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MRS. WILLIAM MCINTOSH
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the family to Iowa. She is a sister of James Whitcomb McIntosh, mention of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. Spending her girlhood days under the parental roof, she was reared and educated in Boonesboro and also attended a Sisters' school at Ottumwa, Iowa, when seventeen years of age.
Later she engaged in teaching school in Boone county for twelve or more terms and proved very capable in that direction, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that she had acquired. She taught at Glenwood, Iowa. in the School for Feeble-minded for ten years and was very successful in her work with that unfortunate class, her patience and ready sympathy enabling her to accomplish results that few others could have accomplished. She then returned to Boonesboro to care for her mother and sister until the death of the former. The sister, Miss Mary Frances McIntosh, now makes her home with Mrs. Wahl. The latter is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, holding membership in Deshon Chapter of Boone, and her name is also on the membership roll of the Order of the Eastern Star of Boone. Most of her life has been devoted to charitable work and she has done great good in the world. She is liberal in her religious views, attending various churches, con- tributing to their support and giving generously to many worthy objects whereby the interests of the individual and the community are promoted.
PEDER J. SAVERAID.
Peder J. Saveraid is one of those sturdy Norwegian-Americans who have found in this country the opportunities which they sought. Although yet quite a young man, he is at the head of the Boone Creamery Company, an important concern in the commercial life of the city and of particular significance in regard to agricultural development. Mr. Saveraid has largely established the high repti- tation which the products of his creamery company enjoy, their principal out- put being Saveraid's special pure creamery butter. They are located at No. 1003 Eighth street in Boone and there can be found an up-to-date, sanitary plant which might serve as a model to other establishments of a similar nature. Its success is largely attributable to Mr. Saveraid, who is a man of great experience in his line of business.
He was born in Norway, September 15, 1876, and is a son of John and Anna (Holland) Saveraid and a grandson of Peder Saveraid, who served in the Nor- wegian army. After having attended the common schools the grandfather learned shipbuilding, later owning his own yard. Business conditions in his par- ticular line, however, turned from bad to worse and he was therefore forced to relinquish this enterprise and went to sea. Success came to him in this connec- tion and he eventually became the owner of six vessels and was captain of one of them. He died in Norway. In his family were ten children. Late in life he owned a farm and his son John, the father of our subject, passed his boy- hood there, early becoming acquainted with agricultural pursuits. He enjoyed a common-school education and remained in his native land until 1881, when he brought his family to the United States, being impressed with the opportunities of which he had heard in regard to this country. He sailed from Bergen to Vol. II-5
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New York and from that city made his way directly to Story City, Iowa, where he now lives retired. He is a member of the synod and has always taken an active part in the religious affairs of his community. His wife died in Story City in 1885, and subsequently he married Miss Bertha Stoll. By his first marriage he had the following children: Peder, deceased; Anna, the widow of H. H. Falland; Samuel, of Story City ; Mrs. Lena Olson, of Minnesota ; Sebert, of Boone; Margaret, who died at the age of sixteen; Mrs. Hannah Ritland, of Huxley, Iowa ; John, deceased; Peder, the second of the name and the subject of this review ; and Ross, of Lake Mills, Iowa.
Peder J. Saveraid was but five years old when his parents brought him to the United States. He attended the public schools in Story City until fifteen, and until twenty-one worked as a farm hand, receiving about eighty cents per day. At the early age of eleven years, however, he had become self-supporting, perform- ing such duties as were commensurate with his age until leaving school, when he gave his entire attention to farming. On attaining his majority he became con- nected with the creamery business in Huxley, where for fourteen years was engaged in that line. At the end of that time, in 1912, he invested his savings in his present plant, which he has since so successfully conducted. Great credit is due Mr. Saveraid for what he has achieved, as he has gained his success entirely through his own efforts. He is today considered one of the most successful business men of Boone and contributes toward the reputation of the city by turning out a creamery product which is an honor to the state. Naturally his en- terprise has had a beneficial influence upon dairy conditions and he therefore must be considered a factor in the dairy development of Iowa.
