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Mr. and Mrs. Bell are the parents of nine children: Clarence, who is married and is a farmer of Plymouth county, Iowa; Arthur, who is a farmer and resides in Woodbury coun- ty; Charles N., who is married and carries on agricultural pursuits in this county; Hattie Mary, the wife of Bert Whall, a farmer of the same county; Alfred, who is carrying on the home property; Frank; Minnie; Lester and Nellie. They also lost four children. Their first born, Ulysses, died at the age of nineteen years. Rosetta died at the age of eleven months. Florence died when twelve years of age. Stella died in infancy.
Mr. Bell has been a life-long Republican casting his ballot for the presidential candidates of that party since voting for General Grant in 1868. The cause of education has found in him a warm friend and he has put forth effective and earnest effort in its behalf. He has been a member of the school board for a
Mrs. Mary Schlupp, of Sioux City, was born in Mechlenburg, Germany, August 21, 1839, a daughter of Christ and Christina (Barton) Oemig. In June, 1858, she became a resi- dent of Sioux City, making the journey from St. Louis to Omaha by boat and remaining in the latter place for a week. She then con- tinued on the trip by water and has since been a resident of Sioux City, being numbered among its most worthy pioneer ladies.
In April, 1859, she gave her hand in mar- riage to John Schaible, who was a shoemaker by trade, having a shop on Pearl street be- tween Fourth and Fifth streets. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and died in Sioux City, Iowa, March, 1866. In April, 1867, Mrs. Schaible gave her hand in marriage to John Charles Schlupp, of Sioux City. He, too, was a shoemaker by trade and followed that pursuit for six years after their marriage. In 1873 he built the Washington House, which still stands on Pearl street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and was proprietor of this hotel up to the time of his death, which occurred August 1, 1882, when he was fifty-five years of age. He was a popular landlord, conducting a good hostelry and by his endeavor to please his patrons and make the house a desirable place
J. C. SCHLUPP.
MRS. MARY SCHLUPP.
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of entertainment for the traveling public he won favor with those who gave to him their business support. At the time of the Civil war he responded to the country's call for aid, eu- listing on the 24th of September, 1864, as a member of Company G, Fifty-eighth Regiment of New York Volunteers, with which he served until July 6, 1865, when the war having closed he was honorably discharged at Nashville, Ten- nessee.
By her first marriage Mrs. Schlupp had five children, of whom three are now deceased. The others are: Emma, the wife of Henry Corrigan ; and Louise, the wife of Mark Run- yan, of Sioux City. By the second marriage there were six children, of whom one has passed away. Rosa, the eldest, is the wife of F. L. Hagan, of Sioux City. Jennie, George, Ma- tilda and Mary are all at home with their mother and the family are members of the First Presbyterian church of Sioux City. They are well known here and their circle of friends is an extensive one. Mrs. Schlupp has resid- ed in Sioux City for forty-six years and has therefore been a witness of the greater part of its growth and development.
PHILLIP WILLIAM MAXEINER.
Phillip William Maxeiner, who for almost twenty years has been condneting the New En- gland Bakery of Sioux City, in which he has built up a large wholesale as well as retail trade, was born in Galena, Illinois, June 10, 1855. His father, Phillip William Maxeiner, Sr., a native of Germany, came to America in 1845, settling in Galena, where he engaged in the merchant tailoring business. He is now living in Galena, at the age of eighty-one years. He married Miss Barbara Brendel, and they be- came the parents of thirteen children, of whom eight are yet living.
Mr. Maxeiner, of this review, the second child and eldest son of the family, attended the
public schools of his native city and also the Lutheran College, in which he was graduated with the class of 1872, when seventeen years of age. He then began learning the baker's trade in Galena, which he followed there until 1878, when he removed to Colorado and was engaged in business at Leadville and at Den- ver. In the spring of 1885 he came to Sionx City and opened the New England Bakery, which he has since conducted, and has devel- oped a business that has reached paying pro- portions, both in the wholesale and retail de- partments. The excellence of his products, his earnest desire to please his patrons and his re- liability have been the basic elements of his success, and have led to the dvelopment of a large trade.
