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CHARLES F. SCHMIDT, retired, Fifth avenue ; was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1816; he came to America in 1845, and lived in Blair Co., Penn., for some years ; was engaged in the nursery and butcher business; while living here, he married Miss Anna Catharine Weller, March 1, 1849; she was born in Prussia, Ger- many, and came to America in 1836, when only 9 years of age; they came to Clinton Jan. 15, 1865, and have lived here since ; they attend the Lutheran Church ; they had very little when they began, and their success in life is owing entirely to their own good management.
L. H. SEEBER, proprietor of Fifth Avenue Shaving Parlor ; is a native of Milwaukee, Wis., and was born June 21, 1852; he came to Clinton May 21, 1870 ; he worked for W. H. Hess for two and a half years, and then went into partnership with him, and afterward bought out the interest of Mr. Hess, and since then he has carried on the business alone ; he has built up a good business, and does the leading trade. He married Miss Caroline Neesley, a native of Lisbon, Linn Co., Iowa, July 23, 1872; they have one son-Artemus Lewis, born Dee. 6, 1876.
SIMON SHOECRAFT, wholesale and retail dealer in coal, salt, cement and building material. corner First street and Fifth avenue ; is a native of Oneida, Mad- ison Co., N. Y., and was born Sept. 22, 1836; he attended school there; he lived in York State until 1858, when he came to Iowa and located in Clinton Co., and engaged in teaching for one year, at De Witt; the following year, he entered Cornell College and remained there three years, and graduated in 1862 ; he came to Clinton and had charge of the public school here ; at that time the only schoolhouse was the little brown building adjoining the Presbyterian Church, with only three teachers -- Miss Earhart, Miss Rogers and Miss Berry. Mr. Shoecraft afterward taught in De. Witt and Lyons ; in 1866, he engaged in business in Clinton, and has continued since then ; in August, 1865, he married Miss J. McIntosh, a native of Vernon, N. Y .; they have two chil- dren, one son and one daughter-Louie, 10 years of age, and Lettic, 3 years of age.
A. SIDDLE, Secretary of the Clinton Paper Company ; is a native of York- shire, Eng., and was born Feb. 23, 1818; he came to this country when a small boy, and was brought up in Dutchess Co., N. Y .; he came to Iowa in the fall of 1858 : he located in Clinton Co. and engaged in farming for seven years, until the spring of 1866, when he removed to the city, and has been connected with the Clinton Paper Company since its organization in 1868. He married Mrs. Sarah Potter, daughter of Valentine Santee ; they have three children, and Mr. Siddle also has three children by a former wife.
LEANDER SISCO, engineer of passenger train on the C. & N. W. R. R., residence corner Tenth avenue and Fifth street ; is a native of Baldwinsville, Onondaga Co., N. Y., and was born Feb. 27, 1836; he was brought up there and, after reaching manhood, came to Iowa in April, 1857, and entered the employ of the Railroad Com- pany ; at that time, the road was only completed as far west as Wheatland ; he is one of the oldest employes on the road-over twenty-two years ; he runs a passenger train from Clinton to Cedar Rapids ; he is a member of the Locomotive Brotherhood of Engineers, the Knights of Pythias, and the Order of United Workmen. He married
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Miss Mary Ann Cook, a native of Pennsylvania; they have one son-William Cook Sisco, and have lost one son-Frank.
NELS A. SKONBERG, foreman of Angel & Stone's lime kilns; is a native of Sweden, and was born in 1849; he emigrated to America in 1872, and came to Clinton the same year, and has been in the employ of this firm since then ; he has been foreman for three years. He married Ida Anderson, a native of Sweden, Aug. 26; 1878.
