Sigler, Frederick C.

SIGLER

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Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:47:32

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.923

FREDERICK CARL SIGLER
Frederick Carl Sigler, who since 1898 has been identified with the lumber and grain business in Indianola, manifests that determination and fore of character which stops not at ordinary obstacles but pushes forward and eventually reaches the goal of success. Iowa claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Adams County, February 23, 1872. He is the eldest of the three children of David S. and Anna (Harper) Sigler.
His father was born in Ohio and after living for sometime in Ohio came to Iowa in 1860, settling first in Osceola. He was engaged in merchandising there until the period of the Civil War, after which he removed to Corning, where he engaged in the banking business. During the period of hostilities, however, he put aside all business and personal considerations and enlisted for active duty at the front as a member of the Sixth Iowa Infantry, returning as captain of his company. He joined the army at Osceola and served until the latter part of the war. In his business affairs he prospered and his entire life was in harmony with honorable, manly principles. He exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican Party and was ever loyal to his professions as a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died in 1892 at the age of fifty years, while his wife, a native of Iowa, died in 1894 at the age of forty-seven years. Their daughters are: Flora, now the wife of C. E. Carver, an insurance man of Los Angeles, California, and Huldah, the wife of Ralph McCue, a wholesale dealer in shoes in Des Moines.
Frederick C. Sigler was a public school student prior to entering the academy at Corning, Iowa. Later he attended Simpson College at Indianola, where he completed his education. He was identified with the banking busi­ness at Wallace, Nebraska, for a time and afterward took up his abode in Indianola, where he became associated with the Warren County Bank as vice president and assistant cashier. He then turned his attention to the lumber and grain business in 1898 and is now engaged in this line. He controls a large trade in both departments and his business, having reached extensive proportions, is now returning to him a gratifying profit. He is a young man, alert and energetic, and the future seems to hold in store for him still larger successes.
Mr. Sigler was married in 1896 to Miss Sarah Eikenberry, of Chariton, and they have an interesting little daughter, Helen. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, are prominent socially and Mr. Sigler's posi­tion on political questions is never an equivocal one, for he gives unfaltering allegiance to the Republican Party.