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to Council Bluffs in 1866. and after close ap- plication to business, he formed partnership with Foreman & Beno of Council Bluffs, in a branch store in Logan, Iowa. Having disposed of his business in Logan profitably, he returned to Council Bluffs, and formed partnership with Mr. Scofield, as above stated.
W. STROHBEHN (Schurz & Strohbehn, grocers), Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in the spring of 1872, and was employed by Groneweg & Co., grocers and wholesale liquor dealers. He rose from a driver to a clerk, and afterward to the position of book-keeper. The firm sold out to Mr. Kirselit, with whom our subject stayed until October 28, 1881, when he went into partnership with Mr. Schurz. Mr. Strohbehn was married in October, 1875, to Miss Christine Witt, of Council Bluffs. They have three children-Matilda, aged six ; Hel- en, aged four, and William, who is two and a half years old. Our subject's parents live in Silver Creek Township. this county. where they have a farm of 200 acres. The father is sixty- eight and the mother sixty-six years old.
J. G. TIPTON, attorney, Council Bluffs, was born in 1849 at Fairview, Fulton Co., II., and lived there until he was eighteen years okl, He was educated at Abingdon College, Illi- nois, from which he graduated in 1872, teach- ing school before and after attending college, the money required to carry him through school being earned by himself teaching coun- try school. In the latter part of 1872, he entered the law office of Robert G. Ingersoll at Peoria, Ill., and remained there the balance of . that year and all of 1873. Leaving there, he entered the law office of Weldon, Tipton & Benjamin, of Bloomington, Ill., where he fin- ished his law studies, and September 11, 1874. was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Illinois, then in session at Ottawa, Ill. He commenced practice at Bloomington, Ill .; was nominated by Democratic State Convention in 1876 to the office of State's Attorney, and
defeated by a small majority. In the spring of 1872, he went West in quest of fresh fields of labor, arriving in Deadwood in time to attend the first day of the first term of court ever held there. said court being presided over by Judge Bennet, present Member of Congress of that district. Ile stayed there six months then went to Avoca, Iowa; began practice there and continued until the spring of 1882, at which time he opened an office in Council Bluffs. He was married October 31, 1878, at Avoca, Iowa, to Miss Nettie Bryant, of Avoca. Father was killed on 23d day of March, 1869, by branch of tree which hired man was felling striking him. A branch of same tree struck our subject, breaking his left shoulder and lac- erating his left arm severely. After receiving these injuries, he carried his father home, one- half mile, on his right shoulder, having to cross two fences on the way. He is of Scotch descent.
N. A. TAYLOR, grocer, Council Bluffs, was born in Vermont in 1832. He entered upon the study of law in Orange County, Vt., and in 1857 was admitted in all the courts of that State. He practiced law until 1862, when he enlisted in the Thirteenth Vermont Volun- teers and served one year, holding the position of Quartermaster. He was married in Ver- mont in 1860, and has one child-Gertie, aged fifteen years. Mr. Taylor came to Council Bluffs in 1876, and engaged as Steward at the deaf and dumb institution in that city. He opened his present grocery store in September, 1879, and is doing a rapidly increasing busi- ness, his annual sales amounting to about $25,000 ; he employs two men.
M. A. UPTON, freight and ticket agent of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., Council Bluffs, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 24, 1847, and, at the age of seven years, removed with his parents to Kalamazoo, Mich. There they lived till 1860, when they removed to Vernon Connty, Mo. Resided
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there till 1863, then moved to Lawrence, Kan. Mr. Upton received his education in Kalama- zoo, Mich., and at the Montevallo Academy in Vernon County, Mo. In the spring of 1864, he drove a four-mule team from Leavenworth, Kan., to Denver, and thence drove the team all over the State of Colorado, and returned to Lawrence, Kan., in the fall of 1865. He then entered the Lawrence High School, after leav- ing which, in 1866, he occupied various posi- tions till 1868, when he went to Kansas City, where he kept books for a commission grain house. In 1869, he returned to Lawrence, Kan., where he kept books for a wholesale stove and tin plate house for some time, then went to Vernon County, Mo., where he re- mained till May, 1871, when he came to Coun- cil Bluffs. Here he entered the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad freight office as clerk, and was promoted through all the differ- ent grades till, in October, 1879, he became cashier. and, six months after, was also put in charge of the clerical work, having twelve men under him. In August, 1882, he was appoint- ed to his present position of freight and ticket agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad at Council Bluffs. In May, 1871, he married Miss May Adams, of Burling- ton, Kan. He is of English descent.
