Iowa to quite an extent, they decided to locate in Clinton, and on the 20th of June, 1866, they commenced active business in a retail grocery store under the firm name of Hemmingway & Curtis. On December 10, 1866, they sold out their grocery business and bought of Claussen & Thornburg their two-thirds interest in the firm of Claussen, Thornburg & Smith, a small planing mill and sash and door factory, and commenced the manufacture of sash and doors under the firm name of Smith, Hemmingway & Curtis. In the early part of the 1867 Mr. Curtis' brother, George M. Curtis, bought Mr. Smith's one-third interest in the business, and, soon after, the two brothers bought Mr. Hemmingway's interest and sold it to J. E. Carpenter. At this time the firm name was changed to Curtis Bros. & Co., and in 1881 they incorporated under the same name, admitting to the firm a third brother, Cornelius S. Curtis, Fowler P. Stone and George W. Allen, and established a branch factory at Wausau, Wisconsin, with J. E. Carpenter as president, C. F. Curtis as vice-president, G. M. Curtis, secretary and treasurer, and C. S. Curtis, manager of the Wausau factory. Since then they have established and are still maintaining branch sale houses at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lincoln, Nebraska; Sioux City, Iowa, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the time Mr. Curtis first started in the sash and door business, the firm had three paid employes. They have steadily increased from that time till the present, when they have eight hundred employes in their factories and several branches. They have increased their capacity from about ten doors and twenty-five windows, to 1,000 doors and 1,500 windows per day, besides manufacturing other material which goes to make up the interior and exterior finish of a building. They have found sale for their product in nearly every state and territory in the Union and have marketed some in England. Mr. Curtis was married on October 1, 1873. to Nancy A. Hosford. Four children. have been born to them, Mabel, Lucy, Edith and Florence. The two youngest daughters are twins. Mabel died at the age of eleven years. The family are regular attendants upon the First Presbyterian church of Clinton. Mr. Curtis is a member of a social and a business club, a thirty-second degree Mason, and a stockholder and director in several financial and mercantile institutions. CAMPBELL, REMER CAIN, a prominent attorney of Hamburg, was born in Martinsville, New Jersey, November 8, 1860. His father, David Campbell, a Scotchman, is a farmer in good circumstances. His mother, whose maiden name was Margaret A. Cain, was of English and Irish extraction. Mr. Campbell, until he was 18 years of age, was a pupil in the public schools, when he took a course of English and Latin. He began the study of law in 1881, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey four years later. In July, 1885, he came to Iowa, locating at Hamburg, after admission to the Iowa bar, he entered upon the practice of law. In politics he is a Republican and has been honored by his party with the office of county attorney, which he hold from 1893 to 1895. He was also city attorney of Hamburg and was once a member of the board of education. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Inde pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order. He is a member of the Baptist church. He was married November 28, 1888, to Mary D. Chandler. They have two children: Remer Chandler Campbell, born September 20, 1889, and Helen Margaret Campbell, born June 14, 1891. Mr. Campbell is one of the influential and promising men of his county and bids fair to become a prominent factor in the building up of his portion of the state. CLARK, DR. HENRY H., is one of the best known and loved physicians of McGregor. A man in his prime, with the experience that civil and military life, as well as many years of successful medical practice, have given him, he has promise of a good period of usefulness yet before him, as he comes of stock, both on his father's and mother's side, noted for longevity. His mother, Ellen Wolf, is still living, in good health, at 79 years of age, and his father, John K. Clark, a prosperous farmer, had reached that advaanced age before his death, while several others of his immediate ancestors lived to be 80 years old. Dr. Clark was born October 12, 1842, in Center county, Pennsylvania. Brought up on a farm, he was taught to lend his assistance in many ways where a pair of boyish hands may help. He remembers, happily, earning his first dollar by carrying water for the harvesters in a Pennsvlvania harvest field. His early education commenced in the common schools, following which he spent some time at the Rock River Seminary, and his medical studies were taken at Northwestern University and Chicago Medical College. He graduated from the latter school with the class of 1870. His education, with that of so many other young men, was interrupted by the war. August 9, 1862, he entered the army as a member of Company G, Ninety-second regiment Illinois Mounted Infantry, and saw active service for three years. The Ninetysecond regiment was a part of the famous Wilder's brigade, until after the battle of Chickamauga. The rest of the time in the army he served under General Kilpatrick. At the close of the war he found himself, physically and mentally, in about the same position as when he left school to enter the army, so he took up his school work where he had left it, and after five years' hard