ROBERTSON, Alexaner D. - 1914

ROBERTSON, BRIGGS, BLATCHLEY, COMRIE

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
By Thomas McCulla

ALEXANDER D. ROBERTSON.

Alexander D. Robertson, serving with credit and ability as assistant cashier of the Washta State Bank, was born in Cherokee, June 11, 1871, and is a son of James Robertson, of whom more extended mention is made elsewhere in this work. The subject of this review acquired his education in the grammar and high schools of his native city and took a Liberal Arts course in Northwestern University. He had been connected with the Washta State Bank, of which his father is president, one year before entering the university and afterward he again became connected with that institution. He is now assistant cashier and has made an excellent record in this capacity.

On Tune 2, 1897, Mr. Robertson was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Briggs, a daughter of John S. and Mary E. (Blatchley) Briggs, the former born June 8, 1839, in Cambridge, Ohio, and the latter January 1, 1846, in Valparaiso, Indiana. The mother was one of the board of lady managers of the Worlds Fair held at Chicago, representing Nebraska on the ladies commission. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs resided in Omaha, Nebraska, where the father was at one time part owner of the Omaha Daily Herald. Both are now deceased. The Briggs family is very well known in the middle west, Mrs. Robertsons grandfather having been the first governor of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have become the parents of two children: Ansel Briggs, who was born November 17, 1899; and Catherine Comrie, born March 18, 1906.

Mr. Robertson is well known in the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Little Sioux Lodge, No. 521, Washta; Burning Bush Chapter, Cherokee; Crusade Commandery, No. 39, Cherokee; and ZaGaZig Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Des Moines, Iowa. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He was school treasurer for several years and since June 1913 has been secretary of the school board. From August 12, 1901, to August, 1912, he served as postmaster of Washta under appointment by President McKinley and has at all times been found efficient and reliable in positions of public trust and responsibility. He is one of the valued and representative citizens of Washta and will undoubtedly be carried forward into still more important relations with financial interests.