extensive search he was located in Minnesota, suffering from tuberculosis, from which disease he died six weeks after being brought back home to Jasper county. He was unmarried; Hattie M., wife of Robert S. Miller, born February 8, 1865, lives on a farm in Kellogg township, near the home of the subject; Martha E., wife of Ed. Van Epps, born January 25, 1867, lives in Buena Vista township on a farm; he died in 1911.

The subject of this sketch was married to Lucy J. Mark, daughter of Samuel and Fanny Mark, June 17, 1895. She was born September 16, 1868, in Marion county, Iowa. Her parents were both natives of Ohio. They removed to Iowa and settled in Marion county, and when the daughter, Lucy, was six years old (1876), they moved to Jasper county and bought land in Buena Vista township. Here the father died in 1893. The mother still lives on the place and is sixty-three years old at the time this sketch is written.

Mrs. Scoville was one of seven children, two of whom died in infancy; Rosaltha, who married William Drake, lives on a farm in Kellogg township near the Scovilles; Ada, widow of George Sampson, who was killed by foul air while engaged in boring out a well, lives with her mother at the old home place; and Daisy, who married Charles Sampson, a brother of George, mentioned above. They live on a farm in the northern part of Iowa. Mrs. Scoville's father enlisted in Ohio for the Civil war, and served about three years. To Mr. and Mrs. Scoville were born four children: Robert Mark, born May 10, 1897; Viola, born February 25, 1901; Emerson, born September 21, 1902; Lester, born May 1, 1899, died in infancy.

Mr. Scoville is the owner of two hundred and twenty-one acres of splendid land, well improved, a part of it being that which his father entered in 1854. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 376 at Kellogg. He has held township offices, such as road commissioner and supervisor, and school director. In politics he is a Republican. He is not affiliated with any church. Mrs. Scoville is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

FRED WHITEHEAD.

Conspicuous among Jasper county's most influential and solid citizens and representative business men of central Iowa, Fred Whitehead, although born in alien lands, has, while advancing his individual interests, done much for the general development of this vicinity, with which the latter part of his life has been closely interwoven. A man of sterling worth, unswerving integrity and

progressive ideas, his well regulated life has gained the admiration and respect of all who have come into contact with him.

Mr. Whitehead was born in Somersetshire, England, October 4, 1835, the son of William and Maria (Harris) Whitehead, both natives of England, his father being the third in order of birth in a family of four children born to Thomas Whitehead and wife. William Whitehead was a mason by trade, also followed farming later in life. He emigrated to America with his family in 1845, when the subject was ten years old, and they settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which city a brother John, uncle of Fred, of this review, had located eight years previously. Leaving Pittsburgh in 1851 William Whitehead moved his family to Chicago, but soon left there and bought a farm near Joliet, Illinois, which he sold in 1856 and moved to Madison county, Iowa, and later to Marion county, where he continued to reside until his death, in 1891, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He established a good home in the new world, became active in Republican politics and was highly respected wherever he lived. His widow survived him until 1897, when she died at Monroe, Iowa, having attained the ripe age of ninety-one years.

To William Whitehead and wife four children were born, namely: Matilda, who married William F. Reed, a business man of Pittsburgh, died while on a visit to the subject of this sketch at Monroe; Walter is living on a farm in Kansas; his wife died, leaving eight children; Fred of this review; Elizabeth A. is the widow of William A. Hankins, lives with her son, her only child, who is a rancher and stock man in northwestern Nebraska.

Fred Whitehead obtained his education in the country schools, which was later in life supplemented by wide and careful reading on miscellaneous subjects and by actual contact with the world. In speaking of this phase of his life record, he laconically remarked that his early education had been neglected in view of the fact that he had to work instead of go to school. He learned the plumbers' trade in Pittsburgh and also farmed a while prior to the commencement of the Civil war. On August 15, 1861, he proved his loyalty to his adopted country by enlisting at Monroe, Iowa, in Company I, Tenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and he proved to be a very faithful defender of the Stars and Stripes, having taken part in the following engagements: Raymond, Jackson (before the siege of Vicksburg), Champion's Hill, siege of Vicksburg, second battle of Jackson, Missionary Ridge, New Madrid, Missouri, and Corinth, Mississippi. He received an honorable discharge and was mustered out on September 28, 1864, at Kingston, Georgia. He was wounded in the battle of Champion's Hill.

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After his career in the army Mr. Whitehead returned to Iowa and bought ninety acres in Marion county, for which he paid three dollars and fifty cents He held this land until five years ago. At the present time he owns a half section of good land in Arkansas and nearly six hundred acres in Tennessee. He also owned considerable land in Nebraska, which he later disposed of. In 1894 he retired from active farm life and moved to Monroe, where he has a modern, attractive and pleasant home. He has been very successful in his business operations and is one of the substantial men of the southern part of the county. He has never married.

Mr. Whitehead is a Republican and he cast his first ballot for Fremont. He has always taken an abiding interest in public affairs, especially in whatever tended to the betterment of Jasper county. Personally, he is a genial, obliging and honest gentleman.

