C[harles]. W. ELLIOTT
— Vice president of the Cedar Valley Land & Investment Company of
Vinton, the important real estate business which is described elsewhere
in these pages, C. W. Elliott had an experience of over ten years in
farming and stock raising before he embarked in those business pursuits
for which his natural abilities and his long residence in Benton county
so thoroughly qualified him. Mr. Elliott first located in Bruce
township, in 1890, where he purchased land and extensively engaged in
the raising, buying, feeding and shipping of stock. He was therefore
widely known when he moved to Vinton in 1901, and conducted a growing
business in real estate and fire insurance until the organization of
the Cedar Valley Land Company. Although he has since given that
enterprise his chief attention, he has various other business interests
in the city and county, and is acknowledged to be a citizen of broad
and superior abilities. He is a Republican, and a member of the Knights
of Pythias and the B. P. 0. E. of Cedar Rapids.
Mr. Elliott is a native of Lee county, Illinois, born near Amboy in
March, 1869, his parents having located in that locality in the
forties. They are both living in Amboy, where the father, at the age of
eighty-six years, is a retired pioneer farmer and stockman. The two
other sons, also residents of Benton county, are J. R. and F. M.
Elliott of Bruce township. C. W., of this sketch, was reared in Lee
county .until he was nineteen years of age, where he obtained his early
education, afterward attending the academy at Dixon, Illinois. Then, at
the age of twenty-one, he moved to Benton county, where, as stated, he
engaged with success both in farming and business. His wife was
formerly Miss Mary E. Long, also a native of Lee county, Illinois, and
they have become the parents of a daughter, Drusey, and two sons, Earl
and William, all of whom are attending school.
Picture of Charles W. Elliott
