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FLOYD E. PAGE has won his mark as an Iowa lawyer and is the junior associate of one of the oldest and best known attorneys of Crawford County, being a member of the law firm of Sims & Page at Denison.

Mr. Page was born at Arthur in Ida County, Iowa, November 5, 1896, son of E. B. and Emma (Shoop) Page.   His parents live on a farm near Ida Grove, and his father has been identified with agricultural pursuits all his active career.

Floyd E. Page was one of a family of six children, five of whom are living.  In 1914 he was graduated from the Ida Grove High School, and soon afterward entered the University of Iowa, graduating from teh College of Liberal Arts in 1919 and from the College of Law in 1921.  He was admitted to the bar in June, 1921, and at once came to Denison and entered the office of Mr. Jacob Sims, who subsequently took him into the partnership of Sims  & Page.  Mr. Page is a member of the Iowa State and American Bar Associations and has taken a considerable interest in local politics.  Since 1924 he has served as chairman of the Crawford County central committee of the Republican party.  He is a Mason and a member of the Acacia fraternity.  He is also a Phi Delta Phi and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men.

Mr. Page on June 29, 1921, married Miss Deborah Sykes, a native of Iowa, daughter of A. and Alice (Denny) Sykes, of Ida Grove.  They have one daughter, Deborah Ann, born November 20, 1925.

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EBER LENON PALMER is superintendent of city schools at Vinton, and his first teaching experience was in that community.  It is a rather unusual circumstance that a father and son occupy prominent educational positions in one town, his father Francis Eber Palmer, being superintendent of the State School for the Blind at Vinton.

Eber Lenon Palmer was born at Greenfield, Iowa, September 16, 1897, son of Francis E. and Cora May (Lenon) Palmer.  Appropriate mention of his father's notable career as an educator is made on following pages of this publication.

Eber Lenon Palmer received his early school advantages in the several localities where his father was superintendent of schools, including Villisca, Greenfield and LeMars.  He is a graduate of the LeMars High School.  In high school he showed special proficiency in dramatic and debating work.  In 1914 he entered Grinnell College, from which he received his A. B. degree in 1918.

In May, 1917, he and seven other Grinnell students volunteered for service in the World war, and singularly all of them were assigned duties that kept them together.  They were connected with the Twenty-sixth Base Hospital, received training at Fort McPherson, Georgia, and on June, 1918, went overseas, being stationed at Allerey, near Dijon, France.  Mr. Palmer returned to the United States in February, 1919.  Since the war he has been a member of the American Legion.

After his release from military duty he resumed work in Grinnell College for ten weeks.  At Vinton he taught mathematics in the high school for two years, and for two years was principal of the high school there.  Then came an interruption  to his work as an educator when he spent a year of residence at the University of Iowa.  After taking his Master of Arts degree he was for two years superintendent of schools at Radcliffe, Iowa, and then returned to Vinton as superintendent of the public schools.

He is a member of the Iowa Teachers Association, National Education Association, is a Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Phi Delta Kappa, and is a Methodist.  He married Miss Eunice Olsen, daughter of L. H. Olsen, of Minneapolis.  Mrs. Palmer was educated at the University of Minnesota, and taught the craft arts, including basket weaving, at the School for the Blind at Vinton.

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FRANCIS E. PALMER, veteran Iowa educator, has since 1918 been superintendent of the Iowa State School for the Blind at Vinton.  He comes of a family of educators, both his parents having been school teachers.  His son, Eber L. Palmer, by an interesting coincidence, is superintendent of the public schools at Vinton.

Francis E. Palmer has devoted forty-two years of his life to school work.  For two years he conducted a small private school near Grinnell.  This was a school attended by pupils from the rural neighborhoods and his salary was twenty-six dollars a month.  Mr. Palmer was superintendent of schools at Spirit Lake, Guthrie Center, Greenfield, Villisca, Jefferson, LeMars and Mason City, and then was called by the state board of education to the duties and responsibilities of the Iowa State School for the blind.

He is a native of Iowa, born September 24, 1863, on a farm located half way between Cascade and Monticello, in Jones County.  His parents, Stephen A. and Angeline (BEnnett) Palmer, were Iowa pioneers.  Stephen A. Palmer was born in New York State, thirty miles from Rochester, and his wife, Angeline Bennett, was a native of Ohio.  They first met while both were students in Oberlin College of Ohio.  Angeline Bennett taught school near Wadsworth in her native state.  Before his marriage Mr. Palmer's father moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, and a year later, in 1853, came to Iowa, with his bride, locating in Jones County.  At that time there were no railroads west of the Mississippi, and for his first home in Jones County Stephen Palmer hauled lumber thirty miles from Dubuque.  That was a tremendous undertaking when the condition of the roads and highways are considered.  At the present time over the modern Iowa highway system a truckload of lumber could be run out from Dubuque, thirty miles, in an hour's time, whereas seventy-five years ago a team of horses or oxen in the most favorable season of the year could accomplish such a trip in not less than ten hours.  Stephen A. Palmer after coming to Iowa volunteered his service in the Union army, but was rejected, though he satisfied his patriotism by serving as jamor in a regiment of Home Guards.  From Jones County the family subsequently moved to a farm two and a half miles east of Grinnell, this move being made to give the children better school advantages.  There were eleven children in the family.  Stephen Palmer was an Iowa farmer when corn sold for from fifteen to twenty cents a bushel and hogs were taken to the market and brought only two dollars a hundred.  He lived to be eighty years of age, passing away in 1917, and his wife died in 1894.  The family were Methodists.