GEORGE F. WRIGHT, State Senator, Council Bluffs, is one of her leading citizens, and a man of extensive influence throughout the State. He was born in Warren County, Vt., on the 5th of December, 1833. His father, Franklin A. Wright, was of English ancestry, and by occupation a farmer. The latter spent the last years of his life in Council Bluffs, and died suddenly, only a few years ago, at his residence on Willow avenue, near the Presby- terian Church. He was known during his residence here as a man of singularly sound sense, and was admired and beloved for his good temper and quiet and unassuming dispo- sition. George F. Wright, his son, was given
an excellent academic education with a view of preparing him for college, but having engaged in teaching for four or five years, he abandoned the idea of taking a degree. and moved to Keo- sauqua, Iowa, in 1855, and there began the study of law in the office of the late Judge Knapp and the Hon. George G. Wright, who afterward became one of the Judges of the State Supreme Court, and for one term a United States Senator. He was admitted to the bar of Van Buren County in 1856, and entered into partnership at once with Judge Knapp, Judge Wright having withdrawn to take his seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. The profes- sional success of George F. Wright was assured from the beginning. He was not gifted with the shining qualities of the forensic orator, but his strong, good sense and his knowledge of legal principles were qualities easily recognized by those intrusting him with business, and were the safe foundation of lasting and dura- ble success. He remained at Keosauqua until 1868, when he removed to Council Bluffs, en- tering at once into a law partnership with the late Judge Caleb Baldwin, which lasted during the life of the latter, and which is now extend- ed through the membership of the firm by John N. Baldwin, the son of Mr. Wright's old part- ner. Since coming to Council Bluffs, the busi- ness intrusted to him and his firm has includ- ed the attorneyship of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Union Pacific and the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroads. In the year 1875, he be- came a candidate for State Senator from the district composed of the counties of Pottawat- tamie and Mills, his Democratic opponent being B. F. Montgomery, also of Council Bluffs. After a very active canvass, in which both Montgomery and Wright made strenuous efforts, Mr. Wright was elected, and served the full term of four years. In the meantime, the Senatorial District was so changed that Potta- wattamie County was made a Senatorial Dis-
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triet by itself. In 1879, Mr. Wright was a candidate for re-election, his antagonist in the Democratie party being Col. William Orr, a popular farmer, and stock-grower in Hardin Township. Mr. Wright was successful a second time. As at the bar, Mr. Wright has won the respect of his fellow-Senators in both parties, by reason of his solid, substantial qualities as a man and as a legislator. Mr. Wright has not only been diligent in the practice of his pro- fession, and active as a legislator, but as a citizen he has been singularly enterprising. He was instrumental in the organization of the Council Bluffs Gas Light Company in 1868, and still has a large interest in that enterprise; also the Ottumwa Gas Company in 1871; the Mount Pleasant Gas Company, in 1871; and the Elgin Light Company, the same year; and that at Cedar Rapids, and the one at Sioux City in 1872. He is also largely interested in the several lines of street railway in Council Bluffs, and was a leader in the organization of those improvements. To him, also, are the public indebted for the inauguration of a system of water works for the City of Council Bluff's in the spring of 1881. He is a large stockholder in the company having the franchise, and gives his personal attention to the development and execution of the plans necessary to complete the work, well under way. One of the greatest enterprises to which his name is attached, and of which he is justly proud, is the great Union Pacific elevator at the Transfer in Council Bluffs. This gigantie appliance for handling grain has a capacity of 200,000 bushels. Mr. Wright's energy had much to do in induc- ing capital to invest in it, but in advancing it to completion under the most favorable circum- stances and anspices. In all his duty in the Senate and elsewhere, Mr. Wright has kept in view the essential interests of Council Bluffs. During the civil war he was active in promot- ing enlistments. Upon the first call for volun- teers he raised a company, and repaired with it
to Keokuk, the rendezvous, but the response of Iowa was so prompt that the offer it made ex- ceeded its quota, and the supernumeraries were allowed to return home. Mr. Wright was mar- ried, in 1865, to Miss Ellen E. Brooks, of Northfield, Vt., and has two sons and two daughters.
