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Frank Clark was educated in Scotland, at- tending the common schools of his parish and after putting aside his text-books he worked upon the home farm until twenty-four years of age, when he came to the United States, sailing from Glasgow, April 15, 1892. He landed at New York on the 23d of April, and soon made his way westward to Minnesota, where he spent several years and also visited other parts of the west, being engaged in the stock business, which he followed with fair success. In 1903 he came to Woodbury county and in Correction- ville purchased the livery business of W. M. Parker. He has since conducted his barn, in which he keeps good horses and a fine line of carriages, and he has prospered during his resi- dence here.
In his political views Mr. Clark is a stanch Republican and he cast his first presidential vote for William McKinley after becoming a naturalized American citizen. He belongs to Adelphi Lodge, No. 353, A. F. & A. M., of Keota, Iowa, which he joined in 1902.
M. L. GARBER.
M. L. Garber, one of the honored veterans of the Civil war now living on section 13, Ked- ron township, was born in Logan county, Ohio, January 8, 1842. His father, John Garber, was a native of West Virginia and removed to Ohio at an early period in the development of Logan county. There he was married to Miss Mary Rife, a native of Virginia, and in 1848 they removed with their family to Iowa, set- tling in Clayton county, where the work of im- provement and progress had scarcely been be- gun at that time. They located upon a farm and there Mr. Garber carried on agricultural pursuits and reared his family. Subsequently he went to Kansas upon a visit and died while
in that state. His wife survived for only about two years.
M. L. Garber was a little lad of six summers when he accompanied his parents on their re- moval to this state and on the old homestead in Clayton county he was reared and educated, at- tending the select schools there. He was about twenty years of age when in response to the country's call for troops he enlisted on the 20th of August, 1862, as a member of Com- pany D, Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer In- fantry. He went north first to fight the In- dians and later the regiment was ordered to the south and joined the army of the Cum- berland. With this command Mr. Garber served until the close of the war. He was then mustered out and was honorably discharged at Clinton, Iowa, in August, 1865. He had par- ticipated in a number of important engage- ments, including the battles of Pleasant Hill, Old Oak, Nashville, Franklin and the siege of Mobile, and he was promoted from the ranks to orderly sergeant. He never faltered in the performance of any duty and his valor was displayed on many a hotly contested field.
When the country no longer needed his serv- ices Mr. Garber returned to Clayton county, Iowa, and in 1866 he went to California, where he was engaged in mining until April, 1869, meeting with fair success in his undertakings there. On the expiration of that period he re- turned to Clayton county and was married there on the 24th of December, 1873, to Miss Sarah M. Fitch, a native of Virginia, who became a resident of Iowa when a maiden of nine sum- mers and spent her girlhood days in this state.
After his marriage Mr. Garber engaged in farming in Clayton county for several years and then removed to Webster county, Nebras- ka, where he purchased a homestead claim and carried on farming for five years. On the ex- piration of that period, however, he secured his property there and once more went to Clay- ton county. He was with his father in his store for three or four years and in 1887 he
MR. AND MRS. M. L. GARBER.
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came to Woodbury county, purchasing a farm Jannary 4, 1869. Ile is a sou of John and Ann in Kedron township. This he cultivated for (Beyer) Nnessle, both of whom were natives of Germany and came to America when about fourteen years of age. The father learned the millwright's trade and followed that pursuit throughout his active business career. Both he and his wife are yet living in Hamburg, New York. At the time of the Civil war he became a member of the Union Army and thus proved his loyalty to his adopted land, but was rejected on account of his eyesight. two or three years and on selling that property he purchased his present farm on section 13, Kedron township, comprising one hundred and twenty acres of well improved land. He raises good grades of stock and also harvests rich crops for his productive fields yield a good return for the care and labor he bestows upon them. He gives his political allegiance to the Republi- ean party, having been a stanch advocate of its principles since casting his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He was elected and served as township trustee for four years and was county supervisor for six years and is now a member and secretary of the school board. He has been a delegate to a num- ber of county conventions and does all in his power to advance the interests of the county and promote the success of his party.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Garber have been born four children who are yet living: II. F., who is employed as a clerk in Anthon ; William II., who is elerking in Correctionville; George R., who is a merchant at Diamond Center, Iowa ; and Maude, who is also clerking in Correction- ville. They also had six children who died in infancy, namely, Charlie, George, Lester and Leslie, twins, Tod and Effie. Mr. Garber is a member of the Masonic fraternity, identified with Correctionville lodge and he is also con- nected with the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a man of unquestioned probity, relabil- ity and activity in business, and in citizenship he is as true and loyal as he was when a sol- dier in the south defending the Union canse.
