Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOSEPH M. CANTY

One of the professions which demands a technical training is that of pharmacy, and every state in the Union now requires all pharmacists to be registered. One of the skilled pharmacists of Logan, Iowa, is Joseph M. CANTY, who established a drug store in that city after graduating from the State University of Iowa. Mr. CANTY has one of the most attractive stores in the city and has his full share of the trade in that line.

Joseph M. CANTY, the son of William and Mary (GUY) CANTY, was born December 22, 1883, in Union township, Harrison county, Iowa, and was one of a family of three children, the others being Alice, the wife of Doctor HANSEN, of Logan, and Lois, who is teaching in the public schools of Nebraska City, Nebraska.

William CANTY was born October 30, 1855, in Low Moor, Iowa, and was reared on his father's farm in Clinton county. He was married in 1882 to Mary GUY, who was born at Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1857. Immediately after his marriage William CANTY came to Harrison county and bought eighty acres of land in Union township. He prospered from the start and was soon able to add another eighty acres to his farm. He became a large cattle feeder and always kept high-grade cattle. In 1898, William CANTY sold his farm in Union township and moved to Jefferson township, where he owned another farm, on which he lived until 1908. In that year he retired from active farm life and moved to Logan, where he and his wife now live.

Joseph M. CANTY attended the country schools of his home neighborhood until he was fifteen years of age and then entered the high school at Logan. After he was graduated from the high school in 1901 he returned to the farm and worked with his father for about seven years. He then located in Logan and started to work in the drug store of I. C. WOOD, remaining with him for about sixteen months. He then decided to engage in the drug business himself, and, in order better to qualify himself, took the pharmacy course in the State University. He took the complete three years' course, and after he was graduated in 1912, returned to Logan and bought a stock of drugs. Previously he had built a five-thousand-dollar building in Logan, in which he placed a complete line of drugs and druggists' sundries, and he now has a modern and up-to-date store in every particular, few towns in the state boasting of a more attractive drug store. Mr. CANTY is unmarried. He gives his hearty support to the Republican party, but has never been an aspirant for public office. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Although he has been in business for himself but a short time, Mr. CANTY already has demonstrated his ability to conduct his store successfully. He is a man of pleasing personality, and has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances throughout the county.

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