W. O. WIRT, proprietor Boston Tea Com- pany, Council Bluffs, born in Harrison County, Ohio, December 30, 1843 ; came to Council Bluffs in 1873, and engaged as traveling salesman with Steel, Johnson & Co., grocers, of Omaha, Neb., with whom he remained one year. He then went East, and traveled from Pittsburg, Penn., from 1874 to 1876, and in 1876 and 1877 for James Kent, Santee & Co., of Philadelphia, Penn. In the fall of 1877, he returned to Council Bluff's, and, in the spring of 1878, engaged in the retail grocery and hardware trade in company with R. O. Newell, at Red Oak, Iowa, where they carried on business for nearly three years. Mr. Wirt then removed to Conneil Bluffs, where he opened up his present business at 16 Main and 15 Pearl streets in the spring of 1881. He keeps a full line of staple and fancy groceries ; in faet, everything to be found in a first-class grocery store ean be pro- cured at the Boston Tea Company. Mr. Wirt does an extensive trade, running two delivery wagons, and keeping three counter elerks busy all the time. He is one of the wide-awake and energetic business men of Council Bluffs.
E. J. WOODBURY, dentist, Council Bluffs, was born in Bolton, Mass., in 1830. Studied his profession in Worcester, Mass., where he lived till 1852, then went to Ohio and remained there until he came to Iowa. He settled in Couneil Bluffs in 1858, and immediately established dental rooms. The Doetor was married in Townsend, Mass., in the spring of 1855, and has three sons and two daughters. The eldest son. H. A. Woodbury. is a graduate of Boston Dental College ; the other children are at home: Dr. Woodbury is one of the most popular and
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best known dentists in Council Bluff's, having been in business there twenty-four years.
A. B. WALKER, real estate, Council Bluff's, came to Council Bluffs in 1871 as Steward of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, occupying that posi- tion until 1877, when he moved into the city. He then engaged in the real estate and abstract business as a member of the firm of Squire & Walker, continuing in that firm about two and a half years ; then sold out the abstract busi- ness to Mr. Squire, and continued in the real estate business himself. In 1880, he began investing in mines in Utah and Colorado, assisting in organizing the Park Mining Milling Company, Union Consolidated Mining Company and Lakeside Mining Company, the two first of Utah and the last of Colorado. Mr. Walker was born in 1837 in Elkhart County, Ind., and at the age of two years came with his parents to Iowa, and located on a farm near Iowa City, Johnson County. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Johnson County, and at Galesburg, Ill. When eight years of age, his father died, and, when fifteen years of age' he went to live with an uncle in Madison County, Ohio, and commenced clerking for his uncle, and remained there until he was twenty- one years of age. He then returned to Iowa City and engaged in the photograph business, which he continued until 1862. He was four months in the army in 1865. In 1858, he married Loraine Byers, of London, Madison Co., Ohio. After his marriage, he lived two years in Ohio, where his wife died, and he then returned again to Iowa. He was again married in 1876 to Abbie M., daughter of Rev. G. G. Rice, one of the earliest preachers of Potta- wattamie County, and the first Congregation- alist ministers in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Walker visited the Centennial at Philadelphia while on their marriage tour.
