CHARLES S. HAIN

Charles S. Hain, the youngest of the five children in his father’s family, was born October 7, 1865, on the farm which is now his home. He was early trained in the work of the fields and continued to assist his father until 1889, when, as a young man of twenty-four years, he left the farm and went to Moscow, where he conducted a general store and also handled grain and farm implements. He was likewise appointed postmaster of the village. After seven years he disposed of his general stock and implements, handling only grain. In this connection he also engaged in the manufacture of gun stocks for the government. His time was thus spent until his father’s death in 1906, when he returned to the home farm and now owns two hundred and eighty acres of the homestead property, which is located on sections 17, 18, 19 and 20, Rochester township, his residence standing on section 19. He has here a well improved property, which is lacking in none of the accessories and equipments usually found on a model farm. He is engaged in general farming and is meeting with success.

Charles Hain was married on the 18th of May, 1895, to Miss Effie L. Parker, who was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, on the 9th of July, 1879, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Parker. Eight children have blessed this union: Ruth, Emmons, Fillmore, Verlee, Mary, Genevieve, Leslie and Linden. Verlee died when but eighteen months old. The family is highly respected in the community where their friends are numbered by the score.