Mattoon, Leslie B. 1847 - 1902

MATTOON, SUTTER, STOEHR, STOHR, ALEXANDER

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/9/2013 at 14:56:20

Elgin Echo, Thursday, 19 June 1902.

It again becomes our painful duty to record the death of another pioneer and one of our prominent and well known business men in the passing on the 10th of June, 1902, of L. B. Mattoon at Kenmare, N.D. The evening before his death he had retired in his usual good health and when they went to awaken him the next morning he was dead. Funeral services were held at the home in Elgin Saturday forenoon at ten o'clock conducted by Rev. R. M. Rice of West Union. Interment was made in the Elgin cemetery.

Leslie B. Mattoon was born at Hermon, St. Lawrence county, New York, April twenty-ninth, 1847, and was the son of James and Mary A. Mattoon. He was educated in the public schools of Harmon and Wesleyan Seminary at Gouverneur, N.Y. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Union Army and served as a member of Co. C, 1st N.Y., L.A. until 1865 when he was honorably discharged from the service. In 1865 he emigrated to Wisconsin where he taught school for several years. During 1875 he graduated from Bennett Medical College, of Chicago. In the autumn of 1875 he located at Elgin, Iowa, and took up the profession of a physician. On the twenty-third of August, 1879, Mr. Mattoon and Louise Sutter were married. The wife died February twenty-fifth, 1885. No children were born to this union. On November fourteenth, 1888, he was married to Lillie Stoehr (Stohr ?). To them have been born three children; Leslie, Jamie and Nellie. Mr. Mattoon's mother died while he was a child and his father gave up his life as a Union soldier during the war of the rebellion. After he returned from the war he lived with Dr. Alexander, at Hermon, N.Y., who was a father to him, and to whose teachings Mr. Mattoon credited his success in life. To Dr. Alexander he gave the highest reverence and love.

At the election of 1887 and 1891 Mr. Mattoon was chosen to the Iowa Senate in the Fortieth Iowa District. He was a Democrat and the district was strongly republican. His elections were endorsements of the man and of his labors as a legislator. At the time of his death he was president of the Citizens State Bank of Elgin and treasurer of the Elgin Canning Company.

In the death of Mr. Mattoon not only have those who were close to him, but the community and all Iowa as well lost much. The world is better for his having lived in it.

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NOTES:

Harmon/Hermon are spelled as in the article, as is the spelling of the county name where Wesleyan Seminary is located.

There is a biography in the Fayette County History book but it is not yet transcribed to this web site.

Submitter is not related.

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