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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

CHARLES T. SULLIVAN.

Charles T. Sullivan, a prominent and successful business man of Ottumwa, is an
undertaker who has been identified with that work here for the past twenty-six
years. His birth occurred in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, on the 22d of
March, 1854, his parents being Henry Howard and Sarah (Engle) Sullivan, the
former born in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 6th of June, 1807, and the latter in
Columbus, Ohio, on the 20th of February, 1829. In the year 1858 the family
journeyed by wagon to Ellisville, Fulton county, Illinois, where Henry H.
Sullivan was engaged in business as a wholesale and retail boot and shoemaker.
For many years he served as overseer of the poor at that place. He passed away
in Ellisville on the 6th of February, 1891, but his widow still survives and
makes her home there. They became the parents of eleven children, as follows:
Ellen and William, both of whom are deceased; Charles T., of this review;
Milton; Alice, who has also passed away; Andrew; Joseph; Katie, deceased; Flora;
Belle, and Irvin.

Charles T. Sullivan, who was but four years old when his parents established
their home in Ellisville, Illinois, there remained until twenty-three years of
age. He attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education and was a
youth of sixteen when he first helped in the burial preparations of a corpse. He
also assisted a chum whose father dealt in coffins and became interested in the
work in that way. His first instructions in embalming were received from
Professor Perrigo, in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1886, while subsequently he received
training under Professor Sullivan, a noted embalmer of the United States, and
under Professor Clark. In later years he worked under the preceptorship of
Professor William Hohenschuh, one of the most noted embalmers in the world. A
license was then granted him—No. 234—and for the past seven years he has
practiced under license No. 1087. He came to Ottumwa, Iowa, in February, 1888,
and identified himself with the firm of Workman & Truitt, while later he was
associated with Workman & Bayliss. Subsequently he became a member of the firm
of Harned & Sullivan, which was afterward changed to McIntyre & Sullivan, and
eventually he became an associate of E. L. Scott under the firm style of Scott &
Sullivan. Since January, 1904, he has been engaged in business alone under the
style of Charles T. Sullivan and in the intervening decade has buried more than
twenty-five hundred people. He carries his own casketware, has a morgue and
funeral chapel, an ambulance, etc. In January, 1909, he moved into his present
building, which he erected. The structure comprises three floors and basement
and includes ten modern flats. Mr. Sullivan is assisted by Walter Roscoe, a
licensed embalmer, who has been with him for nine years, and also Carroll M.
Reese, who is pursuing a course in the work. Mrs. Sullivan has charge of the
books, and it is to her that our subject generously attributes much of his success.

On the 29th of April, 1891, Mr. Sullivan was united in marriage to Mrs. Rena
Monnett, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Houk, who were born and reared in
Keosauqua, Van Buren county, Iowa. Her father was killed at the battle of Fort
Donelson, in the Civil war, and her mother died suddenly at the home of her
son-in-law, Charles T. Sullivan, on the 10th of March, 1913, when eighty-four
years of age.

In his political views Mr. Sullivan is independent, supporting men and measures
rather than party. He is a supporter of the First Methodist church, joining that
denomination in Fulton county, Illinois, in 1875. In 1884 he joined the local
lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Shenandoah, Iowa, and in the
same week became connected with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, now holding
membership in Ottumwa. He likewise belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, the
Woodmen of the World, the Rebekahs, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the
Yeomen. At all times he has been true to the obligations and responsibilities
that have devolved upon him in every relation of life, so that he well merits
the esteem and good-will which are uniformly accorded him.


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


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