9,
1887. His wife had departed this life on the 19th of November, 1882.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanna were Stella M., who died at the
age of twenty years; Jessie L., wife of A. W. Savage, of Coggon; Cora,
at home with her parents; and Elmer and Ethel, who both died in
infancy.
After his marriage Mr. Hanna commenced farming in the western
part of Bowlder township, where he lived for twelve years, and then
removed to Scotch Grove, Iowa, where he engaged in the creamer business
with his brother for a year. In 1882 he came to Coggon and built a
creamery, which he opened for six years, and in the meantime entered
into partnership with his brother-in-law, A. F. Green, in the general
mercantile business and continued his connection with the store until
June, 1899, when he sold his interest in the business and has since
lived retired. Besides his property in Coggon he still owned the old
farm in Bowlder township, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres of
rich and arable land.
Politically Mr. Hanna was formerly a Republican, but is now a
supporter of the Prohibition party. He has never sought official
honors, but has served as school director in Coggon for six years, and
was secretary of the board for some time. Socially he is a member of
John Kyle Post, No. 457, G. A. R., of Coggon, of which he is now
quartermaster. Both he and his wife are earnest and consistent members
of the Christian church of that place, which was organized in 1866, and
he is now senior elder of the same. He has always taken quite an active
part in church work, and has given his support to every enterprise
calculated to advance the moral, social or material welfare of his town
and country.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
747-9.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
ADAM HARRIER
As a contractor and builder Adam Harrier was for over thirty
years prominently connected with the business affairs of Cedar Rapids,
and having met with excellent success during his residence here he is
now able to lay aside all business cares and spend the evening of his
life in ease and quiet, enjoying the fruits of former toil.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Harrier was born in Bedford
county, December 24, 1826, and is a son of Daniel Harrier, whose birth
occurred in the same county in 1808. The paternal grandfather was of
English descent and one of the pioneers of Bedford county, where he
died in 1816. On reaching manhood the father was married there to Miss
Elizabeth Dihel, who was born in the same township where her husband's
birth occurred. By trade he was a carpenter and joiner, but devoted the
latter years of his life to farming. For a few years he worked at his
trade in Allegany county, Maryland, but about 1839 or 1840 returned to
Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he followed farming until his death
in 1875. His first wife, who was the mother of our subject, died in
1844, and later he married again.
Adam Harrier passed the days of his boyhood and youth in
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and not only became familiar with
agricultural pursuits, but also learned the carpenter's and joiner's
trade. In September, 1864, he joined the boys in blue of Company K,
Eighty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and joined his regiment
at Petersburg. He took part in the engagements in front of that
stronghold and Richmond, and assisted in driving Lee's army out. On the
6th of April, 1865, he was in the battle of Sailor's Run, and saw the
flag of truce raised at the time of General Lee's surrender. He lost no
time from illness or other causes during his army life, but was able to
stake arms with his company each night. He was honorably discharged at
Hall's Hill, Virginia, in May, 1865, but two or three days later when
on the return march he was taken ill and sent to a field hospital in
Virginia. Later he was transferred to Washington, and from there to
Chestnut Hill hospital, Philadelphia, where he remained until
sufficiently recovered to return home in July.
Mr. Harrier had only partially regained his health when he
came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in March, 1866. After working at his trade
for others for a short time, he formed a partnership, and commenced
contracting and building on his own account in 1867. Later he was alone
in business until his retirement in 1899. Many business blocks and
private residences in Cedar Rapids show his architectural skill and
handiwork, and he also bought lots on the wet side and erected thereon
five houses for himself.
In Bedford county, Pennsylvania, Mr. Harrier was married,
October 28, 1851, to Miss Mary C. Valentine, also a native of that
county, and a daughter of Jesse Valentine, who was born there. Ten
children blessed this union, but only five are now living, namely:
Sarah Jane is the wife of George Hull, of Cedar Rapids; Louisa B. is
the wife of Robert Stark, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and they have one
child, Harry A.; Loyal R. is part owner and foreman of the Cedar Rapids
Lumber Company; James Albert is connected with the same company as yard
foreman; Lora is at home. Those deceased were Anna Maria, who married
Ira B. Taft, by whom she had three children, Lena, Ray and Inez. She
died April 2, 1901; Martha, who died at the age of four years; Mary,
who died at the age of thirteen; Minnie, who died at the age of
Sixteen; and Alice, who married Thomas A. Grist, of Cedar Rapids, and
died in 1892, at the age of twenty-nine.
Jesse Valentine, who was born in Virginia in 1808, married
Mary Ann Keefer, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. He was
a farmer in Pennsylvania, but later in life (1865) moved to Benton
county, Iowa, where he died, and the mother also. Andrew Valentine,
father of Jesse, was a farmer of Virginia. The grandfather was Jacob
Keefer, a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, of German descent,
but who after his marriage was a farmer of Bedford county,
Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrier were among the original members of St.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, which they assisted in building, and
they have led earnest Christian lives. Fraternally Mr. Harrier is an
honored member of the Grand Army Post, of Cedar Rapids, and politically
he is identified with the Republican party, having supported all of its
presidential candidates since casting his first vote. He is a worthy
representative of that class of citizens who lead quiet, industrious,
honest and useful lives, and constitute the best portion of a
community. Wherever known he is held in the highest regard, and is
certainly deserving of honorable mention in the history of his adopted
country.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
33-34.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
JACOB A. HART
 On
the 26th of May, 1900, there passed away at his home in Cedar Rapids
this well-known and honored citizen, whose death occasioned the deepest
regret throughout the community. For many years he labored with all the
strength of a great nature and all the earnestness of a true heart for
the bettering of the world about him; and when he was called to the
rest and reward of the higher world his best monument was found in the
love and respect of the community in which he lived for so many years.
Mr. Hart was born in Frederick, Maryland, November 18, 1831, a
son of Jacob and Mary (Herring) Hart. He was a good scholar and
received his education in the best schools of the east, always making
good use of his opportunities. He began his business career as a clerk
in his father's grocery store, and later embarked in the tobacco
business on his own account. Subsequently he was in the employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company as conductor for a time, from
Baltimore toward the west.
 In
April, 1855, Jacob Hart, father of our subject, left Maryland,
accompanied by his family, consisting of his wife, two sons and three
daughters, and came to Linn county, Iowa. They purchased a farm south
of Cedar Rapids, but after residing there for a short time sold the
place and removed to Cedar Rapids, where they bought property. The
father died October 25, 1857. Of their children only two are now
living, these being Mrs. Frederick Kehne, who lives in Rapids township,
this county; and Mrs. Sarah Morris, who lives at the Otter Creek
settlement. The son, Casper J., who was in business with our subject
for many years, served three years in the Twentieth Iowa Regiment
during the Civil war, and died in Cedar Rapids in January, 1892.
After a summer spent in this county Jacob A. Hart returned to
Frederick, Maryland, where he was married, October 17, 1855, to Miss
Eleanor Louise Haller, who was born in that city in 1835, and was
provided with good school privileges. Her father, Daniel Haller, who
was connected with the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank of
Frederick, died in that city July 10, 1876, and the mother died in
Baltimore in 1885. In their family were six children, namely: Margaret,
a resident of Frederick, Maryland; Eleanor L., now Mrs. Hart; William
T., of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas G., of Clinton, Iowa; Frances V., of
Baltimore; and Daniel G., also of Clinton, Iowa. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hart
were born three daughters, namely: (1) Mary M., who now resides with
her mother, is the widow of William E. Watts, of Chicago, and has two
children, Eleanor M. and Jay Hart. (2) Eleanor L. married William
Huttig, of Kansas City, where she was accidentally killed in 1889,
leaving two children, Ewart Hart and Frederick Jacob, who are still
residents of that place. (3) Frances Virginia married W. L. Myers and
died March 20, 1892, leaving two children, Hart H. and Willard Lee. The
latter makes his home with his grandmother. Besides her daughter and
three grandchildren, Mrs. Hart's household now includes Oliver C. and
Jacob A., the two sons of Casper Hart.
