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Charles L., who is engaged in the electrical busi- ness in Chicago; Frank A., a dentist of Low- den, Iowa; Martha L., the wife of Wesley L. Smith, county attorney of Onawa, Iowa; Har- ry, who resides at home with his mother and is employed in the freight office of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company in Sioux City ; Edna M., at home; and Ralph, who died at the age of six months.
Mr. Hoyt was prominent in public affairs and his influence was ever given on the side of progress, reform and improvement. He was elected to fill out an unexpired term as mayor and was then chosen for a full term. He was also alderman from the third ward for more than six years, elected on the Democratic ticket. He took a very active and helpful interest in polities as a supporter of the Democracy and his patriotism and his loyalty to the general wel- fare were numbered among his salient charac- teristics. He belonged to the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias lodge of Sioux City and was a most kindheart- ed, benevolent man, his generosity prompting him to aid many an unfortunate one on the journey of life. He died January 12, 1899. The salient traits of his character were such as commended him to the confidence and good will of all with whom he came in contact and Sioux City numbered him among her prominent and valued representatives. His widow, who is a member of the Congregational church of Sioux City and has many warm friends here, now re- sides at the old home at No. 1105 Pierce street. She has recently sold much of her property, however, and intends to spend several months in California, but will return and make Sioux City her home.
ROBERT GOLDIE.
Robert Goldie, active and influential in the business cireles of Sioux City, became one of the early settlers of Woodbury county, where
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he took up his abode in 1857. Hle established the first bakery here and from that time until his death was closely connected with commer- cial interests. A native of Scotland, he was a son of James Goldie, who always resided in Scotland, where he was employed in cotton mills throughout the greater part of his life. Robert Goldie acquired his education in the schools of his native country and when a young man emigrated to America, locating first in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he learned the baker's trade. He was thus employed for a few years and subsequently he went to Racine, Wis- consin, where he began business on his own ae- connt. He was proprietor of one of the larg- est bakeries of that eity and he eondneted an extensive business while there.
During his residenee in Milwaukee Mr. Gol- die was married to Miss Martha Harris, who is now the widow of Charles F. Hoyt, of Sioux City, and mention of her parents is made in connection with the preceding sketch of Mr. Hoyt. There were six children born unto Mr. and Mrs. Goldie: Helen S., the wife of H. M. Waldo, a resident of California; James William, who in partnership with his brother is engaged in the retail shoe business in Cedar Rapids, Iowa ; Wallace R., who married and is in partnership with his brother in C'edar Rapids : Charlotte S., the widow of Charles E. Ruggles, who is represented elsewhere in this volume; Flora S., the wife of George Sinelair, the cashier of the Woodbury County Savings Bank of Sioux City; and one child that died unnamed in infancy.
After his marriage Mr. Goldie engaged in business in Racine, Wisconsin, until 1857, when he came to Sionx City, where he estab- lished the first bakery here. Success attended the enterprise from the beginning and he con- tinned in business for more than twenty years, or until his death. He died here July 5, 1878. Socially he was connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in his political views he was a Republican. He prospered in his
undertakings and he also belonged to that class of representative American men, who, while promoting their individual interests, also ad- vance the general welfare. He is yet remem- bered by many of the carly residents of this place as a man whom to know was to respect and honor.
D. E. KERBY.
D. E. Kerby, alderman of the second ward of Sioux City, was born at Lawler, Chickasaw county, Iowa, May 9, 1868. He is the son of Daniel R. and Ellen ( Rochford) Kerby. Both of his parents were born in Ireland. In 1855 they settled in Chickasaw county, Iowa, where the father was engaged in farming for many years. Later he conducted a general store and in 1876 opened a bank in Lawler. The family moved to Sioux City in 1888.
D. E. Kerby is one of ten children, nine of whom are living. He attended the public school and Catholic school in Lawler, after which he took the commercial course in St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, having been gradn- ated in 1885. Hle spent three years in his fa- ther's bank as cashier and in 1888 he came to Sioux City to represent his father in the firm of Kerby & Lynch which had built up an extensive loan and insurance business. In 1896 Mr. Kerby snecceded his father as a member of the firm, the latter having retired from business.
