Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-16
LOCAL BANKER
PASSES AWAY
HON. w. A. MINTIRE DIED AT THE
FAMILY RESIDENCE EARLY
THIS MORNING.

While recent reports of the serious
illness Of w. A. McIntire have, in a
measure, prepared the public for this
announcement, yet the news of his
death, which occurred at 2 o'clock
Saturday morning will evitable cause
shock. 1t has been negerally known
for many days past that the end was
rapidly approaching and that the
dreaded Bright's disease from which
he has suffered since August 1907,
would terminate only with his life,
nevertheless it will be very difficult
for the public to realize that his active
life, which has been SO important
factor in the affairs of the community
for SO many years, is ended.
Born in 1849.
William Anderson McIntire was
born in Keokuk township in this
county on April II, 1S49. He was rails
ed on a farm and attended the country
schools Of his township. Later he at
tended the public schools of Ottumwa
and subsequently went to the Iowa
State college at Ames, where he re-
manned for two years. In 1874 he
was married to Clara Goldsberry who
survives him
In 1877 he was nominated by the
Democrats of Wapello county for the
Office of superintendent Of schools of
the county He was elected and was
reelected subsequently four times to
that office and at the expiration of his
ten years service declined subsequent
nominations that were rendered him.
No fact of his life more clearly indi-
Gates the esteem in which he was held
by the people of this county. The
Office is not merely a political place.
4 1t is recognized as position in the
filling of which personal character and
personal worth weigh more heavily
than any other considerations. No
man in the community possessed in
more marked degree the confidence,
good will and esteem of the people
than he.
In 1888 he engaged in the hardware
business, his firm being known as w.
A. McIntire & Co., in which concern
he retained his interest to the time
of his death. In 1897 he was elected
state senator from Wapello county
and served four years. AS a memory
Of the senate he was recognized as a
leader of the minority and served with
distinction and honor
Bank President.
In 1903 he organized the South OF.
tumwa Bank and he has been presi
dent of that institution since it was
founded Probably no effort of his life
gave him more satisfaction than did
the remarkable success of this bank
His great personal popularity and his
unquestioned integrity and ability
made the institution remarkable sue
cess from the start and since 1905
his time and attention were practi
cally absorbed in the management o.
the bank
He was director Of the Ottumws
Savings Bank and of the Ottumws
Gas Ligh, Heat and Power Co. He
served one term as trustee of thu
State Normal School at Cedar Falls
and was reelected by the last gen
eral assembly to that position. Fo
many years he was member of thu
local school board and at the time o
his death was a member of the boart
OF directors of the Ottumwa Public
Library and also of the Commercial
club. He was a member of the Pres
byterian church and was active in al
the associations and movements 70
the upbuilding of the material ant
moral interests of the community.
Funeral Monday Afternoon.
The funeral services will be held o.
Monday afternoo, June Is, at
o'clock, at the residence, ZIG Yves
Fifth street and interment will tax
place in the Ottumwa cemetery
A Successful Career.
The above reference to the facts Q
his life are descriptive of most az
} tive and successful career. 1t is nc
an exaggeration to say that for qual
ter or a century past no ehterpris
looking to the advancement of the il
terests of Ottumwa have been under
taken without his solicited advice an
counsel He was a man OF pronounce
convictions and was most tenaciou
of his opinions, but no man ever POI
sessed the faculty in created degre
than he of retaining the love and al
miration of his adversaries No ma
In Wapello county possessed a wide
acquaintance than he and it is yer
doubtful whether the acquaintance {
any other man approached his in e.