After their marriage Mr. Hart brought his bride to the home he
had prepared for her in Cedar Rapids. They left Frederick on Monday
evening and arrived here the following Sunday morning. At that time
Cedar Rapids was a mere village and their house stood practically
alone, but it is now in a densely populated district. On first locating
here Mr. Hart found employment in the Ely & Angle Mills, and
later
was with the Washburn Lumber Company, of Minneapolis, in their yard at
this place. Subsequently he was agent for the Lambs of Clinton, Iowa,
having charge of the lumber yard in Cedar Rapids, which he and his
brother Casper J. purchased after a few years, and which they conducted
under the firm name of Hart Brothers for many years, of the business
being closed out soon after the death of the junior partner, Casper J.
Our subject was a good bookkeeper and excellent manager, and by giving
close attention to his business affairs was very successful. In a few
years the business of the firm had assumed extensive proportions, and
they invested largely in real estate. In partnership the brothers owned
a farm in Kenwood, which a year previous to our subject's death was
subdivided, and is now under the control of the Hart Land Company,
composed of Mrs. Eleanor L. Hart and Oliver and Jacob A., the two sons
of Casper J. Hart. In connection with his lumber business our subject
was also interested in the coal business, and in that as in his other
undertakings he was eminently successful, owing to his industrious
habits and indomitable perseverance. His fellow citizens placed in him
the utmost confidence as to his business ability and strict integrity,
and he was often called upon to settle up estates and look after the
property of other people. He was also a stockholder and director in the
Ogden Plow Company and the woolen mills.
In politics Mr. Hart was first a Whig and later a Democrat,
but was not strictly partisan and at local election voted for the men
whom he believed best qualified for office regardless of party lines.
For one term he was a prominent and influential member of the city
council, and was a liberal supporter of all enterprises which he
believed would benefit the city. During the days of the volunteer fire
department he was an enthusiastic member of the Independent Hose
Company, in fact, he was one of the originators of the company, and was
a member of it until the fire department was merged into a paid system.
It was probably through his church relations that Mr. Hat's
influence was most widely felt. Although his business was large and
varied it was never permitted to come between him and his church. He
was a man of great energy and strong determination in all things, as
was shown by his religious work. It was through the influence of
himself and estimable wife that the first English Lutheran church of
Cedar Rapids was organized, and the first meeting was held in their
house. He also paid for the first hall in which services were held, and
the first minister of the denomination in the city was interested
through his efforts. At length it was decided to build a church, and
Mr. Hart was a member of the building committee. On Sunday the
resolution was passed; the following day ground was leased on the
corner of Third avenue and Third street; and on Tuesday the masons
began to work on the foundation for the structure. Mr. Hart always took
a just pride in his church, and always attended all of his meetings. He
and his wife were among the charter members of the church, and he was
always officially connected with the same, serving as treasurer and
elder at the time of his death, while both took an active part in
Sunday-school work. The beautiful organ which furnishes the First
Lutheran church with sweet music witnesses his liberality. It was given
in memory of his beloved daughters, who had passed on before. Mr. Hart
was also a liberal supporter of all charitable enterprises; was an
active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association; and a member of
its board of managers. In all church work he was ably seconded by his
wife, and it was through her influence, with few others, that the
Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society was organized at Cedar
Rapids, it being the first enduring society of the kind in the United
States synod of the English Lutheran church. At his death the following
resolutions were passed:
Whereas, in the Providence of God our brother and fellow
laborer in the councils of this church has been removed from the scenes
of life on earth to those in glory, We, his co-laborers in the council
of the First Lutheran church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will miss his wise
and good counsel and intense interest in the welfare of the church.
We further desire to place on record our very high
appreciation of his life in the Lord's house, and shall pledge
ourselves anew to labor more faithfully for the Lord's cause because of
the noble example our Brother J. A. Hart has left us; and while we
humbly pass under the rod we pray for a new baptism of the Holy Spirit
upon our every endeavor in His name.
We desire also to express our hearty sympathy to his family in their
sore personal bereavement and pray the blessing of Almighty God upon
them all.
In His name,
C. W. Maggart, Pastor and President.
H. J. Rap, Secretary.
By order of the council First Lutheran church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June
6, 1900. Whereas, in the Providence of God, our school has been bereft
of one of its charter members, Brother J. A. Hart, who has been
faithful and true to the last, be it.
Resolved, that we place on record our very high appreciation of his
worth and helpfulness during all the years of the school's existence.
We make and record this work of love and memory and bow humbly and
submissively to the will of our Heavenly Father, knowing that while we
sustain a great loss, our deceased brother has made a great gain.
We desire also to express our sincerest sympathy to all his family in
their sore personal grief.
(Action in Sunday-school, June 3, 1900)
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
230-237.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
THOMAS J. HART
In November, 1870, this gentleman came to Linn county, and for
about thirty years was one of its most thrifty and industrious
agriculturists, owning and operating a valuable and well-improved farm
of two hundred and seventy acres in Washington township, two miles from
Center Point, but he is now living retired in that village. He was born
on the 26th of April, 1835, in Preble county, Ohio, of which locality
his ancestors were pioneers. His parents, Silas and Hannah S. (Slinger)
Hart, were both natives of Ohio, and spent their entire lives as
farming people in Preble county, where the father died in 1870.
On the old homestead farm Thomas J. Hart passed the days of
his boyhood and youth, and was given good educational privileges. After
arriving at man's estate he was married, in Preble county, November 14,
1860, to Miss Ellen Kenney, a native of Delaware county, Ohio, where
her early life was spent. Her father, Albert J. Kenney, was born in
Virginia, and was married in Maryland to Miss Susan Buzzard, a native
of that state. They were among the first settlers of Delaware county,
Ohio, where in the midst of the forest he cleared and improved a farm,
making his home thereon throughout the remainder of his life. He died
at the age of eighty-two years, his wife at the age of seventy-one. Mr.
and Mrs. Hart have three children: Anna, wife of Isaac H. Kerr, a
practicing attorney of Trenton, Missouri; J. P., who is married and
engaged in the livery business in Winterset, Iowa; and Forest, a
resident of Linn, Iowa.
After his marriage Mr. Hart was engaged in the manufacture of
tile in Preble county, Ohio, for nine years, and built up a good
business. In 1870 he came to Linn county, Iowa, and first located in
Marion, where he handled washing machines and engaged in the patent
right business for two years. He then purchased a farm in Otter Creek
township, on which he made his home for five years, and then traded
that property for his present farm in Washington township. In 1876 he
bought property in Center Point, and though he made his home there he
continued to operate his farm. The following year he returned to
Delaware county, Ohio, where he engaged in farming on the Kenny
homestead for two years, but at the end of that time he again came to
Linn county, Iowa, and located on his farm in Washington township, to
the further improvement and cultivation of which he devot3ed his time
and energies for some years, making it one of the most desirable farms
of its size in the locality. Renting his farm in 1897, he removed to
Center Point, where he purchased a lot and built a residence that has
since been his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart commenced life together in limited
circumstances, but by their united efforts and untiring industry they
have acquired a large and valuable farm and a good home in Center
Point. Religiously they are active members of the Methodist Episcopal
church, with which Mr. Hart is officially connected, and are people of
prominence in their community. Politically he is a Jeffersonian
Democrat, as was his father before him, and he cast his first
presidential ballot for James Buchanan in 1856, but he has never cared
for political honors, preferring to devote his undivided attention to
his business interests.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
375-376.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
WILLIS G. HASKELL
Senator from the twenty-ninth district, composed of Linn
county, was born June 5, 1857, in Bradford, Chickasaw county, Iowa.
