Waring, Emal Loraine

WARING, MCCREA, JONES, WORTH, BLACKLEDGE

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Date: 10/24/2009 at 08:28:41

Waring, Emal Loraine

Everybody in Jasper County knows and likes "Lar" Waring. They could not well help doing so, for he is a jovial, warm hearted, generous, kindly gentleman, who, while laboring to advance his own interests never loses sight of his obligations to his neighbors and the public in general.

Emal Loraine Waring was born March 3, 1876, and he is the son of John C. and Martha (McCrea) Waring, the former a native of New York and the mother of Indiana, but they came to Iowa when young and the subject was born in Jasper County. When they first came here, the father, then a young man, worked out as a farm hand, and after his marriage he rented land for a number of years, thereby getting a good start. He later purchased eighty acres near Reasnor upon which he made an excellent living, developed a fine farm and remained there the rest of his life, his death occurring on November 22, 1889, when he was fifty-two years of age. His widow survives and makes her home in Reasnor. Besides farming, Mr. Waring conducted a general grain and lumber business for over twelve years, during the last few years of his life representing the Denniston & Partridge Company. He was a man of splendid business ability, rare probity of character and was known and respected all over this locality.

Emal L. Waring is a member of a family of seven children, named as follows: Verda married S. D. Jones, a mechanical engineer, residing at Colfax; James E., a carpenter, lives at Reasnor; Emal L., of this review; Clyde C. is in the bank at Reasnor; Charles V., commonly known as Vint, lives on a farm near Newton; Fay is the wife of George Worth, a farmer residing near Monroe; Jesse Leo lives in Reasnor.

After receiving a fairly good education, Emal L. Waring, when twenty-one years of age, began life for himself on a farm, which he continued nearly four years, after which he and Albert Lufkin farmed in partnership, continuing thus for four years, at the end of which time Mr. Waring came to Reasnor, having laid by some capital, and here he engaged in buying and selling stock and grain. After three successful years in this business he purchased a farm near Kellogg, on which he lived two years, when he sold out and returned to Reasnor and again engaged in the live stock and grain business, which he has continued with uniform success to the present time, building up an extensive and satisfactory business through energy, good management and square dealing.

On November 23, 1898, Mr. Waring was united in marriage with Ollie Blackledge, daughter of Frank and Atlanta Blackledge, natives of Indiana, from which state they moved to Nebraska in early life. Mrs. Waring was born in Jasper County, Iowa, July 28, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Blackledge spent their lives on a farm and they are now both deceased. They were people of excellent worth and highly respected.

To Mr. and Mrs. Waring five children have been born, of whom Rollin died in infancy; the living are Thelma, Dale, Russell and Warren.

Mrs. Waring is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Reasnor. In politics Mr. Waring is a Democrat and he has always manifested a lively interest in whatever tended to promote the good of his locality. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 975.