Francis E. Palmer while a boy came under the influence of a noted Iowa pioneer educator, Barrett Whittemore.  He attended school in Grinnell and after graduating from Grinnell College received some special training in the Soper School in Chicago.  As a young man he majored in the classical languages.  Along with his practical work as an educator he has filled various offices in educational organizations, having been president of both the Southwest and the Northwest Iowa Teachers Association, is a former vice president of the Iowa State Teachers Association and for three years was on its executive committee.  Mr. Palmer during the World war was a member of the Speakers Bureau, active in the Y. M. C. A., and Red Cross drives.  He is a Republican and for many years has been active in the Methodist Church, serving on the board of stewards and as a leader in Sunday School.

Mr. Palmer married, in 1893, Miss May Lenon, daughter of Capt. P. H. and Emma (Baxley) Lenon.  She was born at Panora, Guthrie County, was educated at Guthrie Center and taught school there.  Her father came from Indiana and her mother from Illinois.  Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have had two children, Lorna and Eber L.  Both graduated from Grinnell College, and at the time of her death, in October, 1918, Lorna was instructor of piano at the School for the Blind.

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CHRIS A. PANKOW.  A banker whose name stands for solidity and repute, and a veteran of the World war, Chris A. Pankow, cashier of the Farmers SAvings Bank of Spragueville, Iowa, is one of the outstanding figures of Jackson County.  He was born at Spragueville, July 20, 1900, a son of Ernest C. and Anna L. (Kunze) Pankow, both natives of Iowa, and for many years residents of Spragueville, where the father has owned and operated a general store, and is now serving as postmaster.  He and his wife have two sons and three daughters:  Clive, who is a banker at Spencer, Iowa; Leona, who is the wife of Louis Pauli, of Clinton, Iowa Laura, who is the wife of Rev. A. C. Holf, of Millard, Nebraska; Le Anna, who is living at home; and Chris A.

Following his graduation from the Preston High School in 1917, Chris A. Pankow attended the Clinton, Iowa, Business College, and October 1, 1917, was made assistant cashier of his present bank, in spite of his youth, and held that position until July, 1918, when he enlisted for the World war at Dubuque, Iowa.  He was assigned to the Three Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regiment, and sent to Camp Mills, New York, where he was in training until the armistice was declared.  After his honorable discharge from the service Mr. Pankow returned to Iowa, and was employed in the Farmers National Bank of Aurelia from 1919 to 1921, when he returned to Spragueville to become cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank, which position he still holds, with characteristic efficiency.

On May 28, 1921, Mr. Pankow was married to Miss Gladys Shank, a daughter of J. T. and Minnie (Mummert) Shank, both natives of Iowa and now living in Cherokee County, Iowa.  Mr. and Mrs. Pankow have no children.  He is a member of the Clinton Lodge, B. P. O. E.; and Spragueville Camp, M. W. of A.  One of the leading Republicans, he is now serving as town clerk.  Since its organization he has been an active member of the American Legion, and in August, 1929, was honored by being elected state finance officer of Iowa at the annual convention of the state which met at Marshalltown; and for the past eight years he has been adjutant of the Jackson County Association of Legion Posts.

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GEORGE PARKER, A.C. A., C.P.A.,  Southern Surety Building, Des Moines, has been in practice in Iowa since 1912, when he was the first certified public accountant to open an office in the state.

Mr. Parker was born in England, November 13, 1876.  His father, John Parker, F. C. A., was a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and was an outstanding member of his profession in that country, where he lived all his life, passing away in 1905.  Accountancy has always been a favorite occupation of members of the Parker family, and it may be interesting to state that, except for one break, Mr. Parker's ancestors have been accountants for five generations.

George Parker, the subject of this memoir, was educated in private schools, his principal instructor being James Hanna, M. A., of Trinity College, Dublin.  While in school he participated in the characteristic English sports of rugby and association football and cricket.  He served for five years under articles to his father, passing the preliminary, intermediate and final examination, and was admitted an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in 1899.

After practicing in England for ten years he came to the United States in 1909, and was engaged on the staff of Marwick Mitchell & Company in their Minneapolis and Saint Paul office.  He was admitted a certified public accountant of the State of Minnesota in 1911, an din the same year commenced practice on his own account.  He opened a branch office in Des Moines in 1912, and in 1913 was retained by the committee on retrenchment and reform of the Thirty-fifth General Assembly to make a special investigation of the existing procedure incident to the business of the state.  His findings were made the basis of the committee's report to the Thirty-sixth General Assembly, and many of his recommendations - for example, the budget system - have since been incorporated in the laws of our state.

Mr. Parker moved to Des Moines permanently in 1920.  He has built up an organization which has a wide range of service, including audits and investigations, tax counsel, industrial surveys and constructive accounting, the latter two comprising the review of existing accounting and statistical methods, and the installation of improved procedure, particularly in reference to cost accounting, budget systems, and the forecasting of the results of contemplated future operations.  He was admitted a certified public accountant of the State of Iowa in 1923, and became a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants in 1925.  He has also enjoyed high honors in the Iowa Society for several years, president in 1927-1928 and is now treasurer.

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JOHN L. PARSONS.  The professional life of John L. Parsons, of Fort Dodge, was passed upon the highest plane of a lawyer's work, but recently he gave up the practice of law and became manager of the Builders Supply Company of Fort Doge, with which concern he has been connected since March, 1930.  John L. Parsons was born on a farm in Calhoun County, Iowa, May 4, 1883, and is a son of Thomas and Mary H. (Clutter) Parsons.  His father, who was born in England, came to the United States about 1879 or 1880 and settled on a farm in Calhoun County, Iowa, where from small beginnings he rose to be one of the substantial men of his community.  He won the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, took an active part in public life, and after serving for some time as a member of the board of county supervisors was sent to the State Legislature, in which body he served with signal ability for three terms.  His death occurred in 1928.  Mr. Parsons was a stanch Republican in political matters, belonged to the Knights of Pythias, and during his entire life was a devout member of the Congregational Church and took an active part in its movements.  In Iowa he was united in marriage with Miss Mary h. Clutter, who was born in Ohio, and died about 1899, and they became the parents of three children:  Alfred H., who is engaged in agricultural operations in Calhoun County; John L., of this review; and Flora E., the wife of Charles H. Beck, of Fort Dodge.