Some three weeks before the session of the forty-second general
assembly closed he was taken ill of influenza but continued his duties
until about a week before the session closed, when he became worse and
was confined to his bed. He failed to rally and his death took place
April 17, 1927, at Des Moines. Senator Haskell's education was secured
in the grade schools of Cedar Falls, Charles City and Independence. As
a young man he was employed as telegrapher, station agent and traveling
freight and passenger agent.
In 1893 he entered the wholesale and retail coal business in which he
was engaged at the time of his death. He was also interested in the
manufacturing business and real estate business. Was a director of the
Merchants national bank of Cedar Rapids for a number of years. Served
as alderman of Vinton and of Cedar Rapids. Was chairman of the park
commission of Cedar Rapids, member of the republican state central
committee, president of the Cedar Rapids Commercial club and postmaster
there from 1909 to 1913. Was married June 15, 1881, to Mae E. Williams
and had four children, two boys and two girls. Was a member of the
Masonic Knights of Pythias and B.P.O.E. lodges. Elected senator in
1916, 1920 and 1924.
Iowa Official Register 1927-1928 - Biographies of State Senators, pg.
231-232
JAMES D. HAYES
This gentleman is one of Cedar Rapids' highly respected citizens, whose
useful and well-spent life has not only gained for him the confidence
of his fellow men, but has also secured for him a handsome competence
which enables him to lay aside all business cares and spend his
declining days in ease and retirement. he came to Linn county in the
spring of 1856 and located near Palo, in Fayette township. He was
actively identified with her agricultural and industrial interests
until the fall of 1900, when he removed to Cedar Rapids and is now
living a retired life.
Mr. Hays was born in Buffalo, New York, November 7, 1836, and
is a son of William and Johanna (Kinney) Hayes, natives of Ireland, who
came with their respective parents to this country during childhood.
The father was reared and educated in New York, and made farming his
life work. He removed to Wisconsin when our subject was nine years of
age and purchased a tract of timber land near Sheboygan, which he
improved and transformed into a good farm. Later he went to Texas,
where he made his home until called from this life when about sixty-two
years of age. His wife died in Wisconsin. Their children were James D.,
the subject of this sketch; Mary and Ellen, who both died in Wisconsin,
unmarried; and William, who died in Texas. All were educated in the
country schools near their home.
James D. Hayes remained at home until sixteen years of age,
and then began life for himself as a farm hand. Later he learned the
cabinetmaker's trade and afterward took up carpentering, which he has
followed at intervals ever since. On first coming to Palo in the year
1856 he worked at his trade for several years, there being plenty of
carpenter work to do at that time, as the county was then being settled
up. For a time he was in the employ of the county, building bridges,
and he did general contracting, both in Masonry and carpenter work. He
purchased a farm on section 20, Fayette township, adjoining the village
of Palo, and for several years gave his attention to agricultural
pursuits. He still owns four hundred and fifty acres of fine farming
land under a high state of cultivation and improved with good buildings
erected by himself.
In 1859 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hayes and Miss
Lovina McVey, who was born in Ohio in 1838, and to them were born six
children, namely: (1) Hattie is the wife of Emery McArthur, who lives
near the home farm in Fayette township, and they have four children,
James, Carl, Minnie and William Lee. (2) Nettie is the wife of Stephen
Mobry, also a farmer of Fayette township, and they have two children,
Clifford and Della. (3) Anna is the wife of Lyman Carver, a farmer of
the same township, and they have four children, Ervin, Alice, Leonard
and Ruth. (4) Elizabeth is the wife of B. F. Childs, a laundryman of
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and they have three children, Russell, Neta and
Gordon. (5) James M., who lives on the old homestead in Fayette
township, married Minnie Rehder, and they have four children, Burman,
Mary, Fayette and Esther. (6) Sylvanus is at home with his parents. The
children were all educated in the public schools of Palo, the village
being laid out adjoining their father's farm.
For four years Mr. Hayes conducted a general store in Palo. On
coming to Cedar Rapids he purchased property on F avenue, and erected
thereon a nice home. He also built a business block, which is now
rented to a druggist, and now has four dwelling houses and four store
buildings in the city, all located on the west side. When he came to
Linn county much of the country was unbroken prairie and swamp land,
and Marion was its largest town. There being no bridges all streams had
to be forded. Mr. Hayes has watched with interest the wonderful
development of the county, and has ever borne his part in the work of
upbuilding and advancement. He has always been among the first to
assist any charitable enterprise, and has never withheld his support
from any object which he believed would prove of public benefit. He was
one of the most popular men of his township, and was called upon to
fill a number of local offices, serving as township clerk several years
and supervisor one term. His success in life is due entirely to his own
well directed efforts, for without the aid of influence or wealth he
started out to make his own way in the world, and to-day is one of the
most substantial and prosperous men of his community, as well as one of
its most highly esteemed citizens.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
42-43.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
J. F. HEIMER
This enterprising and progressive farmer and stock raiser,
residing on section 23, Franklin township, was born in Pennsylvania on
the 15th of June, 1853, a son of George and Mary (Metz) Heimer, also
natives of that state. In 1865 the family removed to Stephenson county,
Illinois, where the father engaged in farming for eleven years, and
then sold out, moving to Cedar county, Iowa, where he bought a farm of
one hundred and sixty acres, on which he lived for five years. On
disposing of that place he came to Lisbon, Linn county, where he
purchased a home and is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of
former toil. For the past two years he has been a member of the city
council, and he has ever taken an active and commendable interest in
public affairs. Religiously both he and his wife are members of the
Reformed church, and are people of the highest respectability. Unto
them were born three children, of whom our subject is the oldest; Henry
I. died at the age of three years; and Josephine is at home with her
parents.
J. F. Heimer was a lad of fourteen years when he accompanied
his parents on their removal to Stephenson county, Illinois. He had
previously attended the district schools of his native state, and
completed his education in Illinois. Early in his life he became
familiar with all the duties which fall to the lot of the
agriculturist, and continued to assist his father in the cultivation of
the home farm until his marriage in 1875. He then removed to Cedar
county, Iowa, where he bought a farm and followed his chosen occupation
there for seven years. Coming to Linn county, in 1883, he leased what
was then known as the J. B. Sargent farm on section 23, Franklin
township, and here he has made his home ever since. He has two hundred
acres of well improved and valuable land, on which has been erected a
good residence and barns. For the past twenty years he has given
considerable attention to the breeding of short horn cattle, and is one
of the best posted men on this grade of stock in Linn county. He also
breeds Shropshire sheep and Poland China hogs and raises horses for
market, feeding all of the grain raised upon his farm to his stock. He
is a thoroughly up-to-date and progressive farmer and stock raiser in
every respect.
Before leaving Stephenson county, Illinois, Mr. Heimer was
married, August 29, 1875, to Miss Mary Miller, who was also born in
Pennsylvania, November 7, 1854, and is a daughter of John and Sophia
(Wertzy) Miller, natives of the Keystone state and farming people. It
was in 1859 that the Miller family removed to Stephenson county,
Illinois, and when the mother died in the spring of the following year
the children became separated. They were six in number, namely:
Abraham, who married Anna Potter and lives in Cherokee, Iowa; Franklin,
who was born December 19, 1850, and is now deceased; Samuel, who
married Sarah Leonard and resides in Minnesota; Mary, wife of our
subject; Jacob, who died in Cherokee county, Iowa; and one who died in
infancy.
Religiously Mr. Heimer is a member of the Evangelical church
of Lisbon, and politically is identified with the Republican party, but
he has never cared for office, preferring to devote his undivided
attention to his extensive business interests. By his systematic
methods of conducting his work, his strict attention to all the details
of his business, and his thoroughly upright dealings, have made for him
an honorable record in the business world, and he is highly respected
and esteemed by all who know him.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
168-9.
