Memorial and biographical record of Iowa, Part 108

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Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1360

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Our subject is the third in order of birth in a family of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, all of whom reach adult age, were married and had families of their own. Elisha spent his boyhood days in Washington county, and attended the public schools, pur- suing his education in a log school-house with slab seats and other primitive furniture. The teacher himself had advanced little beyond the rudiments of knowledge, but Mr. Hardin man- aged to acquire a fair English education, and through experience and observation has be- come a well informed man. He remained upon the home farm until he had attained his ma- . jority, and aided in the work of the fields through the summer months. In his twentieth year he began teaching school in Washington

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county, following that pursuit through five winter seasons.

In 1848 Mr. Hardin arrived in Marion county, Iowa, and took up his residence upon a farm three miles northwest of what is now the town site of Pleasantville. There he entered 200 acres of land from the Govern- ment and still holds the title to that place. Not a furrow had been turned or an improve- ment made thereon; but with characteristic energy he began its development and in course of time waving fields of grain replaced the once barren tract. From time to time he added to his property until at the present time he owns 840 acres of valuable land, the greater part of which is under a high state of cultiva- tion. For forty years he resided upon that farm. He has made a specialty of stock-rais- ing, having had large numbers of horses and mules upon his place, and having devoted par- ticular attention to the breeding of cattle. In his various undertakings he has prospered. Careful management and energy have been two important factors in his success and are qualities which always insure prosperity.

In 1888 Mr. Hardin removed from the farm to Indianola, Iowa, where he resided for three years, during which time he was connected with the banking interests of that place, being a stockholder and director and the vice-presi- dent of the First National Bank, in which he still retains an interest. In 1892 he organized the Citizens' Bank, of Milo, Warren county, of which he was president for a time, but he has now sold his interest in that institution. In 1888 he became interested in the Citizens' Bank, of Pleasantville, of which he is now a director, and he was also one of the directors of the First National Bank, of Knoxville, hav- ing been thus officially connected with the institution for twenty years. His connection with the various banking institutions of central Iowa hasled to a close and systematic study of the financial questions of the country, and he expresses himself strongly in favor of the free coinage of silver.

On the 15th of September, 1846, Mr. Har-

din was united in marriage with Miss Nancy K. Polson, daughter of Thomas Polson. By their union have been born ten children, six of whom are living, namely: Mary E., Martha A., Sarah A., Leander M., Cora A., and Hattie J. Those deceased are John T., Susan Caroline, Sophronia B., and an infant son.

ANIEL JACKSON, M. D., is suc- cessfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Pleasantville. There is no calling which offers bet- ter opportunities for advancement than this; but success in the medical profession is not due to the aid of influential friends and can not be purchased. It comes as the reward of the exercise of natural and acquired abilities, of persistent and conscientious effort, of thorough application, and is therefore a fitting reward for labor. Owing to the possession of these qualities, Dr. Jackson has attained considera- ble prominence among the members of the medical fraternity in Marion county, and is nowenjoying a large and remunerative practice.

He was born near Clinton, in Hickman county, Kentucky, September 7, 1844. His father, Dr. William W. Jackson, was born in the city of Louisville in 1814, and was a gradu- ate of the Kentucky School of Medicine, com- pleting the course with the class of 1852. He began practice in Oldham county, Kentucky, and afterward followed his profession for a time in Indiana, but his last days were spent in his native State and his death occurred in 1878. He was a son of Daniel Jackson, a native of Tennessee, of Scotch and Irish extraction. In an early day in the history of the State Daniel Jackson removed to Ken- tucky, where his death occurred in 1864. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Naomi Wilson, and was born in Graves county, Kentucky, in 1816. Her father, Samuel Wilson, was born in Tennessee. The latter was a son of a soldier of the war of

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1812, and a grandson of a Revolutionary hero who held a Captain's commission. The Wil- son family was of English lineage.

