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Mr. Hines was married September 8, 1909, to Miss Florence
RESIDENCE OF AUSTIN ABRAHAM HINES
B. Longstreth, of Letts, Iowa. One son, Howard H., has blessed their union.
Mr. Hines is a member of Omega lodge No. 728, I. O. O. F., of Lone Tree, and at this writing is Noble Grand of his lodge. He is also a member of Lone Tree lodge No. 304, Knights of Pythias, and of Company 18, Uniform Rank, K. of P., of Ce- dar Rapids.
JULIUS OTTO SCHULZE
Our subject's father, Joseph Schulze, son of Frank and Teresa Schulze, was born in Prussia March 24, 1826, that day being Good Friday. Of the six children of Frank Schulze
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four came to America, the journey being made in sailing ves- sels at different times. Of these, two now survive, Joseph, our subject's grandfather, and John, of Chicago. Joseph emigrated to the United States in 1852, and the voyage occu- pied fifty-six days. Ile landed at Baltimore and immediately located in Cumberland, Maryland, where he resided three years. In 1855 he came west to lowa City, making the journey by rail to Rock Island, thence by steamboat to Muscatine, thence by stage to Iowa City. His first occupation in his new field was day's work as a harvest hand, followed by employ- ment with the stage company in their blacksmith shop. Sub- sequently he engaged in the grocery business in a building ad- joining the present site of William Hohenschuh's undertaking parlors. He disposed of this business in 1866, and built a boarding house for the workers in the Coralville Woolen mills, which he conducted for two years. Following this he became a member of the brewing firm of Schulze & Graf. Later he entered the shoe business in what was known as the Blue Front Shoe store, located on South Clinton street. There he con- tinued for eighteen years, retiring from business about 1898. He was married in St. Mary's church, Iowa City, in Septem- ber, 1862, to Miss Mary Williams, a native of Iowa City, daughter of George Williams. She died in Muscatine July 4, 1882, after the birth of Mary, their last child, who died at the age of five weeks, after his return from a trip across the plains. Ten children were born of this union: Frank, of Cedar Rapids; Helen, wife of Charles Morrow; Albert, re- siding in Liberty township, Johnson county; William, living in California; Lizzie, now Mrs. W. Karresel, of Iowa City; Clara, of Cedar Rapids ; Julius Otto, our subject ; Peroy Irv- ing, of Texas; Laura, Mary.
Joseph Schulze is the owner of considerable business and residence property in Iowa City, including his fine home at 31 North Van Buren street, corner of Jefferson street. He is a member of St. Mary's Catholic church, St. Joseph's Bo- nevolent Society and the Elks. He held the position of town- ship trustee in early days and was an alderman for four years from the third ward, Iowa City. Fourteen grandchildren give him lively promise of the perpetuity of his name and blood.
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Julius Otto Schulze, seventh child in regular order of birth, was born in Iowa City in 1875, and received his primary edu- cated in the Catholic parochial schools. He graduated from the high school in 1893 and from the engineering department of the S. U. I. in 1897. Some of his first work was in connec- tion with the construction department of the Rock Island sys- tem, on the extension of that road between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. He was also engaged upon the St. Louis & San Francisco and the Trinity & Brazos Valley. In 1907-08 he was city engineer of Iowa City, and in 1909 became secre- tary of the Iowa City Commercial club.
Technical training as an engineer, led him to make proper
RESIDENCE OF JULIUS OTTO SCHULZE
investigation and through him Iowa City can feel thankful for the launching of the first street railway in Iowa City together with the cooperation of the substantial board of directors. Beginning with one mile of track its completion in 1912 will give to the city four miles of street railway passing through the principal streets, intersecting the thickly populated por- tions of the city, a long felt want in Iowa City. Mr. Schulze is also president of the Rundell Land and Improvement com- pany, which controls 270 city lots located between the new canning factory and east Iowa City, with a capital stock of $25,000.
He married Miss Agnes E. Sneppel, daughter of John and
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Catherine (Rohret) Sueppel, of Iowa City. Two children, Mary Catherine and Mary Louise, have been born to him. Mr. Schulze is a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church.