study found himself prepared for his profession, but with shattered health. In the hope of regaining his strength he came to McGregor after his graduation and commenced the practice of medicine there, since which time he has been closely identified with the medical interests of that part of the state, and, indeed, his reputation has not been confined to northern Iowa, but is state wide. He was for thirteen years a member of the state board of health, and was for one year its president, as well as a member of the state board of medical examiners for four years. The other medical associations with which he has been connected are: the Austin Flint, and North Iowa Societies, American Public Health Asosciation, etc., and for twenty years he has been surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. October II, 1871, saw him united in marriage with Judith Baugh. Six happy, healthy children have blessed this union, Alice May, Florence Lillian, Harry Harold, Maude Geneva, William Clarence, and Ethel Baugh. In religion, Dr. Clark is a Congregationalist; in politics, a Republicar, first, last and all the time. He has been for ten years the commander of Harvey Dix Post, G. A. R., which shows the esteem in which he is held by his comrades, and when we add that he is possessed of the entire respect of his colleagues in the medical fraternity, we have said the best that can be said of any physician. COE, JOSIAH, of Woodbine, Harrison county, is a pioneer of western Iowa, coming to that section of the state during the month of April, 1854. He, in company with a young man by the name of Cyrus Whitmore, followed the old Mormon trail from Keokuk to Council Bluffs, and was twelve days on the road. The first summer after his arrival at this place he worked on a farm in Boyer township, for a Mr. Phillips, and in the fall of 1854 he went to Crawford county, where he bought a claim, land not having yet come into the market; but the following year, with a party of twelve persons, he went to Council Bluffs land office to enter his land at the government price of $1.25 per acre; the party got together and gave the speculators to under stand that if they wanted to be baptized beneath the clay colored waters of the Missouri river, to just overbid them on these lands, which they never did. Mr. Coe never lived on that tract of land, but traded it in 1856 for a sixty acre farm in Boyer township, at what is known as Twelve-Mile Grove. This farm was taken in exchange for two hundred acres in Crawford county. In 1856 he pre-empted a quarter section of land, where he now lives, and by breaking the prairie and laying a foundation for a house, which was then called bona fide improvements, he was enabled to hold his claim one year, and in 1857 he paid the government price for the land. Early in the spring of 1855 Mr. Coe and John Moorhead went to Nebraska with five yoke of cattle and broke one hundred acres of land between Omaha and Florence, at $4 per acre, and returned to Harrison county in time for harvest. He had only five acres of wheat, which a neighbor cut with a cradle, while he bound it up himself. The same year he entered another forty acres adjoining the other tract. Mr. Coe was born March 4, 1830, in Athens county, Ohio, where he remained under the parental roof until 24 years of age, and then came to Iowa. He is the son of James Coe, born in Connecticut during the first year of the last century, and when 10 years of age, with his parents emigrated to Ohio, his father building the first mill in Athens county. James Coe's wife, the mother of Josiah Coe, was Katherine (Hulbert) Coe, married in 1823, and was the mother of ten children, Josiah being the fifth child. Josiah Coe was married March 20, 1865, to Miss Jessie Kinnis, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and by this union there were eight children, Jeannie, Kate, Bertha, George, Mary, Arthur, Jessie and Amy. The last named died March 31, 1891. Mrs. Coe was born in Scotland in the town of Perth, June 14, 1843, and in 1854 emigrated with her parents to America, remaining in New York City until 1859, when the family came to Harrison county. Her father was Andrew Kinnis, Sr., a native of Scotland. The mother was born in the Highlands of Scotland, at Dalquise. They were the parents of seven children, Mrs. Coe being the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Coe are members of the Christian church. Mrs. Coe was reared in the Baptist church, but finding no such denomination here at the time, attached herself to the Christian church in New York, which faith she still holds. Politically our subject is a staunch supporter of the Republican party. Mr. Coe spent thirty years of his married life on the farm, and a few years ago retired from active farm life, moving to Woodbine, where he enjoys the comforts of life, after many years of hard labor. His landed estate comprises over thirteen hundred acres, and this has been accumulated by hard work and economy. Mr. Coe is president of the First National Bank of Woodbine, which position he has held ever since the bank was organized in 1884. He has been eminently successful in all his undertakings and is a fine type of Iowa's self-made men. CURTISS, CHARLES FRANKLIN, professor of agriculture and director of the government experiment station at the Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames, is one of the most capable of the rising scientific men of the west. He is known all over the United States, in Canada, and even in Europe, for the original and important