Charles A. Cadwell Biography


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				CHARLES A. CADWELL. 

	Charles A. Cadwell, a well known resident of Sioux Falls, was 
born in Griggsville, Pike county, Illinois, March 7, 1860, a son of 
Addison and Martha S. (Burns) Cadwell. The father was born in Kentucky 
in 1831 and died in Pittsfield, Illinois, in 1910. He was married in 
1855 and had three sons and two daughters, all of whom survive, the 
subject of this review being the second in order of birth and the 
oldest son. Addison Cadwell was treasurer of Pike county, Illinois, for 
one term. 

	Charles A. Cadwell acquired his education in the public schools 
of Griggsville and New Salem, Illinois, and later attended Chaddock 
College at Quincy and was also a student in the Wesleyan University at 
Bloomington. In 1881 he went to Maryville, Missouri, where a relative 
was engaged in the implement business, and one year later accepted a 
position as traveling salesman for several implement concerns in 
Illinois. In this capacity he acted until January 1, 1886, when he 
moved to Kansas City, Missouri, establishing himself in the real-estate 
business there. In October, 1889, he went to Neponset, Illinois, where 
for three years he conducted a retail implement business, afterward 
working for several years on the road as a buggy salesman. In July, 
1899, he entered the employ of the Moline Plow Company and was 
identified with that corporation until the first of August, 1915, being 
one of its most reliable and trusted representatives. On the 1st of 
September, 1905, he came to Sioux Falls as manager of the branch here, 
conducted under the name of the Dakota Moline Plow Company. He gave 
practically all of his time to the affairs of this business, which he 
managed intelligently and capably under a policy which made it one of 
the important institutions of its kind in this section of the state. 

	On the 27th of December, 1887, at Bloomington, Indiana, Mr. 
Cadwell married Miss Martha O. Wallingford and they have become the 
parents of a daughter, Margaret. Mr. Cadwell is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, belongs to the Dacotah Club and the blue 
lodge in Masonry and gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party. He is an able and farsighted business man, broad in his views 
and progressive in his ideas, and upon these qualifications has built a 
success which places him among the substantial and representative men 
of Sioux Falls.