Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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WILLIAM H. SQUIRE

William H. SQUIRE, real-estate and loan-agent at Dunlap, has been a resident of the place since August, 1883, since which time he has transacted a large amount of business in his line, handling as high as $200,000 worth of business in one year. He also represents some of the leading fire insurance companies, including one of Burlington, Iowa, Rockford, Ill., and Knoxville, Tenn. He is a Notary Public, and has been Justice of the Peace for six years, and was Mayor of Dunlap in 1887. It may be said that he is one of the enterprising business lights of his town.

Politically, Mr. SQUIRE is ever ready to explain why he is a supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of the following civic societies: Hospitable Lodge, No. 244; Ark Chapter, No. 89, of the Masonic fraternity; Shields Post, No. 83, G. A. R., of which he is Past Commander; Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 284, and Past Council of Acorn Camp, No. 325, of the Modern Woodmen of America.

Mr. SQUIRE is a native of Long Island, N. Y., born November 13, 1844. He is the son of Daniel and Mary (KEELING) SQUIRE, of English and Scotch extraction. He is one of a family of seven children. The mother and one sister reside at Ottumwa, Iowa; one sister at Burlington, Iowa; one brother in Wisconsin; a brother and sister in Council Bluffs, and one brother in the South. The father died at Ottumwa in November, 1889.

When our subject was three years old the family removed to Chicago, and after two years removed to Rockford, Ill., where he was reared and educated. He enlisted as a member of Company K, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, and was honorably discharged December 22, 1865. He was in several hot engagements, and received a flesh wound in the calf of his leg. After coming out of the army, he followed photography for seventeen years, at McGregor, Rockford and Ottawa, Ill., and Omaha, Neb. He has been engaged in his present business ten years, two years at Council Bluffs and eight at Dunlap.

In 1878 he was married at Ottawa, Ill., to Miss L. E. PIERCE, daughter of J. F. and Mary (ROE) PIERCE, who was born in New York State July 23, 1848. Mr. and Mrs. SQUIRE are the parents of five daughters, ranging from two to twelve years of age: Edith, Minnie, Maude, Gertrude, and Ethel. Mrs. SQUIRE is a member of the Episcopal Church.

Our subject is in the true sense of the word a self-made business man, and one who possesses every characteristic of a true citizen, while he and his estimable family are an ornament to the society in which they move.

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