Struble, Isaac S. 1843-1913

STRUBLE, STONE

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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
February 18, 1913

NO WARNING OF END
WELL KNOWN MAN IS SUDDENLY STRICKEN
I. S. STRUBLE CALLED TO REWARD
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Dean of the LeMars Legal Fraternity, Representative in Congress for Eight Years, and Civil War Veteran Answers Final Roll Call

Hon. I. S. Struble, one of the older residents of LeMars, and a man well known throughout northwestern Iowa, is dead. The community was shocked yesterday on hearing the news which was spread abroad shortly after one o’clock in the afternoon.

Mr. Struble was at his office and around town in the forenoon attending to business as usual and had his cheery greeting for all those whom he met and looked bright and happy. Shortly after partaking of his noon meal, he complained of dizziness and was assisted to a couch and a physician called. Before the attending physician arrived, Mr. Struble was in the throes of death and medical aid was futile. His death was due to diabetic coma. He had been a sufferer from diabetes for some time and within the past two years had been confined to his home for long intervals with severe attacks of illness.

His death removes from LeMars one of her most prominent citizens and a leading figure at the bar, in politics, religious and business affairs. He bore a wide reputation, having been prominent in state politics and a member of congress for eight years.

Isaac S. Struble was born near Fredericksburg, Va., November 3, 1843. His parents were Isaac and Emma Struble, natives of New Jersey. In 1845, they moved to Ohio with their family, remaining there until 1857, when they came to Iowa, and settled on a farm near Iowa City.

Mr. Struble’s early education was received in the common schools of Ohio and Iowa, but after the war he attended the Iowa State University, studied law and was admitted to practice in 1870, and later was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.

At the age of eighteen he enlisted in August, 1862, in Company F, Twenty-second Iowa infantry, marching in the ranks as a private until after the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., in 1864, when he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. The Twenty-second Iowa was a regiment of fighters and among Iowa’s distinguished soldiers it holds a proud place. With his regiment Mr. Struble saw hard service until he was mustered out July 25, 1865. Mr. Struble was a participant in many engagements in the war, notably in the battles of Port Gibson, the siege of Vicksburg, battle and siege of Jackson, Miss., and Cedar Creek, Va.

In 1866 he sent to St. Louis, where he remained about a year, as bookkeeper in the wholesale house J. H. Teasdale & Co., his uncle being the senior partner. After admission to the bar in 1870, he began the practice of law at Polo, Ill., where he remained until 1872, when he removed to LeMars. Here he applied himself closely to his profession, and never held any public office until elected to the Forty-eighth congress in 1882.

In 1884, 1886, and 1888, Mr. Struble was renominated by acclamation, having the distinguished honor of being three times returned without opposition in his own party. At his last election he received a majority of 6,259 votes over his Democratic opponent. In 1890 on the forty-third ballot the nomination went to Hon. George D. Perkins, of Woodbury county. Mr. Struble entered actively and vigorously into the campaign which followed, giving unqualified support to Mr. Perkin’s candidacy. Of his career in congress, the congressional record is the best evidence. He was always considered a strong member. Himself a soldier, he devoted much time to the interests of his soldier commitments, as many a veteran responsibility. He held prominent positions on several committees, but it was in the committee on territories that he figured most prominently. During his entire term of service, he was a member of that committee. His speech on Oklahoma showed so thorough a grasp of territorial matters that he became authority on affairs pertaining to that and other territories. He was made chairman of the committee on territories of the Fifty-first congress, and as such had much to do in shaping legislation in reference to the organization of the territory of Oklahoma, other important territorial legislation, and the admission of the new states of Idaho and Wyoming.

When Mr. Struble returned from Congress to settle down to the practice of law at LeMars, his neighbors and friends turned out regardless of party and gave him a grand reception at the Opera House.

During the winter of 1890-1891, Mr. Struble received a very strong endorsement from the Iowa bar and press as well as from business men for the appointment to a vacancy on the supreme bench. Mr. Struble was a candidate for congress again when the late Hon. E. H. Hubbard was nominated at the convention held in Cherokee.

After returning from Congress he resumed his practice of laws in LeMars and was also president of the Western Investment Co. and interested in other enterprises.

He was united in marriage at Unity, Maine, on June 3, 1874, to Miss Adelaide E. Stone, who with four sons survives him. The sons are Guy T. Struble, of Sioux City; D. S. Struble, of the First National Bank of this city; Geo. F. Struble, of Los Angeles, Cal.; and Irving I. Struble, of Minneapolis.

Mr. Struble was a charter member of the First Congregational Church in this city, was a member of the Masonic, the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army orders. He was interested in temperance legislations and was active in upholding the prohibitory law when it was enacted in Iowa in 1884. He was a steady attendant at church and always worked to the best of his ability for the uplift and betterment of the community in which he lived. His home life was ideal. He was a devoted husband and father, a loyal friend and neighbor. Many a night he spent at the bedside of a sick or dying comrade and friend, helping to alleviate pain and suffering and sympathizing in his wholehearted way with the grief stricken relatives. Mr. Struble was companionable and cheery, was pleasant and gracious in manner even with those who did not agree with him, and his death is sincerely regretted by everyone who knew him in LeMars and vicinity.

The funeral will be held on Thursday afternoon at the First Congregational church at 2 o’clock.
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LeMars Sentinel
Tuesday, March 11, 1913

RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
Whereas Hon. Isaac S. Struble departed this life at LeMars, Iowa on the 17th
day of February, 1913, being at the date of his death an honored and
respected member of Mower Post No. 91 of the Grand Army of the Republic and
its post adjutant and
Whereas, his surviving comrades desire to bear testimony to his patriotic
service as a soldier in the great war for the preservation of the Union; to
his distinguished service in Congress during a period of eight years, during
which time he earnestly advocated all measures passed for the benefit of the
survivors of that war and for the support of their widows and orphans; to
his courageous and upright conduct in all of the relations in life and
especially to his very efficient help in organizing and maintaining Mower
Post and in planning and aiding in the patriotic and benevolent work which
it has done, therefore be it resolved,

First, that we deeply deplore and sincerely mourn the death of our beloved
comrade and we extend to his bereaved widow and children our sympathy for
the great loss they have suffered.

Second, be it further resolved that these resolutions be duly recorded in
the records of Mower Post; that a copy thereof be published in the
newspapers in the city of LeMars, Iowa, and that a copy be given to the
widow of our deceased comrade.
~Committee: M. Hilbert, A. W. Crouch, D. R. Edmonds.