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1. the antin of that year Dr. Hutchinson come In Des Moines and entered upon the practice of his profession. continuing in active practice in this di's until september. 1857. when he went to Eu- . p. in order to receive instruction in the best m died schools of the Old World. He took a gold course in the medical department of Ua I'mversity of Vienna. He nest took lecture in & son of "good times" that followed the opening of
Paris on the treatment of the eye, car and thioat. He also spent nearly eighteen mouths in London as a student in special hospitals, especially in that of the celebrated Sir Morell Mckenzie, M. D. Be- fore leaving America, he was a student of Dr. Knapp's Opthalnie Institute, of New York.
In his course of study Dr. Hutchinson has had the benefit of the best medical schools of three great capitals of Europe and of the metropolis of America. Late in the summer of 1889 he returned to Des Moines and resumed the practice of his pro- fession in this city. He is a member of the Polk Comity Medical Society, of the lowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The Doctor is a thorough student and has ex- hihited marked ability and skill in his professional work. His practice has increased rapidly since his return from Europe, and his future is brightened hy a well deserved and growing popularity. The North American Borger has lately contained sev- era! articles from his pen ou the subject of Uy - gienies, which have attracted favorable attention from the profession.
LEXANDER LEDERER, senior partner of the firm of Loderer, Strauss & Co., whole- sale dealers in millinery and fancy goods at Nos. 518 and 515. West Locust Street, Des Moines, was born in Carlsbad, the celebrated watering place of Bohemia. on the 12th of Augu-1. 1832, and is a son of Joachim ant Leo ( Meyers) 1ed ter. He was reared and calocated in his native lange. and when a young man of twenty-two years, finding good-by to his old homar, atiled for Amer- ica in 1801. coming direct to lowa on his arrival in this country. He came to the New World. like many another amigrant. with no capital except in- telligegre and a robust constitution, sil was cont. pellel to labor both vedly and late. mot practiced the strictest economy in order to get a start. He made his first location in the city of Davenport. where he resided for some time. In 1360 h . be- gal boste - for himself as a cloth r. and the
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the late war afforded him his opportunity. and he prospered in business. Five years later. in 1805. 1 he came to Des Moines and formed a partnership with Moses Strauss in the retail clothing business, which they followed until 1875, when they dis- posed of their stock and started in their present line of wholesale millinery and fancy goods. They subse- quently admitted into partnership Max Schloss and Morris Samish. who, with the above named gentle- ten. constitute the firm as it now exists.
Mr. Lederer was married in New York City. on the 28th of February, 1807. to Miss Emuna Samish, a native of that city and a daughter of L. Samish. Our subject is not a politician, and has never had time or inclination to holdt public office. His atten- tion has been fully occupied by his extensive busi- ness interests, which he finds more congenial and more to his taste than politics. Socially, he is a member of the Odd Fellows society, belonging to Jonathan Lodge. 10.0.F .. of Des Moines. Mr. Lederer is a practical business man, who has achieved success by close application and strict at- tention to the affairs of his house. which has grown to be one of the most important in its line in the State. ' For twenty- five years this firm has been in active business in Des Moines and has by an up- right and honorable Imsiness policy won the con- tidence and good will of an extensive line of customers, extending throughout the West.
OHN O. SKINNER, M. D .. of Des Moines. is one of the pioneer medical practitioners of lowa. He was born on the 6th of sep- tember. 1821. in Meigs County. Ohio, and i- descended from an early New England family. His gress grandfather, accompanied by two broth- erg. left then English home in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Maine. He served in the English anny during the French and Indian War, and his son band, the D ator's grandfather. fought for the independence of the United Colonies in the Revolutionary War and lived to flowolyan 1 age of min ty seven yours. Askel shimmer Color of
our subject, was born on the old homestead in Maide. and there married. and of the union there were born fourteen children. Subsequently hie 10- moved to Massachusetts, and about 1818 emigrated to Meigs County. Ohio. Soon afterward his wife died and later he was joined in wedlock with lane Everton. a native of New York. Her father was a Captain in the Revolution and his parents were also natives of England. but on the maternal side she was of Welsh descent. By trade Ashel Skinner was a cooper, though most of his life was spent on a farm. By his second marriage he had eight chil- dren, four sons and four daughters, and three of the sons served in the late war-1). Calvin. Thomas E. and John O.