On the 16th of May, 1880, Mr. Maxeiner was married to Miss Theresa Thiele, at Lead- ville, Colorado, Miss Thiele traveling from her home at Galena, Illinois, to meet her husband. HIer father, for many years engaged in cabinet- making in Galena, is now deceased. Six sons were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Maxeiner, of whom three died in infancy. Phillip William, twenty-one years of age, is a coxswain on board the United States battleship Alabama, and has been in the service for four and a half years. Frank, nineteen years of age, is working in his father's bakery. Edmond, six years of age, completes the family.
In the spring of 1904 Mr. Maxeiner was elected alderman from the fourth ward with a plurality of one hundred and forty-four over a normal Republican majority of one hundred and twenty. He is chairman of the police and railroads committees, and is a member of the committees on conduct and account of officers, judiciary, streets, alleys and bridges and spe- cial assessments. Ile has always been an earnest advocate of Democratie principles. He is president of the Germania Society, was for- merly president of the Sons of Herman, is past chancellor commander of Damon Lodge, No. 2, K. P., of Denver, Colorado, and belongs
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to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. The family attend the English Lutheran church. During ahnost twenty years' residence in Sioux City he has demonstrated his right to be classed with its leading business men, and he owes his suc- cess largely to the fact that he has persevered in a business in which he embarked as a young tradesmau.
JAMES DOUGHTY.
James Doughty, who is making a specialty of probate, realty and insurance law in his practice as a member of the Iowa bar, with which he has been identified for fourteen years, was born on a farm near Meadville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of April, 1855. His paternal grandfather, James Doughty, was born and reared near Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania. Though little is known concerning the early history of his ancestors, he was one of a large family and his brother William was chief naval constructor at Wash- ington in the early part of the century, while another brother, Thomas Doughty, was a land- scape artist of considerable note. James Doughty, the grandfather, located near Mead- ville, Pennsylvania, on a farm and in that lo- cality married Miss Nancy Hamilton. Their children were Thomas, William Hamilton and Margaret. The first named, after a short course in Allegheny College, removed west- ward and located at Leclaire, Iowa, after which he engaged in steam-boating on the Mississippi river. During the war of the Rebellion he was chief engineer of a river fleet of gunboats under Commodore Porter, who especially com- mended him for meritorious service. After the war he resumed steam-boating on the river, but failing health compelled him to engage in less ardnous work and he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he died in 1896. Margaret
Doughty became the wife of Peter C. Hey- driek and resides in Erie, Pennsylvania.
William Hamilton Doughty, the father of our subject, was born and reared near Mead- ville, Pennsylvania, and after arriving at years of maturity he wedded Isabel Hurst McCurdy, who was also a native of that locality and was the eldest of three daughters of Robert and Eleanor (Hurst) McCurdy. William H. Doughty was a graduate of Allegheny College, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, one of the oldest educational institutions in the state. His course in that institution was completed in 1852 and he afterward engaged in teaching school. During the same period he studied law and in due time was admitted to practice in the courts of Crawford county, but the office confinement proving detrimental to his health he returned to the home farm, being also prompted to take this step because his father needed his assistance. He assumed the man- agement of the old homestead about the time of the outbreak of the Civil war and a part of the farm he inherited upon the death of his father in 1864. There he resided for many years and upon the old homestead all of his children were born. In 1886, however, he sold the farm and removed to a farm in North Dakota, on which he still makes his home. There his wife died in June, 1899, at the age of sixty-eight years. In their family were eleven children.
James Doughty, the eldest of this number, acquired his rudimentary education in the district schools near Meadville, Pennsylvania, and later he attended the grammar and high schools of that city, while in 1873 he entered Allegheny College and was graduated there with the class of 1878. While in college he was a member of the Philo-Franklin Literary Society, to which his father had also belonged while attending that institution. James Doughty was likewise a member of the Scien- tific Club and of the Delta Tau Delta fra- ternity, and he was graduated as the first
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lieutenant of the military department, the col- lege being a government detail school. After his graduation he registered as a law student with Hon. Myron Park Davis, a prominent at- torney of Meadville, and was admitted to the Crawford county bar in February, 1881, and to the Erie county bar the following June. Two years later he was admitted to practice in the federal courts of Pittsburg and at the same time was appointed United States attorney for the district of western Pennsylvania.
