W. E. SPURRIER
The first hardware store in the town was established by Spurrier and Clure, in the year 1876, but Mr. Clure retiring. Mr. Spurrier has continued it alone since, and is the only exclusive dealer in that line of business in the town. He carries a fine large stock of heavy and shelf hardware, cutlery, stoves, etc., and has earned for himself the name of a fair and liberal dealer, and a public spirited gentleman.
W. E. Spurrier, hardware dealer, came to Wiota in 1876, and that same season erected his present store. He is the first and only exclusive hardware dealer in the village. He was born in Johnson county, Iowa, in 1849, and he was engaged in the hardware business several years before coming to Wiota, and served an apprenticeship at the trade of tinner. His wife was Augusta Barnes, a native of Indiana. They have two children--Harriet Augusta, and an infant daughter. He does a cash business of about $15,000, annually.
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. 804.