On June 11, 1902, Mr. Saveraid married Miss Josie Saveraid, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Saveraid, who were natives of Norway, their daughter, however, being born here. Mr. and Mrs. Saveraid of this review have five children: Arthur J., attending school; and J. O .. Elizabeth, Walter P. and Palmer J.
The parents are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church and deeply devoted to its service. Politically Mr. Saveraid is a republican, thoroughly in sympathy with the aims of his party, whose candidates he stanchly supports. He is an aggressive young man of the modern school of American business and has made a record for himself which well entitles him to be ranked with the useful citizens of Boone. While he has achieved individual success, he has always been considerate of the interests of others and never loses sight of the com- munity welfare, to the betterment of which he willingly and readily contributes his share and more than his share.
JOHN WALTER JORDAN.
Although one of the younger representatives of the Boone county bar, the comparative youth of John Walter Jordan seems to be no detriment, as he has already gained a position as a representative of the legal profession that many an older lawyer might well envy. He has his B. I .. degree from the State Univer- sity and has practiced continuously since 1907. He was born in Boone, May
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24, 1883, and is still a resident of the county seat. His parents were Richard and Martha (Lynch) Jordan, both natives of New York. His grandparents on the paternal side were John and Anna (Connolly) Jordan, natives of Ireland, and on coming to the new world in the autumn of 1856, they settled at Dixon, Lee county, Illinois, where they remained for ten years. The year 1866 wit- nessed their arrival in Boone county, Iowa, at which time they took up their abode upon a farm and there spent their remaining days. Their son, Richard F. Jordan, father of John Walter Jordan, was born in Glens Falls, New York, on the 19th of March, 1856, and in the fall of the same year was taken by his parents to Illinois. He was one of five children, the others being, Mary, Maurice, Alice and Edward C. Richard F. Jordan was educated in the country schools and at the age of seventeen years entered the Iowa State College at Ames, from which he was graduated with valedictorian honors in the class of 1877. He then entered a law school at Des Moines and on the 7th of June, 1879, was admitted to the bar. Returning to Boone, he here entered upon the practice of his chosen profession and was associated with various partners, the firmn style being suc- cessively, Ramsey & Jordan, Crooks & Jordan, Jordan & Brockett, and Jordan & Goodykoontz. He also practiced alone for a time and throughout the entire period of his connection with the Boone county bar ranked high as one of the leading lawyers of his section of the state.
While a law student in Des Moines, Richard F. Jordan formed the acquaint- ance of Miss Martha L. Lynch and their friendship ripening into love, they were married on the 23d of May, 1882. Four children were born to them: John Walter, of this review; Richard Frank, of Chicago; and Helen and Clara, at home. Mr. Jordan lost his life as a result of injuries sustained in a fire Sep- tember 3, 1901. A stable on his premises burned and in an endeavor to rescue a favorite driving horse from the flames, he received injuries from which he died two days later. He was beloved by all who knew him, and thus it was that his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. He took an active part in civic affairs at all times, doing everything in his power to promote public progress, and his efforts resulted for good along many lines. He served as a member of the school board, was city solicitor, and president of the board of trustees of the public library. He was also president of the Business Men's Asso- ciation and was active in formulating its policy for the promotion of the best interests of the city. Frequently he was called upon to deliver public addresses and on such occasions he was always given the closest attention. While in national affairs he was a democrat, he cast a non-partisan vote at local elections. His fraternal relations were with the Elks, and his religious faith was that of the Catholic church. His widow survives him and makes her home in Boone, where she has an extensive circle of friends.
Reared in his native city, John Walter Jordan attended the public schools and in 1900 entered the Iowa State College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1904, completing the course which gave him the Bachelor of Science degree. He next entered the Iowa State University at Iowa City, where he pur- sued his law course and won his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1907. In the fall of the same year he opened an office in Boone for the practice of his chosen profession. On the ist of September, 1913, he formed a partnership with S. R. Dyer and Walter R. Dyer, under the firm style of Dyer, Jordan & Dyer. His
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name figures in connection with many important litigated interests, and his abil- ity is growing through the exercise of his powers and through his continued reading, study and investigation. He analyzes his cases most carefully and is seldom if ever at fault in the application of a legal principle.