WM. SKINNER, proprietor of Northwestern Fur Manufacturing Company, Fourth street and Eighth avenue, Clinton, and Main street, Lyons ; is a native of Ports- mouth, Eng., and was born March 25, 1805 ; he was brought up mostly in London, and learned there the business of furrier ; in 1850, he emigrated to America ; on board of the ship, he met a party coming to this county, and he gave them money to pur- chase land for him here ; he remained in New York, working at his business, for five years. He married Belinda Alexander, a native of England, in 1856; the following year, he came to Chicago; was there one year, then came to this county and settled on his farm ; in 1866, he was importuned to open the furrier business in Lyons, and since then he has been engaged in it, and has built up a large trade ; he has earned an excel- lent reputation for the superior manufacture of his goods, and has shipped them as far west as Oregon ; he buys and selects all of his skins personally, and has them dressed as he directs ; when Mr. Skinner began life, he had nothing ; he now owns the store he occupies, corner Fourth street and Eighth avenue, and owns the Midland Hotel, at Maquoketa, besides his farm in this county, and other property ; he has one daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Gay, of Lyons, and one adopted son, Daniel, who has charge of the store in Clinton.
A. H. SMITH, M. D., physician and surgeon, Third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues ; is a native of Rockford, Ill., where he was brought up and attended school ; he completed his collegiate education at Beloit College, and studied medicine and graduated at the Chicago Medical College; in 1872, after graduating, he spent one year in Mercy Hospital, and, in the spring of 1873, he came to Iowa and located in Clinton, and associated with Dr. McCormick, and, since then, has practiced his profes- sion here.
CHARLES A. SMITH, attorney at law, of the firm of Smith & Bauder, Toll Block ; is a native of Clinton Co., and was born in Center Township, Sept. 5, 1852; he attended school here, completing his education at the State Agricultural Col- lege, graduating in 1872; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1874, and since then he has practiced here ; he was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Reve- nue in 1874. He married Miss Emma A. Painter, a native of Lycoming Co., Penn. ; they have one son-Latimer P., 2 years of age.
GEO. C. SMITH, Treasurer of the Clinton Paper Co .; is a native of England, and was born March 5, 1831 ; grew up to manhood there, and came to this country in 1851, and lived in Chicago six years; he came to Clinton in 1858, and engaged in running an engine; he entered the employ of the Clinton Lumber Co., and was connected with that company for a number of years ; he has been connected with the Clinton Paper Mill since its organization, and is Treasurer of the company, and has charge of the manufacturing department. Mr. Smith married Miss Celia Hosford, daughter of A. P. Hosford, Esq., in September, 1861 ; she died in July, 1863. He married Miss Sarah Carll, from Waterloo, Iowa, in January, 1866; they have six chil- dren-Herbert, Georgiana, Artie, Verner, Lulu M. and Willie.
JOHN SMITH, foreman of the roundhouse; residence, Fourth avenue; is a native of Middlebury, Addison Co., Vt., and was born July 5, 1830; he was raised there, and went in a machine-shop to learn the trade of machinist when only 15 years of age ; he went to New York State and lived five years; in October, 1854, he came West to Illinois, and ran on the Fox River Valley Railroad, and, in December, 1856, he came here and entered the employ of the old Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad ; he run on the road until 1868, when he was appointed foreman of the roundhouse, and since then has occupied that position ; he has been connected with this line of road over twenty-two years. In 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Totman, from
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Keysville, Essex Co., N. Y .; they have three children-Laura E., Ira Herbert and Charles Edwin.