January 7, 1897, he was married to Miss Sarah Jordan, who had been a successful teach- er in the schools of Sioux City. Four children have been born to them.
Mr. Kerby is a public-spirited man. He has been active in the Democratie organizations of Sioux City and Woodbury county. He was elected alderman from the second ward in April, 1904, having overcome a normal Repub- lican majority of two hundred and fifty. He is chairman of the auditing and fire department
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committees and is a member of the committee on streets, alleys, bridges, waterworks, health, light and printing. Mr. Kerby is a Catholic and is always actively interested in affairs which interest the Catholics of the city. He is a Knight of Columbus and a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and Woodmen of the World.
EMILIE E. RAAUCH, M. D.
Dr. Emilie E. Rauch, who since her gradua- tion from the Sioux City College of Medicine with the class of 1903, has been engaged in prac- tice in the county seat, was born in Elmore, Wisconsin, December 9, 1863, her parents be- ing Theodore and Elizabeth (Damm) Rauch. Mr. Rauch came with his father from Arn- stadt, Schwartzburg Sondershausen in Thurin- gen, Germany, on board sail boat "Matha," July 4, 1844, and after residing for many years in Wisconsin removed to Bonhomme county, South Dakota. He had become a resident of the Badger state when only twelve years of age, and throughout his business ca- reer he has followed farming, taking up a homestead claim in South Dakota in 1879, after which he transformed it into a good farm. He was also an artist, manifesting considerable merit in portrait work, and he had a brother, Guenther Rauch, who possessed high artistic talent. He was well known in Wisconsin, where he died December 9, 1898. Also an- other brother, Friderich, who was a composer of distinction. In the family of Theodore and Elizabeth Rauch were twelve children, two of whom are now deceased.
Dr. Rauch, in early girlhood, attended the country schools of Wisconsin, and at the age of sixteen years accompanied her parents to South Dakota, after which she attended school at Yankton for about a year. She afterward taught in the district schools until twenty-one years of age, at which time she took up a pre-
emption claim from the government of one hun- dred and sixty acres in Faulk county. After living on the claim for six months she proved it up by paying a dollar and a quarter per acre, after which she continued to teach school until coming to Sioux City in 1890.
Here she pursued a commercial course in the business college and then accepted a position in the F. Hansen drug store, in which she re- mained until 1897. She then entered the Sioux City College of Medicine, was graduated in 1903 and began the practice of her profession in Sioux City, where she has been very success- ful, enjoying now a practice which has steadily grown in volume and importance. She belongs to the Woodbury County Medical Society and the Iowa State Medical Society, and her read- ing and study are continually broadening her knowledge and increasing her efficiency in the profession which she has chosen as a life work.
CHARLES M. METCALF.
Among the representative agriculturists of Willow township is numbered Charles M. Met- calf, who has spent the most of his life in the vicinity of his present home. He was born, however, in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 3, 1863, and is a son of Miles J. and Fannie M. (Dunbar) Metcalf, who were also natives of that state. The mother was one of a family of six children, the others being George Dunbar; Mrs. Sarah Price, of Nebraska ; Mrs. Helen Belknap, of Washington; Mrs. Sylvia Smith, of California; and Mary, who is liv- ing in Texas.
Our subject was only six months old when his parents left Pennsylvania and removed to Jackson county, Minnesota, and was eight years of age at the time of the removal of the family to Woodbury county, Iowa. They made their first location ten miles north of the present home of our subject and after spending three years there they took up their residence on the farm
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where Charles M. is now living. It is a well improved place, conveniently located east of Holly Springs, and here the father still makes his home with his children. Ile has followed farming and stock-raising with good success and has also practiced veterinary surgery. He is well known and highly respected throughout the community in which he lives and is an earnest member of the Methodist church, to which his estimable wife also belonged. She died on the home farm September 24, 1889. They were the parents of the following children: Emery G .; Homer, deceased; Hattie A .; Mendell L .; Charles M .; Nettie J. : Estus B .; Libbie ( Eliz- abeth) ; Walter; Edward W .; and Miles, who died in infancy.
