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MR. AND MRS. DETLEF ARP
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the river to Davenport. After reaching Scott county he was employed in various ways, early securing a job on the Rock Island railway near Walcott. He was afterward employed as a farm hand and he also owned and operated a threshing machine, being engaged throughout the community to thresh the crops of the various farmers. About 1860 he and Claus Horst purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, which constitutes a part of what is now the Lincoln Stock Farm. There they began keeping bachelor's hall while devoting their energies to the cultivation and improvement of the place. The land was productive prairie, which they cultivated together for several years and during that time erected a number of substantial farm buildings on the place. Later Mr. Horst was married and the two men then divided their interests, each taking eighty acres. Mr. Arp then continued to live alone until March 2, 1868, when he was mar- ried and brought his bride to the farm which he had already cultivated for a number of years. Subsequently he purchased eighty acres of land adjoining from James Long and later bought the other eighty-acre tract from Mr. Horst, so that his farm embraced two hundred and forty acres. Year by year he car- ried on the work of the farm with gratifying success until 1899, when he re- tired and removed to Eldridge, where for ten years he made his home, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. There he died October 31, 1909. He was a mem- ber of the Turners Society of Eldridge, and there was also an interesting mili- tary chapter in his life record, for he was one of the veterans of the war of 1848-50 between Holstein and Denmark. For a year he had survived his wife, who died October 8, 1908. They were the parents of eight children: Claus, Johannes, Herman, Edward, William, Adolph, Emma and Emiel. All are de- ceased with the exception of our subject, Adolph P., who is the sixth in order of birth.
Adolph P. Arp has spent his entire life on the farm which is yet his home, so that he knows every acre upon the old place that is endeared to him through the memories of boyhood as well as the association of later years. He attended the district schools in his youth and supplemented his early training by a course in Duncan's Business College at Davenport and also by a course in the agricul- tural department of Ames College. Putting aside his text-books, he took up the active work of the farm, to which he has since devoted his energies, and in connection with the tilling of the soil he has always followed stock-raising, handling thoroughbred red polled cattle. He has learned how to best utilize time and effort so that substantial results follow his labors, and as he has met suc- cess in his undertakings he has extended his investments, becoming a stockholder in the Eldridge Savings Bank, the Eldridge Elevator, which is a farmers' eleva- tor, and in the Scott County Mercantile Company at Davenport, of which he is one of the directors. He is a man of notable business ability and carries for- ward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
On the 29th of November, 1899, Mr. Arp was united in marriage to Miss Laura P. Schneckloth, a daughter of Thomas and Silka Schneckloth, who were early German settlers of this county. Her father was a little lad of seven years when he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and became a resident of Iowa. He died June 7, 1902, at the age of fifty-eight years, and is still survived by his widow, who yet resides in Davenport. Mrs. Arp was born on her father's
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farm in Lincoln township and by her marriage has become the mother of two children, Roma A. and Alvin D. Mr. and Mrs. Arp are hospitable people who always extend a cordial welcome to their many friends. They are both native citizens of Scott county and, having long resided here, have a wide circle of acquaintances. Mr. Arp is now filling the office of township clerk and has served in that capacity for several terms and also has served as president of the school board. He belongs to West View Grange, No. 2034, of which he is master, and is deeply interested in this organized effort to promote agricultural interests.
CHARLES LAWRENCE BAREWALD, M. D.
Prominent among the physicians and surgeons of Davenport and this section is Dr. Charles Lawrence Barewald, one of Iowa's native sons, his birth having occurred in Muscatine county on the 9th of September, 1869. Of German par- entage, he is a son of Frederick and Matilda (Wiese) Barewald, both natives of the fatherland. The father came to the United States when about thirty years of age, locating in Muscatine county, Iowa, where he engaged in the harness business until his death, which occurred in 1872. The parents were married in the United States, and, appreciating the opportunities offered in this country for their children, inculcated lessons of honesty, sobriety and patriotism which have borne excellent fruit.