Dr. Daniel Jackson, of this review, spent his boyhood days in Kentucky, and attended a private school in Louisville. Subsequently he pursued his studies in an academy at Eminence, Kentucky, where he prepared for college. Subsequently he attended the Asbury Uni- versity, now the De Pauw University, at Green- castle, Indiana, there pursuing his studies for three years. In 1861 he took up the study of medicine with his father, and in the winter of 1861-2 pursued his first course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Louisville. In 1863 he accepted the position of medical cadet of the military hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, where he continued until the fall of 1864, when he entered the Ken- tucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, at which institution he was graduated in 1865.

The Doctor began practice in Effingham, Illinois, where he remained until 1874, when he removed to Dallas, Texas. For nine years he engaged in practice there, and then, in 1883, left his Southern home for Europe, whither he went for the purpose of continuing his investigations in his chosen science in the leading hospitals of London, Berlin and Vienna, taking a special course of lectures on the sub- ject of diseases of women. In 1885 he re- turned to the United States and has since made his home in Pleasantville, where he is now well established in his business, having a large and remunerative practice. He remains in touch with the progress and improvement of the science through his connection with the Iowa State Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society, the American Medical Asso- ciation and the International Medical Congress, of each of which he is a worthy member.

In 1887, the Doctor was united in marriage with Miss Annie Gillespie, daughter of David Gillespie, of Warren county, Iowa. The Doctor and his wife are widely and favorably known in Pleasantville, where they have a wide circle of warm friends.

J POACHIM SPALTI, who is now living re- tired in Pleasantville, was for many years one of the most active and enterprising business men of the town, and perhaps the most successful in the accumulation of property secured entirely through close appli- cation, earnest effort and superior business judgment. Through the various changes of financial depression and panic that have come to the country he has conducted his affairs with such care and ability that he has suc- ceeded in acquiring a handsome fortune, and, more than that, such has been his straightfor- ward and honorable dealing that he has ever had the confidence and highest regard of all with whom he has been brought in contact.

Mr. Spalti was born in the town of Nett- stall, in the county of Glarus, Switzerland, February 1I, 1828, being a son of Fridolin and Elizabeth (Webber) Spalti, who were also na- tives of the same place. The father was a farmer by occupation and both he and his wife spent their entire lives in that country, both having died before our subject came to the United States.

Our subject acquired his education in the common schools of his native land, which he attended until twelve years of age, when he learned the business of printing calico, and fol- lowed that trade until 1845. Thinking that better opportunities were afforded in the New World, and hoping to secure a comfortable home, he sailed for the United States in that year, and.after a voyage of forty-nine days landed at Baltimore, Maryland, on the 4th of July, 1845. Immediately afterward he started for St. Louis, Mo., and came thence to Wapello county, Iowa, where he spent the winter work- ing at whatever he could find to do that would yield him an honest living. In the winter of 1848 he went to Ottumwa, where he secured employment in a store. He was employed as a salesman in that place for several years. During that time, in connection with a partner, he purchased a stock of goods of his own. After a short time, however, the partnership was dissolved and our subject was joined by his

C. Stanton.

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brother, Henry Spalti. It was not long after this that they removed their stock of goods to Pleasantville, Marion county, establishing a store at this point in 1855. The partnership between the brothers continued through many long years. Our subject took charge of the store, while his brother managed the farming interests of the firm. As their financial re- sources increased they invested more and more extensively in land, until they became the owners of 4,500 acres of very valuable farm- ing land, and horses, cattle and hogs on an extensive scale. They carried forward to suc- cessful completion whatever they undertook, and the business was continued until January, 1881, when the property was divided. The business was satisfactorily arranged and the connection which had continued for more than a quarter of a century was then dissolved. The standing of the firm was of the highest, and the word of Spalti Brothers was as good as their bond. They were known far and wide as honorable business men who paid one hun- dred cents on the dollar, and they had the en- tire confidence of the general public. This in consequence insured them a large and liberal patronage. On one occasion our subject met with a heavy loss, a disastrous fire consuming his store and stock, upon which he had no in- surance; but, with characteristic energy, he did not become discouraged. Henry Spalti always lived upon the farm near Pleasantville, caring for the agricultural interests, while Joa- chim was the sole manager of the mercantile establishment.