W. S. JOHNSON.

Those who know W. S. Johnson, well known editor and publisher of Jasper county, will readily acquiesce in the statement that there is much in his life record worthy of commendation and admiration. Like many other energetic young men who are leaving their impress upon the magnificent development of this favored section of the great Hawkeye commonwealth, he did not wait for a specially brilliant opening. Indeed, he could not wait, for his natural industry would not have permitted him to do so. In his early youth he gave evidence of the possession of traits of character which have made his life exceptionally successful and he is today admittedly one of the useful, public-spirited citizens of the locality of which this history treats, having long had its interests at heart and doing all in his power for its general progress along material, civic and moral lines, thereby becoming a molder of public opinion and winning the confidence and good will of all classes.

Mr. Johnson was born at Worthington, Ohio, October 9, 1860. He is the son of Rev. Silas and Harriet L. (Doolittle) Johnson, the father pastor of the Presbyterian church at Worthington for a number of years, and a prominent figure in that denomination in the Buckeye state, from which the family moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1862, thence to Indianola, this state, in 1867, where the subject of this sketch grew to manhood and received his education in the public schools and Simpson College, located in that city. He later attended the Iowa State University. In 1883 he read law in the office of Young

& Parrish at Leon, Iowa, and the same year was admitted to the bar by the district court and he at once opened an office at Leon, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for about two years. Although he was building up a large clientele and meeting with general success, the law was not exactly to his taste and in 1885 he turned his attention to the field of journalism, purchasing the Leon Journal, of which paper he was editor and manager for six years; since then he has been owner and editor of the Express at Garden Grove, Iowa, the Pioneer at Sanborn, Iowa, and the Record in the city of Newton, having bought the latter paper in 1905 and he still continues as editor and owner. He has conducted all these popular newspapers in a manner that reflects much credit on his ability and rendered them very potent factors in the community. He has improved the mechanical appearance of each, making them the disseminators of the brightest and best news of the day, greatly increased the circulation of each and rendered them most valuable advertising mediums. His editorials are always eagerly read and have much weight on whatever topic that is taken up. These papers are easily the peer of any of their class in the state. Mr. Johnson ranks high in the estimation of his professional brethren throughout the country.

Mr. Johnson was married on May 20, 1889, at Leon, Iowa, to Julia B. Hoodley, the representative of an excellent family and a lady of many estimable traits. This union has been blessed by the birth of three children, namely: Lewis, Ruth and Bertha. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Presbyterian church of Newton, and in his fraternal relations he belongs to the Masonic order. He has been a member of the school board of Newton for four years and he is in his second term as president of the Newton Commercial Association. If he takes pride in any one thing it is that he has never lost an opportunity to boost his own city and state. Personally he is a genial, obliging and unassuming gentleman, popular with the masses, irrespective of party alignment.

JOHN P. HUMMEL.

At this point we enter brief record concerning another of the representative agriculturists, now living in honorable retirement in his cozy home in Monroe, Jasper county, and aside from the position he occupies as a leading and highly esteemed citizen of the locality there is added interest attached to the resume of his career from the fact that he came here early in life and lived to see and take part in the wonderful advancement of the Hawkeye state, his

family have been one of the advance guard of progress and material advancement and while he has benefited himself in a very material way in this community, he has been of much value to the county owing to his public spirit and his loyalty to the support of any movements which have as their ultimate aim the bettering of the community which has long been honored by his residence.

Mr. Hummel was born December 25, 1853, in Montgomery county, Ohio, and he is the son of Benedict and Nancy (Holp) Hummel. The father was born in Wittenberg, Germany, and there grew to maturity and was educated, emigrating to the United States in 1848, no other member of his family coming to our shores for many years afterwards. He settled on a farm in Montgomery county, Ohio, where he lived four years, then moved to Elkhart county, Indiana, and purchased a farm of eighty acres, and there he lived and farmed until 1863, when he brought his family to Jasper county, Iowa, and purchased a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Fairview township, five miles northwest of Monroe. While living in Montgomery county, Ohio, he and Nancy Holp were married. She was the daughter of a farmer and was born in Pennsylvania. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Benedict Hummel; Elizabeth, who married W. W. Wagoner, a well known farmer in Fairview township, this county, living five miles northwest of Monroe; Mike is married and lives on the home farm; and John P., of this review, who lives in Monroe. The mother of these children died at the old home place in 1887 at the age of sixty-seven years. In 1872 the father went West and was never again heard from.

John P. Hummel, who was the second child in order of birth, was about nine years old when the family moved to Iowa; he received his education in the country schools in Fairview township near the home farm, remaining at home, assisting with the general farm work, until his marriage, which occurred in January, 1898. His wife was known in her maidenhood as Augusta Russ, daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Hummel) Russ. She was born in Germany in 1861, her parents being natives of the fatherland. They came to America in 1871 and settled at Monroe, Jasper county, Iowa. She was one of a family of five children, namely: Mary, who married George Magg, a retired farmer, now living at Prairie City; Kate, who married William Lotz, lives one mile south of Monroe in Marion county; Bergie married Lewis Wilhelm and lives on a farm northwest of Monroe; the wife of our subject was the oldest of the family; Lucy married George McCombs, of California, a ranchman. The parents of these children are both deceased.