Submitted by: Carrie J. Robertson of Marion
ZACHARIAH HEIN
 ZACHARIAH
HEIN, now residing on section 28, is not only one of the pioneers of
Monroe Township, but is the oldest settler, having come here in March,
1840. He was born in Saxony, Oct. 1, 1837, and in 1839 came
with
his parents to America. They stopped in St. Louis for awhile,
and
in the spring came to this township, and some years afterward his
father entered forty-two acres. The parents were Michael and
Christina Hein, both born in Germany. The former was born
Jan.
12, 1798, and died April 19,1882; the mother died when our subject was
but seven years of age. There were nine children in the
parental
family, all of whom are dead but our subject.
March
18, 1883, Mr. Hein married Mrs. Melissa (Black) Tisher. Her
parents, John and Martha (Wilson) Black, natives of Ohio, live in this
township, and are old settlers. Two children have been born
to
the union of our subject and wife, namely: Franklin T., Feb. 4. 1884,
and Jessie L., Jan. 15, 1886. By her former marriage with
Charles
Tisher, Mrs. Hein had two children -- Charles F. and Jacob C.
Mr.
Hein is the owner of eighty acres of fine land in this township, all of
which is well improved, with good buildings.
Mr.
Hein was one of the defenders of our Government, being mustered into
Co. A. 6th Iowa Vol. Inf., on the 17th of July, 1861, at Burlington,
for a period of three years. He participated in the first
general
engagement at Shiloh, took part in the sieges of Corinth and Vicksburg,
fought at Jackson, Miss., and at Lookout Mountain, at Resaca, Kennesaw
Mountain, etc., and in fact was under Sherman through all his
campaign. At Kennesaw Mountain he was wounded in the right
arm,
just above the elbow. This was his last battle, and he was
honorably discharged, July 17, 1864, at Davenport. For the
last
three years of his life he has been farming.
Mr.
Hein is a man of sterling worth, an excellent financier, and stands
high in the business community. Though holding to a high
moral
standard, he does not belong to any church organization. In
politics he is a Democrat, but in local elections votes for the best
man regardless of party. He has had the pleasure of
witnessing
the transformation of this township from a raw. uncultivated prairie,
to a blooming garden. In the sunset of life, knowing that he
has
acted uprightly before God and man, he can look back upon his past with
a consciousness that in all his dealings he has not knowingly done a
wrong, or willingly caused pain to any one with whom he has come in
contact.
The portraits of Mr. Hein and
wife, which are shown in connection with this sketch, will be welcomed
by a large number of friends.
Source: portrait and biographical
sketch (verbatim transcription): “Portrait and Biographical
Album
of Linn County, Iowa”, 1887, biographical sketch on pages 277 - 278,
portrait on page 276
Submitted by: Eric & Marcia Driggs
HENRY C. HENDERSON
 Henry
C. Henderson, who is busily engaged in the operation of his farm of one
hundred and sixty acres in Jackson township, also devotes considerable
attention to the raising of stock and in both branches of his business
has met with, creditable success. His birth occurred on the old
Henderson homestead in Jackson township on the 17th of February, 1874,
his parents being Peter G. and Jane Arabelle (Mills) Henderson. A
sketch of the father is given on another page of this volume.
Henry C. Henderson was reared under the parental roof and
obtained his early education in the common schools, while subsequently
he attended the Cedar Rapids Business College. He was married at the
age of twenty-three years but remained with his parents for two years
longer, assisting his father in the operation of the home farm. In 1899
he purchased and located upon eighty acres of his present place in
Jackson township and later bought a tract of similar size adjoining, so
that his farm now embraces one hundred and sixty acres of rich and
productive land. He annually gathers large crops which bring a
gratifying financial return and also derives a substantial income from
his live stock interests, making a specialty of the breeding and
raising of red polled cattle. He is likewise a stockholder in the
Central City State Bank and well deserves classification with the
substantial and representative citizens of his native county.
On the 3d of February, 1897, Mr. Henderson was united in
marriage to Miss Pearl Ford, of Jackson township, her father being
Edward Ford, now a resident of Forest City, Iowa. They have become the
parents of four children, three of whom are yet living, namely: Mary
M., Hiel H. and Donald E.
In politics Mr. Henderson has always been a stanch republican
but has never sought nor desired the honors and emoluments of office.
Fraternally he is identified with Wapsie Lodge, No. 235, I.0.0.F., and
both he and his wife belong to the Rebekahs. They are likewise devoted
and consistent members of the Congregational church, in the work of
which they are deeply and helpfully interested. A man of high worth and
sterling integrity, Mr. Henderson is widely respected and esteemed in
the community where his entire life has been spent.
Source: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest
Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. II, Chicago, The pioneer
Publishing Company, 1911, page 340.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
WILLIAM J. HENDERSON
William J. Henderson, well known as a successful agriculturist
and stockman of Linn county, owns and operates a valuable farm of four
hundred and forty acres in Jackson township. His birth occurred in that
township on the 13th of February, 1868, his parents being Peter G. and
Jane (Arabell) Henderson. A sketch of the father appears on another
page of this work.
William J. Henderson attended the common schools in the
acquirement of an education and remained at home until he had attained
the age of twenty-one years, when lie was married. During the ollowing
ten years he resided on what is now known as the Charlie Carl farm and
on the expiration of that period purchased two hundred and forty acres
of his present place in Jackson township. He has made his home thereon
continuously since and has extended the boundaries of the farm by
additional purchase until it now comprises four hundred and forty
acres. In connection with the tilling of the soil he makes a specialty
of breeding and raising Englishshire horses and thoroughbred red polled
cattle and this branch of his business has proved a gratifying source
of remuneration to him. His live-stock interests have brought him an
extensive acquaintance in Linn and adjoining counties and he is widely
recognized as a prosperous, progressive and enterprising citizen. He is
a stockholder in the State Bank of Central City.
On the 19th of March, 1889, Mr. Henderson was united in
marriage to Miss Lottie Freeman, of this county, her father being Hull
Freeman, now deceased. Unto them have been born eight children, seven
of whom still survive, namely: Vera B., Louie A., Lawrence D., John C.,
Carl P., Ada L. and Floyd C., all at home.
Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr.
Henderson has supported the men and measures of the republican party,
believing that its principles are most conducive to good government.
That many of his staunchest friends are numbered among those who have
known him from his boyhood to the present time is an indication that
his has been an honorable, upright life and one worthy of the esteem in
which he is uniformly held.
Source: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the
Present Time, Vol. II, Chicago, 1911. Pages 7-8.
Contributed by: Terry Carlson
CALEB HENDRICKS
About a mile and a quarter south of us, in the edge of the
timber, there lived another lone bachelor by the name of Caleb
Hendricks. It was the same place, that, after passing through the hands
of John Stambaugh and John G. Cole, finally came in to the possession
of Mr. S. C. Bever. Mr. Hendricks was a tall, loose-jointed man, of
rather dark complexion, and possessed of a countenance not remarkably
attractive, but nevertheless giving you the impression that behind it
there was a kind heart, honest and true.
Mr. Hendricks was here when we came, or he made his appearance
shortly after, but at this late date I am unable to state where he came
from with certainty, but my impression is that he was a native of Ohio.
He was a frequent visitor at our house, and we were always glad to
welcome him to our family board.
More than once we shared our plain provisions with him, for
mother pitied him in his loneliness, and she often cooked up something
for him to take home with him. He was a consistent member of the
Methodist Church, and was in every way a citizen of the most
substantial character, and to whom any community might well extend a
welcome hand. After selling his claim here, he located in the northern
part of the county, where he died some years ago.
Source: Carroll, Rev. George R., Pioneer Life In and Around
Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1839 to 1849, page 66, Times Printing and
Binding House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1895.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
GEORGE W. HOGLE, M.D.
Dr. George W. Hogle is a successful physician of Mt. Vernon,
who has much natural ability, but is withal a close student and
believes thoroughly in the maxim "there is no excellence without
labor." His devotion to the duties of his profession therefore,
combined with a comprehensive understanding of the principles of the
science of medicine, has made him a most successful and able
practitioner, whose prominence is well deserved.
