Mansfield E. Mack (1876-1951)

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Date: 9/3/2023 at 23:36:07

Mansfield E. Mack
(May 17, 1876 – December 14, 1951)

Mansfield E. Mack, who is engaged in the practice of law in Manson, where he has gained a distinctively representative clientage, was born in New York City, May 17, 1876. His parents, Arthur and Edith (Calhon) Mack, were natives of the eastern metropolis and were there married. The father engaged in the real estate and brokerage business and is still living in New York, his extensive business affairs having brought to him wealth, while his qualities for leadership have made him one of the influential residents of his native place. He politically supports the Democracy and while he might have attained to high political honors, he has always refused office. He is, however, an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife died in 1887. In the family were twelve children, but the first two died in infancy. The others are: Seymour S., who is married and resides in New York, where he is engaged in business as a banker and broker; Pearl, the wife of George Greer, of Brooklyn, New York; Estelle, the wife of Charles Watson, of New York City; Minnie I., the wife of George Brown, of Brooklyn ; Mansfield E.; David, who is connected with railroad interests and makes his home in Hoboken, New Jersey; Lester, a practicing dentist, of Crab Orchard, Nebraska; Mortimer J., of Brooklyn, and two others, who died in infancy. The public schools of New York City furnished Mansfield E. Mack his early education and was graduated in the high school in June, 1890. He remained at home until May 12, 1891, when he came to Iowa and for a time was employed on a farm near Eagle Grove. Subsequently he engaged in clerking and later entered the State University of Iowa, where, after pursuing a three years' course in law, he was graduated with the class of 1897. In June of the same year he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Newell, Iowa, where he entered upon his professional work remaining there for two years and seven months. On the expiration of that period he came to Manson, where he has since remained actively connected with the profession, which has important bearing upon the stable prosperity of a community by furthering the ends of justice and individual rights.
On the 23d of October, 1901, in Manson, Mr. Mack was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Whittlesey, who was born in this state, May 3, 1878, and is a daughter of C. A. Whittlesey. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mack are well known in the community and have a large circle of friends. He has real estate interests in Manson outside of his possessions, but his chief attention is given to his law practice which he constantly increases both in volume and importance. In politics he is a Republican and for one year has served as city attorney in Manson. [Source - Biographical Record of Calhoun County, Iowa, by S. J. Clarke, 1902, p.582]