Sylvester Preston, real estate, loan and collection agent, also an attorney, Coon Rapids, located here in the fall of 1878, and was the first attorney of the place. He came from Harrison County, where he had been practicing law two years. He first became a resident of Carroll County May 1, 1869. Mr. Preston was born in Grant County, Wisconsin, in 1850. He was reared in his native county, and educated in the public schools and at Sinsinawa Mound College in Grant County. In the spring of 1869 his father, Allen Preston, came to Iowa with his family and settled in Carroll. The father erected the Iowa House at that place, and conducted it about twelve years. He then took charge of another hotel there until 1885, when he removed to Wayne County, Nebraska. He was born in Chenango County, New York. Our subject began studying law at Carroll City, with Joseph Kelley, in 1874, and was admitted to the bar at Dunlap, Harrison County, in 1875, where he opened his first office in Woodbine, that county. He remained there two years, then located in the town of Audubon, Audubon County, coming to Coon Rapids later, where he has since remained. He now devotes the most of his attention to real estate and collections. He is also a notary public. Mr. Preston was married in Guthrie County, May 23, 1872, to Miss Delilah Jane Clearwater, who was born in Indiana, and died at Carroll, May 1, 1876, leaving one daughter—Carrie, who died at the age of seven years. Politically Mr. Preston is a Democrat. An elder brother, Lorenzo Preston, located at Grant City, Sac County, in 1867, and soon after came to this county. He is now with his father in Nebraska.

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