Long, Charles R.

LONG, CHASE, METCALF, MAJOR, BROWN

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Date: 2/15/2003 at 08:48:02

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

CHARLES R. LONG.

Among the well-to-do and prominent agriculturists of Camanche township is the gentleman whose name introduces this review. He was born in Camanche, Camanche township, Clinton county, Iowa, on the 17th of August, 1855, and is a son of Thomas and Ellen (Chase) Long. The father followed farming and also engaged in the practice of law in Camanche for some years, but spent his last day in Chicago, where his death occurred, but made his home here.

Our subject is the third in order of birth in a family of five children. His boyhood and youth were passed in Camanche township, and he is indebted to its public schools for his educational advantages. At an early age he commenced farming, and is today the owner of well improved and valuable farm of two hundred and forty acres, in connection with his brother, whose neat and thrifty appearance plainly and painstaking owner.

Mr. Long was married in 1888 to Miss Ellen Metcalf, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Major) Metcalf, both natives of England. The latter was the only one in a family of eleven children to come to America. The father was born in Lincolnshire and in early life learned the wagonmaker’s trade. In 1858 he and his wife came to the United States and the following year located in Camanche, Iowa, where he built a small shop. In connection with work at his trade he also followed carpentering to some extent. He died in 1877, at the age of forty-seven years, but his wife still survives him at the age of sixty-eight years, and continues to make her home in Camanche. Unto them were born the following children: George, Eliza, Mary Ann, David, Joseph, Mary, and William, all now deceased; John T. and Henry, who are living with their mother; Ellen, wife of our subject; and Elizabeth, wife of J. Brown, of Camanche. Mr. and Mrs. Long have one child, Edna. In political sentiment our subject is a Republican, and an earnest advocate of party principles.