Nathan C. Wieting

WIETING, MUCKLER

Posted By: Jeanie
Date: 5/18/2005 at 12:40:37

Nathan C. Wieting.

The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Decatur, Otsego County, New York, June 8th, 1828. He is of German decent, his grandparents coming from Germany to the United States during the Revolutionary war. He is eldest son of John C. and Catharine Wieting, whose family consisted of nine children. His father was a farmer, and his son Nathan remained at home working on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he commenced teaching school to enable him to complete his studies at a Seminary near his home, in which manner, alternating in teaching and attending school, he spent his time until about February, 1856. On the 17th day of April 1856 he came to Toledo, and cast his lot with the early settlers of this County, and has had an unbroken residence since that time. At the first term of the District Court after his arrival he was admitted to the bar of Tama County and formed a partnership with T. Walter Jackson, in Toledo. At the fall election in 1856 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the County under the old law, and served during his term. In politics being an ardent Republican, he signed the first call for party organization, and assisted in the organization of the party in 1856.

In the fall of 1858 he became proprietor of the “Toledo Tribune” and changed the name to the “Iowa Transcript” and ably conducted its columns until the fall of 1866, when he retired from the editorship of the same.

He was married to Miss Emily H. Muckler, of Toledo, on December 4th, 1858, and has one son, John Guy Wieting, born July 6th, 1873.

In the spring of 1867 he entered into the mercantile business in Toledo and, continued in the same until the fall of 1876, when he closed out his business. In January 1878 at the solicitation of many prominent Republicans he purchased the “Tama County Independent” and changed the name to “Toledo Times” also the politics of the paper and is now conducting the same as a Republican organ in full sympathy with the principles of the party. The paper is one of the permanent institutions of the County, edited and owned by one who has watched the growth and progress of our County for years, and who has been fully identified with the interests of the people and as an editor shows a continuous series of more years in the County than any editor among us.

From the History of Tama County, Iowa. by Samuel D. Chapman. Printed at the Toledo Times Office. 1879. Pages 171 and 172.