On the 17th of November, 1909, Mr. Schulze as president of the Iowa City Electric Railway company, had the pleasure of driving the silver spike which marked the completion of tracklaying on Iowa City's first street railway system. The ceremony took palce in the presence of an immense throng of citizens at the corner of Clinton and College streets, the ter- minus of the line. Since that time extensions have been com- pleted and the line put in operation. In addition to his Iowa City interests, Mr. Schulze has large lumber interests in Tex- as and is associated with extensive townsite and land enter- prises in Texas.
MILLARD W. DAVIS
In the death of the late Millard W. Davis Johnson county lost one of its earliest settlers and Iowa City its oldest mer- chant. He had occupied his place of business for more than fifty-four years and was one of the best known men in the entire county, where his interests had been centered for so many years. He was the pioneer of pioneers in the city, hav- ing come there when it was a hamlet, with the first trains, and having seen it grow and become a great educational center. He lived to feel the stir of the business life which had come to the city and community, and always kept in tune with the various changes that had been transpiring. He was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, son of Ebenezer S. and Susan (Me- Farland) Davis, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Penn- sylvania. His grandfather, also named Ebenezer Davis, was born in Wales, came to Virginia in an early day, and in 1804 settled in Ohio.
On January 1, 1858, Mr. Davis took possession of the build- ing in which he was located so many years, and his record is perhaps unequalled in the state of Iowa. He witnessed great changes during his life in Iowa City, and his description of conditions there in 1857 were lifelike and interesting, showing the primitive life led by its inhabitants at that time. Between the Metropolitan block, the building which he chose for the
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location of his business, and the Johnson County Bank corner there were nothing but frame buildings and shacks, and the same held true of the other side of the street. The only build- ing in the neighborhood of any pretensions was a long build- ing reaching to the alley, occupied by the firm of Daniels & Company, on the present site of the place where Maresh Brothers later had their establishment, but at that date this location was considered to be ontside of the business district of the town. Ten or twelve teams a day came from the coun- try within a radius of some 150 miles, to get a load of dry goods or provisions from the Daniels store. Being then the terminus of the Rock Island road, Iowa City had a large trade from the surrounding country. Dubuque street was a line of mere shacks, and the business center was then located near the St. James hotel. Communication with every direction except the east was by means of stage coaches, the Western Stage Company having a barn and shop on Jefferson street. There were a dozen stage coaches in the town at a time, which car- ried passengers, mail, and express. John M. Carleton was mayor in the year mentioned. Dubuque street was a residence section but contained a few business buildings, among them the Republican office. This was memorable as the year in which the state capital was removed to Des Moines, and also as the year in which the State University was located at Iowa City.
Before moving to the Metropolitan block, Mr. Davis had occupied the Brossart building on Clinton street, halfway he- tween Washington street and Iowa avenue. Ile came to the city in 1856 and spent his first night at the old Park Hotel on Dubuque street, which later became a school, and still later a rooming house. On the morning after his arrival he looked out and saw the Presbyterian church burning. He engaged in the drug business, which he continued for a period of fifty- five years. During his earlier years in the city he was active in public life, and in 1866 served as a member of the city conneil from the old Fourth Ward. He was at one time cur- ator of The State Historical Society and always felt keen in- terest in perpetuating the history of early days. He was quiet and unassuming, fond of the companionship of his friends, and taking great pride in his business. For some
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time prior to his death he had been in poor health, but went to his store daily, almost up to the day of his demise. His death occurred at his home on East College street, August 18, 1911, at the age of seventy-eight years, he having been born Decem- ber 24, 1833, at Williamsport, Ohio. Rev. John Arthur, of Cedar Rapids Episcopal church, officiated at the funeral at Iowa City. The remains were shipped to the old birth place, Williamsport, Ohio, on the morning of August 21.
Mr. Davis is survived by a widow and two sons, all of whom were at his bedside at the time of his death. The two sons are: Harry C, of Chicago, and Charles P., of St. Louis. The former is a traveling salesman for a wholesale drug house.