A. WIIEELER, hotel, Council Bluffs, was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., in 1836, and was educated in Alexander Academy, New
York. After leaving school, he taught for some time in a commercial college. He engaged in the manufacture of leather for some time, and afterward carried on the manufacture of kitchen goods. He lived in Buffalo from 1861 till he came to Council Bluffs in July, 1881, Here he took charge of the Revere House, 549 Broadway, which contains forty sleeping rooms. a dining-room large enough to seat forty guests, parlors, sitting-rooms, etc., and all the accom- modations of a first-class hotel. Since Mr Wheeler has had charge of the hotel, its busi- ness has increased twofold, owing to his able management. In 1873, he married Miss Dell Axtell, of Wyoming County, N. Y. His grand- father on his mother's side was of Scotch descent, and served seven years during the Revolutionary war. His father's people were of English descent, and came to America about the year 1760.
HENRY P. WARREN, Deputy Clerk of Courts, Council Bluffs, was born in Palmyra, N. Y., August 21, 1820, and the following year his parents removed to Springfield, Ill., and in 1828, to Fulton County, Ill. He received his education at Oquawka, Ill., and in Fulton County, Ill. When he reached the age of twenty years, he, in connection with his uncle, began trading with the Indians, on the Des Moines River, Iowa. At Peoria, Ill., in 1846, he married Hannah L. Page, and the following year removed to Fairfield, Iowa, where he en- gaged in business. In 1854-55, he held the office of County Treasurer of Jefferson County, Iowa, and in 1856 removed to Council Bluffs, where he kept books for the old State Bank, afterward the First National Bank. He was Deputy County Treasurer of this county from 1870 to 1873, and in the latter year was ap- pointed Deputy Clerk of Courts, which office he has since held. His ancestors were New England Puritans. His son, F. H. Warren, held the position of Clerk of Courts for six years.
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MASON WISE, livery and sale stable, Council Bluffs, was born in Decatur County, Ind., in 1833. He went to Missouri in 1857, from which State he came to Iowa in 1861. In 1866, he came to Council Bluff's and started a livery and sale stable. Ile has been in this business ever since, and now handles from 300 to 500 head of horses and mules per year. He built a large addition in 1881, which enables him to accommodate 100 head at one time. His stables are commodious and convenient, which, with a fine yard, makes his premises the finest of the kind in the West.
PETER WEIS, grocer, Council Bluff's, was born in Prussia in 1834. He came to Amer- ica in 1855, settling in Wiseonsin. In 1859, he came to this State. In 1866, after returning from a two years' trip through Colorado, he opened up in business in a little log building near where the Ogden House stands. He built his present building in 1878. He employs four clerks, and carries an $8,000 stock, which includes a line of hardware and agricultural implements. Annual sales, $30,000. Mr. Weis was married in Mills County, this State, in 1860. He has one child by adoption.
H. J. WINTHERLICH, manufacturer of iron shot, Council Bluffs, is a native of Denmark, born in 1843. He emigrated to the United States ; came to Chicago in 1873, and thence to Council Bluffs in 1880. He enlisted, in Den- mark, in the Sixth Battery of Artillery, and held the rank of Lieutenant. He has always been in the foundry business. He and his brother have invented a process for making iron shot, and with several other gentlemen, princi- pally of Council Bluffs, have entered into the manufacture of the same. IIe has also patented a process for securing complete ven- tilation for houses. He was married in Den- mark in 1866, and has three children. Mr. Wintherlich is an accomplished linguist ; speak- " this city. He employs twenty-five men, and ing six different languages.
