Ashpole, E. E.

ASHPOLE, LEE, KING, ECKSTEIN, OLMSTEAD, CARPENTER, HOCK, MONROE, BUTLER

Posted By: Janelle Martin (email)
Date: 1/4/2010 at 20:53:26

History of Hamilton County, Iowa, Vol. II, 1912, p.290

E. E. Ashpole, a substantial and enterprising farmer living on section 4, Blairsburg township, Hamilton county, Iowa, is one of the prosperous and successful native sons of the state and is giving the most forceful and active years of his life to promoting agricultural development in the section where he was born. He has been during his entire career not only a loyal and enterprising citizen but a cooperative factor in the development and upbuilding of his community and his present prosperity is only a part of the broader success which has come to him as an individual force in progress. Mr. Ashpole was born near the present limits of Webster City, Iowa, on October 7, 1866. His parents were Frederick and Lucy Elizabeth (Lee) Ashpole, both natives of Huntingdonshire, England. They came to America at an early day and settled in Clinton county, Iowa.
They made the trip overland to Hamilton county in an emigrant wagon and settled on a farm in Cass township. The father broke the soil and developed his holdings from a raw stretch of prairie land into an improved property. The family suffered all the hardships and trials incident to pioneer life when there were practically no roads through the township and when the facilities for operating the farm were meager and ineffectual. The elder Mr. Ashpole remained upon his original holdings for eleven years and at the end of that time was considered one of the substantial and enterprising agriculturists in Hamilton County. He died in Blairsburg township,
in 1903, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife died while on a visit in Clarion, Wright County, Iowa, on December 25, 1910, when she was eighty-five years old. To their union were born twelve children, six sons and six daughters, but only six are now living as follows: Cyrus, of Thompson, Iowa; Stillman, of Clarion, this state; Mrs. Mary Carpenter, a resident of Thompson; E. E., of this review; Mrs. Stella Hock, of Knox, North Dakota; and Albert, of Bagley, Iowa. The three eldest children were born in Clinton County, Iowa.

E. E. Ashpole has spent his entire life in Iowa and from his earliest childhood has been identified with the agricultural development of this state. He was educated in the public schools and aided his father in the work of his farm, gaining when he was still very young a personal experience in the details of planting and harvesting the crops. His farm today comprises eighty acres of the choicest land in Blairsburg township and is a model for every agricultural enterprise in this state. It is equipped with the latest devices in farming machinery, Mr. Ashpole taking a great interest in all those inventions which during the past ten years have changed agricultural conditions in the middle west. His fields, practically and intelligently operated, yield annually abundant harvests. His barns, granaries and other outbuildings are clean and sanitary and of modern construction and his farm is an exemplification of what can be accomplished by intelligently directed effort combined with progressive methods.

Mr. Ashpole has been twice married, his first union being with Miss Minnie King, to which union was born one son, Glenn. On October 7, 1908, Mr. Ashpole was again wedded, his second union being with Miss Magdalena Eckstein, who was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1876 and who is a daughter of John and Clarinda (0lmstead) Eckstein. Mrs. Ashpole is one of thirteen children born to her parents, as follows: John L., residing in Wisconsin; Mrs. Elizabeth Monroe, of Webster City; Eddie and Clara, both deceased; Mrs. Ashpole; W. J., of Algona, Iowa; N. C, also residing in Webster City; Mrs. Edith Ashpole, of Wright county. Mrs. Edna Butler, of Rutland, Iowa; Frank, of Chicago, Illinois; Ella, who has also passed away; Fred, residing in Perry, Iowa; and Clark, a twin brother of Fred, whose home is in Kellogg, Idaho. To Mr. and Mrs. Ashpole has been born one daughter, Helen Maurine, whose birth occurred on the 22d of July, 1909.

In his political affiliations Mr. Ashpole is a member of the republican party and has been school director and road supervisor. He is a prominent Mason holding membership in the lodge. He has seen the development of his section of Iowa which in his boyhood had not entirely passed beyond the conditions of a frontier territory.
He has not only witnessed the gradual evolution into its present flourishing state but as a progressive and public-spirited citizen has borne his part in the general upbuilding.

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