Dr. Skinner spent the greater part of his boy- hood days mpon the farm. but worked to a limited extent in his father's shop. He received only such erlucational advantages as the district schools af- forded until the age of eighteen years. when he comuneed the study of medicine in the office of Des. Alvin and D. C. Rathburn. Subsequently he entered Sterling Medical College, of Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated in the class of '16. Having engaged in practice for about two years in Gallia County, Ohio. he came to Jowa and ocated in Charleston, where he practico.l until 1857. when he came to Des Moines. In 1801 he was commissioned by Gov. Kirkwood as surgeon of the expedition conducted by Capts. Mitchell and Tripp against the Indians in the northwestern part of the State, and in August, 1862, he was commis- sioned Assistant Surgeon of the Tenth lowa In- fantry. On the march from Savannah to Goldsbor- ofos his horse foll with him. inflicting a peruadwent infoy. At the latter place they remained for some time. and then went to Raleigh, where the mas of Les surrender reached them. They then mucked on through Richmond to Washington, where they witnessed the great military review. After remain- ing there some time. they were ordered to Loni -. ville. where he was mustered out of the service in June. 1865. He then returned to Des Moines. where he has since made his home.
Da Skimor was a changer moaber ant one of the first offerts of the Polk County Medie. 1 So dieis, and for thirty-even vous has been a mom-
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her of the State Medical Society. In June, 1889, he was appointed a member of the Pension Ex- amining Board. In his political sentiments he was first a Whig. but on the formation of the Repub. livan patty he joined its ranks, and has since been a fina adherent of its principles. He served as a delegate to the convention that nominated Curtis for Congress, and has ever taken an active interest in political affairs. He has also affiliated with sev- exal social orders, especially those which have made temperance work their principal object. belonging both to the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars. He ako holds membership in the An- cient Order of United Workmen and the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he served as De- putment Surgeon of lowa for one term.
On the 21th of April, 1850, near Ft. Madison, lowa, Dr. Skinner was united in marriage with Miss Margaret E. Everhart, a native of Pennsyl- vania, who in childhood came with her parents to the West. By their union have been born seven children, four of whom are now living -- Thomas B. Linn M., Charles W. and lennie. The Doctor is a member of the Baptist Church and his wife of the Presbyterian Church, He has now been en- gaged in the practice of medicine for forty-three your, few having a like teend. Great are the changes in the modes of practice since that time, but he has advanced with the progress of the po- . fession, always maintaining a place in the front Bank of his colleagues.
ON. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, senior mom- Ihr of the law firm of Phillips. Day & and Creeby attorneysat-law. of Des Moines, is (0) a native of Steubenville. Jefferson County. Oh s where his birth created on the 220 of Sep- to fur. 1327. He parents, Thomas and Rehere see my Phillies, were natives of Pennsylvania. the fahrof hish descent and the mother of Welsh Cents.
I'd to Indicate, settling in Der ria, where for a hoe he was engaged in the morante In fe ..
Having a taste for the legal profession. he pursued a course of law study. and after a thorough prep- aration was admitted to practice in the courts of Illinois in 1861. He came to lowa the same year and located his parents upon a section of land in Green County, tear where the town of Jeffer- son is now situated. He laid out the town of let- fer-on. the county seat of that county. In July. 1856, he came to Des Moines, and for nearly thirty - four years has been actively engaged in practice in this city. and has been successful in a remarkalde degree. Shortly after his arrival, he formed a law partnership with the Hon. Curtis Bates, a promi- nent lawyer of Des Moines, which connection con- tinted until 1859, when it was dissolved, and a Inother, James H. Phillips. joined the subject of this sketch in business under the Arm name of Phillips & Phillips. Later. Col. C. 11. Gatch, the present State Senator, was admitted to the firm, which then became Phillips. Gatch & Phillips. In the course of time the Colonel retired and was sue- ceeded by Col. E. J. Goode, the firm continuing business under the style of Phillips Good & Phil- lips for several years, when the partnership was dissolved. In January. 1951. Judge Phillips was joined by Judge J. G. Day. who for many years had been on the Supreme bench, and five years later. in December. 1859. W. B. Crosby was ad- mitted to partnership and the present firm of Phil- Tips. Day & Crosby established.
