SUPERNOIS, William E. - 1912 Bio (1865-1957)

SUPERNOIS, LOVELL, SCHOOLEY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 10/2/2007 at 20:40:21

History of Jefferson County, Iowa -- A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol II, Published 1912, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 447-448

William E. SUPERNOIS is now conducting a prosperous business as a tile manufacturer at Packwood, where has improved a plant and devloped an enterprise of large and creditable proportions, his success having its root in his industry, determination and honorable business methods. He was born in Vermont, in April, 1865, and is a son of William and Thola (LOVELL) SUPERNOIS, the former a native of the Green Mountain state and the latter of New York. The father was a farmer by occupation and, removing to Indiana, there engaged in general agricultural pursuits for a number of years. He afterward removed to Illinois, where he engaged in farming for some time, and then went to Adair county, Iowa, where he rented land and thus carried on farming for several years. He afterward returned to Indiana, making his home in Hammond, that state, until his death, which occurred in September, 1911. His widow still survives him and now lives in Chicago with a daughter.

William E. SUPERNOIS was a young lad at the time of the removal of the family to the middle west and was largely reared and educated in Illinois, where he attended the district schools and completed his education as a student in the high school of Oneida, that state. At the age of twenty-one years he began farming on his own account, removing to Adair county, Iowa, where he rented land, which he continued to cultivate until 1895. He then returned to Illinois, where he engaged in the milling business, conducting a feed mill at Woodhill for a few years. On the expiration of that period he came to Packwood and purchased an old tile factory, which he has remodeled and improved wonderfully. Since that time he has conducted the business along successful lines, manufacturing all sizes of drain tile and also making building blocks. He is a man of unfaltering energy and persistent purpose and if success can be won through the exercise of these qualities it will be his. Already he has a large patronage, his output finding a quick sale on the market.

In February, 1897, Mr. SUPERNOIS was married to Miss Josephine SCHOOLEY, a daughter of Daniel and Mary SCHOOLEY, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. Daniel SCHOOLEY removed to Adair county, Iowa, in 1887 and there lived until 1907, when they removed to Nebraska, where the father passed away in February, 1910, while his wife is still living in Nebraska. To Mr. and Mrs. SUPERNOIS have been four children, Lewis, Leon, Robert and Clarence. In his fraternal relations Mr. SUPERNOIS is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and in politics he is a republican. His wife holds membership in the Methodist church and both are highly esteemed in the community, having won a large circle of warm friends by their many sterling characteristics. Mr. SUPERNOIS well deserves classification with the representative business men of the county, for he started out in life empty-handed and has worked his way steadily upward, depending upon diligence and industry and straightforward dealing for the success which has come to him.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.