The Doctor was born in Scott county, Iowa, November 18, 1860,
a son of Enoch and Isabella (Winey) Hogle, natives of New York and
Pennsylvania, respectively. His parents came to this state when young,
and met and were married at Allen's Grove, Scott county, in 1855. After
residing in that county for a number of years, they removed to Clinton
county, Iowa, in 1866, and the father purchased a tract of raw prairie
land near Big Rock, to the improvement and cultivation of which he
devoted his energies for ten years. He next resided near Vail, Crawford
county, Iowa, until January, 1891, when he came to Mt. Vernon, and now
makes his home near his son's sanitarium. He has retired from active
labor and is enjoying a well-earned rest. Religiously he is a
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In his family were
nine children of whom two died in infancy. The others were as follows:
Mary E. married W. H. Andre and died in Mt. Vernon in 1899. Jemima is
the wife of Richard M. Botts, who lives near Neligh, Nebraska; George
is next in order of birth; Anna is the wife of H. L. Streby, a farmer
of Mt. Vernon; Isaac W. married Marian Dickson, of Cedar Falls, and
resides near Bishop, California. He is a registered pharmacist; Herbert
S. married Lizzie Whitcomb and lives in Mt. Vernon; Burton W. died at
that place in 1897; and Stella May is the wife of Merton Kepler, a
farmer living west of Mt. Vernon.
Dr. Hogle obtained his primary education in the district
schools of Clinton and Crawford counties, and attended the public
schools of Vail for a time. In the fall of 1882 he entered Cornell
College, of Mt. Vernon, where he was a student for four years, and on
leaving that institution received a diploma from the engineering
department. He next entered the medical department of the Miami
University of Ohio, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in
1891, and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at
Mt. Vernon, Iowa. In 1894 he went abroad to further perfect himself in
his chosen profession, and while there renewed his acquaintance with
Dr. Kate A. Mason [see bio below], whom he had formerly met at Mt.
Vernon, and who had also gone to Europe to study medicine. They were
married in London, England, October 13, 1894, and both took a course in
the London Post Graduate School, returning to Mt. Vernon in December of
that year. Since then they have been actively engaged in the practice
of their profession here, and for a time also conducted a pharmacy in
connection with his brother, I. W. Hogle, which partnership continued
until 1898. In June, 1900, Dr. Hogle bought and rebuilt an elegant home
at the corner of First and Fourth streets, and here conducts a private
hospital and sanitarium, known as the Palatine Hospital and Sanitarium.
It has been fitted up in the most approved manner, being supplied with
all modern conveniences for the practice of medicine and surgery, is
heated by steam and lighted by gas, there being a plant for this
purpose in connection with the building. They have been most successful
in the treatment of cases brought to them, and their sanitarium has
already won a wide-spread and enviable reputation.
Dr. George W. Hogle makes a specialty of the diseases of the
eye, ear, nose and throat, and holds a certificate from Kings College,
London. He is a member of the Iowa State Medical Association and the
Iowa Union Medical Association, and is now a member of the committee on
necrology. Socially he is a member of the Mt. Vernon Lodge, No. 112, F.
& A. M., and religiously is a member of the Methodist church,
of
which he is now a trustee. He finds no time to devote to political
affairs, but his sympathies are with the Prohibition party, and he
always supports that ticket.
Source: Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa. Chicago: The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Company, 1901. p. 268-269.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
KATE ANNA MASON HOGLE, M.D.
In the last few years women have become very active in business
affairs and many of them have become deservedly prominent in
professional circles. Among these is Dr. Kate A Mason Hogle, of Mt.
Vernon, who is a native of this county, her birth having occurred at
Marion, August 9, 1859. Her father, Levi H. Mason, was born in New
York, and when a young man came to Linn county, Iowa. He was twice
married, his first wife being Miss Eunice Ann Smith, and by that union
were the following named children: Emily A., wife of John W. Coombes,
of Whitman, Nebraska; Laura M., who married William D. Brown and died
at Rosehill, near Wichita, Kansas, in 1884; and Gertrude A., who
married Cyrus H. Aiken, of Louisburg, Kansas, and died in 1880. Near
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in 1856, Mr. Mason was united in marriage with Miss
Mary Ide, a native of Massachusetts, who was then teaching school in
this county. They made their home at Marion until 1860, while Mr. Mason
served as sheriff of the county, and then removed to Mt. Vernon. During
the Civil war he enlisted as quartermaster in the Thirty-first Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, and was taken ill during the siege of Vicksburg. He
was brought home but died the night after his arrival. His wife still
survives him and resides three-fourths of a mile south of Mt. Vernon.
They were the parents of the following-named children: Carrie, wife of
H. T. Moen, of Rosehill, Kansas; Kate A., of this sketch; Homer A., who
died at the age of two years; and Levi H., who died at the age of three
months. The Mason family was founded in America by John Mason, who
lived in New York prior to 1800, having emigrated to this country from
Ireland.
Dr. Kate A. Mason Hogle acquired her early education at her
mother's knee. The latter had been a successful teacher, having been
educated at the State Normal School in Westfield, Massachusetts. Later
the Doctor attended Cornell College, where she was graduated in 1882,
with the degree of A. B., and then entered the Woman's Medical College
of Chicago, which is now a part of the Northwestern University, and
from which she was graduated in 1885, with the degree of M. D. She
received the appointment as house physician at the Hospital for Women
and Children, as the result of a competitive examination, and remained
there six months. She was next engaged in practice at Wellington,
Kansas, for two years, and in 1889 opened an office in Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, where she has since engaged in practice with marked success. In
1891 she took a post-graduate course at the Polyclinic in New York
city, and then returned to Mt. Vernon, but in 1894 went to Europe to
continue her studies. She attended lectures at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland; also took up clinical work at Berlin, Germany; and
a post-graduate course in London, England. while at the last named
place she gave her hand in marriage to Dr. George Hogle, of Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, as stated in the preceding sketch. Since their return to this
country they have continued practice at Mt. Vernon. They have one son,
Berton Mason, born May 6, 1899.
Dr. Kate A. Mason Hogle is a member of the State Medical
Society and the District Medical Society, and is one of the ablest lady
physicians engaged in practice in this state, having not only taken a
thorough course of study in this country, but the year in Europe was
well spent. She belongs to the Engleside Club and the Woman's Relief
Corps of Mt. Vernon, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies connected with the
same.
Source: Biographical Record of Linn County, Iowa. Chicago: The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Company, 1901. p. 269-270.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
JOSEPH HOLLAN
Mr. Joseph Hollan came to Iowa in 1843, locating first about a
mile northwest of Marion. He was a native of Delaware, but for many
years he had resided in McKean County, Pennsylvania, from which place
he came direct to this state. In the spring of 1844 he rented and moved
on to Judge Greene’s mound farm. Here he remained for three years and
proved himself to be a good tenant and careful and thrifty farmer.
While living on the mound farm, a Methodist class was formed at his
house, of which he and his wife and my father and mother became
members. He afterwards moved into town, purchased a lot on Fifth avenue
near Second street and erected a comfortable house which he occupied
till the close of his life.
Mr. Hollan was always considered a man of sterling qualities,
industrious, frugal and conscientious in all his business transactions.
He was always held in high esteem in the church of which he was a
member, and for many years he held the offices of class leader and
steward. By his faithful industry, the careful management of his
business affairs and his simple habits of life, he secured for himself
and family a comfortable home which he lived many years to enjoy. His
death occurred September 24, 1886.
His wife who still survives has always been considered a woman
of stainless Christian character. Retiring in disposition, kind of
heart, and courteous in her manners, she has always been held in high
esteem by those who have known her best. For some years past she has
been in very feeble health, and for the past year her mind has been
clouded and her eyesight has entirely failed. Of their four children,
Samuel, Ellsworth, Joseph and Orril, only Samuel, the well known
proprietor of one of our city transfers, remains, to be a comfort and
support to his mother in her old age and sad condition. The patient,
untiring vigilance with which he has watched by the maternal bedside
during these trying years, is indeed commendable, and proves him to be
a worthy son of a most worthy parentage.
