Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 802
EDWARD W. SCEBOLD

Of all the phases and conditions of life which are called to the attention of the biographer, the most illuminative are those that are involved in the story of a man who is actuated by praiseworthy motives and who wins distinctive success as a result of unremitting effort. Such a man is Edward W. SCEBOLD, the prominent Harrison county agriculturist.

Born on August 15, 1866, just east of Loveland, Pottawattamie county, Iowa, Mr. SCEBOLD is the son of Joseph and Jane (PALMER) SCEBOLD, who were Michigan farmers and the parents of ten children, of whom Edward W. was the fifth in order of birth.

Mr. SCEBOLD received a high-school education, making his home with his parents until he was twenty-one. At this age he rented land for two years, at the end of which time he married. He continued to rent for two years more and then bought sixty-three acres in Boomer township, Pottawattamie county, Iowa, which land he owned for two years, at the end of which time he sold out and moved to Missouri Valley, where he went to work for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company in their car-repair department. He continued at this work for seven years, then went to Sioux City, where he was foreman of the car-repair shops of the same railway company. He stayed in Sioux City six months and then went to Council Bluffs for a stay of one and one-half years, during which time he worked for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad. In February of 1904 he returned to Harrison county and recommenced farming, renting for two years from John Young, after which, for two years, he rented the farm on which he now lives, and which he bought in 1908. The farm contains one hundred and fifty-six acres of good, well-improved land. Full-blooded Hampshire hogs are a specialty with Mr. SCEBOLD, and he is intending to take several blue ribbons with his hogs at the county fairs. He feeds about one hundred hogs each year, and about one car of cattle, as well as doing general farming.

On September 8, 1889, Mr. SCEBOLD married Elizabeth ALEXANDER, who was born on March 28, 1868, in Pottawattamie county, near where Mr. SCEBOLD was born. Mrs. SCEBOLD is the daughter of Charles and Catharine (Scott) ALEXANDER, who were natives respectively of Philadelphia and New York, and are now residents of Harrison county, having moved here in 1893. To Mr. SCEBOLD and his wife one child has been born, Charles, born on January 15, 1891, and who attended common and high school and then took a commercial course of three years at Fremont College, Fremont, Nebraska.

Mr. SCEBOLD and his wife are members of the Daughters of Rebekah and he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his political beliefs Mr. SCEBOLD favors the Democratic party, and has been township trustee for one term. Genial, open-minded and well-informed, Mr. SCEBOLD is considered as a welcome guest by his many friends, while the welfare of his fellow men is a matter of vital concern to him. He and his wife are held in the highest regard in the community in which they live and have a large following of warm friends.

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