Reared in the county of his nativity, at the usual age Dr. C. L. Barewald became a pupil in the public schools and, continuing through consecutive grades, completed his preliminary training by graduation from the high school at Wil- ton Junction, Iowa, and later received his B. S. degree at the Norton Normal and Scientific Academy at that place. He then entered the medical department of the University of Iowa, graduating therefrom in 1891, and immediately thereafter opened an office for practice in Muscatine, where he remained for two years, after which he came to Scott county, locating in Buffalo in 1893. Ten years were there devoted to the general practice of medicine, at the expira- tion of which time he came to Davenport in order that he might be in constant touch with his duties as county physician, to which office he had been elected on the Ist of January, 1904. In that official capacity he had charge of the regu- lar medical work of the county hospital and the emergency work of the jail and police station. , These duties were at all times faithfully performed and with credit to his skill and humanity. In the meantime he had become well known as a most capable and proficient physician and surgeon, and when, after serving in the capacity of county physician for three and a half years, he returned to his private practice he was accorded a liberal patronage which has continued to grow in extent and importance. From the first he has been highly successful, impressing all with whom he has come in contact with his trustworthy char- acter, his earnestness, zeal and scrupulous regard for the ethics of his profes- sion. He has proven himself skillful in diagnosis, sure in prescription, thought- ful and tactful in attendance and prompt and efficacious in emergency. He has
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not only sought to extend his knowledge and efficiency by continued study and research, but keeps in touch with the advance made in the medical world through his membership in the Scott County and State Medical Associations.
In March, 1893, Dr. Barewald was united in marriage to Miss Grace Urban, a native of Chicago and a lady of excellent traits of character, who occupies a high place in social circles in Davenport. Although a large private practice de- mands his time and talents, leaving little opportunity for the amenities of life, Dr. Barewald nevertheless finds time to keep up his interest in things municipal and social, and holds membership in Wilton Lodge, No. 167, A. F. & 'A'. M., while he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and other societies. Early in life he became interested in the politics of the country and, forming his own opinions and rules of conduct, has given stalwart allegiance to the prin- ciples of the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of fran- chise. Public-spirited and loyal in his citizenship, he has ever been a worker for the best interests of Davenport and Scott county along both professional and civic lines, and his adopted city has profited by his efforts in her behalf and accords him a place of prominence in the forefront of her valued and representa- tive citizens.
HIRAM PRICE.
Hiram Price was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1810. He worked on his father's farm in boyhood, attending school during the winter months. He was a great reader, borrowing books of neighbors and thus acquiring an education. In 1844 he removed to Iowa, locating in Davenport, where he opened a store. In 1847 he was chosen school fund, commissioner and a year later was elected recorder and treasurer of Scott county, holding the position eight years. Mr. Price was a radical advocate of temperance and was one of the founders of the order of "The Sons of Temperance." He was one of the framers of the first bill for the prohibition of the liquor traffic in the state, which was enacted into law by the fifth general assembly in 1854. He was the editor of the Temperance Organ, a state paper devoted to prohibition. He had been a democrat in politics up to the time of the attempt to force slavery into Kan- sas, when he left that party and was one of the organizers and founders of the republican party of Iowa. Upon the enactment of the state bank law Mr. Price was one of the organizers of the Davenport branch and was the second president of the state bank officers.
When the war of the Rebellion began he assisted in raising the money to enable Governor Kirkwood to equip the first two Iowa regiments. He was the first paymaster of Iowa troops and was untiring in his support and assistance to the governor in raising men and money to meet the calls of the president. In 1862 he was elected by the republicans of the second district to congress and for six years was one of the ablest members of the house. He was an earnest ad- vocate of the most energetic war measures and of legislation to strengthen the credit of the government.