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE MILLARD W. DAVIS
The latter is a professor at the Art School of the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, is an artist and educator.
Mr. Davis was a prominent member of the Old Settlers So- ciety and took keen interest in its proceedings. He was thor- oughly in sympathy with the cause and was helpful in many ways. He has been sadly missed in many circles. His busi- ness has been discontinued.
The death summons came at 11:30 at night when all was quiet and peaceful, at the hour the genial old man Millard W. Davis, Iowa City's pioneer druggist and oldest merchant, passed away into that sleep that bears him to his maker to receive his eternal reward. The beautiful birds, the martins
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that used to build their nests around that familiar mortar and pestle annually lay their eggs and rear their young, Mr. Davis always gave them a welcome and one of the windows was a veritable old curiosity shop, and was a noted place for visitors. The old man was a naturalist, objects of historic value in con- nection with Iowa history and the world at large were on ex- hibition from time to time, and his collection of curios was among the finest and most interesting in the state, outside of the University museum. He served as secretary of The State Historical Society in former years, and was always a member of the board of curators. Shortly before he died the honor- able board held their meeting in his store to save his strength climbing the stairs leading to Liberal Arts hall, their regular office. He naturally was a lover of history in general.
SAMUEL CALVIN, A. M., LL. D., PH. D., F. G. S. A.
In the death of Samuel Calvin, professor, and head of the department of geology of the State University of Iowa, the state lost one of its best-beloved citizens and educators and the nation probably its greatest geologist. The biographer is overwhelmed with the quantity and the quality of the data affecting the life and the activities of this remarkable man. The opinions of his fellows, expressed in tender encomium, no less than the manifest affection of his friends, afford volum- inous material for the memorialist. It seems to be literally true that Professor Calvin is embalmed in the love and ap- preciation of his countrymen, and there can be no nobler sepulcher this side of divinity.
Three dominant traits, in the estimation of Dean W. C. Wilcox, of the State University of lowa, were manifest in the life of Professor Calvin : First, his "power of personal char- acter in academie life ;" second, his "kindly consideration for other people," and, third, his "accomplishment of the best results with the least effort." Professor L. G. Weld esti- mates him as possessing "a standard of scholarship, of gen- tle manliness and Christian honor." Professor Shimek sums up a graceful tribute with the words, "He was a Man." Ex- President George E. MacLean states that "he was the most
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valued counsellor of the president." His friend and pastor, Rev. D. W. Wylie, D. D., says, "In his life he revealed those Christian qualities of character which endeared him to every one and which were the secret of his influence." Sentiments similar, but varying in their touch and quality of expression, might be multiplied-from press, from colaborers, from stu- dents, from fellow citizens. It is an aggregate memorial worthy of its place on a great man's grave.
Professor Calvin entered the University of Iowa as an in- structor in 1874, accepting the professorship of natural sei- ences, the chair being general at that time. He taught phy- siology, botany, and geology. Later, when the division took place, he was made professor of geology, which position he held until his death, bringing to his university and himself honor and world-wide recognition. His scientific accomplish- ments were voluminous. A statement of the honors bestowed upon him and some of the societies with which he was con- nected in scientific research will give a hint of his attainments and activities. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Cornell college in 1875; the degree of Ph. D. from Lenox col- lege in 1888; and the degree of LL. D. from Cornell in 1904. He was the editor and associate editor of the American Geol- ogist, the principal publication in that field in the United States, from 1888 to 1905, when he retired on account of the great pressure of his work in other lines. He was a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was honored with its presidency in 1894. Hle was a Fel- low in the Geological Association of America, which is the leading society of geologists in America, and was elected its president in 1908. He was recognized as the leading and dom- inant spirit in the Iowa Academy of Science, and held many positions and offices in this body, including its presidency in 1909. He was a member of the Paleontological Society and the National Geographical Society. He was made State Geol- ogist of Iowa in 1892, and held that office until his death, with the exception of a period from 1904 to 1906, when other work compelled his temporary resignation. Twenty volumes of re- ports of the State Geological Surveys attest the vigor of his administration of this important office. He was given national recognition and honor by President Roosevelt in 1908 when
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he was chosen as one of the members of the White House con- ference on the conservation of the natural resources of the United States. Recognizing his authority in geological work, the government advised with him as occasion demanded. He was a member of the government advisory board on fuels and structural materials, and wrote many articles of practical scientific value on these subjects. He was an extensive writer on the pleistocene geological period in Iowa, and was consid- ered the authority on this subject. Paleontology received his detailed and comprehensive attention and has made him known the world over.
