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Charles H. Shaw, proprietor of the Union House, Charles City, is a native of Maine and was born in the city of Bangor, Penob- scott County, on Oct. 3, 1848. His father, James M. Shaw, was a merchant of Bangor, Me., where he married Susan Tyler; they are members of the Baptist church, and now reside in Northwood, Ia. They had a family of six daughters and one son, five daughters and one son living. Chas. H., subject of this sketch, was the third child. He attended school in Corinth until seventeen when he
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engaged in the mercantile business in Bangor, a member of the firm of Boden & Shaw, grocers, until August, 1876, when he sold out and came to Charles City, where he has since been engaged in the hotel business. In January, 1882, he purchased the Union House, for an account of which, see Chapter XVII. No one can excel " Charlie Shaw " in keeping a good hotel.
George P. Smith, proprietor of the Charles City Sash, Door and Blind Factory, was born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N. Y., March 9, 1836, a son of George E. Smith, Sr., a cabinet- maker by trade, and Harriet, nee Emerson. They were natives of New York, and members of the Episcopal church. George P., Jr., was the eldest of a family of nine children, and when two years old removed with his parents to Saratoga, N. Y., where his father embarked in the furniture business. He attended school there until twelve years of age when the family located in Burlington, Vt. His father assisted in the building of the Vermont Central R. R., and on its completion, George, Jr., was employed as fire- man on an engine, and gradually rose to the position of engineer on both a freight and passenger engine. In January, 1861, he came to Iowa, locating in Floyd, Floyd County. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company G, Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry Vol- unteers, and served until the close of the war, being promoted in 1864 to rank of Quartermaster of his regiment. Upon leaving the service he came to Charles City and engaged in running sta- tionary engines until 1875, when he purchased a half interest in his present factory with D. Andrews, and in December, 1881, Mr. Andrews sold his interest to Geo. T. Willman, who in March, 1SS2, disposed of his interest to Mr. Smith, who has since con- ducted it alone. The factory gives direct employment to thirteen men, and is the only one of the kind in Floyd County, and the second established in Northwestern Iowa. Mr. Smith was mar- ried Oct. 12, 1871, to Frances E. Tuttle, of Rockford, Ill., and a daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Bowen) Tuttle, who were among the settlers of Floyd County in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, a daughter, Ivy, born July 12, 1872. Mr. Smith is a Mason and a member of St. Charles Lodge, No. 141. He has served as a member of the City Council two years, and politically is a Republican. He came of Scotch ancestry and is a descendant of Alexander McGregor, founder of the town of McGregor, Ia.
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Joel Washington Smith is one of the oldest physicians and older residents of Floyd County. He came here in 1857, when thirty- two years of age. He was born in Franklin, Delaware County, N. Y., July 23, 1824. The most remote member of his family that is clearly authenticated was Thomas Smith, -- born near 1700. Traditionally, he or his near ancestors emigrated from Haverhill, in Northeastern Massachusetts, to Feeding Hills, in West Spring- field. Mass., where he and several succeeding generations resided. His wife was Abigail, daughter of Anthony Austin, of Suffield, Conn. His father, Anthony, when about twenty-two years of age, went from Boston to Suffield. He was the youngest child of Christian Jew parents, that, near the time of Luther, to escape religious (?) persecution, fled from Bohemia or Hungary to Holland, then to England ; and thence the widow with three boys -youngest, three years-and two girls, came to Boston. There she soon married a merchant and the children were well educated for those times. Mrs. Smith lived to the age of ninety-eight. They had two sons, John and Thomas. The descendants of the latter are numerous about Springfield, and are widely scattered.
John married M. Stockwell. They had four sons and two daughters. He died at Franklin, N, Y. One son, Anthony, had a large family, and died at Whiting, Vt., in 1853. Juba and Thomas, with families, removed to Springfield, Bradford County, Pa. The daughters married but had no children.
The other son, Darius-Doctor's grandfather-was born 1766 ; near 1790, married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Colegrove and Mary Olin. She is reported as born at Preston, R. I. There is such a place in New London County, Conn., adjoining-none in Rhode Island. Colgrove was of English descent. Died at South- wick, Mass. Family removed to New York. About 1801 Darius Smith and family removed to Franklin, N. Y. Six children grew up. His wife died near 1828 at Otego, Otsego County, N. Y .; he, at Franklin, 1849; both were buriedat Otego.
