CLYDE, Arthur W.

CLYDE, PELTON

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 4/19/2007 at 20:16:16

Arthur W. Clyde was the first county auditor elected. He was elected at the general election in 1869, and served two years. A. W. Clyde came to Mitchell county when a boy with his father, Judge Clyde, and family.

They settled near St. Ansgar, upon a farm, where the old gentleman died. Here the young man lived until elected county auditor, when he moved to the county seat. He was in the newspaper business for a number of years. About 1875 he removed to Wisconsin, and later returned to Iowa and settled in Harrison county, where he is now engaged in the practiced of law.

Mr. Clyde was married while in Mitchell county, to Rodella Pelton.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 243.