CILARLES C. NUESSLE.
Charles C. Nuessle, whose intelligent adınin- istration of public affairs and whose well di- rected activity in business life have proven fac- tors in the city's development and substantial progress, was born in North Boston, New York.
Charles C. Nuessle supplemented his early education by study in the Hamburg Academy at Hamburg, New York. He also spent one year in the Buffalo Business College and was graduated at the age of twenty-one years. He afterward learned the miller's trade and in 1890 he went to Fremont, Nebraska, where he accepted the position of bookkeeper for the ('hi- cago Lumber Company. In the winter of the same year, however, he removed to Sioux City and entered the employ of the Martin Brothers Milling Company as a miller, continuing in that service for two years. In 1892 he came to Leeds, an addition to Sioux City, and em- barked in the hotel business, conducting the Beck Hotel for five years, or until 1897, when he sold out. He had been very successful in that enterprise and made considerable money. In 1897 he entered into the foundry business with E. M. Stevens under the name of the Pio- neer Stove & Repair Foundry. At the end of the first year they had a disastrous fire, losing almost everything invested. With characteris- tie enery, however, they resumed business, in which they continued together for four years, when Mr. Nuessle purchased his partner's in- terest and has since been alone in the conduct of what is now one of the leading industrial en- terprises of Sioux City. He employs on an average of seven men throughout the year and carries on a general foundry and jobbing busi- ness. He has excellent mechanical skill and ingenuity, is sagacious and far-sighted in view- ing any business situation, and in the control
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of his varied interests displays marked enter- prise and diligence.
Mr. Nuessle was married on the 2d of Oc- tober, 1891, to Miss Emma Beck, a daughter of Christopher Beck, who is a retired farmer, residing in Leeds, and who for a half century has been a resident of Woodbury county. They have one child, Anna, who was born July 25, 1892.
Mr. Nuessle is a Mason, belonging to Land- mark Lodge, No. 103, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to Alliance Lodge, No. 533, I. O. O. F., of Sioux City. He has been prominent and influential in public affairs and has left the im- press of his individuality upon the development and progress of Woodbury county and especially the county seat. In March, 1902, he was elected alderman of Sioux City from the eighth ward by a plurality of sixty-nine and was re- elected in March, 1904, by a plurality of sixty- seven, carrying his ward when it gave a Demo- cratic majority for the mayoralty, a fact which indicates his personal popularity and the confi- dence and trust reposed in him by those who know him best. During his first term in office he was instrumental in promoting many mu- nicipal interests that brought about needed changes in Leeds, including the introduction of electric lights, the appointing of a fire sta- tion with a hose cart, the building of gravel sidewalks, the securing of a garbage wagon for the ward and other acts, the value of which have been demonstrated and which have re- ceived the endorsement of the entire commun- ity. During his first term with the Republican mayor in the chair and the majority of alder- men of the same political faith Mr. Nuessle served as chairman of the police and public library committees and was a member of the committees on streets, paving, health, fire, rail- roads and public grounds. During the present administration he is serving as chairman of the public library and public markets commit- tees and is a member of the committees on streets, alleys and bridges, railroads and public
grounds. He gives careful consideration to each question which comes up for settlement in the council and his public service is char- acterized by unfaltering support of every meas- ure which he deems will prove beneficial to the community. He has never faltered in his alle- giance to the Republican party, but always places the general welfare before partisanship. He was reared in the faith of the German Lutheran church and in the city where he makes his home is known as a man of broad principle, high character and of commendable purpose, winning the respect of all in social, business and political life.
