Walter W. Lynch is of the firm of W.W. Lynch & Co., upholsters and repairers of all kinds of furniture, manufacturers of the self-adjusting spring bed, and agents for the American bird call, for which articles agents are wanted. The firms are also agents for a number of periodicals. Mr. Lynch was born in N.Y. […]
R.C. Barnard, station agent and telegraph operator, was born in the District of Columbia in 1829; removed to Neb. in 1857. He platted the town site of Grand Island; removed to Omaha in 1863, where he was city engineer for several years; in 1868 removed to Council Bluffs, and engaged in the dry goods business,
Geo. W. Oberholtzer, civil engineer and county surveyor, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1847; graduated at the Pennsylvania Polytechnic college in 1871; came to this city in 1872. The following year he was elected to his present office, and has been reelected each successive year. He has been township trustee one term, and
Lyman Nelson Bedford, D. D. S., a leading dentist of Southern California, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1851. He began the study of dentistry with his eldest brother, Dr. E. Bedford, in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1876, was graduated at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1885. He practiced in Sioux City
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For the past seventeen years a resident of Topeka, Mr. Bronson has been a considerable factor in the material prosperity of the state, particularly in connection with the agricultural interests. As resident agent for a firm of foreign capitalists, he has been instrumental during his time in handling and distributing over $25,000,000 cash to the
Geo. W. Wakefield, attorney at law, was born in DeWitt County, Ill., in 1839. He enlisted in Co. F., 41st Ill. Vol., and served three years; was wounded at Jackson, Miss., and returned to Ill. He was admitted to the bar in De Witt County in 1867; came to Sioux City in 1868, and was
dealer in dry goods and notions, came to this city from Galena, Ill., in 1867, and in April, 1879, established the above business, and have one of the best stores of the kind in the city. T.S. Martin was in the wholesale grocery business in the Black Hills from 1877 to 1879.
John Tucker, proprietor of the Globe meat market, Peirce Street, Hubbard house block, established business in 1867. In 1881 he refitted his place of business at a cost of $2,000, and has now all the modern improvements, his establishment being a credit to the city. He was born in England in 1838; came to America
H. A. Lyon, dealer in breech and muzzle loading guns, and all kinds of sporting goods and hunter’s supplies. His machine shop is equipped with all kinds of machinery for repairing guns, and machinery of any kind. He also makes a specialty of safe work, such as opening safes whose locks have become unmanageable. In
B. Kuhlman, proprietor of the Madison Hotel-between Pearl and Water Sts.-was born in Germany in 1829; came to America in 1859, settled in Chicago, and engaged in the grocery business. In 1876 he removed to this city, and took charge of the Merchants’ Hotel. He married Barbara Masath, of Germany. Mr. K. was in the
Rev. D.R. Watson was born in Scotland in 1841; came to America in 1852; received his early education at White Star seminary, N.Y. He graduated in the nine years’ course at Madison University in 1868, and at Rochester Theological Seminary in 1871, with the title of A.M. His first pastoral charge was at Lowville, N.Y.
Rudolph Selzer, brewer, was born in Germany in 1828; came to America in 1853, and settled in Omaha, Neb., where he built a brewery; removed to this city in 1860, and built the first brewery in Woodbury County. He was married in 1853 to Theresa Wasser, and has five children-Charles, Emma, Otto, Lewis and Fritz.
R.A. Broadbent, proprietor of livery stable, on Douglas street, between 4th and 5th streets; established business in 1869. He was born in Ill., in 1844. He moved to Fayette County, Iowa, and came to Sioux City in 1868. He served in the late war two years in Co. F., 9th I.I., under Captain Guinn.
Huntington, Oregon Barbara Raney, 69, a longtime Huntington and Baker City resident, died Jan. 11, 2004, in Baker City. There will be no funeral. Barbara Jean was born on Feb. 3, 1934, to Roy Grant and Helen Koolukosky Phillips at Sioux City, Iowa. She was raised in Iowa and graduated from Sioux City High School.
H.B. Clinton, of the firm of H.B. & C.E. Clignan, physicians and surgeons, was born in O., in 1822; is a graduate of the Cleveland Medical College. He practiced in O.; from 1848 to 1855; then moved to Benton Co., Iowa, and practiced there until 1877, when he came to Sioux City and opened his
Hon. Edward Alexander Enright. Distinguished as a statesman as well as for his achievements at the bar, Edward Alexander Enright is an honored, valued and admired citizen of Kansas City. For almost a quarter of a century he has been a prominent factor in the law and in public affairs, and his name stands foremost
L. B. Atwood, liveryman, established business in 1866; was born in Livermore, Maine; came west and settled in Sioux Falls, Dakota, in 1858; and the same year came to Sioux City, which makes him one of the pioneers of this place. He has been a member of the city council, and held other minor offices.
Geo. W. Beggs, M.D., is the son of the Rev. S.R. Beggs, the author of “Early Methodism in the West.” He was born in Ill., in 1837, graduated from Evanston College in the literary department, and received the degree of A.M., and from the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1862, where he received the degree
Rev. Ira N. Pardee was born in Kingston, N.Y., in 1840; received his education at Armenia Seminary. He united with the church in 1857; his first pastoral charge was at Great Barrington, Mass., where he remained the full term; in 1861 he was transferred to the Wyoming conference, and was two years on the Ararat
E.W. Loft, of the firm of Corry & Loft, architects, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1855, and came to Sioux City in 1881. G.W. Lower, former proprietor of Depot Hotel, was born in Onandaigua County, N.Y., in 1826; removed to Walworth County, Wis., in 1845; thence to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and to this city