On the home farm Charles M. Metcalf grew to manhood with but limited educational advan- tages, only attending school for a short time. He assisted in the work of the farm and with his father and brothers devoted considerable at- tention to trapping during his youth. At pres- ent he is engaged in general farming and stock- raising, owns one hundred and sixty aeres and is meeting with a fair degree of success in his chosen occupation.
Mr. Metcalf was married August 1, 1891. 10 Miss Marietta Kelsey, who was born August 1, 1872, a daughter of Henry and Maria ( IIy- land) Kelsey, who were natives of Ohio. The father, residing at Holly Springs, is a farmer and landowner. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is a Republican in poli- ties. His wife died May 15, 1899, and is buried in the Holly Springs cemetery. In their family were five children: Mrs. Met- calf; Tra, who resides in Illinois; Carrie, at home ; Rose, wife of Martin Seward, of Willow township, Woodbury county; and Pearla H. Mr. and Mrs. Metealf have become the parents of four children : Leonard, born July 17, 1892; Elsie Lena, who was born March 12, 1896, and died May 25, 1897; Celia Leona, born June 10, 1897; and Clinton, born April 15, 1901.
By his ballot Mr. Metcalf supports the men and measures of the Republican party and aids in any movement which he believes enleulated to promote the moral or social welfare of the community in which he resides. Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist church of Holly Springs, taking an active part in its work, and for the past five years he has served as superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a man of quiet habits and is highly re- spected and esteemed by all who know him.
PAUL C. HOWE.
Paul C. Howe, city editor of the Sioux City Morning Journal, is a comparatively recent accession to the ranks of Iowa's newspaper men, having come to this city from Wisconsin in Oc- tober, 1902. At that time he entered the ser- vices of the Journal as a reporter, in which ca- pacity he remained until October, 1903, when he assmmned the city editorship.
Mr. Howe's native state is Wisconsin. He was born in Lancaster, April 19, 1878, and is a son of John H. Howe, who was a native of New York and when a young man came to the west, engaging in mereantile pursuits. For many years J. HI. Howe was a traveling sales- man for Edson Keith & Company, of Chicago, and is now general manager for the Rough Rider Manufacturing Company at Lancaster, Wisconsin. In 1876 he was married to The- netta Jones, a native of Wisconsin.
After completing a course in the high school at Lancaster, Paul Howe entered Beloit College at Beloit, Wisconsin, where he was graduated cum laude in 1900. During the two succeeding years he was instructor in seiences and German in the Linsly Military Academy at Wheeling, West Virginia, and during the summer of 1902 he did editorial work in New York city for Dodd, Mead & Company, coming to Sioux City the following fall. Here he has since been con- neeted with the Sioux City Morning Journal as its city editor.
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A. A. SADLER.
1. 1. Sadler, living on section 3, Wolf Creek township, is an active, enterprising and pros- perous farmer whose landed possessions cover three hundred and forty acres. He was born in Jackson county, Iowa, on the 14th of No- vember, 1858, and is a son of Joseph Sadler, a native of Ohio, whose birth occurred in Sum- mit county, in 1839. There he was reared and about 1850 he came to Iowa, locating first in Jackson county, where he made his home for a year. He then took up his abode in Clin- ton county, where he improved a farm. His first wife died in Clinton county and he after- ward married again. His children were seven in number, the eldest being A. A. Sadler, of this review. The others are J. F., a resident of Sioux City; O. A., a substantial farmer of Wolf Creek township; Martha L., the wife of William McFarland, of Woodbury county ; J. C., a resident farmer of Wolf Creek town- ship; R. M., who is living on the home farm in Clinton county; and W. W., who is a physi- cian engaged in practice in Bee, Nebraska.