COL. MILO SMITH, dealer in agricultural machinery, corner of Front street and Fifth avenue; is a native of Shoreham, Addison Co., Vt., and was born Jan. 25, 1819 ; his early education was received in the public schools, supplemented by a thorough and liberal course in the Newton Academy, a scientific and literary institution in his native town ; at the age of 20 years, he left home, and came West, and reached Chicago in 1840 ; he devoted a few years to teaching and surveying lands, and subse- quently settled in Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill .; in 1848, when the first railroad enterprise was originated west of Chicago, he assisted as Civil Engineer in the construction of the first 100 miles of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad; in 1852, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Elgin & State Line Railroad; in 1855, he came to Iowa, and was made Chief Engineer and Superintendent of the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Rail- road ; in this position, his ability as a financier and his skill as an engineer were severely taxed ; he carried the road through the panic of 1857, and continued to superintend the operation of the road after its completion to Cedar Rapids until leased to the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, in 1862. After the breaking-out of the war, Gov. Kirkwood, without his knowledge or solicitation, commissioned him Colonel of the 26th I. V. I .; his regiment formed a part of the 1st Division of the 15th Army Corps, and continued in service until the close of the war; during eighteen months, he was in command of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of that Corps; although justly entitled to promo- tion, he declined it, and preferred to remain in command of his regiment; he received three wounds while in the service. Since his return from the service, he has been engaged in various railroad enterprises. In politics, he is a Republican, but not strictly a partisan ; he has invariably deelined public office. Col. Smith has been married three times ; is now living with his third wife; he has no children living.
GEORGE SPENCER, dealer in hardware, stoves and tinware, Fifth ave- nue ; is a native of Wayne Co., N. Y .; after reaching manhood, he was engaged in business in the city of New York for some years ; he came to Iowa and located in Clin- ton in December, 1866, and engaged in the hardware business-firm of Spencer & Paddock ; the following year, Mr. Spencer bought out his partner's interest and has continued the business ; he has been engaged in the hardware business longer than any one in Clinton, and is having a large trade.
CHARLES SPORMANN, saloon, tobacco and cigars, corner Second street and Fifth avenue; was born in Germany, in 1839; he emigrated to America in 1861 ; he lived in Illinois, in Carroll and Whiteside Cos., until he came to Clinton, in 1864 ; he has carried on his present business since 1868. He married Johanna Boden- sheen, from Germany, July 4, 1863 ; they have nine children, and have lost two.
W. W. STEVENS, attorney at law, Second street, over First National Bank ; is a native of Methuen, Essex Co., Mass; born Feb. 14, 1841; when 12 years of age, he removed to Belknap Co., N. H., where he received his education ; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in that county, in 1861; after the breaking-out of the war, he enlisted in Co. I, 12th N. H. V. I., and was commissioned Lieutenant of Co. I; he was in the service over a year, when he resigned his commission on account of ill health ; after leaving the army, he was located in the city of New York ; was admit- ted to the bar, and remained there fifteen months, and then went South to Atlanta, Ga., with the intention of forming a partnership in the practice of law with the late Col. R. A. Alston ; in the spring of 1866, Mr. Stevens came to Iowa and located in Clinton, and since then he has practiced his profession here. Mr. Stevens married Miss Caroline R. Cornell, a native of New Hampshire, and daughter of Capt. Cornell, of the United States Navy ; Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have two children, one son and one daughter-George C. and Mary Alice.
DAVID W. SWITZER, foreman of C. Lamb & Sons' Stone Mill ; was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Nov. 30, 1833; he was brought up and lived there until he came to Iowa, in the fall of 1857. and located in Clinton ; he entered the employ of Mr. Lamb, and has been with him ever since he came, and is one of the oldest employes in the mills here ; he has held the position of foreman for eight years. He married
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Miss Maria L. Chandler, a native of Massachusetts, in July, 1869 ; they have two chil- dren-Edith Eliza and Scott H.
THE CLINTON NATIONAL BANK, corner of Second street and Fifth avenue.
C. S. TAYLOR, jeweler, Fifth avenue ; proprietor of the oldest jeweiry house in Clinton ; he is a native of Vermont, but was brought up in Canada, and learned the jewelry business there ; he came to Iowa and located here in the spring of 1863, and engaged in his present business on Front street; there are only two other merchants in business now who were here when he came; Mr. Taylor has held the office of Mayor for three terms-a longer time than any other person elected to this office ; has also held the office of Town Trustee for a number of years, and is actively identified with the interests of the city and county. He married Miss Harriet Smith, a native of Canada ; they have six children.
