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who came to Poweshiek county with his parents in 1848. She died January 31, 1896.
James H. Friend was reared upon the home farm and notwithstanding the death of his father he secured good advantages of education. After attending the district schools he became a student at Grinnell Academy and later at Callanan College, which was under general supervision of Drake University. In 1887, having thoroughly prepared himself, he took up teaching as a profes- sion and for seventeen years taught in various schools of the county, becoming recognized as one of the most capable educators in this section of the state. In 1904, however, be became interested in osteopathy and entered the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, from which he was graduated in 1906. He immediately opened offices at Grinnell but shortly afterward was in- vited to Story City to take charge of the practice of Dr. O. F. Beckett, who was temporarily called away. The absence of Dr. Beckett was prolonged and Dr. Friend remained three years in Story City. In 1909 he returned to Grinnell, where he maintains well appointed offices and has built up an extensive practice.
On the 24th of December, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Myra McDonald, a native of Poweshiek county, and by this union six children have been born, namely: Gladys, who was educated at Grinnell high school and lowa College and is now successfully teaching in the district schools; Arthur McDonald, a student in the high school; Leona and James, who are attending the graded school; Myra A .; and Homer C.
Dr. Friend has seen no reason to regret giving up his profession as a teacher to engage in the healing art. From the beginning of his practice he has evinced a natural adaptability to the vocation and his services are steadily growing in demand, his patients being numbered among his best friends and most en- thusiastic advocates. He is an intelligent gentleman and as he has been a life- long student and investigator he has a highly cultivated mind which has been brightened by contact with the world and also by systematic study and reflec- tion. His skill in the treatment either of acute or chronic diseases is widely acknowledged throughout this part of the state. Politically he is independent. preferring to vote for the man rather than for the party, and fraternally he is identified with Herman Lodge, No. 273. A. F & A. M., of Grinnell, and Baldur Lodge, No. 279, Knights of Pythias, of Story City.
J. HENRY HINK, SR.
In this work are to be found some remarkable instances of success financially. showing the difficulties that may be overcome by one who is determined to accomplish a worthy object in life. The record of J. Henry Hink, Sr., is one that should encourage every aspiring young man. He arrived in America from a foreign land almost without a dollar in his pockets, and today he is the owner of five hundred and sixty acres of good land in Poweshiek county and one of the highly respected members of the community. He was born in Hanover,
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Germany, August 23, 1851, and is a son of Henry and Anna ( Moritz ) Hink, both of whom spent their entire lives in the old country.
J. Henry Hink, Sr., was the youngest member of a family of six children and grew to fifteen years of age on his father's farm, receiving his education in the common schools. As a boy of fifteen he crossed the ocean to America and spent five years in Henry county, Illinois, where he prosecuted his studies in the common schools and worked upon the farm. In 1873 he came to Chester township. Poweshiek county, Iowa, three of his brothers having preceded him to this county. Two years after his arrival he purchased eighty acres of land which he improved. adding good equipment and accessories. He fenced and tiled the fields and carried on his work along progressive lines, purchasing more land as opportunity offered. He is today one of the most prosperous farmers of the township and one of the most substantial citizens in this section.
On the 28th of October, 1879. Mr. Hink was married in the German Lutheran church in Malcom township to Miss Mary L. Wanner, a daughter of August and Frances (Stecker ) Wanner, both of whom were natives of Germany, the father being a cabinet-maker by trade. He came to America and at the out- break of the Civil war offered his services to the Union, enrolling as a mem- ber of Company K. Ninety-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was killed while bravely fighting for the stars and stripes, his family later settling in Poweshiek county. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hink : Clara, who married Henry Luttman, a farmer of Chester township; Emma, the wife of Fred Puls, also of Chester township; Charles, who is a graduate of the Grinnell high school and is now manager of the Central Garage at Grin- nell; and Walter, who is living at home.
