Sadler, Francis M.

SADLER

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:11:54

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.503

FRANCIS MARION SADLER
Francis Marion Sadler, residing in Indianola, was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, January 11, 1852, and is the second in order of birth in a family of seven children whose parents were George and Adeline (Nedrow) Sadler, the former a native of Harrison County, Ohio, and the latter of Pennsylvania. The father lost his life while serving as a soldier of the Civil War, enlisting in August, 1862, in the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry. He was assigned to Com­pany D, and died in the hospital January 20, 1865. He was of French an­cestry, the family being founded in America during the early colonization period in Pennsylvania. As a business man he followed farming and thus provided for his family. He was in hearty sympathy with the movements and principles which gave rise to the Republican Party and cast his ballot for its candidates. His widow still survives him and is now living in Van Buren County, Iowa, having celebrated the eightieth anniversary of her birth on the 21st of April 1908. She is a member of the Lutheran Church and her many good qualities of heart and mind have gained for her the esteem of all with whom she has come in contact.
Francis M. Sadler was reared upon the home farm and attended the coun­try schools in the acquirement of an education. At the age of eighteen years he learned the wagonmaker's trade, which he followed continuously for thirty-five years, leading a life of well directed industry and perseverance. In 1904 he held a position on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis and following his return to Iowa he followed carpentering until 1907, since which time he has resided in Indianola. He has been identified with Indianola almost continuously since the spring of 1876, at which time he became an employee in Jacoby's wagon shop. He has lived a life of unabating industry and well directed perseverance and whatever success he has achieved is attributable entirely to his own labors.
In 1877 Mr. Sadler was joined in wedlock to Miss Cassie L. Hine, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1857. They have one child, George Francis, who is now a music professor of Hiawatha, Kansas. The parents belong to the Presbyterian Church and Mr. Sadler holds membership with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors of America, and with the last named Mrs. Sadler is also connected. His poli­tical views are in harmony with the principles of the Republican Party and upon its ticket he was elected a member of the city council. He has a most notable record in that connection, having for twenty years been one of the aldermen, during which period he has been most closely associated with the material development, improvement and municipal progress of Indianola. His labors in behalf of the city have been effective and far-reaching. He is a charter member of the Indianola fire company and was the first assistant chief. While a member of the city council he was chairman of the fire committee that organized the fire company and chairman of the water committee that built the water works. He has manifested a contageous enthusiasm in support of a fire department, realizing fully its value as a safeguard to the city, believing that every town should have a well organized fire system. A number of years ago Mr. Sadler assisted in organizing a company of soldiers, known as Company D, Third Regiment, Iowa National Guard, and rose from the rank of corporal to captain of the company. He has always taken an active interest in politics, was chairman of the Warren County delegation to the state convention when Jackson was nominated for governor, and cast the thirteen votes of the county against the celebrated Struble amendment in op­position to the proposed mulct law. He keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and is recognized as a Republican leader in Indianola and Warren County but has never sacrificed the public good to partisanship nor the general welfare to self-aggrandizement.