On the 7th of May, 1863, Mr. Spalti was united in marriage with Miss Susan A. Litch- field, of Pleasantville, a native of New York, and a daughter of Horace and Cynthia (Hill) Litchfield. Of their union were born four children, two sons and two daughters, namely: Alma J., wife of J. E. Flanagan, of Pleasant- ville; Eldora E., wife of William S. Myers, a prominent furniture dealer, of Indianola, Iowa, and a member of the firm of Olive & Myers; Oren J., a member of the firm of Flanagan & Spalti, dealers in clothing and men's furnishing

goods in Pleasantville; and Horace E., a boot and shoe merchant, of Pleasantville. They · also have three grandchildren. Mrs. Spalti was summoned into eternal rest October 13, I 880.

Mr. Spalti has generously aided his chil- dren in starting in life, and has been a liberal contributor to various interests and enterprises calculated to benefit the community. He is always ready to help a person who is willing to help himself and believes in that practical charity which furnishes employment rather than gives alms, for thereby the one that is benefited is enabled to retain his self-respect and manliness. In connection with his other business interests Mr. Spalti helped to organ- ize the Pleasantville Citizens' Bank, with which he continued his connection for a number of years, and then disposed of his interest. He has extensive landed possessions, owning over 2,000 acres of land, of which 1, 500 acres lie in Marion county and the greater part is under cultivation.

In politics Mr. Spalti is a stanch Repub- lican. Previous to the war he was a Democrat, and in 1857 was appointed Postmaster of Pleas- antville, which position he held for six years. When he came to Iowa he had a cash capital of less than $40, but he possessed a resolute pur- pose, energy and ambition, and has steadily worked his way upward. He has met obstacles, but these have seemed to serve as a stimulus for renewed effort, and with unfaltering perse- verance he has continued his labors until to- day he ranks among the capitalists of Marion county.

J AMES EDDINGTON STANTON, M. D .- A biographical record of Iowa would certainly be incomplete without a record of the life work of this eminent pioneer physician. Thirty-three years of his . professional life-work have been devoted to healing the sick and alleviating the sufferings of Lucas county's people. During these long years of patient toil he has endeared himself to

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those with whom he has come in contact by the strongest ties of humanity. Eminently fitted by education for the honorable calling of his choice, backed by years of experience in the work, it is not strange that he at once oc- cupied an enviable position as a successful phy- sician on establishing himself in practice in Chariton.

The Doctor was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 15, 1828, and is a son of Enoch Stanton, a native of North Carolina. His mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Steele, was also a North Carolinian by birth, and her father, Benajah Steele, was promi- nently connected with the Revolutionary war. The Stantons were for many generations Quakers, long adhering to that faith. The Doctor had a twin sister, who died at West Liberty, Iowa, in 1892, and the only survivor of the family besides himself is his brother William, now eighty years of age, residing in Summerton, Ohio. Throughout his life he has engaged in the cabinet-making and undertaking business.

The early years of Dr. Stanton were spent in the common schools of Ohio, and at the age of twenty-eight he removed to Indiana, where he remained until coming to Chariton. His professional education was obtained in the Keokuk Medical College, of Keokuk, Iowa, and he began practice in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1852, since which time he has devoted his energies to his chosen field of labor without in- terruption. While residing in Belmont county he was married, on the 14th of November, 1850, at Summerton, to Miss Mary J. Hobbs, a na- tive of Maryland, where she was reared and educated. Her parents were of German de- scent.

With his family Dr. Stanton came to Lucas county, and has long been closely identified with its growth and development. During his . early years of practice here he endured many hardships in traveling across the unbroken prairies without fences or roads to guide him. The country was sparsely settled, and his rides were long and hazardous, but he has witnessed

