Stuart, Iden L. died 1944
STUART, CLEMMER, BAGLEY, RAYMOND, PURCELL, ROBINSON, PETERSON
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Date: 4/8/2014 at 00:57:08
Iden L. Stuart, for 68 years a resident of Hampton, and during a greater portion of the time engaged as printer, editor and publisher of the Franklin County Recorder, died at Lutheran Hospital in that city on Tuesday, the 2nd day of October. Mr. Stuart had been a patient in the hospital several months and previously had been in failing health.
I.L. Stuart was born in Chester, Vermont, and came with his parents from that state to the then "newer country" of Wisconsin; they located in the town of Black Earth, where Mr. Stuart's boyhood days were spent. At an early age he became a printer's apprentice, and learned the printer's trade. For a time he worked as a printer on Milwaukee newspapers.
In 1878 he took a position with B.F. Wright on the old Charles City, Ia., Intelligencer, continuing on until 1881, when he went to the Franklin County Recorder at Hampton, and shortly after became associate partner with Capt. L.B. Raymond in the publication of that newspaper. This partnership was effective until Captain Raymond's death, when Mr. Stuart continued on alone until he sold the Recorder to Thos. Purcell of the Chronicle, the Recorder being discontinued after an honorable service to Hampton and Franklin county for more than a half-century of time, during which the paper exerted itself in the material development of Hampton and Franklin county.
He was united in marriage with Miss Kitty Clemmer, a member of a pioneer Wisconsin family. They lived happily. She died several years ago.
Two children were born to them: Ralph R. Stuart, well known as a Hampton and Franklin county practicing attorney; and Mrs. L.C. Bagley, wife of a prominent business man living at Audubon, Iowa.
Mr. Stuart was a loyal citizen, esteemed and honored by all there and elsewhere throughout the state. An unswerving Republican, as was his business associate, Captain Raymond, he enjoyed the confidence of the leading men in the party in Iowa. Always dependable, he spoke only the truth as he knew it. A warm friend of Congressman David B. Henderson during the years that statesman and soldier was speaker of the national house of representatives at Washington, D.C., of the succeeding congressmen, Birdsall and Chas. E. Pickett, of Waterloo, and of his fellow townsman, the Hon. T.J.B. Robinson, who succeeded as congressman from the Third congressional district.
It was during the years that he was affiliated with Windsor Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Hampton, that the present Windsor Theatre building was built by the lodge and afterwards sold to Mr. Chas. Peterson, present owner and operator of that popular theatre.
Through all of forty years that the publisher of the World-Journal knew Mr. Stuart and had interchange politically - as Democrat and Republican - his word was never doubted.
He goes to his final reward bearing the esteem of friends in both parties. He lived a life a helpfulness, and passes at the age of 83 years. A long farewell to him and peace to his remains.
~The Ackley World-Journal, Thursday, October 12, 1944
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