WADDELL, A. H. - 1914

WADDELL, SMITH, DYSLON, WOODCOCK, CONVERSE

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

A. H. WADDELL.

A. H. Waddell, engaged in the cream and produce business in Aurelia, where he is ranked among the most progressive and successful business men of the city, was born in North Lowell, Dodge county, Wisconsin, in 1851. He is a son of James and Mary Waddell, the former a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the latter of Belfast, Ireland. They came to America when they were still very young and their marriage occurred in New York state. In 1846 they moved to Wisconsin, settling in Bariboo, whence they moved to Dodge county. There the father bought state land, purchasing six hundred and forty acres at one dollar and a quarter per acre, and this he operated until his retirement. He died at Beaver Dam in 1885 and was survived by his wife until 1903. To their union were born eleven children, eight of whom grew to maturity: Hester A., who died on the family homestead in Wisconsin at the age of fiftytwo; James H., of the state of Washington; Mathew W., a resident of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; O. D., of Aurelia; A. H., of this review; T. E., of Columbus, Wisconsin; George R., of the same city; and Charles R., of Beaver Dam.

A. H. Waddell acquired his education in the public schools of Dodge county and afterward moved to Minnesota, where he took up a homestead claim in Martin county. After eleven years he sold this and moved to Cherokee county in 1881. He bought eighty acres of land and afterward disposed of this farm and purchased another of two hundred and forty acres, located in Diamond township, six miles south of Aurelia. He engaged in farming upon this property until 1909 and then disposed of his land and moved into Aurelia, where he opened a cream and produce business which he has since conducted. He controls a large and representative patronage and his business has increased rapidly in volume and importance, for he manages it carefully and follows always the most progressive and practical methods. He is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank and president of the Peoples Cooperative Telephone Company and he has valuable individual holdings in business and residence properties.

In 1872 Mr. Waddell married Miss Susan R. Smith, who was born in northern New York and who moved from that state to Wisconsin and thence to Minnesota, where her mother died in 1886. Her father afterward moved to Iowa, where he passed away in 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell have seven children: Guy L., of Arlington, South Dakota; Ray V., also a resident of South Dakota; J. J., of Cherokee, Iowa; W. C., at home; Carrie, the wife of John Dyslon, a farmer of Cherokee county; Lura, who married Fred Woodcock, of South Dakota; and Kate, the wife of Norton Converse, of Buhl, Idaho.

Mr. Waddell has passed through all the chairs in Aurelia Lodge, No. 495, I. O. O. F., and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has held various township offices and is now serving as a member of the city council. In all business, official and personal dealings he is straightforward and reliable and he enjoys to the fullest extent the confidence and regard of all who know him.