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Mr. Price was one of the founders of the Soldiers Orphans Home. In 1876 he was again elected to congress and served until 1880. In 1881 he was appointed by the president commissioner of Indian affairs, in which position he served with distinguished ability for four years. He made many reforms where abuses had grown up in dealing with the Indians. He was one of the pio- neers in railroad building in Iowa. In 1853, when the first railroad was being built from Chicago toward Iowa, Mr. Price was chosen to traverse the counties on the projected line through the state to the Missouri river to create an interest among the people and towns. In 1869 when a railroad was projected from Davenport in a northwesterly direction Hiram Price was elected president of the company which constructed the road. One of his last public acts before removing to Washington was to endow a free reading room in the public library of Davenport, his old home. He was a life-long and prominent member of the Methodist church. He died in Washington, D. C., May 30, 1901.
HENRY E. RONGE.
Henry E. Ronge, county superintendent of schools of Scott county, was born in Davenport, March 9, 1860, a son of Charles F. C. and Elizabeth Katherine (Ruge) Ronge, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father was born in July, 1828, and came from Mecklenburg to the new world in 1857. Establish- ing his home in Davenport, he was numbered among the worthy citizens here and was accounted an influential man among those of his own nationality. His death occurred in the year 1899. The family numbered four children, of whom Henry is the eldest. The others are: Mrs. Emma Kuehl, who was formerly a teacher in the public schools of this city; Edward C .; and Lizzie, who was at one time a public-school teacher and died in 1896 at the age of twenty-one years.
Henry E. Ronge completed the public-school course by graduation from the high school with the class of 1878. He also received instruction in the Iowa State University through the summer terms and thus qualified for teaching. He took up that profession in 1878 and was connected with the rural schools of Butler township until 1892. In that year he became principal of the schools of Buffalo and was afterward principal of the schools of Pleasant Valley and Walcott. Early in the year 1909 he abandoned the profession of teaching, however, and went upon the road for the Davenport Roofing Company but on the death of the county superintendent of schools, W. D. Wells, Mr. Ronge was offered the appointment to fill out the unexpired term and accepted, as the work was con- genial and offered to him a good field in which to do valuable service for the interests of public education. He is well fitted for the position and already there have been heard many favorable comments concerning the work that he has done in connection with the office.
Professor Ronge spent two years in business in Florida as his health was poor. He found the southern clime beneficial and returned much improved. He was married in 1906 to Miss Mary M. Hess, a native of Davenport, and in this city they have many warm friends in the more intelligent and cultured social circles.
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Professor Ronge is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge and is also a member of Fraternal Lodge, 221, A. F. & A. M. He has directed his efforts in those lines of life demanding strong intellectuality and offering an unlimited field for advancement, and with high ideals he has done good work for the bene- fit of the public schools.
JOHN H. STOUFFER.
John H. Stouffer has gained a creditable place in financial circles, serving at the present time as the cashier of the Walcott Savings Bank, and is also closely identified with the business and political interests of the community. He was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, on the 3d of February, 1867, and is a son of John and Caroline (Hill) Stouffer, natives of Pennsylvania. They came to Iowa at an early date and continued to make their home in Muscatine county until the father's death, when the mother removed to Moline, Illinois, and later came to Walcott.
John H. Stouffer was reared at home and acquired his early education in the public schools of Moline and Walcott, while later he pursued a course of study at Duncan's Business College in Davenport. Thus well equipped for the prac- tical and responsible duties of business life, he started out to earn his own livelihood as bookkeeper in the employ of the Stockdale & Dietz Company. He remained with that firm until 1899, in which year he was elected cashier of the Walcott Savings Bank, continuing in this capacity to the present time. The bank was organized in 1893 with a capital of thirty thousand dollars, H. C. Kohl being appointed its first cashier. Since his connection with the institution its business has so increased that on May 1, 1908, its capital was extended to sixty thousand dollars, its deposits amounting to eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The policy of the house is safe and conservative and under its present efficient management has become one of the sound and substantial financial in- stitutions of the county, its patronage being large and of an important charac- ter. Mr. Stouffer's ability, accuracy and fidelity have constituted him an ex- cellent official and his uniform courtesy and prompt attention to all who have business with the bank have made him very popular. Although he is deeply interested in the affairs of the bank with which he is connected and is ever faith- ful in the performance of his duties, nevertheless he has had time to direct his attention into other channels and has become identified with the fire insurance business, being agent in Walcott for several large insurance companies. He has been very successful in this enterprise and in the conduct of his affairs typifies the progressive spirit of the times, his diligence and labor constituting him a representative factor in the business life of the town.
