Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-17
TELLS STORY OF HIS EARLY CA.
REER TO NEWSPAPER REP.
REsENTATIVE.
HOME HIS HAVEN OF REFUGE
WHEN OPPORTUNITY OFFERED
Commenced His caree, as a School
Teacher, Became a Lawyer and for
Years Represented Iowa in Congress
His Den" and Its Diversified Uses
"A Hard Worker.

his life was told by Senator Jonathan
Prentiss DolliNer to representative OF
The Bee in the fall of 1900. when he
was appointed senator by Leslie NJ.
Shaw, then governor OF Iowa, to fill
out the uneXpired term of the dead
Senator Gear.
The story was given a, the SEN
ators home in Fort Dodge, where Mr.
Dolliver always was a poppualr idol
Affable, approachable. always good
humored, ne was Intimately acquainted
with nearly all OF the men OF his home
city. His neighbors regarded his add
vancement in public affairs as honors
conferred upon themselves as we'll as
upon him.
The Dolliver home is unprelentious
and yet comiortabl Fort Dodge peo-
pie say that there the happiest days of
the senator's life We're spent. y unique
feature Of the home is the DEN sep
arate building standing in the same
yard with the house. This was the
workshop OF Senator Dolliver and here
many OF the most important Of his lit
erary and political labors We're per-
formed. Speaking OF the den" to the
representative Of The Bee Senator Dol
liver said:
Contents Of the Den.
1T originally was built by my father
inlaW. George r. Persons, who occu-
pied it while he was building his new
house The overflow of books. and es-
pecially OF public documents. became
so great that Mrs. Dolliver finally for
babe me 70 bring any more of them in
10 the house. II order TO meet the
situation she purchased this building,
which al that time was referred 10 as
thes hack. We refittde il and put
huge fireplace in the center and COW
cred the walls with shelving for books.
making ii altogether the most popular
room on the place and a most comfort
able refuge for the labors Of life
Whenever another carload OF docu-
ments arrives We just add shelving
enough 70 accommodate them and put
them here. 1t has served TO entertain
my constituents and has become a IA
vorite resort for picnic parties chea ted
out of their trip to the woods by
storm. There is nothing fine about it,
If there We're I doubt whether I should
be as comfortable in it as I am 1t
simply Is big and hospitable and as 1t
suits me no question ever arsises as to
what impression it makes on others"
Asked by the interviewer For a story
of his life and his labors, Senator Dol
liver said:
Story of His Life.
Il was born down in the mountains
|, of West Virginia. Ny father was OF
New England stock. his ancestors hav-
ing come from the coast of Massachu-
sets. where they all We're seafaring
people. He was born in Saratoga
county. New York. and his youth was
spent on the coast of New Jersey. his
father being a sea captain. When a
boy he emigrated to Ohio and was a
merchant in little town ten miles
below Colum bus. until he became a
Methodist minister and was sent by
the Ohio conference into the mountains
across the river. They never sent him
the daughter of Robert Brown. near
kingwood, Preston county, Virginia
That is as near as came 10 being an
Ohio man.
Il vas brought up on the old farm
of my grandfather until 1868, when
was 10 years old. In that year the
family pulled up stakes and my father
resumed the career of a circuit rider
We moved to Granville. village on
the Monongohcla river, two miles below
Morgantow1l, the seat Of the West
Virginia University. from which seven
years later my brother and I were
graduated.
IN the fall of 1875 I started west
10 grow up with the country and land
ed at Sandwich, Dekalb county. IL
. linois. I got a country school at Vic
tor Center and that winter taught the
young ideas how to shoot. The next
year I spent a home in Morgantown,
w Va in the law office of my uncle,
Hon. john J. Brown
Early in Politics.
Il think I would have made good
progress in the study of law if the
political campaign had not got so hot.
for I took the stump for Hayes and
Wheeler and raised flag poles in their
behalf all over Monongofela county
Unfortunately the campaign lasted all
! year and there was more interest taken
after the election than before. so that
| I practically laid aside my Blackstone
ONE WEAK SPOT