the growth of the country from a barren wil- derness and wild prairiesinto fertile farms owned by prosperous and happy people. It is said of Dr. Stanton that he has always been a close student, ever ready to invest his means in works calculated to enable him to keep up with the onward march of medical science. His office is supplied with all the latest periodicals and surgical instruments, and he is considered safe counsel in the most complicated cases. But the burden of his life work is soon to fall upon other shoulders; and what could be more fitting than that he should train his sons to take up the honorable work where he lays it down? To this end he has educated two of his sons, Drs. John H. and T. P., for the med- ical profession, and both are established in lucrative practice in Chariton. After gradua- ting at Rush Medical College, of Chicago, they spent a year in foreign travel, visiting Euro- pean colleges, hospitals and private physicians, thus perfecting themselves in their calling. Dr. John H. Stanton served one term as Cor- oner of Lucas county, is the Health Officer of Chariton, and the physician selected by the Board of Supervisors to attend the county's poor. He was married June 30, 1894, to Miss Gertrude E. Aughey, a native of Brown coun- ty, Indiana, whose father, Rev. John H. Aughey, is now in charge of a Presbyterian Church in Mulhell, Oklahoma Territory. Dr. T. P. Stan- ton is also married, the lady of his choice be- ing Miss Helen Marsey, of Fairfield, Iowa, whose excellencies of character have gained many friends.

The Stanton family numbers five children, the eldest of whom is Mrs. Minnie Guylee, whose husband is a hardware merchant of Chariton; Dr. T. P., before mentioned; Mrs. Allie Lockwood, whose husband is extensively engaged in the sheep and wool business, having a ranch of 900 acres in Lucas county; Mrs. Ruthana Boyles, a resident of Chariton, whose husband is a conductor on the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Railroad; and Dr. John H., who completes the family.

Early in life our subject became imbued

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with the idea that human slavery was a great wrong, and this belief grew and strengthened with the passing years, and in the years when the slavery question was the issue before the people he was a strong Abolitionist. His early Quaker training was consistent with his idea, and great was his rejoicing when the Emanci- pation Proclamation was given to the world; but equally great was his sorrow when the life and public services of the honored Lincoln was cut short by the assassin's bullet. His ances- tors for generations had been imbued with the Quaker belief, and the Doctor thinks to-day that the "Golden Rule," if strictly followed, is a sure passport to eternal happiness beyond the grave.

Dr. Stanton is prominently identified with social orders. He belongs to Chariton Lodge, No. 63, A. F. & A. M .; Chariton Chapter, No. 22, R. A. M .; Emanuel Commandery, No. 50, K. T., of which he has been Eminent Com- mander since its organization some eight years ago. It was through his influence and ardu- ous labors that the commandery was organ- ized. He also belongs to Des Moines Con - sistory and the Mystic Shrine, and has at- tained to the thirty-second degree in Masonry. He belongs to both the subordinate lodge and · encampment of the Odd Fellows society, and has the esteem of his fellow members in a high degree. Politically he is a Republican, and as to public service he has filled the office of School Director of Chariton for several years; but his professional duties have been too great to allow of his ever holding office to a greater extent. Honored by all, his life has been well spent, and is indeed worthy of emulation.

S TANLEY W. MANNING. - The name which our subject bears is one that is held in the highest honor not only in Van Buren county but also through- out the State, for his venerable father, Edwin Manning, concerning whom detailed individual mention is made on other pages of this vol- ume, was one of the founders of the city of

Keosauqua, and was most prominently identi- fied with the pioneer history of this section of the Union. As touching the ancestral history of Stanley W. we need only refer to the afore- mentioned biography of his father, who still retains his residence in Keosauqua.

Stanley W. Manning holds the position as assistant cashier in Manning Bank, which is one of the leading financial institutions of his native place, for he was born in Keosauqua on the 27th of November, 1868. His preliminary educational discipline was secured in the pub- lic schools, and after completing a course in the high school he became a student in the Capital City Commercial College, at Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained two terms, and then returned to his home and assumed the executive position as assistant cashier in the Manning Bank, an office for which he has shown himself to be eminently qualified. In connection with this he devotes considerable attention to the private business interests of his father, and has developed an excellent ex- ecutive ability and a capacity for the manage- ment of details. In the latter way he has to do with the landed interests, the farming oper- ations, and the live-stock enterprises in which his father is so largely concerned, his brothers assuming a due quota of the responsibilities in this regard. He is a young man of correct business ideas, and honors the name which he bears.

