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Ernest C. Logan was largely reared in Mont- Sioux City. Mr. Davis of this review is a mem- gomery county, Iowa, being a lad of twelve
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years at the time of his parents' removal there. very high esteem in the community where they Ilis early common-school education was supple- reside. mented by a collegiate course in the Western Normal College and in Highland Park College. His course, however, was not consecutive, for HARRY V. CASSADAY, M. D. ere he had completed his collegiate work he en- gaged in teaching school for three years, thus Dr. Harry V. Cassaday, deceased, who in the practice of his profession in Mount Pleasant, Utah, became prominent and well-to-do, was a native son of Iowa, his birth having occurred in Clinton, on the 6th of September, 1869. His *parents were L. V. and Augusta (Pearce) Cass- aday, both of whom reside in Kansas City, Mis- souri. The father was engaged in speculating for many years, but is now living retired, hav- ing accumulated a handsome competence which enables him to put aside further busines cares. acquiring the funds necessary for the continu- ance of his own education. Later he engaged in reading law and was admitted to the bar at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1894. For a short time thereafter he was employed in a wholesale house of that city, but in 1896 located in Correc- tionville and opened a law office, entering upon the practice of his chosen profession. He has since built up a good law business and practices in different courts of the state. He was well equipped for his chosen calling by thorough study and his devotion to the interests of his clients is one of the strong characteristics of his professional career. In addition to his law practice he is also engaged in the real estate business, largely handling Woodbury county lands and town property, but also to some ex- tent handling western lands. He has been very successful in this department of his business as well as in his law practice and he has bought and improved several residence properties in Correctionville.
On the 25th of July, 1899, in Sioux City, Mr. Logan was joined in wedlock to Miss Eva E. Beck, a native of that city and a daughter of John Beck, a prominent contractor and one of the first settlers of Sioux City. Mr. and Mrs. Logan now have a little daughter, Julia Irene. Socially he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Knights of Pythias fraternity. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and he takes an active and helpful interest in its work, hav- ing served as a delegate to county and state conventions, yet never aspiring to office. He is well known throughout Woodbury county as a man of legal ability and of upright charac- ter and worth, and he and his wife are held in
Dr. Cassaday pursued his early education in the schools of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and after- ward went to Baltimore, Maryland, where he entered upon a course of medicine, attending the College of Physicians & Surgeons there. He was graduated with the class of 1893 and re- ceived his certificate to practice. Soon after- ward he settled at Gypsum, Kansas, where he remained in practice for one year and then went to Ephraim, Utah, where he resided until he took up his abode in Mount Pleasant, Utah. He was quite successful in the prosecution of his professional duties and gained a large practice, which brought to him a good financial return and enabled him to leave his widow in comfort- able circumstances. He was always a close student of the profession, keeping in touch with the advanced thought of the day and in his practice using the methods which had proven of the utmost value in the alleviation of human suffering.
Dr. Cassaday was married in Sioux City to Miss Davida Lacy, a native of Pella, Iowa, and a daughter of Robert H. and Frances ( Martin) Lacy, who are residents of Sioux City, her fath- er being a prominent business man here, en- gaged in the fire insurance business with office 316 Toy Block. Two children were born unto
DR. H. V. CASSADAY.
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Dr. and Mrs. Cassaday : Frances, who was born May 15, 1896; and Vail, born April 19, 1899.
Dr. C'assaday built up a large practice both in Ephraim and in Mount Pleasant, Utah, lo- cating there at the time when that portion of the country was enjoying a very rapid development. It was on account of his hard work and many night calls that his health was undermined, thus bringing on an illness which termin- ated his life at Mount Pleasant, Utah, on the 10th of April, 1900. In polities he was inde- pendent, supporting the men and measures rather than party. Socially he was connected with the Masonie fraternity and with the Mod- ern Woodmen of America, taking deep interest in these societies, being the founder of both lodges at Mount Pleasant. He had many traits of character aside from his professional skill and ability which endeared him to those with whom he came in contaet. After her husband's death Mrs. Cassaday sold the property at Mount Pleasant and returned to her old home in Sionx City, where her parents reside. Here she pur- chased her present residence in the suburb of Morningside, at No. 1416 Fifth avenue, where she is now living with her two children. She has recently accepted a position to teach in the Longfellow school at Morningside. The work has always been congenial to her and un- doubtedly she will prove a valuable addition to edneational eireles of Sioux City. She is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church here.