After four years devoted to law practice in the state of his nativity Mr. Doughty removed to the west and in May, 1885, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he entered the real-estate and abstraet office of Simmons & Pope, taking charge of the law and insurance business of that firm. He remained with them until the dissolution of their partnership early in the following year. He then purchased the law and loan business and the library of Roy Bil- lingsley at Vinton, Benton county, Iowa, where he practiced until Angust, 1888, when he was offered and accepted the position of attorney for the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, a large mortgage company located at Storm Lake, but since removed to Sioux City. With this concern he remained until July, 1890, when he took up his abode in Sioux City to accept a similar position offered him by the Union Trust Company, one of the most prominent financial institutions in the state, but its career was terminated by the financial panie of 1893. In June of that year Mr. Doughty was ap- pointed receiver for the company and this ap- pointment has given him a wide and valuable experience in the management of such estates. In the spring of 1894 Mr. Doughty was elected police judge of Sioux City on the Republican ticket and held the office for one term. Though always an ardent and active Republican he has never been a candidate for any other office of prominence. His relations with the financial concerns before mentioned and also with other enterprises have brought him valuable experi-
once in examining titles and other branches of law bearing upon real property and his insur- ance business has gained him a comprehensive familiarity with insurance laws. He, there- fore, makes a specialty in his practice of realty and insurance law as well as a probate practice, preferring these lines to trial work. He is regarded as one of the strong representatives of his specialty and has an important and valu- able clientage.
Mr. Doughty is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a Royal Arch Mason. He also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and Sioux City Boat Club. In his western home he has gained prestige by reason of his ability, his devotion to his clients' interests and his laudable ambition, and has carved his name high on the keystone of the legal arch of northwestern Iowa.
JOIIN J. WOOD.
John J. Wood, numbered among Iowa's native sons, was born in Jackson county on the 30th of December, 1853. Ilis parents were John C. and Rachel (Strawn) Wood, both of whom are natives of Canada, where the father followed the occupation of farming. On leaving that country he went first to Illi- nois and subsequently came to Iowa, settling in this state in the '40s, when it was a frontier region with few improvements. He located in Jackson county and aided in reclaiming the wild land for the purposes of civilization. Later he removed to Howard county and after- ward to Benton county, where he reared his family.
John J. Wood largely spent the days of his boyhood in Benton county, living upon the home farm, where he was early taught to per- form the duties of the fields. His educational privileges were extremely limited because his services were needed in the work of plowing, planting and harvesting. On leaving Benton
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county he removed to Cedar county, where he continued to engage in agricultural pursuits, following farming there until 1884. In that year he came to Woodbury county and secured a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres. The hardships and privations of frontier life were to be met, but he was willing to face its difficulties in order to eventually become the owner of a good and well improved farm. He broke his land, placed the fields under cul- tivation, fenced the tract, planted a grove, erected good buildings and, in fact, has per- formed every department of farm labor that leads to good results. He raises good stock and his fields also produce rich crops.
In May, 1877, Mr. Wood was united in mar- riage to Miss Frances E. Davis, who was born in DeKalb county, Illinois. They are the parents of six children: Lee J., a resident farmer of Wolf Creek township; Edward J., who is also in business for himself; Arthur E .; Dannie C .; George G .; and Lucy M. Polit- ically Mr. Wood is a stanch Republican who cast his first presidential vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and has since supported each candi- date of the party for the highest office within the gift of the people. He has been a resident of Woodbury county for twenty years and his entire life has been passed in Iowa, so that he is largely familiar with its history, while in Woodbury county he has helped forward the work of improvement and is known as a repre- sentative farmer.