WILLIAM D. SICKELS.
William D. Sickels, who is engaged in the livery business in Moville and conducts a dray line, has also been active in the public and political interests of the town. He is a native of Schuyler county, New York, his birth hav- ing there occurred in 1865, and when he was four years of age he was brought to Iowa by his parents, the family home being established on a farm in Black Hawk county. There he was reared to manhood, and in the public schools he acquired his education, while on the old homestead he received practical training in agricultural pursuits. He afterward fol- lowed ground work and tiling for about three years, and in 1887 be came to Woodbury county, Iowa, settling seven miles southeast of Moville. There he followed farming until 1892, when he purchased the livery barn which he is now conducting. He also has a dray line, and does considerable teaming here, while his stable is accorded a good patronage, thus making his business a profitable one.
In 1893 Mr. Sickels was united in marriage to Miss Emma Andrews, a daughter of Z. An- drews, one of the honored pioneer settlers of the county. Three children have been born
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unto Mr. and Mrs. Sickels : Reva, Lota and City in July, 1868. Ile settled four miles north of the county seat, where he lived for In his fraternal relations Mr. Sickels is an Odd Fellow and also a Knight of Pythias. His political support has always been given the Republican party, and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He has served as constable for twelve or thirteen years, was also city marshal for a number of years and for three years filled the position of deputy sheriff, and thus he has done his full share to maintain law and order, and whether in office or out of it, he works for good citizenship and for the substantial progress of his community. fourteen years, carrying on general agricultural pursuits. On the expiration of that period he removed to Hornick, where he has now re- mained for twenty-three years. When he ar- rived at Sioux City there was but one brick building on the levee and the work of improve- ment had not been begun in several districts which are now thiekly populated or are im- portant business centers. Much of the land in the county was still raw and unimproved, roads had not been laid out, streams were unbridged and the homes of the settlers were very widely scattered. Pioneer conditions existed and the farmers had to meet many difficulties in trans- PATRICK MADDEN. formning the raw prairie into richly cultivated farms. Mr. Madden was the first settler of Ifornick. He selected the dryest land he could find, purchasing two hundred acres, and later he bought more land in Monona county. Soon even the swamp or low land had been cultivated by the incoming settlers. Mr. Madden carried on the work of general farming and stock-rais- ing, cultivated his fields in accordance with modern agricultural methods, and as time passed rich harvests brought to him the success for which he was striving. He also realized considerable profit from his stock. To his sons he gave his farms, which are valuable and un- der a high state of cultivation.
Patrick Madden has now passed the seventy- sixth milestone on life's journey and an honor- able, useful and active career entitles him to representation in this volume, as well as the fact that he is numbered among the early set- tlers of Woodbury county. He was born March 17, 1828. His paternal grandfather was Dan- iel Madden, of County Galway, Ireland. His father, William Madden, emigrated from the Emerald isle to New Brunswick about the year 1841 and there spent his remaining days, his death occurring in 1860, when he was seventy- seven years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Ella Donlan, was born in County Roseommon, Ireland, and died in New Brunswick, at the age of eighty years. There were eight children in their family: William, Daniel, Ann, Patrick, Margaret, John, Bridget and Richard. Three of the number are now deceased.
