Cale, Dewitt D.

CALE

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Date: 6/28/2021 at 23:23:56

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.879

DEWITT D. CALE
The subject of this sketch is a member of the well known firm of Cale & Misner, general merchants of Cumming, Iowa. He is one of the native sons of the state, born in Scott County on the 22d of November 1854, his father being H. Cale, who came to Warren County in 1855 and located in Linn Township, where he is still living. Our subject's mother, who bore the maiden name of Amelia Penry, now deceased, and six of the seven children of the family are living.
D. D. Cale was only six months old when brought by his parents to Warren County and he is indebted to the public schools of this locality for the educational privileges enjoyed during his boyhood and youth. He remained upon the home farm until he attained his majority, when he went to Des Moines and accepted a clerkship in the grocery store of T. B. Robinson, in whose employ he remained for six years. For two years he was employed as bookkeeper in that city and during the following two years traveled in Kansas for the Chamberlain Medicine Company.
At the end of that time Mr. Cale came to Cumming in 1890 and pur­chased the general store of C. O. Jenks, which he conducted alone for one year. His brother-in-law, C. W. Misner, then purchased an interest in the business, which they have since conducted with good success under the firm name of Cale & Misner. They carry a large and well selected stock of groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, tin and hardware. Owing to their fair dealing and reliable methods they have secured a liberal patronage.