On the 20th of August. 1877. in Des Moines. Judge Phillip- was united in marriage with Mis- S. Jeni Rutan, a daughter of William Rutin, Esq .. and a piece of Gov. Kirkwood, of Town. The Holy was born near Maastield, Richlan ! Commity, Oilo. By their mi at they became the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters, but on of the daughters is now deceased. Thoma Will- iam, the first-born, is employed in the office of the Hawkeye Insurance Group by: Nettie died when one you off; John Frat resides in Colorado Springs. Colors and Jeme B. is still with for per-
Judge Phillips Es has been a member of the but for this is gone. thirty -four of which have beursper at the city of Des Moines. Dating all the year he has been at the head of the vation
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firm- with which he has been associated. and has built up and maintained an extended practice. In early life be laid the foundation for the substau- tial success that has crowned his efforts by a strict regard for integrity, an carnestress of parques and a determination to make the practice of his profes- sion. in the legitimate channels of the law. the par- amount object of his business career. A conscien- tious, painstaking preparation for all cases in. trusted to him, and their able management in court. has characterized the professional work of Judge Phillips throughout his many years of practice, and lais won for hin: the reputation of an able trial lawyer. while in general practice he takes rank tuong the best in the profession in his adopted State.
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ORENZO F. ANDREWS, Assistant Secre- tary of the State Board of Health, was the first Secretary of that body, and has been connected with it officially since its organization in 1550. The change of position from secretary to assistant occurred at the end of his first year's service, and was the effect of a change in the law governing the qualifications of the secretary, which required that that official should be a physician.
A record of the life of Mr. Andrews, who is one of the well known citizens of Des Moines. is here given. He was born in Athol. Worcester County. Mass., on the 8th of March. 1>29, an lisaron of Collins and Hannah (Twicell) Andrews. The Andrews family of which our subject is a member. is descended from John Andrews, one of the eight - four proprietors of the ancient town of Tum. afterward. I. mington. Com. given them by charter grated December 1. 1015. by the Gov .:- Bor and General Court. The portion of the plan- tation allotted to Mr. Aadress retrie Ving re- sion of his direct descendante until 1 -72.
Collins Andrews, the father of war - riquet i. deserving of more than there mention. as he w. undladt with con idetal h inventive en ut, and a fondues for scientific research Wide Teile of Brandon. Vt. in IEM1. in ... Vier mi! an Electro More, and The follow a year ..
pleted a small circular railway for esbilation pur- peres, on which two persons could be carried. when sitting in a seat. This was, so far as there is any record. the first electric railway in the world. They got their idea from an electro magnet in sh iron works at Crown Point, when it was used extract iron from the ore. The magnet weighed int tour poutals, but would uspend a weight of one hundred and fifty pounds. To give this force. for energy. rotary motion was the problem they had to solve, and they succeeded.
Lorenzo F .. when at the age of sixteen, began learning the prinhe's trale in Barre. Mass, in the office of the Barre Pulpit, where he served an apprenticeship of three years. In 1850. he removed to Kalamazoo. Mich .. where he worked at his chosen occupation for a time, and then estab- lished a paper in Niles of the same State. called the Western From. On the Ath of July. 1852, ha lost his office, presses and printing moterisl by fire. After that disaster he returned to Kelaurizoo, and :Lain worked at his trade in the employ of others until 1861. when he went to Oshkosh, Wis .. where for a year he was engaged as city editor of the Osklock Northwestern. The succeeding year we find him in L. Fayette. Ind., where he remained until 1861, as assistant editor of the Daily Courier. In December. 1861. Mr. Andrews came to De Moines, and has since been employed in journalism continuously, in addition to his officei'd doties con- nected with the lowa Side Board of Health. II. I'm heon en mere. I with the Des Moines city press: firmas night editor of the Day SOM Register. under the adivinatration of Mills & Co. and sa-
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has continued to fill that position for the past twenty-six years. being the oldest employe in that department of the service now connected with the paper. For many years. as correspondent. he also represented the Chicago Feinen. St. Paul Piquer- Press. St. Louis Glol -D norrt, New York Tri- i and several other papers. Of these letter, the New York Tribune is the only one with which he is now connected. In the discharge of his duties as correspondent, Mr. Andrews sent the first "special" over the first wire from Des Moines, and was the first foreign correspon lent from that city.