Politically Mr. Hink affiliates with the republican party and has served with general approval as township trustee and member of the school board. lle is identified with the German Lutheran church of Malcom. His success may be ascribed to hard work and good judgment and he has now arrived at a stage where he can enjoy himself at leisure, his farm yielding a handsome in- come. His methods have always been straightforward, based on fairness and honesty, and he possesses the confidence and respect of all who know him.
WALTER FORD HAMMOND.
The late Walter Ford Hammond, who for many years was identified with various activities in Grinnell, was born in Plattsville, Wisconsin, on the 2d of December, 1857. He was a son of George S. and Jane (Pemberthy) Ham- mond, the father a native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the mother of England, having emigrated from there to the United States with her par- ents when a child of twelve years. The father passed away in Illinois and the widow, who remarried, is now living with a daughter in Rhode Island.
Reared in the parental home Walter Ford Hammond acquired his prelimi- nary education in the common schools of Wisconsin and Illinois. When a youth of fifteen years he migrated to Iowa, locating in Poweshiek county. Feeling
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the need of a better education during the first year of his residence he attended Grinnell College and taught school. Subsequently he accepted a clerkship with McIntosh & Proctor, who were engaged in the clothing business. Later he purchased the interest of Mr. Proctor, the business being continued under the firm name of McIntosh & Hammond, which was subsequently changed to Ham- mond Brothers & James. In 1883 he removed to Des Moines, where he con- ducted a jobbing and brokerage business for seven years. At the expiration of that period he returned to Grinnell and purchased the clothing business of N. D. Soper, with which he continued to be identified until 1893, when he sold out to G. H. McMurray, subsequently buying from Michael Snyder his interest in the Grinnell Electric Light Company. Mr. Hammond retained the manage- ment of this concern until 1902, at which time he disposed of his interest to become one of the organizers of the Elliott Hotel Company of Des Moines, of which he was vice president at the time of his death, the 7th of July, 1905.
In 1878 Mr. Hammond was united in marriage to Miss Hattie M. Child, a daughter of Jonathan and Martha (Walker) Child, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. The following children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Hammond: Martha, who died at the age of five months; Russell, who is twenty- nine years of age, and lives in the west; Walter, aged twenty-three, who grad- uated from Iowa College in June, 1911; Arthur, twenty years of age, who also graduated in June, 1911; Aldace W., aged eighteen, who graduated from the Grinnell high school in June, 1911 ; Mae, fifteen years of age, who is attending the high school ; Harold, aged thirteen ; and Bruce, now seven years of age.
Mr. Hammond, who was a republican in politics, was a prominent member of the Franklin Club of Grinnell and he and his wife and daughter affiliated with the Congregational church. Mr. Hammond was well known in Grinnell and Poweshiek by reason of his long residence there, and was highly esteemed and regarded.
JOHN WILKINSON COGSWELL, M. D.
From no professional man do we expect or exact so many of the cardinal virtues as from the physician. If a clergyman is austere, we imagine that his mind is absorbed with the contemplation of things beyond our ken. If our lawyer is brusque and crabbed, it is the mark of genius; but in the physician we expect not only a superior mentality and comprehensive knowledge but sympathy as wide as the universe. Dr. Cogswell in large measure meets all of these re- quirements and is regarded by many as an ideal physician. Certainly if patron- age is any criterion of ability he ranks high among the leading medical prac- titioners of Grinnell, where he is now enjoying a large practice.
Dr. Cogswell was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 29th of October, 1883. his parents being Charles Herbert and Mary (Wilkinson) Cogswell, who are natives of Pennsylvania and Illinois respectively. Their marriage was cele- brated in the year 1869. Charles H. Cogswell, who was graduated from the I Jahnemann Medical College of Chicago with the class of 1866, located for prac-
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tice in Clinton, lowa, and has since been numbered among the successful physi- cians of this state. From 1884 until 1902 he presided as professor of obstetrics in the College of Homeopathic Medicine at the State University of Iowa.
