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WINNESHIEK COUNTY 1103 Previous Next cause of a poor client and furnish money to fight his battles. His zeal for what he deemed the right carried him beyond all bounds of reason. It made him intolerant, and in a great measure hampered his usefulness in the cause he wished most to serve. He was a man of heart, a man of action, and zealous as a martyr—a man of strong passion governed by impulse and calm judgment. Yet his heart was as pure as the heart of a child, and his life was as clean. He hated sham, he hated fuss and feathers. He loved young men; he loved children, and a little child could lead him. Above all things this many-sided man of whom it can truthfully be said that he was without a model and without a shadow, has his memory enshrined in the hearts of the poor and lonely, whom he loved and aided always.”—Decorah Journal, July 29, 1902. Howard F. Barthell is a native of New York State and was born at Troy, October 30, 1870. He attended the public schools of Troy, N. Y., and Decorah, Iowa, Slack’s Business College of Decorah, and the State University of Iowa, where he read law, and was admitted June 14, 1893. He began to practice at Decorah, Iowa. He belongs to the Chapter Blue lodge and Knights Templars of the Masons; also the Odd Fellows. He has been justice of the peace for Decorah for the past ten years. George Rice Willett was born of American parents in L’Acadie, Province of Quebec, November 11, 1826, and was the son of Mahlon and Margaret (Cooper) Willett. His early education lie received at home, having a private teacher in the family, and later he attended the select school of the Rev. Joseph Braithwaite, a graduate of Oxford, England, and it was here that Judge Willett formed the habit of systematic and diligent study and laid the foundation for the fine legal training that came later. From 1850 to 1855 he was associated with his brother in conducting the woolen mills at Chambly, Canada, after which commenced the study of law at Champlain, New |
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