Mr. Jordan was reared to the Catholic faith, to which he still adheres, and he belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His political support is given the democratic party.
A. R. WESTERBERG.
A. R. Westerberg, who in 1899 established the Madrid Electric Lighting & Power Company in association with his father, is still the manager of the elec- tric plant in Madrid, which is conceded to be one of the best lighted towns of its size in the state. He has spent his entire life within the borders of Boone county, his birth having occurred in Garden township on the 6th of July. 1876.
The parents, A. P. Westerberg and Mrs. Emma Lundahl Anderson Wester- berg, were both natives of Sweden, the former born in Skaraborg, Westergot- land, on the 17th of July, 1840, and confirmed in the Lutheran church in 1856. When a young man of twenty-six years he emigrated to the United States, locating in Boone, Iowa, on the 9th of October, 1866. He entered the bridge- building department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway and continued with the corporation for nine years. Having carefully saved his earnings, he then bought a tract of one hundred and twenty acres in Garden township, where he successfully carried on general agricultural pursuits, extending the boundaries of his farm by additional purchase until it embraced two hundred acres of valu- able land. His last years were spent in Madrid, Iowa, where he passed away on the 22d of September, 1909. The period of his residence in Boone county cov- ered more than four decades, and he was widely recognized as one of its substan- tial and esteemed citizens. The demise of his wife occurred on the old home farm in Garden township, and subsequently he was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Christina Westland, by whom he had one child, Lester Roosevelt Westerberg, who is a resident of Madrid. Unto him and his first wife were born eight children, as follows: Mrs. Maude Anderson Westerberg Sundberg, living in Garden township: A. R., of this review ; Mrs. Ethel Wester- strom, of Madrid, Iowa ; Frank, who is a resident of Boone, Iowa; Mrs. Esther Krantz of Madrid; Edwin, living in Longmont, Colorado; Mrs. Blanche Peterson, who makes her home in Garden township; and Zylph, deceased. The above named were all born and reared in Garden township.
A. R. Westerberg grew to manhood on the home farm and attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education. Being mechanically inclined, he was given an opportunity to develop this talent in successfully controlling a threshing outfit in the neighborhood. Subsequently he applied himself to the study of electricity and mastered the science through his own efforts. In 1899 in association with his father he established the Madrid Electric Lighting & Power Company of Madrid, in the conduct of which A. P. Westerberg took a deep and active interest during the remainder of his life, living to see the plant
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one of the best equipped in central Iowa. In 1912 the local plant was abandoned, and our subject has since secured the power from Boone, where it is furnished by the Iowa Railway & Light Company. This has given universal satisfaction and Mr. Westerberg has realized his ambition in making Madrid one of the best lighted towns of its size in the state. He acts as manager of the plant and is one of its heaviest stockholders. He owns an attractive and commodious residence in Madrid and has long been numbered among the prosperous, enter- prising and representative citizens of the community.
On the 5th of April, 1900, Mr. Westerberg was united in marriage to Miss Emma Grace Krantz, who was born in Garden township, this county, on the 28th of April, 1875, her parents being John and Mary Krantz, the former a native of Sweden. They were among the earlier settlers of Boone county, and here Mrs. Westerberg grew to womanhood and acquired her education in the common schools. John Krantz passed away in Garden township, but his widow survives, making her home in Madrid. They had three children, namely: C. L., who was born on the 29th of June, 1873, and resides in Madrid; Mrs. A. R. Westerberg ; and G. A. J. Krantz, of Madrid. All were born and reared in Garden township. Mr. and Mrs. Westerberg have one son, Edgar Richard Quinton Westerberg, who was born on the 23d of November, 1903, and is now a public-school student at Madrid.