Source: Carroll, Rev. George R., Pioneer Life In and Around
Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1839 to 1849, pages 174-5, Times Printing and
Binding House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1895.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
MARTIN HOLUB
Martin Holub is one of the wealthy landowners of Linn county,
owning altogether three hundred and ten acres in Boulder township. He
is a native of that township, born in 1856, of the marriage of Wensel
and Mary (Ceman) Holub, who were natives of Bohemia, Austria.
Emigrating to America in 1852, the family located on forty acres of
land in Linn county, which the father entered from the government.
Their first home was a dugout but as soon as circumstances would permit
Mr. Holub built a log house containing but one room, and in this crude
structure the family lived for many years. As time passed and he
prospered in his undertakings, he added to his holdings and erected
buildings in keeping with the times, eventually accumulating two
hundred acres.
In 1883 he abandoned agricultural pursuits and took up his abode in
Prairieburg, where he lived retired until his death in 1889. The mother
still survives, making her home in that village with her youngest
daughter, She has reached the ripe old age of eighty-four years and has
reared a family of fourteen children, of whom only seven are living.
Martin Holub was reared under the parental roof and acquired his
education in the public schools. At the age of twenty-two years his
father started him in business by deeding him a farm of eighty acres,
which constitutes a portion of his present holdings. He has purchased
land from time to time as he prospered and is now the owner of three
hundred and ten acres, all of which is under a high state of
cultivation, while the improvements on the place are some of the finest
to be found in his section of the county.
Method is apparent in the conduct of this farm, the land being platted
and arranged so that the best results may be obtained from the labor
expended. Closely adhering to a systematic rule of crop rotation, he
has made a study of the adaptability of certain crop to certain soils,
and each year he gathers golden harvests. On the 2nd of November, 1889,
Mr. Holub was united in marriage to Miss Mary Holub, a daughter of
Frank and Katrena (Malena) Holub, who were born in Bohemia, Austria,
whence they emigrated to the new world in 1847. Locating in Iowa City,
the father there followed carpentering for many years, eventually
purchasing farm land and engaging in agricultural pursuits. He led a
busy and active life until his death in 1899, having survived his wife
only eight months.
They had a family of thirteen children, but only four of the
number are now living. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Holub have been born eighteen
children, of whom two died in infancy, the living members being Joseph,
Martin, Emma, Frank, John, Paul, Mary, Thomas, Anna, Victor, Sophia,
Elizabeth, Raymond, Vencle, Henry and William. All have been educated
in the common schools. Mr. Holub gives his political support to the
republican party and for several terms served as township supervisor,
while for several terms he was also on the school board, the cause of
education ever receiving his hearty cooperation. Both he and his wife
are members of the Catholic church. He has made wise use of his talents
and opportunities and has met with well merited success. He is
public-spirited to a marked degree and has a host of friends, by whom
he is highly esteemed.
Source: 1911 Linn Co., IA History Vol. II pgs. 455-456
Submitted by
Becky Teubner
Anton Holubar
Many of Linn county’s most progressive and successful citizens
have come from beyond the sea, and through their own well-directed
efforts have become prosperous men. To this class belongs Anton
Holubar, who was born in Austria October 10, 1845, and is a son of
Joseph and Frances (Hyake) Holubar, natives of the same country. There
he attended school for four years, the children of Austria only being
required to attend school seven years, but he came to America before
the expiration of that time. It was in 1855 that the family took
passage at Hamburg on the Johanna, a sailing vessel, which dropped
anchor in harbor of Quebec after a voyage of six weeks. By boat and
train they at once proceeded to Rock Island, Illinois, then crossed the
Mississippi to Muscatine, and from there went to Johnson county, Iowa,
where the father purchased sixty-five acres of land, on which he
resided until his death, which occurred November 21, 1896, his remains
being interred in a Catholic cemetery near Solon on Thanksgiving day.
His widow is still living and resides at Solon, Johnson county. Unto
them were born five children, namely: Stephen married and went to
California, where his death occurred; Joseph, who served for three
years in Company K, Twenty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, during the
Civil war, wedded Mary Chudachick, now deceased, and resides in Iowa
City; Anton, our subject is next in order of birth; Ferdinand married
Frances Kotaze and lives in Oelwein, Iowa; and Anna died at the age of
two years.
Anton Holubar remained at home until his marriage, which was
celebrated in Iowa City February 12, 1869, Miss Anna Smith becoming his
wife. She was also born in Austria, September 1, 1849, and came to the
United States in 1855 with her parents, Jacob and Mary (Kuchara) Smith,
whose whole life had been spent in Austria up to that time. On landing
in this country they came direct to Iowa, and took up their residence
in Johnson county, where the father purchased forty acres of timber
land, which he at once commenced to clear and improve. He died suddenly
while at work in the field in the fall of 1858, and the mother departed
this life in 1886, both being laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery
near Solon. They had four children: Mary, who first married Jacob
Kuchara, who was killed in the Civil war while serving as a member of
the Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and for her second husband
she wedded George Schenischeck, of Johnson county; Barbara, deceased
wife of John Elick, of the same county; Anna, wife of our subject; and
one who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Holubar have become the parents of five children,
all born in Johnson county with the exception of the youngest, who was
born in Linn county. In order of birth they are as follows: Ferdinand,
born January 4, 1870, married Jennie Hildebrandt, by whom he has one
child, Hilda, and they reside in Cedar Rapids. Anton, born November 12,
1872, married Anna Schenischeck, by whom he has two children, Roy and
Maggie, and they reside in Johnson county. Frank, born August 23, 1880,
assists his father in the operation of the home farm. Joseph, born
March 23, 1883, died at the age of eighteen months. Annie, born January
23, 1887, is still attending the home school.
After his marriage Mr. Holubar bought a farm of ninety acres
in Johnson county, where he made his home for fifteen years, and then
purchased one hundred and fifty-six acres of land on sections 14, 15
and 22, Franklin township, Linn county, where he has since resided. He
has extended its boundaries until they now contain two hundred and
sixteen acres, upon which he has made many substantial improvements,
which add greatly to the value and attractive appearance of the place.
He has a good modern residence and a fine barn. He raises a high grade
of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs for market, and is meeting with
eminent success in his undertakings. He has served as school director
in his district, and has always taken an active and commendable
interest in public affairs. In politics he is a Democrat, and in
religious faith a Catholic.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
64-5.
Submitted by: Carrie J. Robertson of Marion
JOSEPH HRBEK
In the middle portion of the nineteenth century Joseph Hrbek
figured prominently in industrial circles, being proprietor of one of
the largest and most important blacksmith establishments in the city.
As the name indicates, he was of Bohemian birth and was a splendid
representative of that country which has furnished so many valuable
citizens to Cedar Rapids. His birth occurred in 1837. His parents being
Mathew and Katherine Hrbek, who were also natives of Bohemia. The
father came to America at an early day, bringing his family and
locating in Michigan, where both he and his wife died. In their family
were nine children.
Joseph Hrbek was a young man when he left home and made his
way to Milwaukee. He was married in that city to Miss Barbara Dolezal,
who was born in Bohemia in 1842 and was a daughter of Thomas and
Barbara Dolezal, also natives of that country, where they spent their
entire lives. Mrs. Hrbek was one of a family of five children and
crossed the Atlantic to the United States when a young maiden of about
fourteen years. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hrbek removed to
Champaign, Illinois, where he worked as a blacksmith and wagon maker,
having previously learned the trades. His life was always given to
industrial interests of that character. In 1866 he removed to Cedar
Rapids and turned his attention to business interests here, building a
two-story brick shop, in which he carried on blacksmithing and wagon
making until his death. He was an excellent workman, thorough and
reliable in all that he did, and his capability and integrity won him a
liberal patronage.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hrbek were bum nine children: Milvoj,
Vlasta, Jacenka, Sarah, Jeffrey, and four who are now deceased. The
daughter Sarah is adjunct professor of Bohemian at Lincoln, Nebraska.