John L. Parsons attended the public schools and Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and in 1907 embarked in civil engineering, a vocation to which he gave the greater part of his attention until 1928, being principally engaged in drainage projects.  In the meanwhile he studied law under the preceptorship of D. M. Kelleher, and in 1926 was admitted to the bar, although he did not start active practice until 1928, after which time he built up a large and representative clientage.  He has large land holdings which require his attention.  Mr. Parsons belongs to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fort Dodge and is a member of the board of stewards.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons and has served as secretary of his lodge.  In September, 1918, he entered the Officers Training Camp at Camp Humphreys, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant, but was not called upon for overseas service, receiving his honorable discharge in December, 1918.  A Republican in his political affiliation, he has served as president of the local school board since 1927, and was formerly county engineer of both Humboldt and Webster counties.

In 1907 Mr. Parsons was united in marriage with Miss Laura Cheney, who was born in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, and graduated from Cornell College as a member of the class of 1906.  They are parents of three children:  Elsie L., who married Harold J. Foreman, who is connected with the Register and Leader, Cedar Rapids;  Lawrence C., who is attending the junior college at Fort Dodge; and Carol, attending the junior high school.

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AYLETT L. PASCAL, has lived all his life in Clinton County, and has to his credit an active membership at the Iowa bar covering more than half a century.  His father was a lawyer by training, although he never practiced, and Mr. Pascal's two sons have followed him in the same profession.

Mr. Pascal's father was George W. Pascal, an Iowa pioneer, and a man of notable attainments, possessing a rich and varied scholarship as well as a faculty for practical business.  He was born at Longeville, Saint Avold, Lorraine, France, and came with his parents to America in 1841.  The family settled at Canal Dover, Ohio.  During 1846-47 he learned to make and paint chairs at Zanesville, Ohio.  From 1848 to 1850 he pursued his studies in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, then and since one of the best small colleges in the United States.  George W. Pascal settled at Dewitt in Clinton County, Iowa, in 1852.  He taught school for a time.  He possessed the knowledge and training of a surveyor and was employed in running many of the old land boundary lands over the county.  Later he established a home on eighty acres situated a mile and a half north of Dewitt, and in subsequent years became one of the largest land owners in the county, at one time having 1,000 acres on farm land in addition to considerable property in the town of Dewitt.  His landed interests gave him his chief business occupation.  He also found time to cultivate many unusual fields of knowledge.  During 1859-60 he was a student of astronomy and higher mathematics in the University of Michigan and worked directly under James Watson in the Detroit Observatory.  George W. Pascal in March, 1861, was admitted to the bar by Judge John F. Dillon.

He married, March 11, 1851, Talitha Cumi Cotton, a descendant of the famous New England Colonial family of Cottons.  She was born at Austintown in Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Western Reserve, February 13, 1829.

Aylett L. Pascal was one of the eight children of these parents and was born at Lyons, Clinton County, October 25, 1854.  He attended school at Dewitt, then entered the University of Iowa and was graduated from the law school June 21, 1878.  In December of the same year he began his career as a practicing attorney at Dewitt, and has had his law offices there steadily except for the period from 1891 to 1900 when he practiced at Clinton.  The general practice of the law had afforded him satisfaction for his chief ambition, without resort to politics or public life.  He is a member of the Clinton County, Iowa State and American Bar Associations, is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Republican in politics.

He married, August 21, 1878, Miss Sarah C. Purcell, of Iowa City, daughter of Isaiah and Rachel (McDaniel) Purcell.  Her parents were among the pioneers of Johnson County, Iowa.  Mrs. Pacal died in 1924, after forty-six years of married companionship.  The two sons are Aylett L., Jr., and Percival P.  Both are graduates of the law school of Drake University at Des Moines, Aylett L., Jr., graduating June 14, 1906, and his brother in 1907.  Aylett, Jr., is now attorney for the Iowa Mutual Insurance Company.  Percival is associated with his father, in the law firm of Pascal & Pascal, at Dewitt.

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EBERT G. PAUL.  Since the fall of the year 1854 the family name of Paul has been closely identified with the progress and development of Clarke County, where, without exception, those hearing the name have been men of substance, industry, high character and public spirit.  Engaged in a variety of interests, they have contributed materially to the growth and prosperity of this section, at the same time advancing their own personalities along legitimate channels of industry.  A worthy representative of this old and honored Clarke County family is found in Ebert G. Paul, who during his active years was successively farmer, grocer and hardware merchant, in addition to being a public official, but who is now living in retirement at his home at Osceola.

Mr. Paul was born on a farm in Ward Township, Clarke County, Iowa, October 21, 1856, and is a son of George and Mahetable (Sutton) Paul.  His paternal grandfather, Rev. William Paul, came from Indiana to Iowa in 1854, and became one of the early pioneer circuit riders of the Protestant Methodist faith, serving his cause over a wide territory, where he was greatly beloved and accomplished much for the spiritual welfare of the community.  He reared a family of eleven children, all of whom lived long and useful lives.  Although Grandfather Paul was of the Methodist faith, during the past half a century the members of the family have been Spiritualists.

George Paul, father of Ebert G. Paul, was born in 1830, in Marion County, Indiana, where he received a country school education and was reared to the pursuits of agriculture.  He was twenty-four years of age when he accompanied the family to Iowa, entering land in Clarke County, where he set about developing a farm.  Seven years later came the war between the states and he enlisted in Company D. Thirty-ninth, Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war, principally as a nurse.  With an excellent record for fidelity, courage and great human sympathy, after his honorable discharge he returned to Clarke County and resumed farming and stock raising, in which he became successful through his industry and natural ability.  He was not a politician or office seeker, but was always ready to contribute of his time and ability to the furtherance of those projects which were inaugurated for the benefit of his community.