Their elder son, Silas, Doctor's father, was born at Feeding Hills, Sept. 3, 1794 ; died at Franklin, N. Y., April 10, 1878. His wife -married 1821-was Lydia, eldest daughter of Major Joel Gillett, of Franklin, N. Y., who emigrated from Hebron, Conn., near 1806. She was born at the latter place 1801; died at Franklin, 1877.
The earliest Gillett ancestor known was John-said to be Welsh- born at Rehoboth, Mass., near Providence, R. I. He was taken prisoner at Deerfield, Mass., by the Indians and French, Sept. 16,
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1696 ; taken to Quebec ; a servant for a time at a nunnery, and returned home the next year (?) via France and England; set- tling at Lebanon, Conn.,-farther from Indians,-where he had a large family. One son was Ebenezer ; a son of his, Ezekiel, boru at Lebanon, April 3, 1743, was, during the Revolution, one of the staff, or body-guard, of Gov. Trumbull, of Lebanon. Ezekiel married Dorcas Hawkins, born May, 1739, at Coventry, Conn. He removed to Hebron, Conn., near 1768. Major Gillett was one of his sons, born at Hebron, Feb. 7, 1773; with his family removed to Franklin, N. Y., 1806-'7, where he died 1853. His wife, Clarissa, born March 28, 1778, daughter of Capt. Thomas Carrier and Lydia Ingham, of Marlborough, Conn., is reported a descend- ant of Martha Allen, wife of Thomas Carrier. She was put to death for witchcraft at Salem. They had thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters ; all grew to maturity and eight of them are living (1882). Her age was eighty-five. Major Gillett was a captain of artillery, and the Doctor's father a private in the war of 1812.
Silas Smith was a successful farmer, living fifty-five years, or until his death, April 10, 1878, upon the same farm, at Franklin, N. Y. Joel W. is the second of the twelve children. He has eight brothers and two sisters living. The father and nine sons cast ten votes for Gen. Grant for President in 1868.
It was thus the good fortune of the subject of this sketch to spend the early years of his life upon a farm-to learn to work. He was born in a log house, -is not ashamed to own it either; was an average boy, though called a trusty one, and spent his time as was usual with boys of the place and period. Some of the occupa- tions were, turning grindstone, helping clear the heavy timbered land, building stone walls for fences, catching trout-then plenty -and attending the district school in winter. His impressions of picking up stones into leaps on mowing land, and planting and hoeing corn and potatoes in tough, stony soil, were not favorable to such farming.
When fifteen, he was sent to the academy in Franklin, -" Dela- ware Literary Institute,"-even then, as later, a school of high reputation. Until 1846, each winter, with one exception, was spent there or in teaching; the other time upon the farm. Fortunately, if his early opportunities were somewhat limited, he made the best possible use of what he had. Home influences, business training and most of the surroundings were good. While he liked farming
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and teaching pretty well, Fas successful in each, he did for a time think of becoming a civil engineer, but finally decided to be what he had long thought of, a physician. Most of the time from 1846 to 1850 was spent in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York City, pursuing professional studies,-teaching several terms to partly defray expenses,-and graduating at Yale in January, 1850. Previous tojand after that time, he took special courses of instruction in New York, being the private pupil of Prof. William Detmold, a distinguished physician and surgeon of that city.
April 4, 1850, he married Susan Maria, only daughter of Will- iam Wheat, Esq., of East Franklin-Croton Postoffice-New York, where she was born, Jan. 8, 1826. Her father was born 1796, at Marlborough, Hartford County, Conn. When twelve years of age, his parents removed to Franklin, N. Y., where he died in 1871. His father, also William, was a sea captain in early life. His wife was Mary, daughter of Joshua Bolles and Eunice Shepherd, she of Hartford, Conn ; each died at Frank- lin ; she, March 4, 1839 ; her husband near 1866, aged ninety- six years. They had a family of nine children. The Captain's father was Solomon Wheat, a preacher and a physician. He and his wife, Rebeccafor Susannah Richardson died at Franklin New York. They had thirteen children, of whom twelve grew up. Their descendants are widely scattered. Traditionally, the Wheats were Welsh.
Mrs. Smith's mother -wife of William Wheat, Esq .- was Altamira, eldest daughter of Deacon Thomas Wolcott and Mar- gery Boyd, of East Franklin, N. Y., where Deacon Wolcott and wife died. The family came from near Southampton, Mass., where Mrs. Wheat was born. She died Sept. 27, 1871, aged sixty-nine years. Four of their five children are living.
