DUART, J. H. - 1914

DUART, PHILPOT, WILLIAMSON, BEATTY, BOOTHBY

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

J. H. DUART.

J. H. Duart, who for the past seventeen years has been well known in Washta as a successful grain and stock dealer and who since 1913 has been manager of the Farmers Elevator Company of the city, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, in July, 1858. He is a son of James and Margaret (Philpot) Duart, natives of Ireland, of ScotchIrish ancestry. The father came to America in 1842 and located in New York state, where he purchased and improved a farm, operating this for many years. Eventually he moved to Delhi, Delaware county, Iowa, and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1905, when he was eightythree years of age. His wife passed away in 1883, at the age of sixty five.

J. H. Duart was reared in New York state and there acquired his education. He afterward worked as a farm hand for some time but eventually moved to Schaller, Sac county, Iowa, where he became connected with the grain business as an employe of Butler & Wimchel. He remained connected with this firm for eighteen years thereafter and then moved to Washta, where he bought a grain elevator in partnership with his brotherinlaw. After operating this for some time they disposed of their interests to the Farmers Elevator Company, which Mr. Duart aided in organizing and of which he has been manager since July, 1913. He is also a stock feeder and shipper on an extensive scale, feeding his animals upon six and onehalf acres of land adjoining the corporation limits of Washta. He has been engaged in that line of work in Washta for the past seventeen years and he is regarded as an expert judge of stock values. His business has increased yearly and has reached extensive proportions at the present time.

In 1879 Mr. Duart was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Williamson, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Beatty) Williamson, natives of Ireland. The parents came to America in early life and located in Pennsylvania, whence after a short time they moved to Delaware county, Iowa. There the father bought land and operated this during the remainder of his life, dying November 27, 1911, having survived his wife since 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Duart became the parents of four children: Viola, the wife of Clarence Boothby, of Washta; Minnie, at home; Lewis, who died in 1888; and Mavis, at home. Mrs. Duart passed away March, 17, 1911, after a short illness.

Mr. Duart is connected fraternally with the Masonic lodge and the Modern Woodmen of America and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. Many years of close connection with business interests of Washta have carried him forward into important commercial relations and his name stands as a synonym for honesty, integrity and straightforward dealing.