W. M. SHADE
W. M. Shade was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1832. He is a son of George Shade, also a native of Pennsylvania. The latter died in Lancaster, near Peoria, Illinois, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. Shade's mother was born in Germany, and died in Nebraska, where she was living with her daughter. At the age of twenty years W. M. Shade removed with his parents to Illinois, settling in Peoria county where he was married, August 4, 1854, to Cordelia Maticks, a native of Pennsylvania, and daughter of John and Martha (Bitner) Maticks, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania. After his marriage Mr. Shade removed to Towanda, McLean county, of the same State, bought eighty acres of land and remained there five years. He returned to Peoria county in 1861, the commencement of the war, and followed farming and was quite successful. Subsequently he purchased a farm near Greeley, in Delaware county, Iowa, and made a specialty of raising horses and cattle. In 1880, he sold his farm there and bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in Pymosa township, Cass county. Eighty acres of this land lies in section 20, with the balance joining it on the north. He has a fine farm. His residence is pleasantly surrounded by trees, and has an orchard nearby containing one hundred bearing apple trees. Mr. Shade is the owner of an imported Clydesdale horse, "Farmer's Delight," purchased by him of William Storm of Jones county, by whom the animal was imported. Seven hundred dollars was the price which Mr. Shade paid for the horse. Mr. and Mrs. Shade have one son--Henry A., who is a member of the Congregational church. Mr. Shade has, since boyhood, been a consistent member of the M. E. church. Mrs. Shade is a member of the Congregational church.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 563.