DAVID W. HUFFMAN.
David W. Huffman, living on section 18, Kedron township, is well known as a stock- raiser, making a specialty of the breeding and raising of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle. For this purpose he has extensive pastures in which he feeds his stock and he also has good improvements upon his farm, the buildings af- fording ample shelter for the stock in the winter
seasons. He owns altogether four hundred and eighty acres of valuable land in northwestern Iowa, having two hundred and forty acres in the home place. Mr. Huffman is a product of the middle west-this section of the country which has had such rapid and substantial growth as to make its development appear al- most marvelous. Becoming imbued with the enterprising spirit of his time and locality Mr. Huffman has so labored that his work has formed the basis of excellent success and his good management has guided him from humble surroundings to a position of affluence.
A native of Bureau county, Illinois, he was born near Princeton on the 4th of April, 1852, and is a son of Isaac Huffman, who was born and reared in New Jersey. The mother bore the maiden name of Eleanor Grundyke, and she, too, was a native of New Jersey. Remov- ing to the west, Isaac Huffman settled in Bureau county, Illinois, and was identified with its early development, aiding in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which its present prosperity and progress rested. There he opened a farm and continued its cultivation until his death, which occurred in 1854, when his son, David W., was a child of two years. The mother afterward married again. There were four children by the first union, including David W. Huffman, whose name introduces this review. He was reared as a farmer boy and had fair school advantages.
When a young man Mr. Huffman came to Iowa, settling first in Pottawattamie county, where he purchased land and began the develop- ment of a farm, continuing its cultivation for ten years. It was during that period that he was married, having in 1874 wedded Miss Ala- meda Rinehart, whose birth occurred in Cook county, Illinois, and who was a daughter of H. W. Rinehart, one of the early settlers of Iowa. The year 1884 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Huffman in this county and he bought the farm where he resides. With characteristic energy he began its development and improve-
MR. AND MRS. D. W. HUFFMAN.
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ment. He had here three hundred and twenty acres, but after a time he sold a portion of this, now retaining possession of two hundred and forty aeres in the home place. The neat resi- denee upon the farm was erected by him and the barns and outbuildings were also put up under his supervision. He has planted an orchard which is just now coming into bearing and good improvements of every character are seen upon his place. He has also purchased two other farms in Kedron township and one in Miller township and his lauded possessions are now extensive and valuable. He makes a busi- ness of the raising of the pure blooded Duroc Jersey hogs and Aberdeen Angus cattle. He now has a herd of thirteen head of cattle with a fine imported bull at the head. In this way he has done much to improve the grade of stock raised in the county and prices paid for cattle and hogs have been thereby advanced.
Mr. and Mrs. Huffman have become the parents of fourteen children, all of whom are living and four of the sons and one daughter have reached mature years and two of the sons are now engaged in business for themselves. As a citizen Mr. Huffman is interested in all that pertains to the progress and welfare of his community and in politics he is a stanch Repub- lican who has served as trustee of his township, but has never been active in polities in the sense of office seeking, preferring to do his service as a private citizen rather than as a public official. He has been, however, a director of schools and believes in employing competent teachers and giving the children the best possi- ble educational privileges in order to fit them for life's practical duties. A resident of Wood- bury county for a quarter of a century, he has witnessed much of its growth and has been the champion of many of its measures for im- provement, so that he is now widely and favor- ably known. His success is justly merited and much enjoyed, for it yields to him the con- veniences and comforts which go to make life worth living.
HENRY F. GILLETT.