Patrick Madden spent the first thirteen years of his life on the Green Ise of Erin and then accompanied his parents on their emigration to New Brunswick. He remained at home until twenty-six years of age and then went to St. Johns, where he remained until thirty-six years of age, when he came to Iowa, arriving in Sioux
Mr. Madden was married on the 6th of May, 1843, to Miss Ann MeManus, a daughter of Michael and Dorothy (Montgomery ) McManus, who were from County Fermanagh, Ireland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Madden were born eight sons and four daughters : Michael, Jane, John, William, Margaret, Andrew, Daniel, Mont- gomery, James, Catherine, Lizzie and Thomas. Of these Michael, the eldest, died at the age of twenty years and seven months. Jane, now forty-six years of age, married Michael Dunn and has three children, two sons and a daughter : Anna, who was born September 6, 1888; Jo- seph M., born March 19, 1889; and Mary
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Margaret, born October 14, 1891. John Mad- den, forty-five years of age, is a farmer living in Monona county. William is living in Sioux City, at the age of forty-four. Margaret, for- ty-two years of age, is the wife of P. C. Conly, of Superior, Wisconsin, and has four children. Andrew, forty-one years of age, is living in Hornick. Daniel, aged thirty-nine, is propri- etor of the Commercial Hotel of Hornick. Montgomery, who was married October 16, 1901, follows farming in Monona county. James is living on the Boyd farm in Willow township, Woodbury county, and was married in October, 1900, and has one child, Juanita A. Catherine and Elizabeth are at home. Thomas, born March 23, 1883, assists in the operation of the home farm. The family are all members of the Catholic church and are noted in the community for their uprightness of character. The parents celebrated their golden wedding May 6, 1903. They live in a comfortable home, with many of their children and grand- children around them, and they are now enjoy- ing many of the comforts and luxuries of life as the result of their perseverance and industry in former years.
MRS. MARY E. HAGY.
It is not only the men of a community who are its upbuilders and promoters, for the wom- en have borne their part in the work of prog- ress and improvement and especially the pio- meer women of the west. Among this class Mrs. Hagy is numbered and for many years she was well known as proprietress of a hotel, conducting a hostelry in the early days of Sioux City, when this was largely a frontier settle- ment. For many years she continued in the business and her untiring industry and efforts brought her success. As the years advanced she invested in real estate, becoming the owner of valuable property. She is indeed widely and favorably known in Woodbury county and well
deserves mention in this history. Mrs. Hagy was born in Canada on the 26th of January, 1835, and is a daughter of Moses J. and Emily (Rogers) Post. Her father was a Baptist min- ister and was the first preacher of that denom- ination ordained in Iowa. He came to this state in 1841, locating in Rochester, and for several years devoted his time and efforts to advancing the moral development of this por- tion of the country, but his useful and honor- able life was terminated at the comparatively early age of thirty-six years, he being called to his final rest in 1848. His wife still survives him and has now reached the very advanced age of ninety-two years.
Mrs. Hagy spent her girlhood days in her parents' home, was brought by them to Iowa when it was still a territory and was largely an unsettled region, the work of progress and civil- ization having scarcely been begun in many dis- tricts of the commonwealth. Much of the land was still in its primitive condition, the rivers were unbridged, the forests uncut and every- thing was just as it came from the hand of na- ture. When sixteen years of age Mary E. Post gave her hand in marriage to John Hagy, the wedding being celebrated at Pella, Iowa, in 1851. He was a building contractor and in 1856 he drove from Pella to Sioux City, arriv- ing here in the month of September. He found a pioneer village, which, however, was entering upon a period of rapid and substantial growth. He established a hotel, which he conducted for eight years. Mrs. Hagy then had a baby only four months old, yet she did all the cooking and washing at the hotel for the first year, and the amount of labor is indicated somewhat by the fact that she used an entire sack of flour in making bread every day. The hotel was a log house, containing ten rooms. After two years they removed to the old Tremont House and subsequently conducted the Hagy house for six years or until a lot at the corner of Sixth and Pierce street was purchased and there Mrs. Hagy conducted a boarding house for twenty-
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three years. She always received a good pat- ronage for she not only set an excellent table, but made every effort to promote the welfare and comfort of her guests, and as the years passed she prospered in her work. In 1887 she built a fine home at No. 1211 Pierce street, which she now occupies. Mr. Hagy died July 27, 1901, at the age of seventy-nine years.
Mrs. Hagy had five children: Charles, who died at the age of nine months ; William C., who is married and lives in Sioux City; Matilda, the wife of George Smith, who died in 1882; Emily, who died at the age of four years; and Georgia A., the wife of E. E. Selmser, a real estate agent of Sioux City. Mrs. Hagy is the only living charter member of the Baptist church. She has thus been long identified with Christian work here and all who know her en- tertain for her the highest regard for what she has accomplished in the business world and for her many excellent traits of character.