Ebert G. Paul passed his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, where he was reared to habits of industry and integrity and acquired his educational training in the local schools.  In 1887 he took up land in Kansas, where he was engaged in farming for three years, at the end of which time he returned to Clarke County and for a number of years was successful both as a farmer and an extensive feeder of live stock.  Although he still retained his farming interests, in 1910 Mr. Paul moved to Osceola, where for a short time he was engaged in the grocery business, but disposed of this to devote his energies to the hardware trade.  In this venture he was highly successful, continuing therein for about two decades.  Mr. Paul is now independent as to his financial affairs and owns large and valuable properties in the Dakotas and Iowa.  He also has a home in California, where he and Mrs. Paul spend the winter months, but he has always regarded Osceola as his real place of residence.  Mr. Paul is a natural mechanic and for many years operated a threshing machine outfit throughout Clarke and the adjoining counties, and was, in fact, the first owner of a steam thresher in Clarke County.  A public-spirited citizen and a Republican in politics, he has served his community capably as mayor, member of the city council and president of the district school board.

In 1888, in Clarke County, Mr. Paul was united in marriage with Miss Maggie Williams, who was born in Iowa, and to this union there were born the following children:  Frank, a hardware merchant of Osceola, who has two sons, Lloyd and John; Earl, a farmer of Clarke County, who is the father of two children, Maxine and Marvin; Dr. Everett, a dental practitioner of Osceola, who has one son, Townsend; Mabel, the wife of William Edwards, of Spokane, Washington, who has tow sons, Alvin and Everett; George, who is deceased; and Aletha, who married Wayne McIntyre and resides at Osceola.  In 1918 Ebert G. Paul married Mrs. Minnie Erts, who was born in Keokuk County, Iowa, of South English ancestry, daughter of Richard L. and Margaret Lakin, and who prior to her marriage to Mr. Paul had been a professional nurse.  Mr. and Mrs. Paul have one daughter; Mary Jeanette, a student of the public schools.  The present modern home of the Paul family, located on Main Street, was erected in 1918.

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HARRY C. PAYNE, physician and surgeon at Pella, has lived practically all his life in Iowa, the only extended period of residence outside of the state having been three years in Canada.

He was born at Beacon in Mahaska County, September 7, 1871, son of Robert C. and Mary Ann (Evans) Payne.  Robert C. Payne was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Iowa soon after the close of the Civil war, settling later in Monroe County.  He was a Pennsylvania soldier in the Union army, serving four years and three months.  He had four brothers in the Civil war:  John J. and Salathiel, both deceased; George, who died on the field of battle; and Edward, who is still living at Pella.  David Payne, a brother of Dr. Harry C. Payne, was a soldier in the Spanish-American war and for three years was in the regular army service in the Philippines, and during the World war period enlisted for service with the Canadian stoops.

Dr. Harry C. Payne graduated from the Albia High School in 1890, continued his education in the University of Iowa, and in 1897 was graduated from the Keokuk Medical College.  He has spent more than thirty years in active practice, and is regarded as one of the men of highest attainments in his profession.  He is a member of the Marion County, Des Moines Valley, Iowa State and American Medical Associations, the Des Moines Academy of Medicine and the American College of Physical Therapy.

Doctor Payne married at Keokuk in December, 1898, Miss Lillian C. French, daughter of Frank A. and Eunice E. (Gray) French.  She is of English, Scotch-Irish and French ancestry, and of Revolutionary stock.  her family has many interesting connections with American history and with  Iowa.  Her grandfather, John B. Gray, came from Burlington, Vermont, to the Middle West in 1834 and located on the west side of the Mississippi River, later, in Eddyville, on land that was not yet opened for settlement, still being occupied by Indians who acknowledged allegiance to the great Sax chieftain.  Black Hawk.  It was in honor of his home town in Vermont that he named his first place of settlement Burlington, now one of Iowa's most prominent cities.  Mrs. Payne's great-great-grandfather Gray lost his life while a soldier in the War of the Revolution.  Her father enlisted at Eddyville, Iowa, and was in the hospital service of the Union army for over three years in the Civil war.  Mrs. Payne is a member of the Pella Woman's Club, the P. E. O. and Eastern Star.

Dr. and Mrs. Payne had three children:  Leah Ruth, who died in January, 1915; Lillian Mary, a teacher in the schools of Fredericksburg, Iowa; and Dorothy Eunice, a junior in the Pella High School.  Doctor Payne has been a loyal and public spirited citizen as well as a capable doctor.  He served on the first elected Board of Trustees for the public library.  He is a Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Chamber of Commerce.

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LEE O. PEACOCK has been a printer since early manhood, and in that work has been connected with printing houses and newspaper establishments in many localities in Iowa and other states.  Another important chapter of his experience was his service during the World war.  Since 1923 he has been the publisher of the Tripoli Leader in Breamer County, Iowa.  Mr. Peacock and the Leader were born in the same year, 1894.

His birth occurred at Bloomington, Wisconsin, July 5 of that year.  His parents, James and Lottie (Trollope) Peacock, were also born at Bloomington, and his father is now seventy-one and his mother seventy-two.  James Peacock has for many years been owner of a barber shop and has been active in local affairs, serving as a member of the city council and for twenty-four years has been city treasurer.  He is a Republican, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are Methodists.  There were five children in the family:  Maude, wife of J. E. Kavanaugh, foreman of a printing shop in Chicago; Lee O.; Bernice and Bernard, twins, the former the wife of L. G. Millin, an accountant at Racine, Wisconsin, while Bernard, a Chicago salesman, served with the artillery brigade in the Forty-second of Rainbow Division overseas; and Blanche, wife of Calvert Liggitt, in the wholesale paint and varnish business at Madison, Wisconsin.