JOHN TAYLOR, foreman of machinists in the large lower mill of W. J. Young & Co .; is a native of Albany Co., N. Y., and was born Nov. 18, 1832; he was brought up there until 18 years of age; he learned his trade in Worcester, Mass., and came West to Moline in 1855 ; he came to Iowa in 1859, and came to Clinton in 1862, and entered the employ of W. J. Young & Co., and, with the exception of two years, he has been connected with his mills since then ; he has had charge of the machine- shops since 1867. He married Miss Emma E. Alverson, a native of Whitewater, Mich., in 1867 ; they have three children-Charles J., Herbert Roy, Fred Bernard.
WM. TAYLOR, foreman of W. J. Young & Co.'s upper saw-mill ; is a native of Albany Co., N. Y .; born March 23, 1835 ; he learned the trade of machinist ; came to Illinois in 1856; when the war broke out, he enlisted in the first call ; three months' service in Co. H, 6th Ind. V. I., and afterward enlisted in the 2d Ind. Bat. ; he was in the service three years, and was in sixteen battles ; he came to Clinton in 1865, and entered the employ of W. J. Young as engineer, and has been with him fourteen years, and for four years has been foreman of this mill. He married Miss Alice V. Soper, a native of Rome, N. Y., in 1867 ; they have four children-William, Susie, Eva, Belle.
E. H. THAYER, publisher of the Clinton Age ; is a native of Windham, Cumberland Co., Me .; he attended school until 18 years of age; then came to Cleve- land, Ohio, where he read law and was admitted to the bar in all the courts of the State; he came to Iowa in 1853, located at Muscatine, and practiced law for three years ; was elected County Judge, and served two terms ; he established the Muscatine Daily Courier, and conducted that paper for six years; in April, 1868, he came to Clarence, Cedar Co., and established the Age; after being there only two months, the citizens of Clinton held out superior inducements, and he removed to this city, where he has conducted this journal since. Judge Thayer married Miss Delia E. Payne, a native of Essex Co., N. Y. ; they have three children-Nellie, Maude and May.
MAJOR CHARLES H. TOLL, Postmaster ; residence, corner Third street and Eighth avenue ; is a native of Van Buren, Onondaga Co., N. Y .; born April 18, 1817. In 1840, he married Miss Eliza H. Lusk, daughter of Richard Lusk, of Lysander, N. Y. ; in 1853, Major Toll came to Chicago, remained a short time, and the following year came to Iowa, and located at Lyons ; soon after coming here, he was made Assistant Treasurer of the Iowa Land Company, and assisted in superintending the building of the railroad from the Mississippi River to Council Bluffs; in 1855. he was elected Mayor of Lyons; he afterward resigned the office of Mayor, and located in Clinton, where his business interests called him ; during his connection with the Rail- road Company, he was elected Assistant Treasurer of the Iowa Land Company; in 1859, he was elected Sheriff of Clinton Co., and served two years; in 1862, he was appointed United States Commissary for a Division of the Union army; during his term of service, he was assigned to duty in various departments, and in every position he increased the efficiency of the department in which he was called to serve ; his duties were extremely trying and arduous, and his responsibilities very great. As a Commis- sary, he was one of the most efficient in the Union army ; he served until the close of the war ; was relieved in January, 1866, and returned home; in December, 1875, he
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was appointed Postmaster of Clinton, and still holds that office; he has also held vari- ous town offices, and, has been actively identified in the improvement of the city and county. While living in Onondaga Co., N. Y., he was Supervisor of the town of Lysan- der, and, in 1856, he was elected Representative to the State Legislature. He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows; united with that fraternity in 1846. He is a con- sistent member of the Baptist Church, uniting with that denomination in 1839. Is a Republican, but an independent thinker. Major Toll and wife have five children, two sons-Spencer L. ( Postal Clerk on the C. & N. W. R. R. from Chicago to Cedar Rap- ids) ; Charles H., Jr. (attending school at Mt. Vernon) ; three daughters-Mary Lou- ise, Sarah E. (at home) ; Martha M. (now Mrs. George W. Lainhart, of New York City).