CHRISTIAN N. JEPSON.
Jepson & Jepson, of Sioux City, and he is also occupying the chair of medical jurisprudence in the Sioux City College of Medicine and also the same in the law department of the State University of South Dakota, at Ver- milion.
Mr. Jepson was born in Wayne county, Iowa, near Seymour, July 26, 1872, his parents being Neils and Wilhelmina (Jansen) Jepson. The father was a millwright in his native country and he came from Denmark to the United States in the '50s, but later returned to his native country. When he came the second time to the new world he located in Wayne county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming, and provi- ons to that time he had carried on banking. He continued to make his home in Wayne county until his death, which ocenrred October 3, 1873. In Burlington, Iowa, he had married Wilhelmina Jansen, who still survives him, making her home in Sioux City. In their fam- ily were three sons: William, who is a physi- cian of Sioux City; and George and Chris- tian, who are associated in the practice of law here.
Christian N. Jepson attended successively the country schools and the high school of Sey- mour, Iowa ; then pursued a two years' course in the University of the Northwest, now the Morningside College, and entered upon the study of law in the State University of Iowa. in which he was graduated with the class of 1894. He then opened an office for the prac- tice of his profession in Danbury, Iowa, where he continued for four years, his brother George being the senior member of the firm of JJepson & Jepson. In 1898 Christian Jepson removed to Sioux City, where he joined his brother and has since continned at the county seat in the successful practice of his chosen profession. They make a specialty of probate practice and of real-estate law, but also do a general law business.
Christian N. Jepson, lawyer, orator and pro- fessor, is well known in northwestern Iowa in those cireles wherein are demanded keen in- tellectuality and well directed activity in meeting the duties of the business world and citizenship and the obligations of home and social life. His professional connection is that Mr. JJepson was married in October, 1896, of a member of the well known law firm of to Miss Alice Loucks, a daughter of R. H.
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Loucks, of Danbury, Iowa. The children of this marriage are Hellene Lucile, Marjorie, Alice and John Richard Neil Jepson. In his fraternal relations Mr. Jepson is a Knight of Pythias and since 1896 has been a member of the Masonic society. He has attained the four- teenth degree of the Scottish rite and is a mem- ber of Tabernacle Lodge of Perfection, at Des Moines, Iowa. He is also an Elk. He is now serving as a member of the Iowa house of repre- sentatives from Woodbury county. He is one' of the notable public speakers of the state and is frequently called upon to deliver commence- ment addresses, to speak before lodges and to address public gatherings upon momentous public questions. He has the faculty of pre- senting his subject in a most happy manner, of inspiring his auditors with his own enthusiasm and in presenting his thoughts in a forcible manner that never fails to leave a lasting im- pression.
GEORGE JEPSON.
George Jepson, the senior member of the law firm of Jepson & Jepson, whose ability has formed a strong foundation upon which has been builded the enviable reputation of the firm, was born near Aarkus, Denmark, Decem- ber 3, 1864, and in his early boyhood was brought to America by his parents. His edu- cational facilities in youth were those afforded by the public schools system of Seymour, Iowa, and when he had completed the high-school course there he matriculated in the University of Iowa, in which he prepared for the bar and was graduated with the law class of 1887. He began practice in Sioux City on the 6th of July, of that year, and has since remained here, enjoying a large and desirable clientage. He has also been somewhat active in politics as a supporter of the Democracy.
Marsh, of Seymour, Iowa, and their children are: Wilhelm, Archie O., George F., Edna B., Emlin McLean, Maria N. and Gladys L., the eldest child, however, died May 27, 1895, at the age of nine years. For fifteen years Mr. Jepson has been a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and attends the grand lodge of the order, and has thus, as well as through his professional interests, a wide acquaintance in the state.
THOMAS C. PRESCOTT.