Lee O. Peacock graduated from the Bloomington High School in 1912 and in the same year began his apprenticeship as a printer in the office of the Bloomington Record.  On leaving there he took up his experience as a journeyman, which brought him relationships with various papers and publications in the Middle West.  For a time he was linotype operator on the Prairie du Chien Courier.

In July, 1917, he volunteered and enlisted in the regular army.  He joined at Jefferson Barracks, Saint Louis, and was with the colors two years, being transferred from camp to camp as a drill sergeant and instructor in machine gun and small arm and bayonet practice.  He was probably stationed at a dozen cantonments, including Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Camp Taylor, Kentucky, Camp Gordon, Georgia, Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and others, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Dodge, Iowa.  His regular assignment was with Company F of the Forty-sixth Infantry.

When the country no longer needed his service he resumed his place with the Prairie du Chien Courier.  He was next with the Oelwein Iowan until it was merged with the Register.  For a time he was on the Dairy Farmer at Waterloo, then with the Cedar Falls Record, and left there to take charge of the Tripoli Leader, which has enjoyed a period of exceptional prosperity under his management since 1923.

Mr. Peacock is a past adjutant of the Tripoli Post of the American Legion, is a member of the Iowa State Press Association and National Editorial Association.  He is a Republican, is a Knights Templar Commandery Mason at Waverly, and he and his wife are Methodists, but attend the Congregational Church, as the Methodist Church was consolidated with that denomination.  He is also a member of the Commercial Club.  He married Nora M. Schultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Schultz, of Waterloo.  Mr. Schultz was in the furniture, jewelry and undertaking business in Stacyville, Iowa, for about twenty-two years.  Mrs. Peacock is active in various local organizations, notably Congregational Church activities, Ladies Improvement Club, and the Legion Auxiliary, of which she is a member of the executive committee.  She is also a member of the Eastern Star.  They have three children, Eunice Jean, born March 17, 1924, Donna, born July 24, 1928, and Dorris Mac, born November 4, 1929, all born at Tripoli.

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AMOS C. PEARSALL, general manager of the Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Company's branch in the city of Des Moines, is also vice president of this important industrial corporation, with which he has been associated during virtually his entire active  business career.  He is one of the vital and progressive business man of the younger generation in the capital city of his native state.

Mr. Pearsall was born at Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa, January 12, 1889, and is a son of George E. and Mary A. (Cleveland) Pearsall, the former of whom was born in Ohio and the latter in the State of New York, where their marriage was solemnized at Franklin, Delaware County, though both had previously become residents of Iowa.  George E. Pearsall is a son of the late Amos Pearsall, who was born in the State of New York, whence he removed to Ohio, and from the latter state he came with his family to Iowa in the year 1855, so that he gained distinct pioneer precedence in the Hawkeye State, he having been a carriage builder by vocation during much of his active life.  George E. Pearsall was young at the time of his family removal to Iowa, and here  he was reared and educated under the conditions that marked the pioneer days.  He has long been one of the representative business men of Des Moines, where he is now vice president of the Iowa National Bank.  He is a Republican in politics, he attends and supports the Congregational Church, of which his wife was a devoted member, he is affiliated with both York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, and is an active member of the Des Moines Club.  Mrs. Mary A. (Cleveland) Pearsall, whose death occurred in 1923, came to Iowa about the year 1879, and prior to her marriage, which occurred in the year 1882, she had here been a popular teacher in the public schools of McGregor, Clayton County.  She was a daughter of George Cleveland, who was born in New York State and who thence removed to Ohio, from which latter state he went forth as a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he died while held as a prisoner of war in historic Andersonville Prison of the Confederacy.  Of the two children of George E. and Mary A. (Cleveland) Pearsall the elder is Amos C., of this review, and the younger is Georgene, who is the wife of F. F. Wheeler, a leading lawyer in the City of Appleton, Wisconsin.

Amos C. Pearsall supplemented the discipline of the Des Moines public schools by attending Iowa College at Grinnell, this state, and in 1910 he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, from which he received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Mechanical Engineer.  Almost immediately after his graduation he became associated with the Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Company, with which he has continued his alliance during the intervening years.  He was made vice president of the company in 1921 and has since been general manager of the Des Moines branch of this important industrial corporation, the western business of which has been greatly expanded under his progressive administration.

Mr. Pearsall is a Republican in politics, he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, he has affiliation with the Masonic fraternity in both its York and Scottish Rites, as well as its Mystic Shrine, and he has membership in the Des Moines Club, the Wakonda Club, the Grant Club and the Rotary Club, all representative organizations in his home city.  While at the University of Wisconsin he became affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

In the year 1913 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pearsall and Miss Mary L. Perine, daughter of Albert C. Perine, long and prominent exponent of the lumber business at Spencer, Iowa.  Mrs. Pearsall received teh advantages of the public schools of Spencer and also those of Iowa College at Grinnell, and she is a popular figure in social and cultural circles of Des Moines.  Mr. and Mrs. Pearsall have one son, Amos C., Jr., who was born in June, 1917, and who is at the time of this writing a student in the public schools of his native city.

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OSCAR C. PERRIN, president of the First State Bank of Greene, has made banking his profession since he left school.  A real banker has closer contact with the diversified business interests of a community than probably any other business or professional man, and farmers, merchants, or professional men and others throughout this section of Butler County have come to look upon Mr. Perrin as their chief adviser in a financial way, and it would be difficult to overestimate his standing and influence as a financier.