In his political views Mr. Westerberg is a stanch republican. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Swedish Lutheran church of Madrid, to which his wife also belongs. He is a man of good business ability, of exem- plary habits and upright character, is worthy the trust of his fellowmen and fully merits the good-will which is uniformly extended him.
T. J. MAHONEY.
T. J. Mahoney, a well known representative of the legal fraternity in Boone county, has been engaged in active practice at Boone since 1901 and is now a partner of William W. Goodykoontz. He is numbered among the worthy native sons of this county, his birth having here occurred on the 16th of October, 1876. His parents, Timothy and Mary (Hickey) Mahoney, were both born in Ireland. When still but a child the father was brought to the United States and taken to Wisconsin. In 1867 he came to Boone county, Iowa, and has here remained throughout the intervening forty-seven years. He devoted his attention to gen- eral agricultural pursuits during his active business career but is now living retired in the enjoyment of well earned ease. Mr. Mahoney has held some minor township offices and also served as alderman in Boone, ever proving an efficient and faithful public servant. He is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community, having won the friendship and regard of all with whom he has been associated during the long years of his residence here. Unto him and his wife were born the following children: two who died in infancy ; William, who is a resident of Casper, Wyoming; Frank and George, both of whom are deceased; Edwin, a resident of Boone, Iowa; Joseph H., living in
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Des Moines ; Dora, who is the wife of P. M. Reilly, of Boone; Mary, who gave her hand in marriage to A. E. Murphy, of Boone; and T. J., of this review.
The last named acquired his early education in the district schools and subse- quently continued his studies in the Iowa State College at Ames, being graduated from that institution in 1896. He next took up the study of law at Des Moines, winning the degree of LL. B. in 1901. In that year he came to Boone and for twelve months practiced his profession in partnership with M. K. Ramsey. He is now associated with William W. Goodykoontz and is recognized as an attor- ney of power and ability, being accorded an extensive and gratifying clientage. The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients and an assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his cases, have brought him a large business and made him very successful in its conduct. In April, 1898, he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war as a member of Company I, Fifty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and on October 30th of the same year was mustered out as corporal. He is now judge advocate of the First lowa Brigade of the National Guard.
On the 30th of June, 1913, Mr. Mahoney was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Patton, a native of Emmetsburg, Iowa. He gives his political allegiance to the democracy and is a devout communicant of the Catholic church, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His genial qualities, his social disposition and his sterling worth have gained him many friends in this community, and the high regard in which he is held merits his classification with the representative and esteemed citizens of his native county.
JOHN LUNDAHL.
John Lundahl, who now lives practically retired in Madrid, was for many years a most successful agriculturist of Boone county. He was born in Swe- den, March 11, 1852, and in 1865 came to America, with his parents, Andrew and Johanna Lundahl, the family selecting Swede Point ( now Madrid) for their first habitat. The first winter they spent in Douglas township, returning to Madrid in the spring. There they lived one year and then removed to the farm of John Anderson, where they spent a number of years in the cultivation of the soil. At the end of that time they were able to purchase a farm in Douglas township, which yielded them rich returns and which they managed for some time. Mr. Lundhal of this review resided there until the death of the father. His parents were natives of Sweden. The mother was born January 7, 1829, and died in Madrid at the age of seventy-seven years, May 10, 1906. After the death of her husband in Douglas township, Mrs. Lundahl kept the family to- gether and with the aid of the older sons successfully continued in the culti- vation of the home farm. She had six children, as follows: Mrs. Westerberg, now deceased; John, of this review; Frederick, born in 1854, deceased ; Frank, a resident of Canada : Victor, of Garden township, this county ; and Mrs. Amanda C. Johnson, born February 10, 1868, who is residing in Madrid. Mrs.
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Johnson is a native of Boone county, but the other members of the family were all born in Sweden.
