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ELLIOTT, Charles 1856-1943

ELLIOTT, CASSILL, KAMPFER, FISHER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/7/2015 at 23:31:53

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, February 15, 1943, Waterloo, Iowa]

Charles Elliott Dies in Wisconsin

Former School Superintendent, Newspaperman Here.

Funeral services for Charles Elliott, Adams, Wis.. formerly superntendent of schools in Black Hawk County and newspaper man here, were held Saturday at the Adams Congregational Church. Mr. Elliott was 86 years old. Burial was in the Friendship, Wis., cemetery.

Mr. Elliott, who was county superintendent here from 1903 to 1908, died at his home in Adams Wednesday. He was a resident here from 1897 to 1910. and worked for a time on the Waterloo Daily Courier as a reporter and later on the Waterloo Daily Reporter as city editor. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott were active members of First Methodist church, here.

Published Iowa Falls Paper

He was born at Two Rivers, Wis. June 30, 1856, the son of Alexander C. Elliott, a Methodist pastor. He was married to Elizabeth Cassill at Garner, Ia., Nov. 5, 1884. where he was half owner of the Garner Signal. In 1886. he purchased the Iowa Falls Sentinel, Iowa Falls Ia., which he sold because of illness. In 1897 he purchased the Week's Review, a Waterloo weekly, which he published for a year and then discontinued.

The Elliotts moved from Waterloo to Perkins County, South Dacota, where they had a homestead
and Elliott was employed on two pioneer weekly newspapers. In January, 1913, they moved to Caroil, Ia., where he was business manager and editor of the Carroll Times.

In 1916, the couple moved toMancato, Minn., where Elliott was editor of the Mankato Daily Review
for three years. He was city editor of the Courier-News at Fargo, N.D., three years, and in 1921, purchased the Adams Advertiser at Adams, Wis. The name of the paper was changed by him to the Adams County Times. He retired in 1937.

Survivors include his widow, two daughters, Mrs. C. W. Kampfer, Glasgow, Mont., and Mrs. C. M.
Fisher, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; two sons. Philip and Arthur Elliott both of Flint, Mich., and a sister, Miss Emma Elliott, Cedar Rapids, Ia.


 

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