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Professor Thomas H. Macbride states that "as a student of paleontology and geology Professor Calvin was the legiti- mate and direct successor, in this field of research, of Hall and Whitfield, men long ago famous throughout the scientific world. . . These were distinguished men, among the great- est geologists of the world; but their work was preliminary only, incomplete and necessarily imperfect. . . When Pro- fessor Calvin came to the field, since especially his own, the geology of Iowa was still largely an unwritten volume. The paleontology of the state had long been studied simply as a matter of presentation to the University classes. . . In the
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preliminary work of Hall and Whitfield an attempt was made to correlate the several lowa horizons with those of the state of New York. Professor Calvin has shown that this may be done with the exactness once supposed impossible. . . But in geology, Professor Calvin's most conspicuous service has been effected within recent years, in fact, since he assumed charge of the re-established geological survey. In this his genius for organization as well as for detail work has had full sway. . . While in the conduct of research so extended the activity of many collaborateurs must, of course, appear, nevertheless the plan of the work entire belongs to Professor Calvin, and of almost every volume (of the official survey) his own personal contributions constitute a very extended part. In this survey, the disposition and sequence of the pleistocene, or latest deposits, of the state have received special attention and have been so successfully worked out, delimited, and de- scribed, as to make Iowa henceforth classic ground for pleisto- cene geology for all the world. In the meantime, our general knowledge of the state, our information relative to waters, drainage, clays, rocks, and coal, has been so greatly and so advantageously increased, that all these things today are a matter of easy knowledge to such as choose to read."
Professor S. W. Williston, of the University of Chicago, in an address delivered at the Calvin memorial exercises held in the Natural Science auditorium, State University of Iowa, on May 3, 1911, said: "I have asked several eminent geologists what their impressions were of Calvin as a man and as a geo- logist. Unanimous have been their replies that he was a man of most winning personal character, a man whom all his col- leagues liked ; that he was a geologist of ability whose work was characterized by sound judgment, honesty, sanity, and thoroughness. . It was Professor Calvin who began a new epoch in the pleistocene paleontology of North America. In his analysis of the Aftonian fauna, he for the first time definitely located in time and place an American pleistocene fauna. I doubt if any one else in America could have done it as well as he, if at all. I think that I am safe in saying, that, outside of his adopted state, Professor Calvin will be longest known for this, his last scientific work, and the paleontologist can only regret that as a scientist he was not spared for an-
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other ten years to continue his researches in pleistocene paleontology. Though he had passed his three score years and ten, he showed no abatement of his zeal or of his ability, nor would he, I am assured, had he reached four score years."
Prof. Calvin was also versed in law. He attended Ann Arbor, Michigan, a short time before coming to Dubuque, Iowa. Providing himself with a good law library on his ar- rival in Dubuque, he read law with Judge Shiras. While in Dubuque he instructed a class and gave a course of lectures on geology.
He was employed by the city as a lecturer prior to entering the State University. Prior to the division of the university, in former periods Professor Calvin taught in the Medical De- partment a class including such eminent men as Professor Nutting, Professor Houser, Dr. Dean, Dr. Whiteis, and others their first lessons in biology, histology, and anatomy.