Thomas C. Prescott, who is filling the posi- tion of city treasurer and is also engaged in real estate operations in Sioux City, was born in Strafford county, New Hampshire, Novem- ber 16, 1837, his parents being True and Susan P. (Chick) Prescott. The father was a native of New Hampshire and spent the greater part of his life in agricultural pursuits in the Gran- ite state. IIe died in March, 1901, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-four years. In the ma- ternal line Mr. Prescott is descended from an old family of Maine. In his early boyhood days he attended the common schools and after- ward pursued his studies in Strafford Academy, in the Pittsfield Academy and in the New Lon- don Institute, successively. In the spring of 1857 he went to Princeton, Wisconsin, where he engaged in teaching school until the fall ot 1860. He then returned to New Hampshire and in the following spring enlisted for service in the Union Army.
Mr. Prescott became a member of Company G of the Eighth New Hampshire Infantry and was made sergeant. In November, 1862, he was appointed sergeant major and in April, 1863, was promoted to the rank of second lieu- tenant, his commission bearing date from the 13th of April. He was with his company at the siege of Port Hudson and in the second assault upon the works there on the 14th of
In 1875 George Jepson was married to Miss Rosina L. Marsh, a daughter of James H. June, 1863. He was severely wounded about
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the left shoulder and breast by a musket ball while gallantly leading his company in a charge. Lieutenant Prescott was in command by reason of the illness of the captain and because of a wound sustained by the first lieutenant in that charge. After Lieutenant Preseott was wound- ed he was sent to St. James' Hospital at New Orleans, where he was retained for eighty days and was unable to perform any act of duty un- til the following November. Even at that time he had no use of his left arm, but having been assigned to the position of acting adjutant he was enabled to perform acceptable service without the use of his arm. On the 16th of December, 1863, he was promoted to the posi- tion of first lieutenant of his company and on the 1st of April, 1864, was made adjutant of the regiment. He was constantly with his regi- ment during the very severe, fatiguing and un- fortunate campaign known as the Red River ex- pedition and several times very narrowly escaped being wounded or killed. At one time a bullet pierced his eoat and another struck the seabbard of his sabre near the hilt, while on the third occasion his horse was shot from under him. On the 25th of May, 1864, he was promoted to the rank of captain of Company H and later was placed on staff duty as aeting assistant adjutant general of the post at Natchez, Mississippi, which position he filled until January 10th, 1865, when he returned with his regiment to New Hampshire, and on the 17th of January, 1865, he was mustered out of service. He participated in the battle of Camp Bisland, Louisiana, both engagements of Port Hudson, Sabine Crossroads, Yellow Bayou and Moranville, Louisiana, beside numerous skirmishes during the siege of Port Hudson and the campaign in western Louisiana. ITe was actively engaged nearly every day from the 1st of April until the 20th of May during the Red River campaign, his regiment serving as cavalry. At the second assault at Port Hudson all the members of his company exeept six who went into the fight were either killed or wound-
ed, Captain Prescott, then holding the rank of lieutenant, being one of the latter. At the close of the war he was mustered out and honorably discharged. He had carned an enviable reputa- tion by skill and bravery and returned to his home with a most creditable military record.
In 1865 Captain Prescott removed with the family to Durant, Cedar county, Iowa, where he engaged in merchandising, following that pursuit for ten years. He was also elected clerk of the courts for two terms on the Republican ticket and while filling that position maintained his residence in Tipton. He then re-entered mercantile life and continued in business until December, 1885, when he removed to Sioux City. Here he became a real estate dealer and has since continued his operations in land and improved property with the exception of a period of five years, in which he served as deputy county elerk of Woodbury county. In March, 1902, he was elected treasurer of Sioux City and is now filling that office. During the years from 1877 until 1885 he was interested in the State Bank at Tipton, Iowa, holding the positions of vice-president, cashier and director during that period.