John W. Cogswell obtained his early education in the public schools of his native city and subsequently entered the State University of Iowa, being grad- uated from the College of Liberal Arts with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1904. In 1906 he completed the medical course in the College of Homeopathic Medicine of the State University of Iowa and received the degree of M. D. Ilis professional knowledge was augmented by post-graduate work in the University of Vienna during the years 1907 and 1908. Locating for practice in Toledo, Iowa, he there remained during the years 1906 and 1907 and on the Ist of May, 1908, opened an office at Grinnell, which town has since re- mained the scene of his professional labors. In 1908-09 he acted as an in- structor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology in the College of Homeo- pathic Medicine at the State University of Iowa, while in 1909-10 he had charge of the same department as assistant professor. In professional lines he is connected with the Central Iowa Homeopathic Medical Society, the Hahne- mann Medical Association of Iowa, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Obstetrical Society of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is in- terested in all that promotes a knowledge of the human body-the onslaughts made upon it by disease and the possibilities for recovery through the use of remedial agencies. Dr. Cogswell also has a military record, having served as cadet at the University of Iowa for four years. He is now serving as cap- tain of Company K, Fifty-fourth Infantry, Iowa National Guard, located at Grinnell.
Dr. Cogswell is a member of Herman Lodge, No. 273, A. F. & A. M., and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, belonging to Iowa Consistory, No. 2. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian. Though still a young man, he has already attained a creditable position in professional circles, while the salient characteristics of his manhood are such as have brought him the warm regard of those with whom he has been otherwise associated.
H. T. SMITH.
H. T. Smith, a retired farmer and stockman and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, on the 2d of May, 1845. He was a son of Sam and Hulda (Peabody) Smith, lifelong residents of the Green mountain state, · and there the father passed away when H. T. Smith, the youngest of three sons and four daughters, was but a year old. Reared amid the scenes and envi- ronments of rural life, he spent the early years of his life upon the home farm, giving his widowed mother the benefit of his assistance, until eighteen years of age, when he offered his services to the Union, enlisting from Brookfield, Vermont, in December, 1863, as a recruit in Company G, Tenth Vermont Vol- unteer Infantry. He served with that command until the close of the war, taking part in many important engagements, including that at Cold Harbor,
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Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, and many others. For seven days he participated in the campaign of the wilderness under General Grant, during which time he suffered many hardships. During his term of service he was twice wounded, first at the battle of Cedar Creek, when the end of his nose was shot off, and again in front of Petersburg, when a ball struck his left leg below the knee, which he carried for seventeen days before it was extracted. This last wound caused his removal from the field to the hospital, where he remained until mustered out at the close of hostilities. June 29, 1865.
Mr. Smith then returned to his Vermont home, where he remained until 1866, when he decided to seek the opportunities of the middle west, which district was entering upon an era of most substantial yet rapid growth. In the spring of that year he came to Iowa, locating first in Winneshiek county, where he engaged in general farming for eight years. He then sold his farm there and returned to Vermont on a visit to his old home, remaining in his native state from December until the following July. On again coming to Iowa, in 1874, he took up his abode in Poweshiek county, purchasing a quarter of a section of land in Pleasant township. During the eighteen years in which that farm remained his home he carried on general agricultural pursuits and stock raising with gratifying results. He made a specialty of breeding horses and became well known through the locality for the high grade of stock to be found upon his place. He continued in this enterprise with increasing success until. in 1893, he left the farm and took up his residence in Malcom, where he is now living retired, being ranked among the substantial and well-to-do citizens of this community.
Mr. Smith was married, on the 18th of February, 1868, to Miss Cynthia M. Gifford, who was born in Randolph, Vermont, on the 28th of May, 1846, and there resided until her marriage. Her parents were Friend and Armida (Smith ) Gifford, lifelong residents of that state. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born two sons: Walter D., of Saskatchewan, Canada ; and Amos B., at home.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is highly esteemed in a large circle of friends in this locality. He early learned the lesson that success must be purchased at the price of earnest, well defined labor, and as the years went by his record was one of indefatigable effort, close application and intelligent direction that found their just reward in the life of ease and comfort which today is his.
WILLIAM CLELAND.