REV. FREDERICK T. WEBB, Council Bluff's, came to Council Bluffs in 1875, from the Theological School at Davenport, Iowa. He was born in England in 1850. His parents came to Philadelphia when he was one year old. Ile entered Griswold College at Davenport in 1868 ; graduated in 1872. He then took a three years' course in the Theological Seminary. When he took charge of St. Paul's Parish, in Council Bluffs, in 1875, it numbered fifty com- municants, but now has one hundred and seventy-five-a goodly increase in so short a time. Mr. Webb is an indefatigable worker, and has been instrumental in establishing twelve churches in this Diocese. He was mar- ried in Davenport in 1874, to Miss Laura Bell Gillette. They have one child living-Ada, aged two years. In 1881, lost their only son- Frederick Lee, aged six years. Mr. Webb is a Mason of high standing, belonging to the Bluff City Lodge, Star Chapter and Ivanhoe Com- mandery. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Iowa, the Trust- ees of Funds and Donations, and is also a Trustee of Griswold College. He is Dean of the Southwestern Convocation.
LUCIUS WELLS, agricultural implements. Council Bluffs, was born in Rock Island County. Ill., in 1845, and has always been in the im- plement and plow business; beginning, as he jokingly says, "by holding a plow by the handles." He was educated at Galesburg, Ill., and was married in 1868, at Dixon, and has one child-Emma M., aged twelve years. He is at present manager of the Council Bluff's branch of the John Deere, Moline Plow Works. lle began business here when the branch was established, in December, 1881. They handle here a general line of agricultural implements. Mr. Wells left Galesburg in 1864; went to Moline. Ill., where he engaged with the Deere Company, and remained there until coming to carries a stock of $50,000.
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U. H. WHITE, transfer and drayage, Coun- cil Bluffs, was born in New York in 1836. His parents moved to Ohio in 1838, where he was raised and educated. He came to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1858, and engaged in the lumber trade ; continuing this until 1872, when
he came to Council Bluffs and opened a furniture store. In 1880, he established his freight transfer business, running four wagons and employing four men. He was a mem- ber of the City Council of Des Moines for two terms.
BELKNAP TOWNSHIP.
J. A. T. BATES, farmer and general mer- chandise, P.O. Oakland, was born near New Bos- ton, Mercer Co., Ill., November 23, 1837; he is the son of John and Elizabeth (Noble) Bates. His father was born in Virginia in 1800. Ile was a farmer; moved to Mercer County, III., where he lived for nearly thirty years. In 1863, he came to Taylor County, this State, and to this county in 1871. He died in Oakland, this county, August 25, 1881. His (subject's) mother was born in Tennessee in 1804. She left Ten- nessee when she was young, and went to Ohio. During the war of 1812, she went to Indiana, where she experienced many hardships from the Indians. She is still living in Oakland, this county. Our subject had the advantage of a common school education, and lived at home until he was twenty-one years of age. He came to this county, bringing with him a separator and a horse-power machine for the same. He followed threshing for two seasons, Mr. Brazil having an interest in the business. lle then enlisted in the Thirteenth lowa Infantry. He was one of the guards at Fort Negley under Gen. Thomas ; was afterward with the troops that followed flood through Alabama. During this time, he was on detached duty. His regi- ment was with Sherman in his memorable marchi to the sea, and he rejoined it at Golds- boro, N. C. Ile was in the grand review at Washington, D. C., and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., after which he came back to Big Grove. He was married in Council Bluffs,
August 9, 1866, to Mrs. Margaret Reed. She was the daughter of Louis and Susan (Palmer) Huff. Her father was born in North Carolina in 1811. He was one of the earliest settlers in Big Grove, and is still living near Oakland. Her mother was born in Indiana about 1821. She died at the age of fifty-three. After his marriage, our subject confined his attention to farming at Big Grove. He raised, principally, stock. In 1879, he went to the Gunnison country, in Colorado, where he prospected and mined for two seasons, coming home to pass the winters. The mining party of which he was a member pitched the first tent on the present site of Irwin, Colo. This party discov- ered and located the principal mines of the camp-the Ruby King and the Forest Queen. In the fall of 1880, he began business at his present location - Block 2, Lot 10, on Main street, Oakland. He is the senior member of 1 the firm of Bates & Reed, dealers in general merchandise. Mr. Bates lives on his farm, half a mile south of Oakland, which he also ' operates. He has seven children, four sons and three daughters - Clara B., John O .. Susie E., Phoebe D., Thomas A. C., Par- don H. and H. Irwin. Mr. Bates was for a time Justice of the Peace, and was the first Postmaster at Big Grove. He is an A., F. & A. M., and is a charter member of the lodge to which he belongs. Murs. Bates is a mem- ber of the Baptist Church. He is Democratic in politics.