The death of Mr. Hrbek occurred in December, 1881. He had lived a busy
and useful life and was a self made man his success being attributable
entirely to his earnest and persistent labor. He had no influential
friends to assist him in gaining a start nor did he depend upon
fortunate circumstances but sought his advancement in the legitimate
lines of trade, gaining a liberal patronage through merit. He had
pleasing qualities that won him many friends and he was particularly
widely and favorably known among the people of his own nationality. He
rejoiced in his success because it enabled him to provide comforts for
his family, and Mrs. Hrbek is still the owner of several valuable
pieces of real estate in Cedar Rapids, from which she derives a
gratifying annual income.
Source: History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the
Present Time, Vol. II, Chicago, 1911. Pages 720-1.
Contributed by: Terry Carlson
JOSEPH HUNTER
This old and honored resident of Washington township is now
living a retired life on his farm on section 8, about a mile and a half
from Center Point, where he has now made his home for forty years. He
was born in the town of Mooers, Clinton county, New York, March 8,
1816, and in early life learned the trade of making broom iron, at
which he worked in Schuyler's Falls and Saranac for about thirty years.
Mr. Hunter was married, in his native county, February 15,
1844, to Miss Sarah Ann Thomas, and continued his residence there until
coming to Linn county, Iowa, in 1862. On his arrival here he purchased
the farm which he now occupies, consisting of one hundred and fifty
acres, but at that time only two acres had been cleared and the only
improvement was a log cabin, into which he and his family moved. He has
since erected good and substantial buildings upon place, has put up a
wind pump, drawing water from a well which he had to drill one hundred
and seventy feet through limestone rock. He has made many other
valuable improvements until it is now a most desirable farm. For the
past ten years his son Samuel has operated the farm, while he
practically lives retired.
Mr. Hunter owns a good residence at Center Point, where he
lived about a year, but after the death of his wife he returned to the
farm. She passed away in August, 1894. They were the parents of nine
children, of whom six are still living, namely: Henry is married and
lives in Mt. Vernon; Permelia is the wife of James Morris, a farmer of
Linn county; Joseph and Alexander are also married, and follow farming
in this county; Samuel, who operates the old homestead, married Emma
Dennison, a daughter of Jonathan Dennison, an old settler and
substantial farmer of this county; and Julia is the wife of Thomas
Chambers, of Mt. Vernon. Mr. Hunter also has eighteen grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Hunter has never failed to
support the Democratic party at each presidential election, and is a
believer in Jeffersonian principles. He merits and receives the
confidence and respect of his fellow citizens, and wherever known he is
held in high regard.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
389-390.
Submitted by: Terry Carlson
CHARLES
D. HUSTON
Charles D. Huston, who since 1887 has been a resident of Cedar
Rapids, is now successfully engaged in the job printing business as a
member of the firm of Newton & Huston, and is efficiently
serving
as alderman from the fourth ward. He was born in Carroll county, Ohio,
December 18, 1861, a son of Daniel and Margaret (Herron) Huston. The
father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1825,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and when a small boy accompanied his parents
on their removal to Ohio, which was then practically a new country. He
received only a common school education, and as a means of livelihood
followed farming throughout his active business life. On leaving Ohio
in 1863 he came to Iowa and purchased a farm near the town of Toledo.
There he successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years,
but is now living a retired life in Cedar Rapids. On starting out life
for himself he was without capital, and the prosperity that has come to
him is due entirely to his industry and good management. In religious
belief he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat. The mother of
our subject, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1830, of Scotch
lineage, died in 1863, just after coming to Iowa. Her children were
Mary L., who also died in 1863; Samuel J. and William H., who were
drowned in 1873 while swimming; Charles D., the subject of this sketch;
and Florence, wife of Daniel Hufford, of Toledo, Iowa. The father was
again married, in 1870, his second union being with Mary I. Boggs, also
a native of Carroll county, Ohio. She is still living.
After the death of his mother Charles D. Huston made his home
with an uncle and attended the public schools of Ohio, and also of
Washington, D.C., for one year. His uncle died in that city, and he was
then thrown upon his own resources. At the age of thirteen years he
commenced learning the printer’s trade, and has since devoted his time
and attention principally to that occupation. In 1882 he formed a
partnership with Hon. L. G. Kinne, now a member of the board of control
of the state and ex-supreme judge, and continued the publication of the
Tama County Democrat for five years. On selling the paper in 1887, Mr.
Huston accepted a position as compositor with the Cedar Rapids Gazette,
and was connected with that journal for seven years. In 1893 he became
a member of the firm of Newton & Huston, which is to-day doing
a
fine business in the job printing line.
Mr. Huston was married, in 1885, to Miss Minnie M. McKinnon,
who was born in College township, this county, in 1862, and they have
become the parents of three children, namely: John, born in April,
1886; Paul H., born in May, 1888, and Marguerite Louise, born in
November, 1890. All are now attending the public schools of Cedar
Rapids. Mrs. Huston is a graduate of the high school of the city, and
prior to her marriage successfully engaged in teaching school in
College township for three years. Her father, John McKinnon, was born
in Scotland in 1817, and on his emigration to the new world in 1852
located in College township, Linn county, Iowa, where he purchased a
tract of government land. This place he has improved, and is now the
owner of a good farm of one hundred and eighty acres two miles south of
Cedar Rapids. He has four children: Minnie M., wife of our subject;
John, a farmer; Gilbert, who operates the home farm; and Agnes, who is
now court reporter for the seventeenth judicial district.
In his political affiliations Mr. Huston is a pronounced
Democrat, and while a resident of Tama county, Iowa, served as chairman
of the county central committee several terms. He has never been an
office seeker, however, and those positions he has held have been
offered him by the people. On coming to this county he at once became
identified with the local Democratic organization here, and has ever
taken an active part in politics, though he follows the principles of a
conservative man. In 1898 he was elected alderman of the fourth ward,
which is strongly Republican, and so acceptably did he fill the office
that he was re-elected in 1900, and is now a member of the committees
on public improvement, light and water. In 1899 he was the candidate
for state senator on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated, being
unable to overcome the large Republican majority, though he ran ahead
of his ticket more than one thousand votes, being supported by his many
friends throughout the county. Mr. Huston takes a great interest in
labor organizations, and is a prominent member of the Typographical
Union, No. 192. He put in the first union label in the city in 1893.
The union men are now recognized and employed in all the printing
offices. He is a member of the National Union, No. 163, and of Court
Cedar, No. 3, Foresters of America. He is also an active worker and
prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Mt. Hermon
Lodge, No. 263, A. F. & A. M., of which he was worshipful
master
from 1897 to 1900; and also to Trowel Chapter, No. 49, R. A. M.; and
Cedar Chapter, No. 184, O.E.S. Mr. Huston is also a leader in
philanthropical work, and gives an earnest support to all public
improvements and anything for the benefit of the institution to which
he belongs. He was master of the Masonic lodge when their new temple
was being built and dedicated. Socially he is a member of the
Commercial club of Cedar Rapids. His wife holds membership in the
United Presbyterian church.
Source: The Biographical Record of Linn County Iowa,
Illustrated, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901, pages
174-5.
Submitted by: Carrie J. Robertson of Marion
CHARLES A. HUSTON
 C.