It is astonishing to witness the success of men who have emigrated to America without capital and from a position of comparative obscurity have worked their way upward to a place of influence and prominence. The readi- ness with which they adapt themselves to circumstances and take advantage of opportunities offered brings to them success and wins them a place among the leading men of the community in which they reside. To this class belongs
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William Cleland, who is today perhaps the largest landowner in Poweshiek county, owning altogether one thousand three hundred and eighty acres.
He is a native of County Down, Ireland, born January 8, 1840, a son of James and Margaret (Adams) Cleland, who spent their entire lives on the Emer- ald isle. The father was a stone-mason. His family numbered four children : John, who at one time came to the United States but returned to his native country, where he departed this life; William, of this review; James, who died in Cook county, Illinois ; and Jane, who is also deceased.
William Cleland was a young man of twenty years, when, in 1860, hc emigrated to the new world. He first located in Rock Island county, Illinois, and there worked on a farm for eight years. In the meantime, however, he carefully saved his earnings and from time to time invested his capital in land in Iowa, having in 1864 purchased the farm on which he now makes his home. He continued to work for others until he had accumulated a sum sufficient to begin operations on his own account, and eventually, feeling justified in es- tablishing a home of his own, he was married in Rock Island county, December 28, 1867, the lady of his choice being Miss Sarah McKeag, who was likewise born in County Down, Ireland, in 1842, and in 1866 came to the United States, also settling in Rock Island county, Illinois. The parents, James and Jane McKeag, emigrated to the new world in 1868 and settled in Rock Island county, but both are now deceased.
Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Cleland came to Poweshiek county and since 1868 have resided on their present farm on section 19, Pleasant township. He began work in earnest and through his economy and frugality gradually added to his land holdings until he is now the owner of thirteen hun- dred acres, situated in Pleasant and Washington townships. He is engaged in farming on quite an extensive scale and also gives much of his time and at- tention to stock-raising. He is a man of good business judgment and in this lies the secret of his success.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cleland has been blessed with three daugh- ters and two sons. Elizabeth, the eldest, is the wife of William Molison, a resi- dent of Pleasant township, and has four children. Margaret is the wife of Geo. W. Hays, of Malcom. James passed away in November, 1908, at the age of thirty-four years, leaving a widow and one child. Rose is the wife of E. O. Porter, of Grinnell, and her one child, William, the youngest, who manages the home farm, wedded Miss Emma Agnew, and they have two children.
In his political views Mr. Cleland is a stanch republican and for the past twenty years has filled the office of justice of the peace and for six years was trustee of the township. In 1890 he took the census of Pleasant township and in the various public positions he has filled has ever fully merited the confidence of those whose interests he has served. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church at Ewart.
When Mr. Cleland first located in Poweshiek county the district in which he settled was all wild and unbroken prairie. He has lived to see the conditions changed, for today the land is divided into beautiful and highly cultivated farms, inhabited by a prosperous and contented people, and while Mr. Cleland has wit- nessed this change he has also been an active participant in bringing about this
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condition, for he has ever been a hard working man as may be known by the broad acreage of which he is now the possessor. The accumulation of wealth, however, has not been his sole aim and ambition in life, for he is a public- spirited citizen who is ever ready to lend his aid and influence to any worthy movement for the betterment of his home locality. Perhaps the highest tribute that can be paid Mr. Cleland is that he has been successful in all of his under- takings and that he has so discharged his duties as a citizen and as a business man as to merit the confidence of those who know him best.
SAMUEL JAY BUCK, D. D.
