T.A. Cochran, collection and real estate agent, is a native of O.; moved to Polk county, Ia., in 1854; thence to Green county and in 1864 to Carroll county and engaged in teaching school. Moved to Glidden in 1878 and opened an office.

J. Coder, of the firm of Dickey & Coder, dealer in general merchandise, is a native of O.; moved to Carroll county, Ia., in 1868 and engaged in farming and teaching school until 1878, then entered present firm.

Thos. Elwood, M.D. was born in N.Y. City; moved to Dallas county, Ia., in 1858. He enlisted in 1862 in the 39th Ia. regiment; went to Corinth, Miss., as hospital steward, and remained until the close of the war; returned to Ia. and settled in Carroll county, and began the practice of medicine; was elected county probate judge in 1867, which office he held three years, and county recorder from 1866 to 1868.

W.E. Foster, of the firm of Foster Bros., druggists, is a native of O.; moved to Glidden, Ia., in 1877 and engaged in the drug business in 1880.

H.H. Gates, M.D., was born in Rutland county, Vt.; moved to Ia. in 1855 and settled in Scott county; removed to Jones county later. He entered the army as hospital steward; was promoted to the position of surgeon of the 31st Ia. Reg. in 1863 and served until the close of the war, then returned to Jones county and in 1869 moved to Glidden and engaged in the practice of medicine.

C.I. Huiman, of the firm of Huiman & Beach, attorneys at law, is a native of O.; came to Boone county, Ia., in 1853 and engaged in school teaching. He served as superintendent of schools one term and graded the schools of Glidden. he graduated from Grinnell College, Ia., and begun the practice of law in 1876 with present partner; they also do insurance and collection business.

J.A. Holmes, principal of the Glidden schools, is a native of N.Y.; moved to Glidden, Ia., in 1880 and engaged in his present occupation. He also deals in stationery, books and confectionery. The Glidden News-Boy, a weekly newspaper published by Coppie Holmes, was established in 1880, when Coppie was but twelve years old. At first it was four-page paper six by nine inches in size, but it has steadily increased in size and patronage and now (1882) it is a six-column quarto. The publisher does all the work upon the paper and considerable job work besides. He has put the receipts for advertising, etc., into the office and can now do good job work. He is the youngest publisher of a regular newspaper in Ia. and perhaps in the world; the newspaper press have given him many flattering notices.

C.O. Hood, M.D., is a native of Ind.; graduated from the medical department of the Butler University in the class of '79, and located at Glidden in 1880 and engaged in the practice of medicine. G.W. Parsons, proprietor of barber shop and news depot, is a native of O.; located at Glidden, Ia., in 1878 and engaged in his present business.

W.E. Potter, of the firm of Potter & Armitage, hardware dealers, was born in Oneida county, N.Y.; removed to the eastern part of Ia., in 1858, thence to Glidden in 1868 and engaged in farming; engaged in his present business in 1879; J.P. Armitage became a partner in 1880.

O.G. Prill, of the firm of Prill Bros., dealers in general groceries, is a native of Ins.; came to Ia. in 1875 and engaged in the above business in Nov., 1881.

F.G. Rust, insurance agent, is a native of Wis.; moved to Iowa. in 1881, and settled in Glidden and engaged in his present business.

I.R. Sale, M.D., was born in Ind., he studied medicine there several years; he then graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1881 and came to Glidden in Dec. of the same year and took charge of the established practice of Dr. Dunkle.

R.E. Spurrier, druggist and station agent, is a native of O.; moved to Iowa county, Ia., in 1853, thence to Glidden in 1880 and took charge of the station and purchased the drug business of M.S. Dunkle,M.D.

D.N. Smith, dealer in lumber and coal, is a native of Carroll county, N.H. He enlisted in 1861 in the U.S. sharpshooters, served three years in Va. and then returned to N.H.; moved to Ill. in 1877 and the following year to Glidden, Ia., and engaged in his present business.

Geo. Stalford, banker, is a native of Pa.; came to Ia. in the spring of 1869 and engaged in farming, returned to Pa. in 1870 and remained there three years; thence to Ia. again and engaged in the lumber and grain business; engaged in the banking business in Feb. 1877.