A. A. Sadler spent his boyhood days on the home farm and attended the common schools, acquiring there a good English education. On his nineteenth birthday he was married to Miss Nancy Whittsell, who was born in Jackson county and was reared in Clinton coun- ty. He afterward carried on farming near the old homestead for two years and then came to Woodbury county, where he purchased one hundred and thirty acres of raw land and began the development of his present farm. To this he added as opportunity came to him and he now has three hundred and forty acres in one body. This is a splendidly improved property and he has a large two-story res- idence, in the rear of which are found com- modious barns and other necessary ontbuild- ings for the shelter of grain and stock. He has planted a young orchard and, indeed, has made the place what it is to-day, carrying on his work along progressive lines year after
year, his life being characterized by indefati- gable industry, frugality and careful manage- ment.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sadler have been born five children : Mrs. Rose Wilcox, a widow who resides with her parents and has one son, Cecil Wilcox; Ray R., Mary, Jesse, and Flossie. In his political views Mr. Sadler is a stanch Democrat where national issues are involved, but at local elections votes independently. He has served as township clerk and as a member of the school board and is deeply interested in the cause of education, doing everything in his power to secure competent teachers and raise the standard of the schools in this locality. He has been a delegate to the conventions of his party and while he does not care for office him- self he is deeply interested in the success of Democratie principles. Both he and his wife are consistent and loyal members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is now serving on the official board. His life has ever been straightforward and honorable and he is known as a careful, cautious business man, whose per- sistent labor has been the basis of the compe- teney that he has acquired.
HENRY M. PIERCE.
Henry M. Pierce, who was numbered among those who witnessed the beginning of things in Sioux City and aided in the advancement of progress as the years went by, arrived here in 1872 and was engaged in contracting in Wood- bury county throughout his remaining days. He was born in Kennebec county, Maine, March 11, 1825, a son of Elbridge and Sarah (Gor- ham) Pierce, the former a native of New Bed- ford, Massachusetts, and the latter of Maine. When a young man the father removed to the Pine Tree state, where he engaged in ship- building throughout the remainder of his life. Both he and his wife died at the home of their son in Newport, Rhode Island. George Pierce,
A. A. SADLER AND FAMILY.
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a brother of Henry M. Pierce, was also a ship- builder and built the following vessels: Puri- tan, Pilgrim and Priscilla. He was afterward made superintendent of all the Fall River and Hudson River steamers and was thus connected in a business way up to the time of his death.
Henry M. Pierce acquired a good education, supplementing his early training by study in Hollowell Seminary, where he fitted himself for the sea. At the age of eighteen years he secured employment as a ship carpenter on a vessel which was starting upon a whaling voy- age. He was afterward made captain and had charge of the ships Manilla, Hongkong, Ports- mouth and Dinsmore. He had charge of and was captain of the ship that carried the first earload of provisions into San Francisco and he made one voyage that extended for three years. He followed the sea until after the in- auguration of the Civil war and while in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, he offered his services in defense of the Union, enlisting in the navy with the rank of captain or aeting master in the navy. He served through the war and was then honorably discharged.
Returning to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Captain Pierce entered into partnership with his brother in the shipbuilding industry and they constructed two very large steamers known as the Erie and Ontario, each three hundred and seventy-five feet long. He engaged in that business until his removal to the west, because of ill health. Ile first located in Flint, Miehi- gan, and also resided for a time in Holly, Michi- gan, where he was employed as train dispateher for two years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Onawa, Iowa, where he was en- gaged in contracting and building for about two years and in 1872 he came to Sioux City, where he began work in the building department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad shops. He was afterward a pattern-maker in the shops and occupied the latter position for six years. He then began contracting and building in Sioux City and was engaged in the
construction of some of its finest residences, many of which now stand as monuments to his skill and handiwork. He continued in the business here until his death and because of his architectural skill added much to the fiae appearance of the county seat.
Henry M. Pierce was married in Dover, New Hampshire, to Hannah M. Hanson, a native of Garland, Maine, born August 7, 1832, a daughter of James and Hannah ( Place ) Han- son, both natives of New England, where they spent their entire lives, the father following the blacksmith's trade. Deeply interested in poli- ties he was recognized as one of the local po- litical leaders and he was also a recognized supporter of every movement or measure that was calculated to promote the general good. Both he and his wife spent their entire lives in New England. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pierce were born two children: George Edwin, who died in infancy : and Abby K., the widow of George Ford, who was engaged in merehandis- ing at Elk Point, Iowa, and also in Kansas, but is now deceased, while Mrs. Ford resides with her mother, Mrs. Pieree.
