Harle, Matthew E. (1848-1937)

HARLE

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 22:47:07

Matthew E. Harle
June 10, 1848 - Apr 11, 1937

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.568)
M. E. HARLE, proprietor and manager of the Livery, Sale, Breaking and Training Stable, 17 and 19 North Second Street, Council Bluffs, established in 1887, carries a stock of good horses, carriages, etc., devoting the most of his attention to the breaking and training of horses, especially track horses and has to his credit that he has broken, trained and driven two of the fastest pacing horses ever bred and raised in Pottawattamie County, namely: Mattie Harle and Warren Daily.

He was born at Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, June 10, 1848, the son of Trammill and Elizabeth (WILLSON) HARLE, natives of Virginia, and possibly of Irish and Scotch ancestry. On coming to Council Bluffs in 1869, he earned his first money with which he purchased two colts, and continued to do whatever he could find the first year; then followed farming three years and then engaged in the horse business, which he has ever since followed, excepting three years spent in Colorado, mining and prospecting. In 1872 he commenced in the livery business at his present stand; and then moved to Pierce Street, where he operated eight years; and next for over a year he was proprietor of the Ogden Broadway, one of the leading livery stables west of Chicago, and finally back to the place he now occupies.

Mr. HARLE is a Republican in his political principles. He married Miss Elizabeth HARLE, who also was born in Knox County, Ohio, but reared in Council Bluffs. They have two children: Gracie and Mattie. Mr. Harle's father was a contractor for building while in Ohio, but in this county he was engaged in dairying and stock-raising. He died in December 1885 at the age of seventy-nine years and eleven months; his wife died in Ohio, the mother of M. E. HARLE.