WADDELL, O. D. - 1914

WADDELL, COLTON, SCHOONOVER, GARBER, OLSON

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

O. D. WADDELL.

Since 1889 O. D. Waddell has operated a large general stock and shipping business in Aurelia, having entered upon that occupation following many years of close identification with agricultural interests of Cherokee county. He was born in Wisconsin in 1848 and is a son of James and Mary Waddell, of whom more extended mention is made elsewhere in this work.

O. D. Waddell acquired his education in the public schools of his native state and when he was twenty-one moved to Minnesota, where he became a large stock shipper and feeder and a prosperous farmer. At the end of fourteen years he moved to Cherokee county and settled on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he later added, owning at one time five hundred acres. He op crated this property until 1889 and during that time also handled stock and did a large business in buying and selling land. In the latter year he abandoned his farming operations in order to concentrate his attention upon his other interests. Since that time he has lived in Aurelia, where he engages in stock buying and shipping, controlling an important and representative patronage. He has still extensive and valuable property holdings, owning five hundred and twenty acres on sections 27 and 28, Pitcher township, four hundred of which are in a high state of cultivation, and another farm of one hundred and twenty acres two and onehalf miles northeast of Aurelia.

In 1873 Mr. Waddell was united in marriage to Miss Alice Colton, who was born in Vermont, a daughter of Alfred and Janet Colton, natives of the New England states. They were pioneers in Minnesota, where the father followed farming for a number of years. Both passed away in that state. To their union were born four children: Alice, wife of the subject of this review; Bert, who resides in the state of Washington; and Fred and May, who have passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell have become the parents of ten children: Mamie, who married Fred Schoonover, of Pitcher township, this county; Frank, also of Pitcher township; Charley and Bert, of the same locality; Etta, the wife of George Garber, who operates a general merchandise store in Aurelia; Florence, who lives at home; two children who died in infancy; Gertrude, the wife of Irwin Olson, of Paulina; and Orley, at home. Mr. Waddell is a member of the Knights of Pythias and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is widely known in Aurelia and his substantial characteristics have gained him the warm regard and unqualified trust of his fellow townsmen.