Bittner, Grove Joseph

BITTNER, NIEMEYER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 6/4/2007 at 23:06:40

Iowa Press Association Who's Who In Iowa 1940. Jackson County Section by Helen O. Stoddard.
Bittner, Grove Joseph: Lumber dealer; born Bellevue, Iowa, August 23, 1885; son of Louis Bittner-Mary Niemeyer; educated Bellevue; married Frances Ernst Oct. 29, 1915 Bellevue; 1901-1909, clerk for father in sawmill, Bellevue; 1909-1913 carpenter; 1913-1930 with father in lumber business L. Bittner Lumber Company Bellevue; 1930- operator of lumber and building materials business Bellevue Bittner Lumber Company; 1936- mayor; 1906-1915 member fire department, 1915-1936, chief; 1938-1940 Democratic Representative Jackson County to Iowa General Assembly, candidate for re-election; Northwestern Lumbermen's Association; Iowa Retail Lumbermen's Association; Chamber of Commerce, President 1931; Lions Club, secretary 1931-36; Knights of Columbus Council 1354, Grand Knight 1925-26, financial secretary 1917-25; St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Treasurer of Church Corporation since 1930; Democratic Delegate to State Convention since 1932, also County Conventions, 1940 Delegate to National Convention; hobbies: golf, hunting; office 2nd Street, Bellevue; residence 3rd Street, Bellevue.