In his political proclivities he is a stanch adherent of the Republican party, while fra- ternally he is identified with the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, in the former of which he has advanced to the Knights Tem- plar degree.

Mr. Manning assumed individual domestic responsibilities in the year 1893, when he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth B. Brown, daughter of John G. Brown, who is cashier of the Manning Bank and recognized as one of the representative and most highly esteemed business men of Keosauqua. Our subject and his wife are the parents of one daughter, a winsome little maiden named Marguerite.

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LVA H. SHELTON, M. D., of the firm of Beauchamp & Shelton, one of the leading medical firms of Bloom- field, Davis county, Iowa, is a native of this place, born December 27, 1864.

His parents are Dr. W. H. and Mary J. (Wilson) Shelton, and his father is one of the prominent physicians of Pulaski, Iowa. In their family were seven children, Alva H. be- ing the second born; all are living except one. The subject of our sketch and Clay A. are now practicing, and the two younger sons, Bernard and R. O., are preparing to adopt their father's profession. Clay A. is an eye and ear specialist in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. A. H. Shelton received his education in the schools of Bloomfield, Iowa, and Kirks- ville, Missouri, and then began the study of medicine in his father's office. Subsequently he entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grad- uated with the class of 1886, after which he was in practice with his father for eighteen months. After this he took a short course in the St. Louis Medical College, and in 1889 a post-graduate course in New York. Ever since he made a choice of his profession Dr. Shelton has given it his closest attention, determined to thoroughly fit himself for it, and stop short of nothing but success. He now has as his partner Dr. D. E. Beauchamp, and under the firm name of Beauchamp & Shelton is engaged in a successful practice at Bloomfield.

The Doctor has a membership in the Davis County Medical Society, and fraternally has identified himself with the Masonic order, hav- ing membership in the blue lodge at Pulaski, the chapter at Bloomfield, and the command- ery of Knight Templars at Ottumwa. He is also identified with the Order of the Eastern Star.

E. KENDALL, Prosecuting Attor- ney of Monroe county, Iowa, is a rising young member of the bar of Albia, and is a recognized leader in political circles. He has a peculiarly bright

mind, analytical, of quick perceptive powers and has already gained distinction as a legal practitioner that ranks him among those who are many years his senior.

Mr. Kendall is numbered among the native sons of Iowa, his birth having occurred in the vicinity of Russell, Lucas county, on the 17th of March, 1868. He is a son of E. L. and Lucinda (Stevens) Kendall, the former a na- tive of Indiana. In 1846 they removed to Iowa, and Mr. Kendall spent the greater part of his time in Lucas county until 1883, when he removed to Chariton, where he is still living. His wife died soon after the birth of our sub- ject, their only child.

The ranks of professional circles are con- stantly recruited from the farm, and among the ablest representatives of the various learned professions are those who have come from the fields to the cities with a vigorous development, both mental and physical, bringing with them also something of the broad, free and untainted life of the country. Of this class our subject is a representative. He followed the plow at an early age, and assisted in the gath- ering of the crops. He began his education in the district schools of the neighborhood, but afterward attended a select school. At the age of fifteen, he determined to take up the. study of law, and entered the office of Hon. T. M. Stuart, of Chariton. In 1887 he came to Albia, and his steady application and thor- ough research fitted him for admission to the bar in the spring of 1889, and he saw the con- summation of this hope on the 15th of May, before the regular term of the Supreme Court of Iowa. He at once engaged in general prac- tice, which he successfully continued until 1892, when he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe county for a term of two years. In 1894 he was re-elected, and is now serving in that office. In 1891 he also served as City Attorney of Albia.

In politics, Mr. Kendall is an unswerving supporter of Republican principles, and a recognized leader in the councils of his party. In 1893 he was elected to the Republican State

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Central Committee, of which he is still a member. He has always taken a great inter- est in the success of his party, both local, State and national. Socially, he is a member of Astor Lodge, No. 505, F. & A. M., and of Fay Lodge, No. 31, K. P.

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Memorial and biographical record of Iowa, Part 108

Author: Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1360

Author:
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1360