D. R. TOLL, livery, sale and boarding stable, Fifth avenue; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Nov. 22, 1826 ; after reaching manhood, in April, 1850, he went to California and engaged in mining there four and one-half years ; he returned in 1854; came to Iowa, and arrived at Lyons Jan. 12, 1855; in . the following November, he engaged in the livery business ; there is no one in the county now who was in the liv- ery business when he came ; there are only a very few men engaged in business in this county who were here when he came. Mr. Toll married Miss S. M. Graham, a native of Utica, N. Y., in June, 1859; they have six children-Charles F., Fannie E., Frank P., Grace E., Rensselaer H. and Walter G.
P. S. TOWLE, dealer in dry goods, corner Second street and Fifth avenue ; is a native of Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y. ; he was brought up there ; upon the breaking- out of the war, he was commissioned Assistant Paymaster in the U. S. Navy, and served for three years; after the close of the war, he came to Iowa, and located in Clinton in 1866, and engaged in mercantile business on Front street ; he has built up a large and extensive trade, the largest exclusively dry goods trade in this city. Mr. Towle has been prominently connected with the "Ancient Order of United Workmen," and has been Grand Master of the State, and has been Supreme Lodge Representative for three years. In 1867, Mr. Towle married Miss Mary Brother, a native of Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y., daughter of Henry Brother ; they have three children-Henry Stewart, born April 13, 1871; Charles Brother, Sept. 10, 1875; Stewart Warren, Jan. 29, 1877.
CALVIN UPTON, stone-mason ; was born in Reading, Mass., June 15, 1828, and learned his trade in that State; he came to Iowa, and located in Davenport in 1855 ; came to Clinton in June, 1857. and engaged in his present business in 1859 ; he engaged in manufacturing brick, and carried it on until 1870 ; he was engaged in con- tracting and building for the C. &, N. W. R. R. from Clinton to Council Bluffs for some years. He married Miss Maria A. Rennard, of Salem, Mass., Jan. 30, 1853; they have five children-Charles E., George, Aldebronto, Henry E. and Charlotte ; have lost two children.
LARKIN UPTON, Mayor of Clinton ; is a native of North Reading, Mid- dlesex Co., Mass., and was born Feb. 4, 1832; in that State he learned the trade of stone mason ; after reaching manhood, he emigrated to Iowa, and came to Clinton in 1855 ; remained a short time, then lived in Davenport and in Durant, Cedar Co., until the fall of 1858, when he located in Clinton and engaged in building ; he has erected some of the best buildings in the city ; he has also done considerable contracting and building for the C. & N. W. R. R. here and on the line of the road at Boone and Dun- lap ; he has held the office of City Alderman, and was elected Mayor of the city in March, 1878; re-elected in March, 1879.
E. A. WADLEIGH, freight and ticket agent of the Chicago & North-West- ern Railroad ; is a native of Sutton, Merrimac Co., N. H .; he was brought up and received his education there ; he came to Iowa, and located at Clinton in November, 1856; the following spring, April 14, 1857, he entered the employ of the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad, and was appointed agent at Clinton, April 14, 1857; the day previous, April 13, the first train for business ran out of Clinton; he remained with that company until it was leased to and became a part of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad, and has occupied his present position over twenty-two years, a longer time than any other official connected with the road here. Mr. Wadleigh is one of the early
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settlers of Clinton, coming here the year after Clinton was laid out. He has served as a member of the School Board for twelve years. He married Miss Emeline Emmons, of the State of Vermont; they have one son-Frank A.
