W. D. Shuttleworth

SHUTTLEWORTH, KAYLEY, MC DOUGALL, SOKOL

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Date: 3/6/2007 at 11:01:06

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

W. D. SHUTTLEWORTH.

One of the substantial business men of Sibley, who has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the city, is W. D. Shuttleworth, the president of the Shell Lumber Company and vice-president of the Sibley Cement Company. He is a man of rare business ability and integrity and, although he has only been connected with the business life of Sibley a comparatively short time, yet he has impressed his individuality upon all of those with whom he has been associated. He was born May 12, 1869, at Fennimore, Grant County, Wisconsin, and is the son of Craven and Nancy (Kayley) Shuttleworth.

Craven Shuttleworth was born in Helsfield, Yorkshire, England, and came to America in 1856, first settling in Madison, Wisconsin, for two years and then went to Grant County, where he followed his trade as a cabinetmaker until his death, in February, 1903, at the age of seventy-eight years. Craven Shuttleworth and wife were the parents of eight children: Job, of Centralia, Illinois; Mrs. Ella McDougall, of Melvin, Osceola County, Iowa; Farrand K., a lawyer of Madison, Wisconsin; Fred, of Idaho Falls, Idaho; W. D., whose history is here narrated: Craven, of Allendorf, Iowa; Ina D., a lawyer of Avoca, Iowa, and May, a teacher of music in Northfield, Minnesota.

W. D. Shuttleworth was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin and came to Iowa in the fall of 1890, when he was twenty-one years of age. and took employment in the Shell lumber yards and remained there for three years, learning the intricacies of the business. He then went to Minneapolis and took a business course, after which he located in Ocheyedan and operated a lumber yard for Armin & Shell. A little later he purchased an interest in the Ocheyedan lumber yards and remained there for the next fifteen years. In 1909 he came to Sibley and assisted in the organization of the Shell Lumber Company and the Sibley Cement Company. He is now president of the lumber company and vice-president of the cement company. The cement company was organized in 1903 for the purpose of manufacturing cement blocks and tile, making a specialty, however, of tile. The factory is located along the Rock Island railway and covers five acres of space. It does a large business in Sibley and the surrounding community and employs from fifteen to twenty men the year round.

Mr. Shuttleworth was married in 1896 to Blanche B. Sokol, the daughter of F. J. and Anna Sokol. The reader is directed to the life history of George F. Sokol, which is found elsewhere in this volume, for the ancestral history of the Sokol family. Mr. and Mrs. Shuttleworth are the parents of two sons, Frank and Craven.

In addition to his interests in Sibley, Mr. Shuttleworth is vice-president of the Ocheyedan Savings Bank. Politically, he is an ardent Republican, but the affairs of his business have kept him from taking an active part in political affairs. He and his family are loyal members of the Congregational Church and contribute liberally of their means to its support. Fraternally, he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and has attained to the thirty-second degree, belonging to the consistory at Sioux City. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a self-made man and owes his large success solely to his own efforts. While intent on promoting his own interests, he has not been indifferent to the interests of his fellow citizens, as is indicated by the part he takes in advancing the material prosperity of the community and the zeal which he manifests in all enterprises having for their object the uplift of his fellow men.

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