On the 27th of October, 1865, Captain Pres- cott was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Washbon, a daughter of H. N. and Mary A. (Tobey) Washbon. The children of this mar- riage are Bertha C. and Lee Washbon. The daughter, who was born October 4, 1877, pur- sued a course of study in the Iowa State Uni- versity and successfully engaged in teaching in the public schools in Sioux City. She was mar- ried April 14, 1904, to Constant Robert Marks. who is a son of Hon. Constant R. Marks and is now holding a responsible position with the Penobscot Mining Company at Maitland, South Dakota. Lee W. Prescott, born August 4, 1881. will graduate in the medical department of the University of Iowa with the class of 1905.
Captain Prescott is a member of the various Masonie bodies of the York rite, having taken the Royal Arch and Knights Templar degrees.
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He is also connected with the Iowa Legion of Honor and has been one of the grand trustees for the past twelve years. He takes a deep in- terest in educational matters, has almost con- tinuously served on the board of education since coming to Iowa, and is now a member of the school board of Sioux City, having acted in that capacity for six years, while for two years he has been president. He has ever been found reliable in business, honorable and straightfor- ward in office, true to the relations of home and friendship in private life and in all matters of citizenship he is to-day as loyal to his coun- try and her welfare as he was when he followed the old flag on the battle-fields of the south.
SAMUEL JAMES QUINCY.
Samuel James Quincy, a distinguished law- yer of Woodbury county, has been one of the most forceful factors in community affairs in Sioux City in recent years. He entered upon the active duties of life unaided by influential friends or adventitious circumstances and has been the sole architect of his own fortunes, molding his own character and shaping his own destiny. He has come to be a man of affairs, yet his labors have not been restricted to the advancement of his own personal interests. He has extended his efforts to various fields in which he has championed the highest interests of the people most successfully.
Mr. Quiney was born in Otsego county, New York, February 18, 1854, and is of Norman French ancestry. His parents were Robert and Elizabeth (Kilsby) Quincy, both of whom were natives of England, where their childhood days were passed and they were married. About 1854, when forty years of age, Robert Quincy brought his family to America, and three weeks later the birth of our subject oc- curred. The father was a farmer by occupation and thus provided for the support of his wife and children. His political support was given
the Republican party from the time of its or- ganization, his ballot being cast for Fremont in 1856. While in England he was a member of the Episcopal church, but in this country united with the Methodist Episcopal denomina- tion. He died in 1865 and is still survived by his wife, who is living in Boston at the age of seventy-eight years. She, too, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In their family were eight children, of whom five are living: George Marlow, a farmer of New York ; William J., pastor of the First Baptist church of Troy, New York; Samuel James; Mary Elizabeth, of Boston; and Robert E., a minister of the Baptist church in Oregon.
In his early boyhood Samuel J. Quincy be- came a pupil in the public schools and attended Gilbertsville Academy until twelve years of age, but he embraced every opportunity for mental development and between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two years he engaged in teaching in New York, most of the time as principal of the schools at Mount Vision, that state. His desire to become a member of the bar led him to enter the office of Belknap & Edson, attorneys at law of Unadilla, New York, who directed his study for five years, as re- quired by the laws of the Empire state. He was then admitted to the bar at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1881.
Almost immediately afterward Mr. Quincy sought the west as a more advantageous field of labor and located in Sioux City, where he has since remained. While he was well grounded in the principles of common law when admitted to the bar he has continued through- out the whole of his professional career a dili- gent student of those elementary principles that constitute the basis of all legal science. In his practice he has made a specialty of munici- pal law and he is the author of a number of laws now in force in the state of Iowa relating to municipal affairs. He also prepared the majority of the city ordinances now in force here. He published the first compilation of
S. J. QUINCY.
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Sioux City ordinances in 1882, and the see- country and a daughter of William Jenkins, ond in 1888. For the past seven years he has been associated with C. M. Swan in the prae- tice of his profession. In addition to his prae- tice he has engaged to a considerable extent in real estate speenlation and was particularly snc- cessful in his operations during the boom of 1887.
