present appointment in 1902. In addition to the regular work of the church he has organized the Newman Club for young men, mostly college boys, and in this connection an excellent work is being done. He also has charge of Sts. Peter and Paul's church five and a half miles northwest of Gilbert in this county, doing mission work there throughout the eight years of his pastorate at St. Cecelia's church in Ames. Under his guidance the present church was erected as was also the parish house, and the work of the church has been fully organized in all of its departments, proving a strong force for Catholic conversion and church work in this locality.
ALFRED P. EDDY.
Alfred P. Eddy, a prosperous and well known agriculturist of Story county, has lived on his present farm in Sherman township for the past thirty-six years but for forty-six years he has been a resident of this county. His birth occurred in Ohio in August, 1839, his parents being Allen and Sophia (Beardsley) Eddy, who were natives of New York and New Hampshire respectively. The maternal grandfather of our subject participated in the Revolutionary war, serving throughout the entire conflict. Allen Eddy, the father of Alfred P. Eddy, removed to Illinois in 1855, settling on a farm in Kane county, where he made his home until called to his final rest in 1875. The demise of his wife occurred in Ohio.
Alfred P. Eddy accompanied his father to Illinois, where he obtained his education in the district schools. He remained a resident of the Prairie state until 1865, which year witnessed his arrival in Story county, Iowa. He spent ten years in Richland township but for thirty-six years has resided in Sherman township, his farm being located on section 6. For his first tract of land, comprising eighty acres, he paid but twelve dollars an acre. Later he extended the boundaries of the place by an additional purchase of eighty acres, so that his farm now embraces a quarter section of rich and productive land. In connection with the tilling of the soil he has also devoted considerable attention to the raising of cattle and hogs for the market, meeting with success in both branches of his business. He has long been numbered among the representative and leading citizens of the community and acts as president of the Zearing & Johnson Grove Telephone Company. He can relate many interesting incidents of pioneer days when the district was but sparsely settled and largely undeveloped. During the period of his early residence here the railroad went only as far as Nevada and between his abode and State Center, a distance of fourteen miles, there was but one house. On the road to Zearing there was also only one house–that belonging to Thomas Thatcher. Mr. Eddy recalls the fact that on the 5th of July, 1872, he washed with snow and can remember the time when the snow was six feet deep. He herded cattle throughout Iowa for a