Doctor Smith practiced successfully in his native county and town until 1857, whenthe removed to Charles City, then St. Charles. His quick perception, industry, good judgment, thorough medical education, kindness and gentlemanly deportment have been appre- ciated ; and professionally he now ranks the equal of any physician of his years in the State. In practice, he has always been conserv- ative, yet progressive and independent. He has never thought that to use drugs was the only way by which the good physician may earn his fee. His great excellence has been a rare gift of seeing the end from the beginning, and using such means, and such means only, as he believed might aid nature in her work of
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restoration. As a pioneer surgeon he has been quick to improvise means to accomplish the best results ; and he has performed many new and delicate operations, usually attempted only by city spe- cialists. The prevention and cure of disease by hygienic and sanitary measures early engaged his attention,-too often to his cost,-and long before it was the popular subject that it now is with the more intelligent classes. He has always preferred to excel in one calling-his profession-to engaging in too many other things, politics included. Pecuniarily, he has been reasonably successful, though a poor collector for himself. The key note of permanent success with him, as in all cases, has been to try do everything well, and observe the golden rule in all his dealings.
A man of quiet demeanor and kindly nature, of intelligent but positive views, of deep convictions and large common sense, cannot fail to impress the community and age in which he lives. Taking a deep interest and an active part in all educational, moral and material interests ; contributing liberally to benevolent objects according to his means ; at times holding various positions of public trust, in none of which was his integrity or ability ever questioned. None but himself can know, and eternity only can reveal, the labors, the sacrifices and pecuniary cost to himself of the work which he has done for the schools of Charles City and vicinity. This alone showed business capacity of high order. He has often spoken with his pen through the press of his town and other leading newspapers,-oftenest without name, that the matter might be judged by its merit,-and has contributed valuable papers in his profession. In 1876 he was a member of the International Medical Congress, at Philadelphia, a delegate from the Iowa State Medical Society. He is connected with different medical and scientific bodies, but is not a member of any secret societies, more from want of time than any other reason. While his life has been a busy and active one, he is still a student ; and with an excellent memory, possesses extensive general knowledge ; is a progressive and practical man, a close observer of men and things, an independent thinker, a good public worker when interested, and, though forgiving in his nature, abhors shams and frauds in individuals, in politics, in medicine, in religion and everywhere. As much as he desires the good opinion of his fellow men, he had rather be right than be popular. He has uniformly opposed the use of tobacco and alcoholic drinks, and worked vigorously for the Constitutional Amendment of 1882. In politics he was a Repub-
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lican from the first, but places principle above party obligations. In religious belief he is liberal orthodox, a usual attendant at the Congregational church, partly from force of education, but is wholly unsectarian in his views. The family consists of four sons and one daughter,-another died when young. The eldest, Irving Wheat Smith, M. D., born in New York, March 1, 1851, gradu- ated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1875, and is in business with his father-Smith & Son. In 1876 he married Sallie, daughter of George Stalker and Hannah Milliken, of Rich- land, Keokuk County, Ia. They have one daughter-Hannah- and one has died. Ida Elizabeth, the danghter, is the wife of La Verne W. Noyes, of Chicago, a successful inventor and manu- facturer. Mr. Noyes is the son of Leonard R. Noyes and Jane Jessup, former residents of Geneva, Cayuga County, N. Y., but now of Springfield, Linn County, Ia. The son and wife, dangh- ter and husband are graduates of the Iowa State Agricultural College. William Thomas and Charles Francis - twins - born Nov. 3, 1864, and Fred Edmund, born Ang. 18, 1866, reside with their parents. Theirs is an elegant home, the family a happy one, its members commanding the respect of all who know them.
Isaiah Snyder, a member of the Charles City Plow Co., was born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, O., Aug. 31, 1834, a son of William Snyder, of Pennsylvania, and Elzabeth, nee Bixler. He was the second son of a family of six children, and when he was some three years of age his parents moved to Shelbyville, Ill., and one year later located in Sullivan, now the county-seat of Moultrie County, that State. He was there reared and educated, and when he was fourteen years old his father died, and he farmed with his mother until eighteen, when he went to Sullivan, and there followed blacksmithing and the manufacture of plows four years. In the fall of 1857 he went to Mitchell County, Ia., spent one year in a mill there, then came to Charles City. In partnership with F. R. Woolley he opened the first plow factory in Floyd County, and they made the first plow made in this county. This partnership con- tinued until February, 1881, when the present stock company was formed. The factory had previously been enlarged from time to time, and is now one of the principal manufacturing interests of the city and county. On July 4, 1859, Mr. Snyder was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Lewis, who was born near Rockford, Ill., a daughter of Nelson and Elizabeth (Vance) Lewis. Of seven children born of this union, five are living-Bertha E., May
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Antoinette, Frank L., Henry L., and George W. Mr. Snyder is a strong supporter of the Republican party, and is classed with the prominent citizens and business men of Charles City.