W. D. WALDEN, Superintendent of Buildings and Bridges of the Iowa Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railway ; is a native of Hampshire, England, and was born in 1825 ; he was brought up there, and studied architecture; in 1850, he came to America, and lived in Brooklyn, N. Y., for five years, and was engaged in building ; he came to Iowa in October, 1855, and entered the employ of the Iowa Land Company ; he was the architect and builder of the Iowa Central House. On the 11th of February, 1856, he sold three lots to Francis Lee, and it was the first sale of lots in Clinton that was made second hand, or after purchased were resold again. Mr. Walden has held the position of Superintendent of Buildings and Bridges since 1865 ; he had charge of the construction of the Mississippi River Bridge. He was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ann Bennett, a native of England, in 1852; they have eleven chil- dren, and attend the Episcopal Church.
EDWARD WARE, with C. Lamb & Son; is a native of England, and was born June 13, 1830 ; he came to America in 1842, and was brought up in York State ; he came to Fulton in 1854, and came to Clinton Co. in 1855 ; he was engineer of the first saw-mill in Clinton ; when the war broke out, he enlisted, in June, 1861, in the 1st I. V. C., Co. M ; he remained in the service until March, 1866; he was pro- moted to hold commission of Second Lieutenant when the war closed ; since then, he has been engaged in steamboating and in the lumber-yard of C. Lamb & Sons. He married Miss Augusta Lamb, daughter of C. Lamb, Esq., in 1859; they have six chil- dren-Fred, Jennie, Willie, Lettie, Eddie, Artemus.
JOHN WEBBER, dealer in ready-made clothing and gents' furnishing goods, Second street ; was born in Germany Jan. 14, 1826 ; after reaching manhood, he emigrated to America in 1850 ; he lived in New York and Iowa until 1861, then came to Iowa; the following year, he came to Clinton Co .; he has been engaged in business here for the past fourteen years; he carries a large stock of clothing, and has built up a good trade. He married Miss Christina Stetter, a native of Germany, Feb. 11, 1853 ; they have two children-Mary and Bertha ; they have lost one son.
MARTIN WHITE, foreman in charge of loading cars at W. J. Young & Co.'s mills; is a native of Ireland, and was born Dec. 15, 1829; he emigrated to America in 1853; he came to Iowa and located in Clinton, in 1857; there was very little here when he came; he has been connected with the mills, in the employ of Mr. Young, for a long time, and has lived here twenty-two years; he holds the office of City Alderman, and is serving his fourth year; he is President of the Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Society, and has been officially connected with the Society for five years. He married Miss Judith Reddan, a native of Ireland, in 1852 ; they have eight children ; he and his family attend the Catholic Church.
BEN. C. WILKINS, Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co .; was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wis., Oct. 19, 1849 ; he was brought up and received his education there ; he came to Clinton in 1870, and entered the employ of the West- ern Union Telegraph Co., and has been connected with the company since then, and has held the position of Manager of the office here for the past four years. On Oct. 27, 1877, he was united in marriage to Miss Bessie F. Fegan, daughter of Capt. J. D. Fegan, of Clinton.
J. WILKINS, proprietor of the Extract of Eucalyptus, corner of Sixth avenue and Second street, Clinton ; is a native of Rochester, N. Y., and was born in 1815 ; he was brought up and lived in that State until 1836, when he emigrated to Green Bay, Wis .; at that early day, Gen. Winfield Scott was in command of the fort there ; Mr. Wilkins lived there and in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac thirty-five years ; he had charge of the Menominee Indians when the old chief, Oshkosh, dicd ; Mr. Wilkins came to Clinton in 1871 ; he went to California in 1875; and while there he made his great discovery of the " Eucalyptus," which contains the healing properties of the Aus- tralian gum tree ; the method of its discovery and the merits of the extract are now well known east and west, and is rapidly growing into favor, and he has a large demand for
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