Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

the bar and went into partnership with
his father, the firm name becoming
Work & Work. He is becoming recog-
nized as one of the able though youngI
members of the bar of Wapello county
and is amply qualified to fill the office
of police judge.
F. M. Hunter.
Frank NJ Hunter is SO well known
to almost everyone in Ottumwa that heI
scarcely needs an introduction through
these columns. One of the leading at
torneys in the Wapello county bar andl
also one of the substantial property
holders Of the city, he has an acquaint-i
ance that includes big majority of
the voters of Ottumwa. Mr.. Hunter
was born in Keosauqua, March 26,1S5S.
He attended school at Bloomfield and
upon finishing the course read law inl
the office of Judge Trimble, now of ke-
okuk. He then took the law course att
the state university at Iowa City, grad
uating in the law class of 1882. ForI
about year he was in the law Office
of Conner and Shaw at Denison. TheI
members of this firm have since sprung
into prominence. Hon. Leslie M. Shaw
for two terms governor of Iowa, being
now secretary of the treasury under
President Roosevelt, and Judge James
M. Conner, his former partner, a mem
Der of the national house of representa-
tives. From Denison, Mr.. Hunter re-
moved to Council Bluffs where he en-
gagged in the practice of law. In 1892
ne removed to this city and has re-
sided here since that time. For about
four years after coming to Ottumwa,
Mr.. Hunter was a law partner of Capt
w. H. G. Jaques, his present competit-
OF for the Office of city solicitor, aud
their relations We're most pleasant. For
several years past, Mr.. Hunter and
judge j. G. Mitchell have been engag-
ed as partners in the practice of law
here. Mr.. Hunter IS United States COM
missioner in Ottumwa.
c. A. Hagberg.
Charles A. Hagberg, republican can
didate for the office of city treasurer,
was born in southern Sweden April 23,
1858, and four years later came with
his parents to the United States. The
family located at Marine Mills, Mimi,
and after a short residence there
removed to Webster county, in this
state, SO that practically all of Mr.
Hagberg's life has been spent in Iowa.
He came to Ottumwa in 1889 and has
made this place his home since that
time. For five years after coming to
this city he was employed by the
Hardsocg Manufacturing Co., but for
the past seven years he had been with
R. Daniel in the shoe business Mr..
Hagberg has been prominently con-
nected with the trades union move
ment in Ottumwa and was instrument
tai in organizing the local branch of the
Retail Clerks Protective Association,
eral years. He is also president of the
Ottumwa Trades and Labor Assembly,
having been elected to that position a
few months ago for the fourth term.
Mr. Hagberg is one of the members of
the local board of trustees of the Swe-
dish Lutheran church. this being his
fourth term of three years in that ca
pacity. During large part of the time
| he has been financial secretary of the
Organization and has ably handled the
large sums of money which have from
/ time to time been entrusted to his
care Mr.. Hagherg has the respect and
confidence of all who know him and is
amply qualified to assume the duties
which will devolve upon. him as city
treasurer.
William r. Warren.
William r. Warren, candidate for
city auditor, was born in Salisbury,
England, in 1913. He came with his
parents to the United States when 8
years of age and the family settled in
Missouri, then on the western frontier
On April 10, 1861, Mr.. Warren was
mustered into the United States army
as a member of company G, sixth In
diana infantry. He was in the first
battle Of the civil war at Phillippi, Va,
June 2, 1861, and participated in the
Virginia campaign that year under Nc
/ Clellan. He was in the first Union
army thai entered Kentucky during the
war, and fought in the battles of Shi-
lob. Corinth, Perryville, Stone river,
Hoover's Gap. Chickamauga, Mission
airy Ridge and many others. At Chick
amauga he was wounded and thought
to be killed, but lived to fight several
other battles in spite of that fact. Dur