work that has been done at Ames under his direction. He is a product of Iowa, for though born in Nora, Illinois, December 12, 1863, his parents brought him to Iowa in 1865 and settled in Story county, where they have lived ever since. His father, Frank Curtiss, traces his genealogy through the Pilgrim colonists, to the old English stock. For over twentyfive years he has been one of the most successful farmers in the state, and has represented Story county in the legislature. The professor's mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Schmidt, comes from a sturdy German family which emigrated to Chicago at an early day. Mr. Curtiss was well educated. He began in the country schools in Story county, completed the course of the Nevada high school, and in 1887 graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College with high honors. He was prominent in the literary and Greek letter societies and won honorable distinction in public exercises at the college. He represented his class in oratorical and debating contests, was president of his class and editor of the college paper. Prof. Curtiss has lived on and for the farm all his life. He has lived all the time on a farm except when in college, and one year in a bank. He paid all his own expenses through college, largely by raising live stock on the farm, and his business ability has been the means of giving him already a good start in life, with a beautiful home in the town of Ames. In January, 1891, he was elected assistant in the experiment station at the agricultural college, having been appointed in 1889 Iowa State Agent for the United States Department of Agriculture, a position he held four years. Shortly after he went to the college as assistant in the station, he was elected professor of animal husbandry and assistant director of the station. In this capacity he had an opportunity to demonstrate what was in him. James Wilson as director he was given full scope for his investigations, which have attracted attention and comment all over the world, where similar work is going on. His writings have been widely quoted and he has been regularly employed on two of the leading agricultural papers of the United Under States. His experiments in sheep feeding and breeding, cattle feeding, and swine breeding, have perhaps been the most noteworthy, though some of the most valued fodders have been discovered, or at least introduced as practical, by him. The best part of his work has been its thorough practicability. He shows the farmers what can be done on every farm with the proper care, and never leads them into foolish and ruinous experiments, which they do not understand. All is made plain. The station issues a bulletin about every three months, which contains detailed information about their experiments, and is sent free to residents of the state who ask for it. Prof. Curtiss is a recognized authority on live stock and is called upon all over the country to act as judge in live stock shows, as well as to lecture to farmers' institutes and conventions in this and other states. In March, 1897, when James Wilson, director of the station and professor of agriculture, was appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President McKinley, the trustees of the college turned unanimously to Prof. Curtiss as the man best fitted to carry on the work, and their choice of him for the important and responsible place was universally approved by the friends of the college and all who knew the man. His work is amply justifying their course. Among the most recent of his activities for the benefit of the farmer is the work he has done to advance the beet sugar industry. Prof. Curtiss has always been an aggressive Republican, keenly alive to the interests of the party, and often a delegate to state conventions. He belongs to the Masonic order and is a Knight of Pythias. In Masonry he is a Knight Templar and a Shriner. He was married in 1893 to Olive M. Wilson, of Keokuk county, a classmate in college, and they have three thildren, Ruth, born in May, 1894, Edith, born in January, 1896, and Helen, born in September, 1900. Men, was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, October 17, 1841. His father, Glenn Clark, was born in Kentucky in 1800, and was a pioneer settler in Johnson county. Clark township and Clarksburg in that county were named for him. James S. Clark spent the early years of his life on a farm in the state of his birth, but came west and was a student in college at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, at the outbreak of the war. In April, 1861, he volunteered as a private in Co "F" of the First Iowa Infantry, and afterwards. was made captain of Co "C" in the Thirtyfourth Iowa Infantry. While yet a member of the First he took part in the noted battle of Wilson's Creek, where the gallant and brave General Lyon fell. As lieutenant and captain, respectively, he participated with the boys of the old Thirtyfourth in seventeen battles and sieges. On the afternoon of the day on which Lee surrendered he led his command in a desperate charge on the forts at Mobile, Alabama. He is historian of the regiment, and has published a complete and intensely interesting history of that organization from the time of its enlistment till its discharge. The work will be of incalculable value in preserving for future generations the deeds of CLARK, CAPTAIN JAMES S., of Des Moines, President of the Anchor Fire Insurance company, company, of Des Moines, and president of the Iowa Alliance of Insurance |