On the 11th of August, 1861. in Kalamazoo. Mich. Mr. Andrews was united in marriage with Mrs. Sophie M. Crittenden, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ca r) Dolson. The lady was hom in Llmira, N. Y .. on the 27th of April. 1829, and in 1810, entered the Kalamazoo branch of the State I'niversity. now known as the Baptist College. from which she graduated in the class of 1850. That sone year her marriage to Charhs S. Critten- den occurred. Two children were born of the union. a son and a daughter- Charles Willis, who died at the age of live years, and Lillian A., who is now the wife of John W. Bishop, a merchant of Ellendale. N. D. Mrs. Andrews' father, a native of New York city, born June 17. 1752, was descended from Holland Dutch ancestry. The name origin- ally was Van Dolson. and the family was fomeled in America, at New York, when the colony was known as New Amsterdam. Mrs. Andrews mother was born in Bennington. Vi. on the 17th of Au- must. 1731, and was of an old New England family. Our subject and his worthy wife have but one elBild. a son. Frank M., who was born in Des Moins. January 28. 1847.
He attended the city school until twelve ve of age. when he entered Callaway College, ren : il- ng for our year, and then became a student of the 1x - Moines College for abont a yon and a lrdf. Hetion spent Have you's at the Agricolimal Col- .De A Ames, in the civil engin ering course. Hav- " decided to adopt architectme as a profession, . enteret Comoll Universty : Birn. N. Y .. Cảnh which he was gralused with bich hot- in
Hemade a speed study of architecture for
which he had developed unusual talent, and was towarded three diplomas in the line of his art at competitive exhibitions. At the time of his grad- uation he was highly complimented by the Presi- dent of the college on his splendid record. On graduating he entered the office of Architect H. W. Miller of Ithaca, N. Y., where he has demonstrated his ability to originate and execute line work in the line of his chosen profession. Several specimens of his designing were sent by Mr. Miller to the recent exhibition in Paris.
Mrs. Andrews is a woman of rare educational attainments, and takes high rank among the literary women of the city and State. She enjoys the dis- tinction of having been the first lady correspondent to report the proceedings of the Towa Legislature, or to have been accorded a seat on the floor of that body .
In political sentiment, Mr. Andrews is in bar- mony with the Republican party, and has done much good work with his pen in support of the principles of that organization. and in advancing its best interests. His acquaintance with the pro- minent men of the State is extensive, and he has won and retains the confidence and respect of all with whom He has been associated for his candor, carnesthess of purpose and strict nitegrity. As a correspondent be is widely known throughout the United States, and is esteemed for the perfect reli- ability of his statement of facts. and for the evi. dent care and fidelity exhibited in his work. Dul- ing his connection with the State Board of Health. which extends over a period of ten years. he has systematize und perfected the business of his office and is recognized as a faithful and competent offici.l.
OBERT IL RNER. one of the proprietor of the lowa Better World of Des Moines. was Mary in lifeshire, Scotland, November 21. D. Isahand is a son of Robert and Matgalet. ( White) Turnet. both of whom were natives of the Sere coming. Both parents were con istent Chris- time proph, belonging to the old scotch Presto boriti Church, s ki the father wasan extensive brits
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contractor, employing as many as four hundred hands. Their family numbered five cull ing. but the sun and the only daughter died in intimes. The remaining sons came to the United States, but the parents spent their lives in Scotland.
Our subject was the eldest of the five chidien. and at the age of ten years he was forced to leave " hool in order to earn his own living. Soon in- wed to hard labor. his early life was not an easy one. but the hardships he endured, developed alle- termination and self-reliance which have been of great value to him in after life. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to the iron ship build- ing and boiler maker's trade, the contract provid- ing that he should serve five years. receiving $1.25 wr week the first year. and an additional twenty- for cents per week each succeeding year. and fines were provided in case of absence. disobedience, or other reprehensible conduct. Having Ellul his prat of the contract to the entire satisfaction of his employer. he continued to work for a time in Scot- lind, and in 1971, went to England, where he was employel three years in the great ship yard of Palmer. Returning to his native land. he was em- posted in all the principal ship yards of the Clyde. and also spent a short time in Ireland.