Samuel Calvin was born February 2, 1840, in Wegtonshire, Scotland, and died April 17, 1911, at his residence in Iowa City, Iowa. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Calvin. natives of Scotland, who, with their family, left their native land in 1852 and settled in America, residing first in Saratoga county, New York state, where they remained three years. Samuel was twelve years of age when he left Scotland. In 1855 the family removed to Buchanan county, Iowa, where they made their permanent home. On the home farm young Samuel laid the foundation of the strong, vigorous, and healthy body which stood him so well in hand in his strenuous after life. His course at Lenox college, Hopkinton, Iowa, was interrupted by the Civil War, in which he enlisted in the spring of 1864. After his service in the army he was secured by Lenox college as a professor of science. It was while en- gaged at Lenox as an instructor that Professor Calvin, in September, 1865, was married to Miss Louise Jackson, of Hopkinton. In 1869 the couple removed to Dubuque, Iowa. where Professor Calvin accepted the principalship of one of the ward schools of the city. This position he occupied until 1874, when he was elected to the chair of natural science at the Iowa State University.
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Samuel Calvin and Louise Jackson are the parents of two children : Alice, wife of Dr. Willis Lomas, of Villisca, Iowa ; William John, residing with his family at Sacramento, Cali- fornia. The latter is a graduate of S. U. I., is a civil engineer, and is now holding the position of division superintendent of. the Western Pacific Railroad. The daughter was at her father's bedside during his last illness and death. He has one brother, John, who resides at Kansas City.
Professor Calvin was active in the work of the Grand Army of the Republic. At the time of his death he was commander of Kirkwood Post, having been elected to that position after the death of Commander J. E. Jayne in January, 1911. The members of the post were proud to have such a man in their executive chair and deeply regret that he was permitted to preside only once over their deliberations. The military rec- ord of Comrade Calvin is brief, but complete: "Samuel Cal- vin, Newton township, Buchanan county. 24. Scot. Enlisted April 30, 1864, Company C, 44th Regiment, Iowa Infantry. Mustered in June 1, 1864. Mustered out at the close of the war." The excessive heat of the summer in Tennessee, where his regiment was engaged in garrison duty, caused extensive sickness among the troops, and when Comrade Calvin reached Davenport, Iowa, on the homeward trip, he was compelled to enter a hospital for treatment.
The death of Professor Calvin was sudden, the result of valvular heart trouble. His affliction was known to him, and he remarked to a representative of this publication who oh- tained from him personally a portion of the data for this sketch a few weeks before his death, "I have only a short time to stay." The funeral services, impressive in their utter sim- plicity, were held at 2 p. m., April 21, 1911, in the First Pres- byterian church, Iowa City, of which he was an active, useful member for many years. Dr. Wylie. the pastor, officiated, and, in closing a timely sermon, said: "His service in pro- moting the coming of the kingdom of God was as great as his work in the realm of science." The services were attended by a very large number of the old friends of the deceased, many being present from other cities and particularly from other colleges in Iowa. Kirkwood Post, G. A. R., attended in a
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body. The remains, in the bowed presence of a Imshed com- pany, were interred in Oakland cemetery.
"The wisdom that we strive for he won abundantly ; The noble character we praise was also his :
But Death distinguished not the beauty and the prize. The lessons of his life are with us still ;
The lesson of his death is for the world -
That whatso'er our gains may be, they perish with us, But light we give to others leads on a race, to praise
and glorify."
JOHN KOZA
John Koza left his native land, Bohemia, when nineteen years of age, determined to apply the factors of industry, thrift, and honesty towards the solution of the problems of life in the new world. He wisely came direct to Iowa City, where he immediately secured employment with J. K. Corlett as a carriage painter. This position he retained for five years, at the end of which he formed a partnership with his brother Joseph in the meat market business. The brothers carried on a successful business for fourteen years, and then John purchased Joseph's interest and continued to carry on the enterprise single handed for over ten years. He had then achieved pronounced success, and retired from the meat busi- ness in order to give his entire attention to his personal prop- erty interests in Iowa City and Johnson county. (See biog- raphy of Joseph Koza.)
Mr. Koza was married in 1874 to Miss Barbara Pechman, a native of Bohemia, who came to Iowa City in 1857 with her parents, when four years of age. Her father was a prosper- ous farmer in Lincoln township, and shortly before his death, in 1909, retired and removed to Iowa City, where his widow resided until her death on May 11, 1912.
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