In his political views Mr. Quiney is a Dem- ocrat and has taken quite an active interest in the work of the party during his residence in the west. He was at one time chairman of the county Democratie executive committee and secretary of the Democratic congressional com- mittee for his district, and his influence has been felt in the ranks of his party in this state. He was appointed city solicitor to fill a vacaney and at the next regular election was chosen by popular vote for the office, which he filled until 1890. Socially he is connected with the Elks. His personal traits of character are such as have made him popular and have also rendered him a natural leader of public opin- ion. In his professon he has manifested the ability and comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence that have gained him an important clientage, while in public affairs he has displayed an interest that has re- sulted to the benefit of the city and the pro- motion of its welfare.
DANIEL JONES.
Daniel Jones, who follows general farming on section 4, Rock township, his place of one hundred and sixty acres being pleasantly locat- ed within two and a half miles of Correction- ville, was born in Wales, June 18, 1853. His paternal grandfather, Lewis Jones, was also a native of that country, as was Daniel Jones Sr., the father of our subject. Daniel Jones Sr. was reared to manhood in Wales and was married there on the 22d of February, 1834, to Miss Mary Jenkins, a native of the same
who was born in the southern part of Wales. Daniel Jones was a miner and resided in Wales until after the birth of all of his six children, five of whom are still living. In 1856, how- ever, he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and made his way westward to Iowa C'ity. It was his intention to go to Salt Lake City, Utah, but at lowa City he turned back and established a home in Rock Island county, Illinois, where he resided until 1861. There he carried on farming, which was his first ex- perience as an agriculturist. Having pur- chased a tract of land he continued its culti- vation and improvement until 1885, when he rented his farm and came to lowa with his son, spending his last years here. His death occurred October 21, 1889. His wife sur- vived him and passed away May 16, 1895. Of their six children Lewis was married, settled in Montgomery county and there spent his re- maining days; Walter is living in Monroe, Utah ; William resides in Pottawattamie coun- ty, Iowa; Mary Martha is the wife of D. II. Harris, of Platte, South Dakota: Richard is living in Henry county, Illinois; and Daniel completes the family.
Upon the old homestead farm in Illinois Dan- iel Jones, of this review, was reared. He had little opportunity for attending school and is largely a self-edneated as well as self-made man. but experience and observation have broad- ened his knowledge, while labor has enabled him to advance beyond a humble financial po- sition to one of affluence. He was married in Henry county, September 17, 1876, to Miss Mary Ann Williams, who was born in Iowa county, Wisconsin, a daughter of William .1. Williams, whose birth occurred in South Wales and who on emigrating to America settled in Wisconsin, where he resided for fourteen years. Ile then took up his abode in Henry county. Illinois, where he reared his family of eight children. He continued a resident of that lo- cality until called to his final rest on the 2d
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of February, 1894. His wife survived him in fraternal as well as business circles is widely six years and passed away in 1900.
After his marriage Mr. Jones engaged in operating the old home farm for nine years and then came to Iowa in 1885, settling in Woodbury county, where he purchased one hun- dred and sixty acres. Only slight improve- ments had been made and he at once began the further development and cultivation of the farm. He added to and remodeled the house, also enlarged the barn, planted shade and fruit trees and has continued the work of perma- nent improvement until his farm property is now one of the best in his locality. In addi- tion to the cultivation of the fields he is en- gaged in the raising and feeding of stock and is known as a very successful stockman, being an excellent judge of cattle and horses, whereby he is enabled to make judicious purchases and profitable sales. He has continuously engaged in farming with the exception of a brief period of five years. In 1896 he removed to Correc- tionville, where he engaged in drilling wells through the period designated, and then re- turned to the farm.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been born six children who are yet living: Edward W., who is now a medical student in Iowa City, Iowa; Sadie, the wife of W. B. Heritage, a bar- ber of Correctionville; Lewis B., who is liv- ing on the home farm; and Albert, Ira W. and Elsie, at home.
Politically Mr. Jones is a stanch Republican where national questions are involved. H has served as a member of the school board for three years and as one of the school di- rectors for a number of years, and the canse of education finds in him a warm friend who has done effective service in its behalf. He was also commissioner of highways in Henry county. He and his wife held membership in the Baptist church at Correctionville and he has been a deacon, trustee and Sunday-school superintendent. He is now a member of the Modern Woodmen Camp at Correctionville and
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