Siddle, Abraham

SIDDLE, WOODHEAD, ELLSWORTH, POTTER, DUNLAP, BREWSTER

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PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.)  Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)
ABRAHAM SIDDLE
Secretary and Treasurer of the Clinton Paper Company, is a native of Yorkshire, England, born Feb. 23, 1818. Our subject’s parents were Abraham and Johannah (Woodhead) Siddle, also natives of England. They, with their family, came to America, in 1827, and settled in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he engaged in the woolen-mills and there remained for five years. He then went into another mill in the same county, and afterward became a resident of Hartford County, Conn. There her lived a retired life until 1874, the date of his demise. His wife died in 1853. They reared a family of eight children, three of whom are now living--Abraham, Robert, and Hannah, now Mrs. Ellsworth.
The subject of this history made his home with his parents until he reached the age of twenty-three years; he began to work in the woolen-mills when about twelve years old, and at the age of eighteen went into the sorting room, and subsequently took charge of the buying department, going West as far as Chicago and Wisconsin, purchasing wool for the Glenon Company, of Dutchess County, N. Y. He remained in this position until 1858, when he removed to Iowa, and settled in Clinton County. Here he bought 260 acres of land and engaged in farming and stock-raising for seven years. Eventually, however, he sold out and came to Clinton in 1866, buying and interest in the Clinton Lumber Company, of this city. he is Vice President and a Director in the same and is also associated with Messrs, Smith, Hosford, Elsworth & Scofield in the Clinton Paper Company, which was organized in 1858. The Paper Mill is located between Fourth and Fifth streets, south of Eighteenth avenue, and includes six and one-half acres of land, and the carry a capital stock of $60,000. Mr. Siddle owns two stores on Fifth avenue, and also a residence on Fourth avenue, between Second and Third streets.
Mr. Siddle was married to Mrs. Potter, a native of Pennsylvania, and of this union three children have been born--William, Mertie, and Robbie. He also had two by a former marriage. They are Mary, Mrs. Andrew Dunlap, who has one chikd, Ellen; Sarah, now Mrs. William A. Brewster. Mrs. Siddle also has one child by her former husband, by name, Franklin Potter. William attends the Shattuck School, at Faribault, Minn.
Mr. Siddle is a Republican in politics, and is one of the solid and substantial citizens of Clinton.