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JOHN K. BAXTER, farmer, P. O. Oak- land, was born in Leesburg, Ohio, December 13, 1842. He is the son of Joseph II. and Isa- bella (Porter) Baxter. His father was born in Cannonsburg, Washington Co., Penn., August 17, 1806. He was a blacksmith, and worked at his trade in his native town, and also in Lees- burg, Ohio, to which place he moved about 1840. His death occurred in the latter place, February 20, 1837. His (subject's) mother was born in Cannonsburg, Penn., March 20, 1806. This most worthy lady still enjoys good health, and lives with her danghter, Mrs. John W. Gard, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Both the par- ents are of Scotch descent. Their ancestors were compelled to seek refuge in the North of Ireland to escape the bitter persecution visited upon the " non-Conformists " under the Stnart dynasty. They finally emigrated to Pennsyl- vania previous to the Revolution. Our sub- jeet's father, in early life, had a taste for mili- tary tactics, and was for many years Captain of a military company in Pennsylvania. He was the father of ten children, eight of whom lived and grew to maturity-five sons and three daughters. Four of the sons were Union sol- cliers in the late civil war. Robert was killed while on a " scout " in Baxter County, Va., in 1862. James was a member of the Eleventh Iowa, and was wounded in the battle of Shiloh, from the effects of which he died in 1863. Jo- seph and our subject were also through the war, but escaped nnhurt, with the exception that the latter lost his hearing at the battle of Shiloh. Our subject received a common-school education, and lived at home till he was seven- teen years of age. At that time, he went to Moscow, this State, for the purpose of studying medicine with his brother. He attended the high school, and his brother gave him courses in anatomy. September 10, 1861, he enlisted in the Eleventh Iowa as musician of Company I, under Capt. C. B. Millinger. He received his discharge October 28, 1863, on account of phys-
ical disability, namely, loss of hearing, as be- fore stated. After his discharge, he continued his study of medicine with his brother, intend- ing to become a physician, but was compelled to give it up in consequence of his defective hearing. He was appointed Postmaster at Moscow, Iowa, in 1865, and held this position till the spring of 1869, since which time he has run a store, an insurance office and the Mer- chants' Union Express. He was married in Iowa City, October 10, 1867, to Texie A. Bunch, born in Albemarle County, Va., October 18, 1844 ; she was the daughter of William E. and Sarah (Crank) Bunch, both natives of Vir- ginia. Her father came to Moscow, this State, in 1855, and was engaged in the merchandising and afterward in the drug business. He now lives at Saratoga, McDonald Co., Mo., where he keeps a drug store. In 1869, our subject sold out in Moscow, and moved to Lamar, Barton Co., Mo. Here his family had such poor health, that he came back to Jasper County, Iowa, where he farmed five years. In June, 1877, he came to this county. He owns forty acres in Belknap Township, where he now re- sides, and also 200 aeres in Woodbury County, this State. He has three children living- Colfax E. (born August 6, 1868), Grace J. (born July 23, 1872), and Claude J. (born June 13, 1881). Mrs. Baxter is a member of the Evangelical Methodist Church. In politics, Mr. Baxter is a Republican.
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