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In Burntisland, Scotland. on the 21st of May, ISTb. Mr. Turner married Ann Brownlie, a native of Laberkshire. born July 5, 1856. They began !!! ir domestic life in the country of their nativity. -- bort in JAS]. accompanied by his family and his two Brothers. John and David. Mr. Turner lede Sort by to his old home. and sailed for America. is ating in Des Moines the same yad. Not long :for his arrival in tl' city. he engage Jin the body ; isign with his med. William Tener, and the "son yeur. in connection with a third partner. they . It a host, called the Enterprise" ambi baige to p: the Des Moines River, investing albert ×6,000 the construction of the two. Within a year the. ' senk rend Mr. Turner gold his think interest Notwithstanding he drad lost everything Det hopefully to work again. :: { in J8-2. " a gutter tip with Booth Roser, in the Tenemos giving the the of Le Pek 1 . the ane. Both are espero ont in :
cuts. They began on a small scale, but have worked upa good trade, and tumich employment to right men.
In political sentiment. Mr. Turner is indepen- dent. voting in the candidate when he thinks will let till the offer. ise is a member of the Masonic fraternity. of the Scotch Club, and of the Presby- trang Church, to which his wife : Lo belongs. This worthy couple are the parents of seven children. of whom three were born in Sentiand: Robert. Margaret. and William, left the youngest died in infancy. ere the family emne to this country. The remaining: four. John. David. Ann. and James. were hạt in Des Moines.
Mr. Turner has reason to congratulate him off Upon the financial advancement he has made. though the sinking of the "Enterprise" and the burning of his residence have been heavy drawbacks. He is a espable business man, and In the exercise of industry enterprise, and good rangement, has won a place at the head of one of the leading in- dustries of the capital city .
E DWARD RANDALL M .. SON. clerk of the United States circuit court, deputy clerk of the United States district court and Pre- ident of the Des Moines Cotton Mall Company. oneed the representative business men of the cup- ital city. He was born on the 15th of December. 1:46. in Franklinville, Cotteraugus County. .. Y .. and is the eleventh child in a family of fourben, where parents are logi- James and Nancy (With. low) Moon. His father was born in Oxford. Chenango County. N. Y .. in March. 1809, and i- descended from old Ser England Family of Jaglista migin. Mi- mutter was kom in No. Per- tim. N. Y. in that are. you saved was a final descent of Gov. Huward Wiring of at .: www.uts. a pro- iment Puritan legter of the Vigtig band that Forlod at Plymouth Kock won the Front -3g-
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they caniggiated to Van Burca County. bisca. locat ing in Benton-port. 'The father was a wagon man- nfacturer and cabinet reaker in the Last but after hisarrival in lowa engaged in merelendising and hotel keeping. He died of cholera in September, 18GT. his wife surviving him until May. 1877. . Sevend members of the is large family have attained to positions of prominence in the various com- munities in which they have reskled William E .. a lawyer, by profession, is at present a member of Congress from the Third District of Hin ds. Edoar. another son. raised a company of Burktails for the late war and was brigade sutler in the Army of the Cumberland.
The subject of this sketch acquired such educa- tion as the common schools affonde ! and when fifteen years of age went to Kookt k. where he was employed as clerk in the drug store of F. 11. O'Con- ner until the President's call for one hundred day men made in May, 1811, He then enlisted in the Forty-fifth lowa Infantry and served the term of his enlistment. He was but seventeen years of of age at the time and his father, who had con- sented to his going for one hundred dos. refused his sanction to a re enli-tinent. After his return from the army young Moon was employed as sales- man in a general store at Beatongjort for three year-, after which he pursued the staly of med- ieine at that place and at Keokuk until 1-69, when he came to Des Moines. His first engagement in this city was a- a salesman in the grocery house of Gos Smith, where he continued undil 1 .70.
On the 21st day of May of that year. in this city. Mi. Mason married Mi-s Alice Lo be, daughter of a Sine'a Losje, sal a native of Eh.ira. N. Y. Im- modales after his muringe he started with his young Kalde for Mis queri. bud returned the follow- ing and .. and was soon after war kap winter deputy clark of the United States first court under Grunge B. Corkhill, straight da nety as the the center of the assasin of President Corliels. Mr (orhill reigning in The als, 1875. Mr. Mason was appointed to fill the visning and has Che bien position. for iificou jejts ad vil! con- H. . . pentel depoly dork of thedishet comp.
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