this calling, quite successfully, until January, 1889, but has since devoted his attention to his bank, which is proving a decided success. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, in which he was reared.
Dr. John I. Hostetter. The people of Story, as well as adjoining counties, are familiar with the name that heads this sketch. For ten years Dr. Hostetter has been successfully occupied with the prosecution of his chosen profession, and during that time his career as a practitioner and thorough student of medicine has won for him no less a reputation than have his personal characteristics as a citizen and neighbor. His father, Dr. John L. Hostetter, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1821, and there grew to mature years. Having quite a predilection for the study of medicine, he entered the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, and after a few years' close application to his studies, he was graduated from that institution. He moved to Illinois early in life, choosing a home in Carroll County, and practiced medicine there for more than thirty years. In 1847 he married Miss Mary Irvine, only daughter of John Irvine, Esq. Her father was born in Scotland, but in his youth emigrated to America, settling in Pittsburgh, Penn., where he successfully conducted a merchandise business for a number of years. He subsequently moved to Mount Carroll, Ill., and there made his home until his death. There were four children born to this union: Mary, Virginia, John I. and Helen O. The eldest child, Mary, is the wife of F. W. Greenleaf, a retired naval officer; Virginia is the wife of D. H. Reichard, Esq., of Mitchellville, Iowa; John I. is the subject of this sketch, and Helen O. died in her sixteenth year. Dr. Hostetter, Sr., served as physician and surgeon in the late war in the Thirty-fourth Illinois Regiment Volunteer Infantry, and on April 11, 1865, was commissioned army surgeon, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He died in Mount Carroll, Ill., in March, 1877, after a useful life of fifty-six years. John I. Hostetter was born in Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Ill., in 1857, and there passed his early life, obtaining his education in the schools of his native city. Upon reaching years of discretion and choosing his calling in life, he selected that which his father pursued with such marked success, and to that end entered the Chicago Medical College, where after three years of hard study he was graduated in 1880; while at this institution he also took the hospital instruction. Immediately after his graduation he came to Colo, and entered upon the active practice of his profession. He was an entire stranger, but soon built up a fine practice and won many friends by his agreeable manners and genial disposition. In 1881 he was elected coroner of Story County, in which capacity he served until 1889, having been elected four times in succession. He was united in marriage, in 1885, with Miss Lillian C. Hull, daughter of John Hull, of Boone County, Iowa, and their home has been gladdened by two interesting little children: John Hull and Mary Greenleaf. Socially Dr. Hostetter is a member of the A. F. & A. M., belongs to the S. of V., and in politics always votes the Republican ticket. He is descended from a long line of honorable ancestry. The earliest ancestor known was a merchant and manufacturer of Augsburg, Bavaria. In 1815 the family emigrated to Austria, where members of the family are still living. The earliest ancestor known in this country was a Mennonite bishop, exiled because of his religious opinions.
George W. Hoyman, farmer and stock-raiser, Nevada, Iowa. It is doubtless owing entirely