Professor Pammel was married June 29, 1887, to Miss Augusta Emmel, of Chicago, and unto them have been born six children, Edna, Harriet, Doris, Lois, Violet and Harold. They are all faithful communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the work of which they take active part. Theirs is an attractive home opposite the campus and is the scene of many delightful social functions.
DAVID VANCE THRIFT.
David Vance Thrift, proprietor of a restaurant in Nevada, was born in Utica, Licking county, Ohio, August 18, 1845, and is a son of William and Margaret (Newell) Thrift, whose family numbered five sons and three daughters, of whom David V. is the youngest and the only one now living. He was only three years of age at the time his mother died and but six years of age when his father passed away. His uncle, Joseph Thrift, was a commissioner sent out by the government and located the county seat of Story county, which he named Nevada after the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for he was an old Californian. His residence was at Boonesboro, Iowa. He went to Fort Des Moines with the soldiers as a tailor and engaged in making the clothing worn by the troops. He was the father of the first white child born there, and his eldest son, William Hamilton Thrift, served as adjutant general of Iowa under Governor Cummins. The life of Joseph Thrift was in many respects an eventful and unusual one, owing to the varied experiences that came to him. He was a native of Virginia and spent his last days in California.
Early in life David Vance Thrift started out to earn his own living. He was reared in Bellefontaine, Ohio, to the age of thirteen years and then went to Findlay, Ohio. In that district he worked for farmers for his board and clothing and also was employed as porter in hotels. In fact he scorned no employment that would yield him an honest living, doing whatever he could until sixteen years of age, when on a certain afternoon he walked sixteen miles to Carey and there boarded the train for Bellefontaine, Ohio. This was in the year 1861 and he enlisted, under his nickname, "Leroy" Thrift, as a member of Company E, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which command was organized at Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio. He served for two years with the army as an independent sharpshooter and was then honorably discharged on account of disability.
In 1863 he went to Warsaw, Indiana, where he learned the tinner's trade, at which he worked for six years. On the expiration of that period he came to Iowa, settling in Kellogg, where he established a hardware store which he conducted for a year. He then sold out and went to Monroe, Jasper county, where he again became proprietor of a hardware store but again, sold after a year. In 1874 he arrived in Nevada and opened the first