Samuel H. Starr, proprietor of the largest boot and shoe empo- rium in Floyd County, was born in Charles City, Ia., on May 17, 1858, a son of S. B. Starr and Adeline, nee Hughes. His father is one of the pioneers, and the oldest member of the barnow living in Charles City. Samuel H. attended school in his native town until 1875, when he entered the Military Academy, at Faribault, Minn., remaining there one year, then attended the college at Morgan Park, Ill., one year. He entered Bailey's Commercial College, of Dubuque, Ia., and graduated from that institution in 1878. Upon leaving school he accepted a situation as clerk in the hardware store of Townsend & Smith, which he retained two years, then, in partnership with John Ferguson, established his present store. In January, 1882, Mr. Starr purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the business alone. He was married Sept. 19, 1879, to Cornie Clute, who was born in New York State, a daugh- ter of N. M. Clute, a Presbyterian minister, now located in Daven- port, Ia. Mr. Starr is a prominent member of St. Charles Lodge, No. 141, A. F. & A. M., and politically favors the Republican party. He is one of the prominent and representative business men of Charles City.
B. W. Stevens, of the firm of Stevens, Hering & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in and manufacturers of all kinds of furniture,. was born in Methuen, Essex County, Mass., Feb. 18, 1843; his father, Benjamin A. Stevens, is a native of Deerfield, Mass., born June 18, 1815, the day of the battle of Waterloo, and Oct. 20, 1839, he married Harriet Osgood at Methuen, Mass., where she was born. Of four children born of this union three are living-Har- riet E., wife of William H. Coffin; B. W., subject of this sketch, and Arthur O., engaged in the furniture business at Spencer, Ia. In 1871 B. A. Stevens came with his family to Charles City, where he has since remained, and is classed with the prominent and respected citizens of the city. In politics he is a Republican. His wife died here on Dec. 8, 1881. The subject of this memoir was educated in his native town, and in 1857 removed to Bad Axe County, Wis., where he engaged in farming until 1871, when he came to Charles City and engaged in the present business. He was married on Nov. 24, 1868, to Hattie E. Atkins, born at La Porte, Ind. She was a daughter of J. T. and Amanda Atkins, nee Hea-
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ton. They have two children-Grafton A., born June 15, 1876, and Barton, Aug. 29, 1880. In politics Mr. Stevens is strong adherent to the principles of the Republican party. The factory of Stevens, Hering & Co. is among the most prominent of the business and manufacturing interests of Charles City, and its pro- prietors are recognized as gentlemen of irreproachable business integrity. They give direct employment to twenty men, and their trade extends throughout the States of Iowa, Wisconsin, Minne- sota and Dakota.
Mrs. Elizabeth Strawn, one of the old settlers of Floyd County, and at present a resident of Charles City, was born near Chilli- cothe, Ross County, O., Feb. 5, 1810. Her parents were William and Elizabeth (Cating) Jolly, also natives of Ohio and members of the Presbyterian church. They had a family of four sons and six daughters; seven of the family lived to be men and women. When Mrs. Strawn, the subject of this memoir, was fifteen years of age, she removed with her parents to Indiana and settled on a farm near Covington, Warren County, where she married James Oxford, September, 1826. He was born in Ohio. The fruit of this marriage was two children, viz .: David H. Oxford, who died in 1850, and Martha, the wife of A. H. Brackett. They reside in Charles City, old settlers of Floyd County. Mr. James Oxford died in 1831; Mrs. Strawn then married Enoch Strawn and they had one daugh- ter, viz .: Mary E., wife of John Ferguson. They reside in Charles City, and are old settlers also. Enoch Strawn died in 1854. Mrs. Strawn then came with her family to Floyd County and purchased a large tract of land in St. Charles Township. She has since sold her farms and purchased a nice home in Charles City, where she resides. Mrs. Strawn is a member of the Christian church and has been a member of this church for the past fifty-two years. Mrs. Strawn is one of the few old settlers now living who came to Charles City in its infancy. She is now in the seventy-third year of her age and looks much younger.
