ESLICK, Frederick Charles "Fred"

ESLICK, BAKER, BOYLE, FISHER

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 11/23/2017 at 23:47:34

Obituary ~ Frederick Charles "Fred" Eslick
May 10, 1881 ~ September 10, 1947

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Wednesday, September 10, 1947, Page 1

FRED C. ESLICK, 65, DIES FOLLOWING SHORT ILLNESS
Rites for Mason City Business Man to be Saturday Afternoon

Fred C. Eslick, 65, for 38 years active in the business life of Mason City, died Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. at his residence, 325 Pennsylvania S.E., following a short illness. He was for many years president and manager of the Cadwell Transfer & Storage company and during World war II was district manager of ODT in this territory. Mr. Eslick was born, Frederick Charles Eslick, March 10, 1882, at Lehigh, Iowa, the son of Frank and Mary Baker Eslick. He was married to Anne Boyle at Lehigh Dec. 3, 1901. They moved to Benton Harbor, Mich., later returning to Lehigh, where he was associated with a brick and tile company.

In 1908 the family moved to Mason City from Clarion, where Mr. Eslick had started as dispatcher for the Chicago Great Western railroad and he became the first general agent for the same road in Mason City. He took an active interest in the Mason City community, and in 1916 bought and became manager and president of the Cadwell Transfer and Storage company, which he operated until 1939. Appointed secretary of the NRA trucking industry for Iowa, Mr. Eslick was prominent in bringing order out of chaos and instituting many reforms in the Iowa trucking industry.

In 1925 Mr. Eslick took the leading role in the establishment of the traffic department of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce. At the time of his death, he was operating the Fred Eslick Bookkeeping Service.

He was a member of the First Methodist church at Lehigh, and the Elks club of Mason City.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Clifford Eslick, Mason City, and Clarence H. Eslick, Marshalltown, and a daughter, Mrs. B. C. Fisher, Mason City, and 6 grandchildren, Fred Eslick Mason City, Donald, Denny, Faie and David Eslick, Marshalltown, and Barbara Anne Fisher, Mason City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Jack, of Clarion, who died in 1908.

Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the McAuley and Son funeral home Saturday at 3 p.m., with Doctor Lloyd A. Gustafson, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery. The McAuley and Son funeral home in charge.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2017