Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Tisdale, Frederick A. 1858 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

FREDERICK A. TISDALE.

Frederick A. Tisdale is a retired lumberman of Ottumwa, where he has made his
home since 1867. He has witnessed changes here as the work of progress and
improvement has been carried forward, and at all times has been in thorough
sympathy with the progressive element in the citizenship of the county. Iowa
claims him as a native son, for his birth occurred in Bloomfield, Davis county,
October 8, 1858, his parents being O. D. and Harriet Newell (Baldwin) Tisdale.
The father was born near Watertown, New York, in 1823, and died in Ottumwa in
1891. The mother's birth occurred in Beverly, Ohio, March 20, 1827, and she
passed away in Ottumwa, February 10, 1911, when she was almost eighty-four years
of age. She was reared in the Buckeye state, but in early womanhood joined a
brother in Keosauqua, Iowa, and there engaged in teaching school. She taught in
the academy at Troy, Iowa, and was married there to O. D. Tisdale, who was also
a teacher. He had followed his profession in Tennessee and afterward came to
Iowa. For a time he was proprietor of a store at Troy, but removed to
Bloomfield, where he conducted a store through the period of the Civil war. Soon
after the close of hostilities between the north and the south he came to
Ottumwa, where he opened a general store, but afterward disposed of all lines
save dry goods. At a later period he was proprietor of a hotel and was regarded
as one of the most energetic and enterprising business men of the city. At
different times he was called to public office, serving as mayor of Ottumwa and
also as representative of Davis county in the state legislature. He was likewise
a member of the board of supervisors of Wapello county. He voted the democratic
ticket and throughout the greater part of his life took an active interest in
politics, recognizing fully the duties and obligations as well as the privileges
of citizenship. Fraternally he was connected with the Masons. In his family were
nine children: W. D., who is engaged in the practice of law in Ottumwa; E. G.,
also of this city; Frederick A.; O. D., who is a lumberman of Ottumwa; Harriet
B. of Ottumwa; Grace S., the wife of S. G. Pierson, of Denver, Colorado; and
three who died in infancy.

Frederick A. Tisdale has been continuously a resident of Ottumwa since 1867. He
is a graduate of the high school and for one year was a student in the Ames
Agricultural College. For two winter seasons he engaged in teaching in rural
schools of this county and then turned his attention to commercial pursuits,
being for eight years connected with the firm of Silberman Brothers, dealers in
hides and wool. He then embarked in the lumber business, with which he was
associated for twenty years, becoming a member of the firm of Kirk & Tisdale,
with which he continued for four years. He was afterward Senior partner of the
firm of F. A. Tisdale & Company for three years and was later alone for thirteen
years. He has now been out of business for the past five years, having disposed
of his lumberyard to his brother on the 1st of January, 1909. He had built up a
good trade and his liberal and growing patronage brought to him an increasing
annual income, so that in time he acquired a handsome competence that now
enables him to put aside further business cares and yet enjoy the comforts and
many of the luxuries of life.

On the 31st of January, 1889, Mr. Tisdale was united in marriage to Miss Myrtle
L. Coombs, who was born in Indiana in 1868, a daughter of W. A. and Mahala
(Davis) Coombs, the former now deceased, while the latter is a resident of
Ottumwa. Mr. and Mrs. Tisdale became parents of two daughters: Florence M., who
was graduated from the University of Chicago in June, 1913, and is now at home;
and Mildred, who died in February, 1909, in her seventeenth year. The parents
hold membership in the Congregational church, in which Mr. Tisdale is serving as
a trustee. His fraternal relations are with the Masons and his social nature
finds expression in his membership in the Wapello and Country Clubs. In polities
he has been a stalwart republican since 1896. For nine years he has been a
member of the board of education in Ottumwa and at the present writing is
serving as its president, the public schools finding in him a stalwart champion,
looking ever to their interests and welfare. He stands at all times for
material, intellectual, political, social and moral progress. He is not over
zealous, nor is he indifferent to concerns of public policy, but in all things
maintains an even balance and so directs his energies and efforts that desirable
results arc accomplished.


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HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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