C. A. Sylvester, of the firm of Sylvester Bros., manufacturers of fine carriages, buggies and wagons, blacksmiths and repairers, Charles City, are among the leading manufacturers of Charles City. They employ five skilled workmen and warrant all their work, using the best of material in the factory which they estab- lished here in 1879. C. A. and Fred Sylvester were sons of August and Minnie (Hoffman) Sylvester, natives of Germany. The father was a blacksmith, and he and wife had six children, three sons and
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three daughters. C. A. Sylvester, the eldest, was born Nov. 20, 1854, and Fred was the third son, and was born Feb. 12, 1856. He and brother attended school in Germany until fourteen, when they learned the blacksmith's trade, continuing until 1872, when they came with their parents to America. They landed at New York, and from there came to Floyd County and settled in Charles City. The father bought a farm and C. A. and Fred began to work at their trade, and in 1879 opened their present shop. C. A. married Miss Mary Marcen, Jan. 5, 1879. She was born in Floyd County, a daughter of John Marcen. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sylvester have two children, viz. : Charley and Miss Jessie. Mr. Sylvester and brother are enterprising, representative men and manufacturers of Charles City, and their factory is one of the principal features of the city. They also own and run the Sylvester Bros.' livery stable, and keep twenty head of horses, carriages and buggies for the ac- commodation of the public. In politics, independent.
J. P. Taylor, President of the Charles City National Bank, has been prominently identified with the business interests of this city since October, 1866. A son of John and Betsey Taylor, nee Pierce. He was born in Waterville, Madison County, N. Y., May 5, 1822. His boyhood was spent in Parsalia, Chenango County, N. Y., to which place his parents had removed when he was about two years old. He was educated and Jearned the boot and shoe trade there, where he remained until twenty-one years of age; then engaged in the boot aud shoe manufacture at South Otselic, where he also built and conducted a hotel. He was married Aug. 21, 1848, to Mercelia S. Ford, who was born in South Otselic, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1827, a daughter of Dr. Norman Ford and Mary, nee Beach. In 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor moved to Bloomington, Ill., where he engaged in the livery business until 1860, then removed to Mason City, Ia. He engaged in farming and in the sale of agri- cultural implements there until October, 1866, when he settled in Charles City, and continued the latter business here until 1879. In March, 1871, he, in company with Charles Siver, organized the First National Bank, with which he was actively connected until 1875. In 1876 he and S. F. Farnham organized the Charles City National Bank, of which he has since been President. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have had one child, a son-Frauk V., born June 25, 1858, who is bookkeeper and assistant cashier in his father's bank. Ile was educated in the common and high schools of this city, and in the military college of Faribault, Minn. The subject of this memoir
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owns ninety acres of land in St. Charles Township, and valuable property in Charles City. He is a Mason and a member of the St. Charles Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 141. He has served accept- ably in numerous township and county offices, among them that of School Director and County Supervisor. He was formerly a Whig in politics, but since the organization of the Republican party has affiliated with them. He has ever made Charles City's interests his own, and has been foremost in any project that promised ad- vancement to her interests morally and financially.
Ebenezer A. Teeling, miller of the Water-Power Company, Charles City, is a native of New York, and was born at Green- bush, Rensselaer, July 30, 1832, a son of Charles and Susan (Cran- dall) Teeling. His father was born at Teeling's Bay, Donegal County, Ireland, where he was married, and soon after, in 1830, came to America; they located in East Troy, N. Y., and subse- quently removed to Greenbush. They were members of the Presby- terian church and had a family of five sons and five daughters, Ebenezer, the subject of this sketch, being the eldest. He resided in Greenbush, and attended school at Albany, N. Y., until sixteen; then learned the miller's trade, which he followed in Albany and New York City until twenty-one, when he came to Watertown, Wis., and worked in a mill one year; thence to Stoughton, Dane County, Wis., and worked at his trade until April, 1856, when he came to Charles City, Ia. He was employed in the first mill in the county, and worked here and held the office of Assistant Dep- ยท uty Sheriff of Floyd County until 1862, when he was appointed Special Agent, Deputy Provost Marshal to the War Department, and held that office until the fall of 1865, when he was mustered out; he then ran the mill until January, 1868, when he was elected Clerk of the District Court, and held that office until 1871, then re- sumed his former business and ran this mill until it was torn down in 1876; since then has been miller in the present new mill. Mr. Teeling has been in the employ of the Water-Power Company since they purchased the water-power. He married Ellen Ingram, Aug. 18, 1860, at Charles City, Ia .; she was born at Fairfield, Vt., and was a daughter of Henry and Ann (Sharkey) Ingram, natives of Ireland, and members of the Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Teeling are members of the Congregational church, and have had two children, viz .: Clara J., born May 16, 1861, and Jessie, Dec. 30, 1870. Mr. Teeling is one of the oldest settlers now living in Floyd County; he came to Charles City when it was in its infancy,
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