Mr. Perrin was born near Clarksville, Butler County, January 24, 1868, son of Jeremiah and Anna (Hillman) Perrin.  His father was a native of England, first settled in Pittsburgh, and in 1851 came to Iowa as a pioneer of Butler County, acquiring land and developing a farm.  He was a man of very substantial character and highly esteemed in his community.  He died in 1905, having two sons, Oscar C. and Mark J.  Mark J. Perrin was for many years a resident of Waterloo, but died at Clarksville.

Oscar C. Perrin grew up on an Iowa farm, had the advantages of the common schools and finished his education in the Clarksville High School.  Immediately after leaving school he went to work in the private bank of Louis Slimmer at Clarksville, and later he assisted in organizing the Butler County State Bank, Clarksville, of which he is now vice president.  His chief interests have been centered at Greene since 1887, when he became assistant bookkeeper for the First National Bank.  Later this was reorganized as the First State Bank of Greene and in 1903 he was made its cashier and subsequently became president.  From his immediate responsibilities in the bank he has extended his interest over a wide field, being financially interested in lumber yards, implement houses, owns a large amount of Iowa farm land and was one of the promoters of the Green Electric Light & Power Company.

Mr. Perrin is a Republican and has served on the board of alderman and the school board at Greene.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and his wife belongs to the Eastern Star.

He married in December, 1893, Miss Maude Mason, who came from Ohio.  She passed away in 1904.  In 1907 Miss Mary Debban became his wife.

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PETER H. PETERSEN, who has lived all his life in Clinton County, has gained an enviable place at the Clinton bar and in the business affairs of that city.

He was born on a farm in Clinton County, January 9, 1898, and his parents, Herman H. and Ida (Swendsen) Petersen, now respected retired residents of Clinton, were also native of Iowa.  Peter H. Petersen grew up on a farm, had his early advantages in rural schools and after 1908 attended the grade schools of Whiting for three years.  He was graduated from the Lyons High School in 1915 and then entered the University of Iowa, where he took his A. B. degree in 1919 and his degree in law in 1921.  During the World war he was a member of the Students Army Training Corps at Iowa City, and military training took precedence over his routine studies.

After qualifying as a lawyer Mr. Petersen engaged in practice at Clinton and is a member of the law firm of Petersen & Petersen, being in partnership with Alfred E. Petersen.  In addition to his general law practice Mr. Petersen is owner and manager of the Abstract & Title Guarantee Company.

He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, being a member of DeMolay Consistory No. 1 of the Scottish Rite.  He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Sigma Pi fraternity, the Clinton County and Iowa State Bar Associations, and is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

He married, October 24, 1923, Miss Irene M. Tosh, daughter of John and Elizabeth Tosh, of Clinton.  Her father, now retired, was for many years a foreman in the service of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.

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HENRY K. PETERSON is representative of one of the substantial families of Council Bluffs, and by his own earnest ambition and hard work has created for himself a large niche in the bar of that city.  He is now head of one of the large law firms, with offices in the Park Building.

Mr. Peterson was born at Council Bluffs, March 16, 1884, son of Mads and Christina (Kaar) Peterson.  His parents were born in Denmark, and were young people when they came to the United States, his father in 1881 and his mother in 1883.  They were married in the latter year, and are old and honored residents of Council Bluffs, where they are now retired.  His father began his career as an American citizen without capital, and made his way to prosperity by industry.  For many years he was foreman for the lumber company in Council Bluffs.  Both are members of the Brethren Church and he is a Republican in politics.  Of their seven children three are now living:  Henry K.; William W., who worked his way through Harvard University, and is assistant state manager for the Southern Surety Company at Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raymond G., deputy county auditor of Pottawattamie County.

Henry K. Peterson grew up at Council Bluffs, attended school there, and after graduating from high school, though without capital, he entered Drake University at Des Moines and worked and earned his living while attending school.  He graduated from the law department in 1908 and then returned to Council Bluffs to engage in private practice.  He was associated as a partner with Clem Kimball until Mr. Kimball's death on September 10, 1928.  The law firm still retains Mr. Kimball's name.  The firm is Kimball, Peterson, Smith & Peterson, and for years has enjoyed an extensive general practice.

 Mr. Peterson married in 1911 Laura May Robinson, who was born at Council Bluffs, daughter of Joseph Robinson, for a number of years in the hardware business there.  They have three children, Josephine, born in 1915; Robert, born in 1917k, and Richard, born in 1925.  The family are members of the Baptist Church and Mr. Peterson is chairman of the board of trustees and has been president of the Iowa Baptist Convention.

He has also interested himself in fraternal organizations, being affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter and Council, the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, MacCabees, Yoemen, Tribe of Ben Hur and Loyal Order of Moose.  In politics he is a Republican and for four years was city attorney of Council Bluffs, and six years a member of the school board.  His work in behalf of schools has given him perhaps his greatest satisfaction in a public way.  He has been president of the Council Bluffs Kiwanis Club and during 1925 was governor of the Iowa-Nebraska Kiwanis District.  He has many times been a delegate to state Republican conventions, and was chairman and keynote speaker of the 1930 Republican state convention.  He is a member of the Pottawattamie County Bar Association, being president in 1930, and a member of the Iowa State and American Bar Associations, and it is to the law that he has devoted the best years of his life.

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JULLIAN A. PEVERILL.  One of the veteran automobile men of the State of Iowa, Julian A. Peverill, head of the Hudson Jones Automobile Company of Des Moines, is the directing head of the largest organization of its kind in the state.  Mr. Peverill's career is a remarkable example of the value of the simple traits of industry, perseverance and honesty in the building up of a large fortune and the attainment of leadership in a given line of business activity, for when he first became identified with the motor car business, twenty-six years ago, his capital consisted of approximately $500.  He has been a resident of Des Moines since December, 1918, and is now recognized not only as a business leader, but one who takes a prominent part in civic affairs.

