CLARENCE LADD, 1871-??

LADD, SKEWIS, BULLOCK

Posted By: Bahnson
Date: 4/24/2002 at 18:02:50

CLARENCE LADD.
Clarence Ladd, a well known and popular citizen of Inwood, Lyon county, was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, November 12, 1871, and when he was ten years old was brought by his parent to Lyon county, where he was reared on a farm. When he was twenty-one he left the farm, and found employment in a butcher shop for about a year. After this in company with his brother William, he rented his father’s farm, then comprising some two hundred acres, the two working together for one year, and then subject worked it alone for two years more, when Clarence retired from the farm with $800 to the good. His next move was to enter the business college at Des Moines, where he fitted himself for a situation on the Omaha Railroad, where he was employed for a year and a half as abstract clerk. He came home on account of sickness, and purchased the restaurant of his brother, in January, 1901, which establishment he is still running with success.
Mr. Ladd belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge, No. 521, of Inwood, in which he has passed through all the chairs. He is a charter member of the local camp of the Modern Woodmen of America, and belongs to the initiatory team of that body. In politics he is a Democrat with independent proclivities. He was married March 13, 1891, to Miss Caroline Bullock, a daughter of John and Lavinia (Skewis) Bullock. The parents were of English birth.