Jackson-Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Myatt, Fred July 24, 1866 - 
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Source: Jackson Sentinel
Author: Jackson Sentinel

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, April 8, 1909 

F. W. MYATT 

The subject of this sketch is a member of the firm of Myatt & Heide, attorneys-
at-law and abstractors. He was elected mayor of Maquoketa, March 29th, for a 
two year term. He was born on a farm in Sharon Township, Clinton County, Iowa, 
July 24, 1866, the eldest son of Simon and Louisa Myatt who emigrated to this 
country from Birmingham, England in 1865, and settled in the neighbor county of 
Clinton. Like many of those seeking new homes in this country, they endured 
various hardships before their final settlement and location, which 
unfortunately was soon followed by the death of the father in 1871, leaving a 
devoted wife and two children-Frederick W. and Walter H. to mourn their 
irreparable loss. 

Our subject, like most of the good material now days, grew to manhood on the 
farm, receiving his early education in the district school. While not otherwise 
engaged in his studies, he was hustling around watching the crops grow and 
doing such other work as usually falls to the “Cub” on the farm. 

He attended the Northern Illinois College at Fulton, and afterward reengaged in 
farming until 1893. Coming to Maquoketa in that year he read law in the office 
of Hon. G. L. Johnson for about two years. Afterward he attended the State 
University for six months and was admitted to the bar in May, 1896. He began 
the practice of law in this city the same year and was appointed referee in 
bankruptcy in 1896, which position he still holds. In 1896 he was chosen county 
chairman of the Republican Central Committee, succeeding H. E. King, which 
position he held for two years. 

On April 4, 1899, he was happily married to a most accomplished young lady, 
Miss Gertrude Cooper, of this city. But her untimely death occurred on July 
8th, 1903, leaving the bereaved husband and a bright little son, Frederick 
Paul, besides a large circle of friends to mourn her demise. 

Mr. Myatt is a man of broad, liberal views and scholarly attainments and by his 
courteous and upright dealings with his fellowman has won for himself a large 
and steadily growing clientele, doing a general law business, practicing in all 
courts. 



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