Through a long period Henry F. Gillett car- ried on general farming in Grant township, where he owned and operated one hundred and sixty acres of land and now he is living retired, for his labor in former years made it possible that he should enjoy a period of rest in the evening of his life. He is an honored set- tler of Woodbury county, his residence here covering more than one-third of a century, while since 1856 he has made his home in the state. He was born in Geneseo, Wyoming county, New York, May 2, 1829. The family is of English ancestry and William Gillett, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of New York. He served his country as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, valiantly aiding in the cause of independence. He reared his fam- ily in the Empire state and it was there that Grove Gillett, the father of our subjeet, was born and reared, his native place being Wyo- ming county. After arriving at years of maturity he married Miss Naney Bed- ford, who was born in New York and was a daughter of Squire Bedford, a native of England, who became a prominent and influential resident of the community in which he made his home. He died, however, during the girlhood days of Mrs. Gillett. Grove Gillett was a mechanic who followed the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and as a contractor did considerable mill and bridge work. He was a soldier of the Black Hawk war. In 1838 he removed to Crawford county, Penn- sylvania, where he settled on a farm and did work at the business of building mills and bridges. In 1870 he came to Iowa and took up his abode on a farm in Woodbury county, where he spent his last years, passing away in April, 1872. His wife had died a number of years before in Clinton county, Iowa, and Mr. Gillett afterward married again. Henry F. Gillett is one of thirteen children born of the father's first marriage, twelve of whom reached years of maturity, while four are now living.
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Henry F. Gillett came to Iowa with his par- deceased; and Deborah, the wife of Fred ents in 1850, at which time the family home was established in the northern part of Clinton county and there he was reared on the home farm, no event of special importance occurring to vary the routine of farin life and work for him in his youth. He had fair common-school advantages and the lessons of industry, econ- omy and integrity were instilled into his mind and have borne fruit in later years.
Mr. Gillett was married in Clinton county on Christmas day of 1851 to Miss Sarah Sleeper, who was a native of Vermont and an early settler of Iowa. He afterward engaged in farming in Clinton county for a number of years and in 1867 he came to Woodbury county, locating first in Miller township, where he purchased a tract of land and engaged in farming for some time. He then sold out and in 1869 seenred a homestead in Wolf Creek township which he improved. Later he sold this and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of raw land in Grant township. This he placed under the plow and opened up a farm on which he made good improvements. There he carried on agricultural pursuits for a number of years or until 1890, when he rented his land and removed to Anthon, where he built a good home and has since lived re- tired. His property is an indication of his life of thrift and industry, for all that he pos- sesses has been acquired through his own un- remitting labor and careful management. He still owns two valuable farms and a good home in Anthon.
In 1880 Mr. Gillett was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife, who died August 22d, of that year. There were eight children of that marriage, of whom six are living: Catherine A., the wife of Platt Hall ; Edgar K., of Anthon; Amelia, the wife of N. E. Palmer, of this county; Antoinette, the wife of Edwin Carlin, of Anthon; William, who is living in Lemars, Iowa; Dora E., who attained adult age and was married, but is now
Horton, of Sioux City. In March, 1883, Mr. Gillett was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Mary Morcy, a widow, who was born in Chenango county, New York, and was a daughter of Esquire Brooks, who re- moved with his family to Illinois, becoming one of the pioneer residents of Bureau county, where Mrs. Gillett was reared. She had four children by her first marriage: Harvey Morey, who is living in Ida county, Iowa ; Dora, the wife of T. S. Snell, of Ida Grove; Fred, now of Anthon ; and Charles, deceased.
Politically Mr. Gillett is a Republican, hav- ing supported the party since its organization, while his first ballot was cast for General Scott in 1852. Since locating in Anthon he has lived a retired life. He has a wide and favor- able acquaintance throughout the county, where he has lived for thirty-seven years and with the prosperity and development of which he has been closely and actively connected. He has borne a helpful part in the work of general progress and improvement and has favored every measure tending to advance the best in- terests of this portion of the state.
CHARLES P. DOW.
Charles P. Dow, who was well known to the early settlers of Woodbury county, was a native of Warren county, Vermont, born July 9, 1835, his parents being Peter and Rhoda Dow, both of whom were natives of Vermont. The mother died during the early boyhood of her son and the father afterward married again in the east. Subsequently he removed to the west, settling in Wisconsin, where he was engaged in farming for several years. Later he removed to Ne- braska, where he carried on agricultural pur- snits until his later years, when he lived re- tired. He has now passed away.
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