Daniel Frederick Coyle

CUNNINGHAM, FAYVILLE, FRANKLIN, GORDENER, HAMM, KELLEHER, KAUFFMAN

Posted By: Karen E. Dau <kdau99@yahoo.com>
Date: 7/4/2006 at 20:31:23

Judge Daniel F. Coyle, 83, of Humboldt, a resident of Humboldt county since 1862, died at his home Wednesday evening of a heart ailment. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock at the Coyle home in West Humboldt, with the final rites in charge of Judge F. F. Fayville of Sioux City, and Attorney Dennis Kelleher of Fort Dodge. Burial will be made in Indian Mound Cemetery, Lenhart Funeral Home in charge.

Daniel Frederick Coyle was born at Avoca, Wisconsin in 1858, and came to a farm eight miles north of Dakota City with his parents [Charles C. and Matilda (Franklin) Coyle] when he was four years old. He moved into Dakota City in 1864. Judge Coyle finished school in Dakota City when he was 12 years of age and did not again attend until he was sixteen. He went to Humboldt college in the fall of 1874, and attended the state university at Iowa City in 1876, finishing law school there in 1881.

He returned to Dakota City to practice law, and remained there five years. In 1882 he was elected mayor of Dakota City. He ran for the legislature in the fall of 1889 on the Republican ticket, was elected, and served one term, declining another nomination. He practiced law in Fort Dodge for two years…

He was elected to the judgeship for this district in 1906, and held this office for 23 years and nine months. He resigned in 1930, and since then had practiced law in Humboldt; he offered free law instructions to students until a short time ago. Many of his pupils are now practicing attorneys. His first graduate was John Cunningham. Judge Coyle was also very active in music, at one time organizing a juvenile band.
Mr. Coyle was married to Sallie Ham [Sarah Hamm, daughter of Jonathan Hamm and Ann Eliza Kauffman], on March 18, 1882 at Springvale, Iowa. She survives him, as do two sons, C. C. Coyle of Humboldt and Claude H. Coyle, of Kirkland, Washington. A daughter, Margaret Ann, preceded her father in death in 1902. Also surviving are three grandchildren, Frederick of Wilmington, California, Dennis of Burbank, Alaska, and Mrs. Gordener (Mary Ann) of [?]; also two great grandchildren, Sally Ann Gordener and Frederick Michael Coyle.

from the "Humboldt Independent," Humboldt, Humboldt Co. IA, Friday September 13, 1941.
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