Mr. Pierce departed this life April 19, 1900, his remains being interred in Floyd cemetery. His was the largest Masonic funeral ever held in this city, there being one hundred and ser- enty-five members of the craft in attendance. Hle belonged to Landmark lodge, A. F. & A. M. and was most true to its teachings, exemplify- ing in his life its beneficent spirit. Mr. Pieree was a very stanch Republican, deeply interested in the party and its success. Both he and his wife were members of the Universalist church in the east, but there was no organization of that denomination in Sioux City. Their daughter, Mrs. Abby Ford, is now a member of the Episcopal church here. Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Ford have many old relies that have been in the family for years, including a mortar and wood box, made from the old steamship Constitution, of which Mr. Pierce was at one time owner. They also have a piece of the
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wedding dress of Mrs. Henry W. Longfellow that was given them by a friend in Boston many years ago. When President Mckinley visited Sioux City Mrs. Pierce had the honor of cook- ing the dinner which was served him at the residence of G. D. Perkins, the editor. She has recently sold much of her real estate, save the old family residence at No. 803 Court street, which was built by Mr. Pierce many years ago and which is now occupied by herself and daughter. Mr. Pierce was one of the leading residents of Sioux City. Ilis life was a busy, active and useful one. He was successful finan- cially and yet he found time to keep in touch with the progress in thought and opinion. He was a great reader and had a very retentive memory, so that he kept well informed on all the questions of the day.
SAMUEL E. SMITH.
Samuel E. Smith, who formerly engaged in farming and more recently in the hotel and livery business, is now living a retired life in Moville, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. His business career, characterized by close ap- plication to his work, by enterprise and dili- gence, resulted in the acquirement of a com- fortable competency.
Mr. Smith has spent his entire life in the Mississippi valley. He was born in Edgar county, Illinois, in 1840, a son of James Smith, a native of Tennessee, who on his removal to the north established his home in Edgar county, Illinois. Later he removed to Clark county, that state, and subsequently took up his abode in Arkansas, where his remaining days were passed, his death there occurring in 1873, when he was sixty years of age. His wife, who was of Welsh descent, survived him several years and died in Moville at the age of seventy-eight. She was the mother of five children and with one exception all are yet living.
When a lad of nine years Samuel E. Smith accompanied his parents on their removal to
Clark county, Illinois, where he was reared to manhood upon the home farm and there made his home until thirty-two years of age. He early became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist and for ten or twelve years he carried on agri- cultural pursuits on his own account in Clark county, Illinois. In 1876 he came to Wood- bury county and settled a mile and a half south of Moville, where he engaged in farming on six hundred acres of land for which he traded his property in Illinois. This was largely wild and unimproved but he at once began its cul- tivation and development and soon transformed it into rich and productive fields. At that time there were but eight voters living in the village of Moville. He built a good house upon his farm and also substantial outbuildings, carried on general farming and stock-raising and pros- pered in both branches of his business, becom- ing one of the successful men of his township. Ile afterward left the farm to engage in the livery and hotel business in Moville. The hotel was called the Fargo and he conducted it until about a year ago, when he retired from business life and has since occupied a comfortable home in the village, enjoying rest from further labor. He was the owner of the first new thresher in his township and was always progressive in his farm methods and in his hotel business, putting forth effective effort to please his patrons and thus winning favor with the traveling public.
While residing in Illinois Mr. Smith was a very strong Democrat and he frequently at- tended the public meetings which were ad- dressed by Lincoln and by Douglas. After coming to this county he earried the first mail from Sioux City to Moville and he has always been interested in publie progress and improve- ment here.
Mr. Smith was married in Illinois in Janu- ary, 1862, to Miss Margaret A. Goss, a native of Edgar county, Illinois, and of English an- cestry. They have ten living children and two have passed away. The family is well known
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in Moville and Woodbury county, where they have resided for more than a quarter of a cen- tury and Mr. Smith has ever been accounted a reliable citizen and trustworthy business man.
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