Mr. Peverill was born at Worthington, Minnesota, October 3, 1889, and is a son of William J. and Julia (Kistner) Peverill.  His grandfather, William Peverill, was born in England, but in young manhood immigrated to the United States and settled in Ohio.  Later he moved to Missouri and finally to Iowa, where he resided until his death.  During the war between the states he enlisted in the Union army and fought until near its close, when he received a severe wound, which brought on paralysis, incapacitated him from further active service, and eventually caused his death some years later.  He was a man of high character, spirit and courage and was greatly respected in the various communities in which he made his home.

William J. Peverill, father of Julian A. Peverill, was born in Ohio, and as a young man followed farming, but later became a grain dealer and broker.  During the '90s he came to Iowa and settled at Waterloo, where he continued in the same line of business, as he had also for a time at Worthington, Minnesota, and being a man of great industry and good judgment, was successful in his affairs.  He is now retired from business and he and Mrs. Peverill are residents of Los Angeles, California.  They are members of the United Brethern Church, in the work of which both are active.  Politically Mr. Peverill is a Republican, and while residing at Waterloo was a member of the City Council.  He and his wife have seven children, all surviving, Julian A. being the eldest.  George Kistner, the maternal grandfather of Julian A. Peverill, was born in Pennsylvania, whence he moved in young manhood to Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life in agricultural operations.

Julian A. Peverill attended the public schools of Waterloo, and for a time was his father's assistant in the grain brokerage business.  As early as 1906 he embarked in the automobile business, selling Regal cars, but subsequently switched to Dodge cars and then also took over the Hudson agency, selling both makes.  In December, 1918, he came to Des Moines and became a minor stockholder in the Hudson Jones Automobile Company, but after four years bought out the interest of Mr. Jones and became the controlling owner of the business, as he is today.  This company, the offices of which are situated at 1420 Grand Street, has been developed into the largest automobile dealers in Iowa, operating in eighty counties.  Incorporated for $100,000, it now has annual sales approximating $3,700,000, which forms an interesting comparison with the business that was founded with a capital of $500 not so many years ago.  In business circles Mr. Peverill is known as being shrewd, capable and energetic, and thoroughly informed as to every angle of the business, to which he devotes practically all of his attention, although not to the exclusion of his duties as a good and public-spirited citizen.  He belongs to the various automobile dealers' bodies, the Wakonda Club and the Des Moines Club, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine.  Politically a Republican, he has had little time for liking for politics, except in exercising his franchise as a voter for the candidates whom he deems best fitted for the office at stake.  He was reared in the faith of the United Brethren Church and is a contributor to worthy religious and educational movements.

In 1906 Mr. Peverill was united in marriage with Miss Lennis Miller, who was born in Iowa, and received her education at Oelwein, this state, where she was graduated from the high school, later supplementing her education by self teaching and reading.  She is active in all good works and has numerous friends in social circles.  She is a daughter of William Miller, who for many years was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Fayette County, this state, but is now living in retirement.  Mr. and Mrs. Peverill are the parents of two children:  Juliet, who was born in June, 1910; and Jean, who was born in August, 1919.

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REV. ROWLAND FREDERICK PHILBROOK is a native of Iowa, a cultured and highly educated clergyman of the Episcopal Church, and is now rector of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral at Davenport.

Dean Philbrook was born at Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, November 6, 1891, son of Barnabas Frederick and Ida Mary (McAlister) Pholbrook.  His mother was born in Chicago.  His father is active of the State of Maine and is now living at Sioux City, Iowa, being a dentist by profession.

Rowland Frederick Philbrook was a small child when the family moved to Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, where he grew up, graduating from the Denison High School.  After that he attended the University of Iowa and took his degree Bachelor of Scared Theology from the Divinity School at Philadelphia in 1917.

He was ordained in Wyoming, in 1917, and had five years of interesting experience in missionary work in the far western state.  While there he was rector of St. Thomas' Church at Rawlins, and was chaplain of the State Penitentiary.  Returning east, he was rector of St. Mark's Church in Chicago from 1922 to 1924, and from 1924 to 1928 served as rector of St. Luke's Church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Dean Philbrook came to the Trinity Cathedral at Davenport March 1, 1928, being installed as rector on the Fourth of March, at which time the honorary title of dean was conferred upon him.  The impressive service was performed by the Rt. Rev. Theodore Morrison, Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.

Rev. Mr. Philbrook married, in 1920, Miss Gwendolyn Taylor, a native of Sioux City, Iowa.  She is a graduate of Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois.  They have two sons, James Frederick, born in 1924, and Robert Rowland, born on Christmas Day, 1927.

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BLAIR ALLEN PHILLIPS is president of the White-Phillips Company, investment bankers, with offices in the First National Bank Building at Davenport and 39 South La Salle Street, Chicago, with connections in the financial world throughout the Middle West.

He was born n a farm near by Albany, Illinois, May 22, 1888.  His parents, Benjamin Franklin and Mary (Rosenkrans) Phillips, are still living on the old farm at Albany.  Mr. Phillips is of Welsh ancestry in the paternal line, while his mother's people were originally German and Dutch.  One branch of the family produced Gen William S. Rosecrans, one of the great Union leaders in the Civil war, who spelled his name slightly differently.  The Phillips family has been in America for nine generations.

Blair Allen Phillips was educated in the common schools of an Illinois agricultural district.  His home was on a farm until he was eighteen, at which time he became a student in Brown's Business College at Davenport.  After leaving college he became associated with George M. Bechtel & Company i the bond business, later became vice president of the company, and had the reputation of being one of the largest single producers in the bond and investment field in the State of Iowa.  In 1919 he and George White founded the White-Phillips Company, each of the partners having had a wide experience in the purchase and sale of municipal bonds.  From the beginning the White-Phillips Company has specialized in safe and secure investment securities, and it has become a buying and selling organization of nation wide scope.  The company has handled more than $100,000,000 worth of bonds since it was founded.