On the 5th of September, 1894, in Walcott, Mr. Stouffer was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Hinz, a daughter of Louis Hinz, the vice president of the Walcott Savings Bank, and unto this union have been born three chil- dren, namely : Lloyd H., Verona N. and Elmore J. Mr. Stouffer is well known and prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of Walcott Lodge, No. 312,
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K. P .; Modern Brotherhood of America; and Walcott Lodge, No. 6, Highland Nobles. He has ever taken an active and helpful interest in community affairs and has been called to fill positions of trust and honor. For some time he was a member of the city council and is now serving as city clerk, having been the incumbent in that office since March, 1899. He is president of the school board and the cause of education finds in him a warm friend. At the time of the in- stallation of the waterworks system in Walcott he was one of the principal movers and has cooperated in many other measures which have been of per- manent and substantial benefit to the community. He has become well and favorably known in this county as a man of sterling character and worth, for in business he has made an unassailable reputation and in private life has gained that warm personal regard which arises from the possession of those traits which in every land and clime command confidence and admiration.
ALFONS LUDWIG HAGEBOECK.
Alfons Ludwig Hageboeck, dependent upon his own resources for his edu- cational opportunities in advance of those offered by the public schools, has throughout his entire life had been actuated by a laudable ambition that has brought him not only success in a material way but also that broader culture which en- riches life. Davenport has benefited not only by his intense and well directed activities in commercial, industrial and professional circles, but also by his ad- vocacy and support of the movements which promote intellectual and aesthetic culture, bringing into life the highest of art and literature. A native son of Davenport, Dr. Hageboeck was born on the 14th of March, 1867, and while spending his boyhood days in the home of his parents, Gustav and Anna Hage- boeck, he enjoyed the educational advantages offered by the public schools but, unsatisfied with that, his laudable ambition in educational lines prompted him to work his way through the State University by teaching. He won his pro- fessional degree from that institution in 1889 but still ambitious for further training that would promote his efficiency in his efforts to alleviate human suf- fering and check the ravages of disease, he went abroad and spent two years in post-graduate work in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, at the same time acting as correspondent for the Philadelphia Medical News and doing other journalistic work.
Upon his return to Davenport in 1891 he entered upon the practice of his profession, making a specialty, however, of surgery. During the years of his active practice he made six trips to Europe in the interests of his profession, gaining broad knowledge in visiting the leading clinics of the old world and in receiving instruction under some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of London, Munich, Paris and Vienna. He has always kept in touch with the old-world masters of surgery and was recognized as one of the most skillful surgeons not only of Davenport but of Iowa and the entire middle west. His success along professional lines is the result of the penetration of his mind and the skill of his hands. He is cool, logical, unflinching and determined, but
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his dominant trait is his resourcefulness. He is a tireless worker and his devo- tion to his profession, combined with his zeal and ambition, led to his constant study of everything bearing upon this branch of scientific knowledge. He sup- plied his office with the latest equipment known to medical and surgical science and a contemporary biographer said of him: "His years of experience have not only added to his wisdom and his skill but have deepened his sympathies until his work of relieving suffering seems a religion rather than a business. Like all of the best men of his profession, he gives constantly of his efforts without expectation of compensation. He has the practical humanitarianism of the physician who loves his work and self-sacrifice has become an unconscious part of his life." Dr. Hageboeck continued in active practice until 1907, when his own impaired health forced him to put aside the arduous duties of the profession. Since then he has spent over two years abroad but has recently returned to his native country and resumed active connection with various business interests, for while widely known as a physician and surgeon, he is also a successful business man whose labors have constituted an important element in the com- mercial and industrial development of the city.
