BLOCK, FRED O
Owner Sand & Gravel Cos; b Muscatine, Iowa Oct 14, 1874; s of W G Block-Millie Humberger; ed Muscatine HS; m Daisy Smith Sept -, 1893 Muscatine; 1887-92 with father in oil & coal distribution to steamboats, represented 1st Iowa coal mine at What Cheer, sold this coal to river steamers; 1892- 1914 W G Block Co was inc for purpose of selling coal retail & whol; 1914-18 helped org Northern Gravel Co, Muscatine; 1918-22 inc Automatic Sand & Gravel Co, Muscatine, 1922 moved hdqrs to Davenport; 1928 opened Camanche Sand & Gravel Co, Camanche; 1932 opened Springgrove Sand & Gravel Co, Burlington; 1940 opened Camanche Sand & Gravel No 2, Nahant; mbr Co C 2nd ING; 1918 org Rotary, Muscatine, 1st pres; Outing Club; BPOE; AF &AM 208; Scot Rite; Kaaba Shrine; hobbies horse racing, fishing , baseball, football; off 317 W 4th; res 616 River Drive, Bettendorf.
This bio was extracted from the "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1088.