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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 43
CHARLES F. CADLE. Charles F. Cadle, a soldier in the Civil war and for many years actively identified with the business affairs of Muscatine, was born in the city where he now lives February 1, 1846. He is a son of Cornelius and Abigail Howe ( Larrabee ) Cadle. The father was a native of New York city and the mother of Framingham, Massachusetts. He was a merchant and conducted a business in partnership with his father in New York, coming west to Muscatine in 1843. He built the first steam saw-mill on the Mississippi river above St. Louis, at Muscatine, and engaged in the lumber business for about twenty-seven years. He held various town offices and was on the board of supervisors and also at one time deputy county treasurer, departing this life March 11, 1886, at the age of seventy-seven years. Cornelius Cadle, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born in Gloucestershire, England, as was also his wife, Hannah Kidson. The maternal gransfather was William Larrabee, a native of Maldon, Massachusetts. He married Sally Fisk and there were six children in their family: William F., Edward W., Charles M., Abigail Howe, George and John. There were four children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Cadle: Cornelius, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Edward F., of Stockton, California; William L., of Chicago and Charles F., our subject. The beloved wife and mother having been called away in 1847, Mr. Cadle was again married, his second wife being Ruth Lamphry, a native of Boston, who came west as a missionary, her death occurring on the 12th of April, 1885. By his second marriage Mr. Cadle had two children: Henry, of Bethany, Missouri; and Abbie A., the wife of Frank Mahin, United States consul at Amsterdam, Holland.Charles F. Cadle was reared in Muscatine and educated in the public schools. He began his business career as a clerk in a shoe store, but in 1863, at the age of seventeen years, feeling that his country needed his services, he enlisted in Company A, Second Iowa Cavalry, and served most creditably until the end of the war. He participated in the battles of Colliersville, Tupelo, Oxford, Mississippi, Nashville and many other important engagements of the Army of the West. After receiving his honorable discharge, he laid aside the accouterments of war and begun working in a lumberyard at Muscatine for his father. Later he spent two or three years in the south and engaged in the lumber business at Victor, Iowa, for thirteen years. Returning to Muscatine in 1885, he entered the ice and pork-packing business, but a few years later withdrew from the latter and has since been actively connected with the ice business, also becoming a dealer in coal. Being a man of good ability, he has attracted a patronage which yields liberal returns upon his investments.
On the 31st of May, 1876, Mr. Cadle was united in marriage to Mrs. H. M. Clapp, the widow of W. B. Clapp, and a daughter of Nathan Fitch and Juliette ( Smith ) Swan. Mrs. Cadle was born at Lockport, New York, July 31, 1846. Her father was a native of Saratoga county, New York, and her mother of Farmington, Ontario county, New York. The family came west to Milwaukee in 1847 and removed to Muscatine in 1851, where Mr. Swan engaged as a contractor and house builder. He passed away in 1875, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Swan survived her husbans thirty years, dying at the age of eighty-three in 1905. She was a member of the Congregational chuirch, while he gave his adherence to the Methodist church. Adam Swan, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Cadle, was a native of Stonington, Connecticut, and a son of Joshua and Martha ( Dennison ) Swan, the latter being a daughter of Amos and Martha ( Gallup ) Dennison. Adam Swan married Mercy Fitch, of Norwalk, Connecticut, and they were the parents of ten children, three of whom---Maria, Henry and Nathan---married and reared families. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Cadle was Noah Aldrich Smith, a native of Rhode Island, and his wife was Cynthia ( Buck ) Smith, a native of Massachusetts. They were the parents of one child, Juliette. Mr. and Mrs. Cadle have one son, Cornelius, now engaged in the jewelry business in Muscatine.
Mr. Cadle is a member of Iowa Lodge, No. 2, A. F.& A. M.; Washington Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M.; and De Molay Commandery, No.1, K. T. He is also connected with the Knights of Pythias; Shelby Norman Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and is now president of the Iowa Society Sons of the American Revolution. Politically he is in sympathy with the republican party. As a business man he has attained a high standing through the exercise of energy, perseverance and sound judgment---a combination that seldom fails to accomplish results.
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