Samuel Jay Buck, who has been termed "the grand old man of Iowa College." was for forty-two and one-third years connected with the institution as instructor and acting president, and the school in its present prosperous condition stands largely as a monument to his ability in and devotion to the profession which he chose as a life work. He came to Grinnell in early manhood and for forty-two years labored for the upbuilding of the school. Ex-President Eliot of Harvard said: "What is needed is continuous education which lasts all through life." It was this which Professor Buck strove to give to his pupils, believing with Kant that "The object of education is to train each individual to reach the highest per- fection possible for him." He had acquired some previous experience as a teacher in Ohio and Illinois before coming to Iowa. He had gone to the former state in his early boyhood with his parents, who removed westward from Russia, Herkimer county, New York, where Professor Buck was born on the 4th of July, 1835. Upon a farm near the town of Mecca in Trumbull county, Ohio, his youthful days were passed and his experiences were those which usually fall to the lot of the farm lad. It is undoubtedly true that environment has not a little to do with the forming of character and Professor Buck spent his youth in Ohio where the forces of New England were arrayed against the incoming forces from the south over the questions of gambling, intemperance and the slave trade. The discussion of such themes could not have failed to leave an impress upon the mind and char- acter of the boy who, moreover, spent five years as a student in Oberlin College, Ohio, the very center from which permeated a strong influence of personal lib- erty and public morality. He entered the preparatory department of the school in 1853 and on the completion of the college course was graduated in 1858 and at once turned his attention to the profession of teaching. At one time he was an instructor in an academy at Bazetta, Ohio, and at another time principal of the Union high school at West Liberty. Ohio.
Soon after his marriage in 1859 to Miss Jane Cory, a college classmate, Dr. Buck entered the theological school of Oberlin, from which he graduated in 1862 with the degree of Master of Arts. He then accepted the position of principal of Orwell Academy in Orwell, Ohio, and in 1863 was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church. His time was afterward given to the dual profes- sion of teaching and preaching. his pastoral work being done at Orwell and Mecca until 1864.
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In that year lowa College at Grinnell sought the services of Dr. Buck, and he came to this city to take up his work in connection with the school that was strug- gling for existence. The greater part of its pupils who were able to carry a musket had gone to the front in defense of the Union cause and there were but ninety-two students enrolled in the catalog of 1863-4 under the charge of four teachers, one of whom was Professor Von Coelln, whose recommendation of Dr. Buck had led to his selection for the professorship at Grinnell. He reached Grin- nell on the 5th of February, 1864, and at once took up his work as principal of the lowa College Academy and second permanent instructor in Iowa College. He brought to his new duties zeal and enthusiasm as well as wide knowledge, and the school soon felt the stimulus of his interest and exertions. In 1869 the college trustees elected him professor of mathematics and physics, which position he filled until 1905. the title of the chair, however, being changed in 1893 to that of mathie- mnatics and astronomy. In the earlier years of his professorship here he preached at Chester. aiding in organizing the Congregational church there and supplying the pulpit until January, 1866, when he resigned to accept the position of county superintendent of schools. He was twice elected to that position and the public school system of this city benefited by the stimulus given to it by his efforts and ability.
In 1868 he was elected a member of the school board of the independent dis- trict of Grinnell and continued to serve upon it until 1880, being president of the board the last six years. declining to serve longer .;
After three years in the county superintendency he resigned to accept again the pastorate of the church at Chester. For two years he, engaged in preaching the gospel there and then resigned to supply the new church at Gilman, which he had aided in organizing and of which he remained pastor for seven years. For two vears he supplied the pulpit of the Congregational church of Toledo, lowa, and his labors in the ministry were not denied the full harvests nor the aftermath.
At the same time Dr Buck was continuing his work in the college and the beneficial results of his labors were so far and so strongly felt that in 1870, when the trustees, feeling the need of more funds, began to look about for some one to act as a representative of the college in the solicitation of gifts for the memo- rial fund, so-called because that year was the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, they very naturally chose Dr. Buck. The same zeal and enthusiasm which characterized him in the performance of every duty were manifest in this connection and within a few months he had succeeded in securing between twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars for endowment and an additional sum of three thousand dollars for the equipment of the physics de- partment. At the following commencement the trustees in recognition of his successful efforts, unsolicited, gave his chair the title of "the memorial professor- ship." This name was retained until 1891 when Alonzo Steele, of Grinnell, pledged twenty thousand dollars for the endowment of the chair and at his request the title was changed to "the Myra Steele professorship of mathematics and physics" in honor of a deceased daughter. which name is still retained except that the word astronomy has been substituted for physics.
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