OTTO EDWARD JACOBSON.
Otto Edward Jacobson, editor and proprietor of the Svenska Monitoren, the only Swedish pa- per published in Iowa, at this writing (1904), came to the new world when a young man of twenty-one years and his home has since been in the middle west. Through the intervening period he has utilized his opportunities to ex- cellent advantage and while promoting his in- dividual interests through the business of con- ducting an enterprising journal for his fellow countrymen, he has also advocated all meas- ures for the general good and has had more than local influence in making the Swedish- American element a valued one in the citizen- ship of the state.
Mr. Jacobson was born in Sweden, in 1866, attended the common schools of his native town and afterward entered a school for the training of florists. He spent two years there, gaining thorough knowledge of the work, and then em-
barked in business at Norrkoping, Sweden, where he remained for two years. Hle crossed the Atlantic in 1887, when twenty-one years of age, and made his way to Omaha, Nebraska, where his brother, Carl A. Jacobson, was liv- ing. It was his intention to spend a six months' vacation in visiting his brother and then return to his native country, but becoming convinced of the superiority of the advantages offered by America, over those of the old world, he decided to remain. He went into business with his brother, who was proprietor of the Svenska Posten, a Swedish paper, with which our subject was connected for four years. In 1891 he came to Sioux City and organized the Swedish American Press, having as his asso- ciates in the enterprise Charles Sandstrom and Jacob Vatters. After six months Mr. Jacob- son retired and within another six months the paper ceased to exist. On withdrawing from that journal Mr. Jacobson established a job office, which he conducted until 1895, when he began the publication of the Svenska Monitoren, which is the only Swedish paper in the state. It is a weekly, six-column quarto, all home print, with a good advertising patronage and a large subscription list. The subscription price of the paper is a dollar and a half. It is Re- publican in politics and its influence was given in support of President MeKinley in 1896 and at the following election in 1900. A portion of the paper is devoted to local news, as well as to the discussion of political questions and church interests, and it has become a potent element for progress and improvement.
In 1895 Mr. Jacobson was married to Miss Edith Charlotte Carlstrom, a daughter of Swan and Ida Carlstrom. She was born in Sweden in 1875 and came here when nine years of age. She is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church. Mr. Jacobson is a member of the Swedish Monitor Society, of which his paper is the official organ and he is connected with the K. O. T. M., No. 69, and also belongs to the uniform rank of the same order. In his polit-
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ical views he is a Republican, and in other lines, as well as through political activity, he labors untiringly to promote the best elements of good government, being a most loyal son of his adopted land.
E. F. BARE.
E. F. Bare, a farmer on section 27, Rutland township, has for almost a half century been a resident of Iowa and since 1887 has lived in Woodbury county, where he is known as a worthy citizen, taking an interested and help- ful part in all movements for the general prog- ress and upbuilding of his portion of the state. In business affairs, too, he is found reliable, never taking advantage of the necessities of his fellow men in any trade transaction. He was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, Decem- ber 5, 1855, and is a son of Solomon Bare, a native of Pennsylvania, also born in Somerset county about the year 1828. After attaining to man's estate he was married in Pennsylvania to Miss Mary Flegal, also a native of the Key- stone state. By trade he was a carpenter and joiner and in early life was thus identified with industrial pursuits. After the birth of two of his children he brought his family to Iowa in 1855, locating in Lyon county, where he en- gaged in the cultivation of a rented farm for several years. He afterward removed to Jones county, where he bought a tract of land and de- veloped a new farm, upon which he reared his family. At a still later date lie sold that prop- erty and came to Woodbury county, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of land. This he began to cultivate and improve and continued to make the place his home until his death, which occured in 1895, when he was sixty-seven years of age. His wife survives him and re- sides upon the old homestead, enjoying good health for one of advanced years.
E. F. Bare was largely reared in Jones coun- ty, Iowa, the duties of the farm early becoming
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