A. HUSTON, of Waubeek, Maine Township, is the son of James B. Huston,
who was the son of Alexander Huston, the son of James, who, with two
brothers, John and William Huston, emigrated from Wales to the American
colonies in 1725. James, the great-grandfather of our
subject,
settled in Delaware. John went into Virginia, and William
located
in North Carolina. James afterward moved to Pennsylvania,
and, in
1793, went to Kentucky, where he died Sept. 8, 1808. He was
the
father of fifteen children, six by his first wife, Jane Elliott,
namely: John, William, James, Joseph, Nancy and Peggy. By his
second wife, Abigail Brown, he had nine children, as follows:
Alexander, our subject's grandfather; Samuel, Robert, Benjamin,
Jonathan and David, twins; Isabella, Patsey and Abigail. All
of
the children of the first wife passed their lives in Kentucky, while
all of the second wife, except Robert and David, who died in Kentucky,
moved to Indiana in the early settlement of that State, and became well
fixed in life. Samuel was Judge of the Washington County
Court
for many years; Alexander was prominent, and held many offices, among
which were those of Representative and Magistrate; John Milroy, who was
married to Isabella, was Surveyor General for many years, and his
brother. Samuel, who married Patsey, was Receiver in the
Land-Office for a time, and served as a member of Congress, and was the
father of Gen. Milroy, a distinguished Federal officer in the late
Civil War; John Huston, brother of Alexander, was a Magistrate in
Nelson County, Ky., and represented his county in the Kentucky
Legislature for many years; John B., a son of James and eldest brother
of Alexander, was Speaker of the House of Representatives of Kentucky
for several terms; Eli, son of Joseph, the fourth brother of Alexander,
was Judge of the Court in Natchez, Miss., and Felix, another son, was
at one time Commander-in-Chief of the Texan army, and after the
admission of that Republic into the Union, he fought a duel with the
afterward noted Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, who was
then a Federal officer, wounding him in the thigh; Mark Elliott, son of
William, eldest brother of Alexander, served three years in the House
of Representatives of Kentucky, and eight years in the Senate, and was
a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of that State,
and served for twenty consecutive years as County Attorney for Nelson
County.
The ancestors of our subject as
shown by the above record, were all highly respectable and prominent
people, none of them or their descendants having ever been made
amenable to the criminal or penal laws of the land. James B.,
father of Charles A., was born in Nelson County, Ky., Sept. 18, 1799,
moved with his parents, in his youth, to Washington County, Ind., and
became the father of nine children; five by his first wife, Hannah
Kennedy, named as follows: Marium, who afterward became Mrs. Parks;
Mary Ann, William A., James M. and Theodore F. By his second
wife, Mary A. Townsend, four children were born -- Albert T., Charles
A.. Margaret A. and Caleb B. Of the first family only J. M.
and
Mary are yet living, both of whom are unmarried. Marium
became
the mother of a large family, which still resides in Clark County,
Ind. Of the second family, Albert and Caleb died in their
youth;
Margaret married Fred McLeod, of Central City, Iowa, where she now
resides, and the other member is C. A., our subject.
In
1853, Mr. Huston, our subject's father, with his family moved to Cedar
County, Iowa, and the following year purchased and moved upon the
homestead farm in Maine Township, where, Aug. 5, 1856, his wife, Mary
A., nee Townsend, died. She was a woman whose life had been
spent
in a frontier home in Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa, but notwithstanding
the rude surroundings of her life, she is remembered as a woman of rare
beauty, high moral and mental qualities, and possessed great force of
character. These made her, amid all the difficulties, dangers
and
privations that necessarily surround pioneer life, a veritable
“sheet-anchor” to all her family and friends. James B. died
on
the same farm, May 25, 1886, having reached the ripe old age of
eighty-six years, eight months and seven days. He was a man
of
strong convictions, yet so modest and unassuming, that only his
steadfast adherence to right, as he saw the right, would mark him as a
man tenacious of purpose. Gentleness and kindness made up the
web
and woof of his life, which was marked by no brilliant exploits like
the fitful flashes of electric storms, or like the beautiful colors of
sunrise or sunset -- too bright to last, but was rather like the
constant mellow light of a pleasant summer day. Wherever
known he
will long be remembered by
"That best portion of a good man's life
His little, nameless, unrecorded acts
Of kindness and of love."
Charles
A. Huston, our subject, was born in Washington County, Ind., Feb. 3,
1845, and moved with his parents to Iowa in 1853; worked on a farm
until 1861, and though only a lad of sixteen years, was among the first
volunteer soldiers from Maine Township. He enlisted in Co. A,
6th
Iowa Vol. Inf., and with his command participated in all the hardships
and privations which were encountered, facing as bravely as any the
vicissitudes and privations; of war, as realized by the 15th Army
Corps, under Sherman. With his regiment he was engaged in the
battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, second battle of Jackson, Miss., and
Missionary Ridge, where he was wounded in the right shoulder by a minie
ball. He was thus disabled until May 10, 1864, when he
rejoined
his comrades, and ten days later, at the battle of Resaca, Ga., he was
again wounded, also with a minie ball, but in the left thigh.
This wound incapacitated him for further service, and he was mustered
out, July 17. 1864, at Atlanta, after a military service of three years.
Mr.
Huston at once returned to Linn County, and with the little money saved
from his pay as a private soldier, and a small patrimony given him by
his father, he entered Western College, and began a course of study
which he diligently pursued for two years. He then engaged to
a
Montana merchant, as train-master, to take a train of twelve wagons of
merchandise from Boone, Iowa, the then terminus of the C. & N.
W.
R. R., to Montana, via the Yellowstone River. At that time
this
route had never been traveled except by exploring
expeditions.
Arriving at Sioux City, the merchant was not provided with the number
of Government troops as an escort that he expected, and refused to risk
his goods in the country of the hostile Sioux. Mr. Huston
then
entered the employ of the U. P. R. R. Co., with which he remained until
the close of active operations that season, but tiring of the nomadic
life of the then Far West. Mr. H. returned to Linn County and
engaged in the mercantile business at Waubeek, with W. D. Litzenburg,
under the firm name of Litzenburg & Huston. This
partnership
continued for two years, when Mr. H. purchased the interest of his
partner, and soon after associated himself with Joseph Smith, operating
under the firm name of Smith & Huston for four years.
Mr. H.
again purchased the interest of his second partner, and carried on the
business alone for six years. During this time he also
engaged in
the dairy business, and erected at Waubeek the first creamery in Linn
County and the third in the State. Disposing of his
mercantile
business, in 1831, he moved to Cedar Rapids, in which city he engaged
in the creamery supply and general commission business. He
remained there for three years, when he sold to his partner and
purchased 540 acres of land in Maine Township, near Waubeek, and is at
the present engaged in farming. He also has an interest in a
mercantile establishment at Waubeek, and owns and operates the Waubeek
system of creameries.
Charles A. Huston
and Miss Abby Wiggin were united in marriage at Waubeek, Aug. 3,
1873. Mrs. Huston is the daughter of George W. and Harriett
(Giddings) Wiggin, and was born in Tamworth, N. H. By this
marriage there was only one child born, of whom they were bereft in
infancy.
Mr. H., socially, is a member
of the Marvin Mills Post, G. A. R. Politically he is a
Republican, and is decided in his views as well as fearless in the
expression of them, and upholds by every means in his power the
principles which he believes to be for the best interest and general
good of the county and community. He has held numerous
positions
of trust, such as Postmaster of Waubeek, Assistant United States
Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa, President of the Cedar
Rapids Dairy Board of Trade, President of the Iowa Dairymen's
Association, and is at present the President of the 6th Iowa Veteran
Volunteer Association. He has ever performed all the duties
entrusted to him with credit and fidelity, and has in no way tarnished
the splendid record of the Huston family.
It
is with pleasure that we present on an accompanying page the portraits
of James B. and Charles A. Huston, father and son, who stand in the
history of Linn County as excellent types of her best citizens; one a
representative pioneer, the other a representive business man of today.
Source:
Charles A. HUSTON’s portrait, father’s portrait and biographical sketch
(verbatim transcription): “Portrait and Biographical Album of
Linn County, Iowa”, 1887, biographical sketch on pages 739 - 741,
portrait on page 738, father’s portrait on page 738
Contributed by: Eric & Marcia Driggs
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