Mr. Phillips has been an active member of the Davenport Chamber of Commerce.  He is a member of the Rotary Club, is affiliated with Albany Lodge No. 566, A. F. and A. M., is a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory and Mystic Shrine, member of the Davenport Country Club, Hamilton Club, Chicago, and Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church.

He married, in 1912, Clara M. Fort, a native of Davenport.  They have three children, Jeanne Marie, Blair Allen, Jr., and Richard Elsworth.

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CHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPS, dean of the College of Commerce of the University of Iowa, has won many honors in the educational field, as an authority on finance and particularly in his administrative and teaching work at Iowa City, where he has had his home since 1913.

Doctor Phillips was born at Scipio, Indiana, July 17, 1882, son of Jacob and Celia (Celestia) Phillips.  He was educated in public schools in Indiana, and graduated with the A. B. degree from Central College of that state in 1904.  He was principal of the high school at Weston, Ohio, in 1904-05, and held the chair of English and history in Central College in 1905-07.  He then entered Yale University, where he took his A. B. degree in 1908, the Master of Arts degree in 1909, and in 1919 Yale conferred upon him the Doctor of Philosophy degree.  He was instructor in economics at Yale in 1909-10, and from 1911 to 1913 was instructor in economics and finance at Dartmouth College.

On coming to Iowa City in 1913 Doctor Phillips served as assistant professor of economics and finance at the State University until 1918, was professor of economics and finance form 1918 to 1920, and since 1921 has been dean of the College of Commerce.  He was special teacher and lecturer on economics at Columbia University in the summer sessions of 1919, 1920 and 1922, and at the University of California in the summers of 1923 and 1928.

Doctor Phillips is author of Readings in Money and Banking, published in 1916, and Bank Credit, published in 1920.  He has been a member of the advisory council of the Stabel Money League, is a member of the International High Commission of the Pan American States, and is a member of the American Economics Association.  Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science, is a national councillor of the United States Chamber of Commerce and president of the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce.  Doctor Phillips is a director of the First National Bank of Iowa City and a member of the United Brethren Church.  His college and honorary fraternities are Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Pi and Beta Gamma Sigma.

He married Mary Gordon McMurray, of Huntington, Indiana, and they have three children, Jessie Dorthy, Gordon and Van Lehn.

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   ADAM PICKETT, who is serving as county attorney of Union County, with executive offices in the courthouse at Creston, has been a resident of Iowa for more than forty years, has the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was long and prominently identified with educational work in the state, and finally, in 1919, he initiated the practice of law at Creston, where he continued to give his attention to his private law business until he was elected county attorney, in which office he is now serving his second term.
    Mr. Pickett was born on a farm twenty miles distant from the City of Belfast, Ireland, March 13, 1862, and is a son of Robert and Ellen (Fraser) Pickett, who likewise were born in Ireland but both of whom were of Scotch lineage, on which score they were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church, in the faith in which they were reared. Robert Pickett continued his activities as a farmer in Ireland until his death, in 1870, and in 1884 his widow and children came to the United States, where Mrs. Pickett soon made settlement in Greene County, Iowa. She was venerable in years at the time of her death, in July, 1908, in Missouri. Mrs. Mary Ann Gray, eldest of the children, is a widow and now resides in New York City, she having come with other members of the family to the United States and she and her husband  having resided many years on their farm in Missouri. Her daughter, Miss Irene Gray, was actively identified with Government war services in the World war period, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and later at Columbia University, New York City, where she and her widowed mother now maintain their home. Robert, Jr., eldest of the sons, resides at Sullivan, Indiana, and is a foreman in coal mines near that place. Adam, of this review, was next in order of birth, and Joseph, youngest of the children, resides in Detroit, Michigan.
    Adam Pickett was a lad of eight years at the time of his father's death, and his early education was obtained in the schools of his native land. He preceded his widowed mother and the other children to the United States, in 1882, and in coming to Iowa he advanced his education by attending the Normal School at Dexter; Highland Park College, at Des Moines, this state; and the Illinois Wesleyan University, at Bloomfield, Illinois, from which last named institution he received his degree of of Bachelor of Philosophy, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy having later been conferred upon him by the same university. His law studies were prosecuted in the University of Chicago and in the law department of the University of Drake University, Des Moines.
    During the long period of thirty years Mr. Pickett was a successful, influential and popular teacher in the Iowa public schools, and during the final twelve years of this period he was superintendent of the public schools of his present home city of Creston. After his retirement from the pedagogic profession, in which he had made a splendid record, he here engaged in the practice of law, in 1919, and his ability and popularity soon brought to him a substantial and representative law business that engrossed the major part of his time and attention until he was elected county attorney, in November, 1926, the election of November, 1928, having marked his reelection to the office, in which he continued to give a characteristically loyal, vigorous and acceptable administration. It is to be noted that he gave seven years of service as justice of the peace at Creston, a position to which he had engaged in the practice of law in this city. Mr. Pickett is a stalwart advocate and supporter of the cause of the Republican party.
    In August, 1893, Mr. Pickett was united in marriage to Dora L. Nichols, nee Clayton, who was born in Jones County, this state, and who received the advantages of the Iowa public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Pickett have no children. They are zealous and loved members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in their home city, of which he is a trustee, and it is to be recorded also that he gave thirty-four years of faithful service as a teacher in the Sunday School. In the state in which they have lived and wrought to goodly ends Mr. and Mrs. Pickett may truthfully be said to have a circle of friends that is limited only by that of their acquaintances.