Herbert Pease came with his parents to Story county when ten years of age and acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, later attending the Collins high school, Drake University and the State Normal College at Cedar Falls, Iowa. In 1890 he began teaching and continued in that vocation for ten years, during the last three years of which he served as principal of the Collins schools. He gained a reputation as one of the most accomplished teachers in the county. Having decided to devote his attention to medicine he matriculated in the medical department of the State University in the fall of 1900, and while taking the regular course of instruction spent his vacations reading under Dr. N. W. Knepper, of Collins. In 1904 he was graduated from the university with the degree of M. D. and has since practiced at Slater, being from the start unusually successful. He keeps thoroughly in touch with the latest discoveries and advances in medicine, as is indicated by his large and well selected library and also by post-graduate work at the Chicago Polyclinic in 1907 and the Philadelphia Polyclinic in 1909. He is a valued member of the Story County Medical Society and of the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the 17th of January, 1906, Dr. Pease was united in marriage to Miss Lois Felshaw, a daughter of John S. Felshaw, a well known attorney of Collins, and to this union two children have been born : Adrianna and Evelyn. Dr. Pease fraternally is identified with Slater Camp, No. 7971, M. W. A., and socially is one of the leaders in the community. He early acquired habits of close study and careful observation, which he has applied in his professional career, being on this account more than ordinarily successful. A man of good judgment, high ideals, force and determination of character, he is held in great esteem by his fellowmen and meets in his chosen calling with the rewards which are due to wisely directed effort.
CHARLES S. GAMBLE.
One of the best known men .in agricultural circles in Story county is Charles S. Gamble, of Indian Creek township, who was born in this county on the 26th of September, 1872, a son of John D. and Elizabeth (Mullen) Gamble. His parents came to Iowa from Indiana in 1856, locating on the farm where they continued to reside until their deaths. The father was born in Tennessee on the 7th of May, 1830, but when he was seven years of age his family removed to Indiana, where he met and married Elizabeth Mullen, who was a native of Indiana, born in that state on the 8th of June, 1835. In 1856 they came to Iowa and settled in Story county, where Mr. Gamble entered from the government a portion of the farm now occupied by his son, William Marion Gamble. Upon this worthy couple devolved all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. The prairie had to be