John T. Liddle (1843-1909)

LIDDLE, GOODWIN, PARKER, FOX, ARNOTT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/26/2016 at 22:59:50

From Nevada Representative July 13, 1909 (front page)

DEATH OF PIONEER MERCHANT

John T. Liddle of Cedar Rapids--Lived in Nevada Forty years Ago.

The death is announced of John T. Liddle of Cedar Rapids, who was one of the mercantile firm of Liddle & Pollock, and afterwards of Liddle Bros., that kept a general store in Nevada from about 1868 to 1873. He died at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, on Saturday, July 3rd, having gone there for his health, and his funeral was in Cedar Rapids last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Liddle is well and most favorably remembered by survivors of his time in Nevada; but it is not recalled readily that having moved away from here he ever returned, although old acquaintances met him occasionally in Cedar Rapids. He was a native of Washington county, New York, and he came west as a young man, locating first in Marshalltown and coming form that city to Nevada. He married here Miss Emma Goodwin who was sister-in-law of Mr. Parker, Nevada's first banker, and was a young lady whose family, like himself, remained here but for a comparatively short time. He was successful in business, having engaged at Cedar Rapids first in merchandising and having also had notable occupation and success as an executor of a large estate. He had a brother, Stockwell Liddle, who was also at Nevada at the same time that he was and who now resides at Walker in Linn county. He leaves also his wife, a foster-daughter, Miss Maud Liddle, and three sisters, Mrs. Chas. J. Fox of Cedar Rapids, Mrs Harriet Arnot of Salem, New York-- where was the old family home--and Miss Kate Liddle of Munich, Germany.