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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

CHARLES HALLBERG.
Various corporate interests have felt the stimulus of the cooperation of Charles
Hallberg, an enterprising business man, who, watchful of his opportunities, has
advanced steadily to the goal of success. He is now identified with a number of
important business interests of Ottumwa. His birth occurred at Falkenberg,
Sweden, February 16, 1868. His ancestors were prominent men, holding government
positions, to which only men of college educations were eligible. Some of the
family were custom officers, while his great-grandfather, Tobias Hallberg,
served as judge of Halmstad and his grandfather was postmaster at Falkenberg.
His paternal grandmother's ancestors were ministers in the Lutheran church for
three hundred years without a break. I. P. Hallberg, father of our subject, was
born in Falkenberg, May 19, 1838, and for almost a half century he engaged in
merchandising and banking, continuing in business to the time of his death,
which occurred in 1903. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Charlotte Amelia
Hedenbergh, is also deceased. In their family were ten children, nine of whom
are vet living: Algoth, Harry, and Gustaf, all of whom are residents of Sweden;
Charles, of this review; Robert, Hannah and Hilda, in Sweden; Henry, a resident
of New York; and Anders, who also makes his home in Sweden.

Charles Hallberg was educated at Gothenburg and Halmstad, Sweden, where he
attended the Latin grammar school. After putting aside his text-books he came to
the new world in 1884, being at that time a youth of sixteen years. For a month
he remained in Chicago and then came to Ottumwa. He secured a position with the
Globe Tea Company and in that connection steadily worked his way upward, winning
promotion by reason of his unflagging industry, his ready adaptability and his
thorough trustworthiness. He carefully saved his earnings and when twenty-one
years of age was able to purchase a third interest in the business. When
twenty-five years of age he was half owner and at the age of thirty held
three-fourths of the stock. He is now secretary, treasurer and manager of the
Globe Tea Company, in which connection he bends his energies to administrative
direction and executive control. Largely shaping the policy of the house, he has
made it one of the important commercial interests of Ottumwa, its ramifying
trade connections now covering a wide territory. In fact it has long been the
largest concern of the kind in this state. This does not indicate, however, the
scope of Mr. Hallberg's business activities, for in addition to the management
of the Globe Tea Company he is one of the directors and treasurer of the
wholesale grocery firm of J. G. Hutchison Company and is a director of the Iowa
Savings Bank. Colleagues and contemporaries regard him as a man of sound
business judgment and unfaltering enterprise, and his life record is the
indication' of his ability, which has as its component elements not any unusual
qualities, but such cultivable traits as diligence, determination and integrity.

On the 4th of June, 1894, Mr. Hallberg was united in marriage to Miss Catherine
Hoglund, who was born in Ottumwa, a daughter of ex-Alderman F. Hoglund and
Alartha (Wickstrom) Hoglund, who are still residents of this city. Mr. and Mrs.
Hallberg have a family of four children: Hildur, who is a student in the State
University at Iowa City; Marion, attending high school; Melvin, who is also in
school, and Wilma. Mrs. Hallberg has been very active in religious, club and
social circles. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hallberg hold membership in the Swedish
Lutheran church, in which he has been deacon or trustee for twenty years and a
delegate to state conferences and synods a number of times. His wife takes a
helpful interest in various branches of church work and has been a member of the
board of the Young Women's Christian Association. She is now president of the
Home Culture Club.

Mr. Hallberg gives his political allegiance to the republican party and, while
never an office seeker, he has not been remiss in the duties of citizenship,
but, on the contrary, has cooperated in many projects for the benefit and
upbuilding of the city. For three years he served on the school board. He is
thoroughly American in spirit and interests and though still feeling a love for
the land of his birth, his deepest attachment is for the land of his adoption,
where the greater part of his life has been spent and where he has found and
improved the opportunities that have led to success. A noted traveler once said,
in comparing the other countries with Sweden, that the latter "is the home of
the honest man." Mr. Hallberg seems to have inherited this characteristic trait,
and wherever he is spoken of in business circles his thorough reliability is
mentioned as well as the enterprising spirit that has lead him to overcome
difficulties and obstacles and advance steadily along commercial lines, his
efforts proving an element in general prosperity as well as in the acquirement
of individual wealth.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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