Cassia County ID Archives Biographies.....Oberholtzer, Clarence M. 1861 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

CLARENCE M. OBERHOLTZER, of Burley, president of the Bank of Commerce, is a man
to whom difficulties and obstacles have seemed but to serve as an impetus for
renewed effort in his business career. Steadily and persistently he has worked
his way upward until his example should constitute an inspiring force in the
lives of those who know aught of his record. He was born at Lewis, Iowa,
December 20, 1864, and is a son of Henry H. and Lavina (Reist) Oberholtzer. He
spent his boyhood.days at the place of his nativity and in early life became a
clerk in the Council Bluffs (la.) National Bank, accepting a position at a
salary of twenty dollars per month. He later became associated with the firm of
Burnham, Tulleys & Company of Council Bluffs and afterward was made credit man
for the Pioneer Implement Company in the same city. In the spring of 1909 he
came to Burley, Idaho, and organized the Bank of Commerce, which was capitalized
at twenty-five thousand dollars. The business was first established in the old
Hotel Burley and was there conducted until January, 1913, when the hotel
building was destroyed by fire. The bank reopened in the postoffice building and
on the 1st of September, 1913, removed to its present business block. On the 1st
of March, 1916, the capital stock was increased to fifty thousand dollars, a
fact indicative of the steady and substantial growth of the business. The Bank
of Commerce of Burley is today regarded as one of the safe and solid financial
institutions of Cassia county and this section of the state, a well deserved
reputation to which Mr. Oberholtzer has contributed in large measure. Governor
Hawley was the first vice president of the bank and attended the first meeting
of the stockholders. J. P. Davis, of Council Bluffs, was the second vice
president, with D. L. Wyland also as vice president and W. C. Dickey, Jr., as
cashier. Mr. Oberholtzer is also the secretary of the Burley Town Site Company.

   In 1907 Mr. Oberholtzer was married to Miss Ellen Dickey, a daughter of W. C.
and Ellen Dickey and a native of Iowa. They have two children, Ellen May and Dick.

   In his political views Mr. Oberholtzer has always been a republican, giving
stalwart allegiance to the party and its principles.   During the war period he
was very active in support of all government interests, was chairman of the
Liberty Loan drives in Burley and was a member of the Council of Defense.


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DELUXE SUPPLEMENT
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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