John Lundahl continued agricultural pursuits until April 1, 1911, when he and his wife removed to Madrid to occupy their handsome dwelling in that city. The first business block of the town stood on the site where their home is now located, and in it a store was conducted by a man named Hornbeck. Mr. Lundahl still owns two hundred acres of highly improved and choice land in Garden township, eighty of which are located on section 29, forty on section 30 and eighty on section 20. To the cultivation of this farm, purchased by him in 1876, he gave his attention for many years and it is today recognized as one of the most desirable in its region. Mr. Lundahl always followed the most modern methods and cultivated his fields with a view toward soil preservation. He succeeded because he was careful and untiring and because he always applied great intelligence to his work.
On May 1, 1878, John Lundahl was married, in Douglas township, to Josephine Johnson, who was born August 2, 1855, in Sweden. Her parents came to America in 1868 and located in De Soto, Dallas county, Iowa. Her father, A. P. Johnson, a native of Sweden, was for a time connected with rail- road work in De Soto. In 1875 he and his family located on a farm in Gar- den township, which he had purchased three years before. He died in that township in 1907, highly respected by all who knew him. His wife, Mrs. Sophia (Johnson) Johnson, also a native of Sweden, now resides in Madrid. She bore her husband eight children: Mrs. Josephine Lundahl; John, of Des Moines; Aaron, deceased: Swante, deceased; August, of Garden township ; Matilda, of Madrid; Jennie, deceased ; and Oscar, residing in Madrid. Some of the children were born in Sweden and the remainder in Boone county, where all were reared.
Mr. and Mrs. Lundahl had five children, all born in Garden township: Esther, whose birth occurred March 19, 1879, and who died in Garden township ; Harry Edwin, born November 9, 1881, who resides on the home farm in Gar- den township ; Mrs. Mabel M. Benson, born August 11, 1884, who lives at Still- water, Minnesota, her husband being chaplain at the state penitentiary of that place ; Maude Matilda, who was born March 10, 1888, and died at the age of sixteen months ; and Carl, whose birth occurred August 30, 1890, now a member of the firm of Johnson & Lundahl of Madrid, who are engaged in the buying and selling of grain and coal. All the children attended the common schools, the youngest son being a graduate of the Madrid high school. Harry attended Augustana College of Rock Island, Illinois, for two years. Mrs. Mabel Ben- son is highly proficient in music and took one year's instruction in that art at Jewell Junction and one year in the Conservatory of Music of Drake University at Des Moines.
Mr. and Mrs. Lundahl are members of St. John's Lutheran church of Madrid, of which he was trustee and has been a deacon for a number of years. They are deeply interested in church work and carry out their Christian ideas in their everyday life. Both are enterprising citizens, desirous and willing to assume their share in any worthy public enterprise. Politically Mr. Lundahl is a republican and for a number of years was trustee of Garden township. For twelve years he has been a school director, having always taken an interest in
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the cause of education. He has traveled extensively, having visited Mexico and other countries. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lundahl are highly esteemed and respected in Madrid, where they have many friends and are ranked among the foremost citizens of Boone county. Mr. Lundahl is entitled to the honor of being called a self-made man, having built up his fortune without any outside help. The respect which is paid him is well merited and the prosperity which has come to him is due him in recognition of his unfaltering efforts.
HORACE THOMAS COOK.
Horace Thomas Cook is the oldest representative of mercantile interests in Boone in years of continuous connection with business. The spirit of enter- prise and progress has ever dominated him in all that he has undertaken, and he has built up a business of large and gratifying proportions. He was born in Boonesboro, Iowa, May 21, 1868, a son of Lorenzo Dow and Belle (Thomas) Cook, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Indiana. In the year 1854 the father arrived in Boone county and began clerking for his father-in-law, Shallum Thomas, who settled in Boonesboro in 1852. After a few years he became a partner in the store and later took over the business, subsequent to which time he admitted two partners. The firm name was then L. D. Cook & Company. Mr. Cook afterward purchased a business in Boone in 1878 and con- ducted the two stores. About 1880 he purchased the interest of his two part- ners and in 1883 he retired from business. His interests had been carefully managed, and his energy and determination enabled him to overcome all difficul- ties and obstacles and work his way steadily upward to success. Mr. Cook
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