Dr. Hageboeck has fostered various industrial enterprises becoming one of the leading manufacturers of the three cities. He was one of the founders and the first secretary and treasurer of the Davenport Locomotive Works, one of the most rapidly growing industries of the city, and at the present writing he is vice president and in charge of the commercial management of the business. He was also president of the Newcomb Loom Company, the product of which is widely known; president of the Whitehead Company; and at present is presi- dent of the American Pneumatic Action Company; vice president of Andrews Chemical Company ; and a director in various other enterprises. His real-estate interests in the city are large and include a number of residences, the Hageboeck flats and the Hageboeck business block, and from his realty holdings he derives a substantial annual income.
On the 23d of October, 1892, Dr. Hageboeck was married to Miss Ida Pauline Haller, a daughter of Louis and Margaret (Ladehoff) Haller. Their two children are Alfons Edward and William Peter. Dr. Hageboeck is con- nected with various fraternal and social organizations, while in more strictly medical lines he is connected with all the medical societies, has been president of the Scott County Medical Society and at one time was chairman of the State Medical Society. He belongs to the Contemporary, Golf, Automobile and Out- ing Clubs, was one of the promoters of the Commercial Club and is affiliated with the Masons and the Elks. He is fond of golf and other manly outdoor sports and takes great delight in motoring.' His business and private interests, how- ever, have never excluded his active participation in affairs relative to the welfare of the city. He has served as a trustee of the Carnegie library and of the Techentin Free Bed in St. Luke's Hospital and has been and is a patron of various charitable and public interests of the city. He has the fine perception and sound judgment of a man of large affairs and his record is a matter of pride to Davenport, while his labors have been of the utmost value to the city. To his personal friends his chief charm lies in the breadth of his interests and in spite of his busy life he is a man of broad culture. A sincere lover of books,
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fluent in German and French, his library indicates the keenest discrimination in selection. He has for years taken great delight in the study of continental liter- ature and he is also a patron of art whose knowledge thereof ranks him as a con- noisseur. In his travels abroad he has come into contact with the best that the world has produced in the plastic as well as the painter's art and a reten- tive memory makes him rich in the possession of those things which, once seen, can never be taken from us. In all of his life he has never been willing to choose the second best but has sought that advancement which brings us to the highest and, never self-centered, his life closely touches the general interests of society and its influence has ever been along the lines of progress and improve- ment.
GENERAL ADDISON H. SANDERS.
Addison H. Sanders was born on the 13th of September, 1823, in Cincin- nati, Ohio. His education was begun in a printing office of his native city and completed at Cincinnati College. In 1845 and again in 1846 he came to Daven- port where his brother, Alfred, was struggling to put his Gazette on a paying basis. During each of these visits he stayed several months taking editorial charge of the paper and thus relieving his overworked brother so that he might bring the business department into better condition. When the city had grown large enough to demand a daily paper, Addison H. Sanders removed to Daven- port, in October, 1856, took editorial charge of the Daily Davenport Gazette and continued in that position until he entered the Union army. At the beginning of the Civil war no newspaper in Iowa had wider influence than the Daily Gazette of Davenport.
Early in 1861 Addison H. Sanders was commissioned aid to Governor Kirk- wood, serving with Judge Baldwin of Council Bluffs and later in the year he was placed in command of Camp McClellan, at Davenport, where the Union volun- teers were mustering for the organization of regiments and for drill. The Six- teenth Regiment was organized early in the winter of 1862 and Governor Kirk- wood was so impressed with the excellent work and superior qualifications of Addison H. Sanders that he offered him the position of colonel of the new regi- ment. But having observed the disadvantage of placing inexperienced officers at the head of new regiments, he declined the command, urging the selection of a regular army officer for the place. The governor and General Baker realized the wisdom of such a selection and Captain Alexander Chambers of the Eighteenth United States Infantry was appointed colonel and Mr. Sanders was commis- sioned lieutenant colonel. The regiment received its "baptism of fire" at the desperate and bloody battle of Shiloh and at Corinth Lieutenant Colonel San- ders was wounded very severely. He did gallant service during the war, often in command of the regiment. At the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864, Colonel Sanders was taken prisoner, suffering everything but death in the Confederate prison, and when exchanged was so low with starvation and fever that for a long time his recovery was doubtful.
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