The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-06-04
business ventures in Oskaloosa and
useful citizen.
Amos |. shanaIe.

Amos l.. Shangle, who has been
very i'll at the home of his son, Lou
T. Shangle, No. 697 South Market
street, died this Wednesday morning,
June 3, 1914, at 4:45 o'clock, at the
advanced age of 50 years, Z months
and days. He was the second of
the old Mahaska county pioneers to
pass away within the space of half
a day. He has been failing over
period of couple of years but has
been critically i'll at the home of his
son for two months or more.
Funeral service will be conducted
at the Cheesman Funeral Home on
First avenue east, at 1870 o'clock p.
m, Friday, June 5. Interment in
Forest cemetery.
Amos Shangle was the youngest
child in a family of ten children and
the last surviving son of William
Shangle and Experience Leek Shan
gle. He was born in Morris county,
Now Jersey, October 80, 1881. His
paternal ancestor was Frederic Shan
gle a native of Strasburg, Germany,
who came to this country in 1745,
and settled upon an estate of thou
sand acres in Morris county, New
Jersey. Amos moved with the par
ents, to Delaware county, Ohio, in
1S45, and then in the early days of
the county came to Mahaska county,
Iowa, and became one of the settlers
of 1854. The family settled in Prairie
township and their existence was
part and parcel of the development
of that part of the county. Mr..
Shangle was married at Morristown,
tn
Mary w. futile resident of his ma
tive state and who preceded him in
death only short time. Almost i'm
mediately following his marriage he
returned to Iowa with his bride and
purchased an eighty acre farm near
New Sharon which he increased and
where he resided until recently when
he came to Oskaloosa and lived in a
home on North Market street. To
this worthy couple were given four
sons. One died in infancy, Mark
Henry born in 1861, died February
ID, 1914; Louis Tuttle born 1863, the
sole survivor of the family, now a
resident of Oskaloosa and Frederic
Morris born in 1865, died at Oska-
loosa in 1898.
Amos Shangle was a man of at
tainment and scholarship through the
force of his personality and by per-
sistent and independent effort. He
was the p'oneer school master of
Mahaska county and for years did
excellent service in the organization
of the county school system. He had
an interest in the schools that he
retained to his later years. He was
a member of the school board of his
district for years. Politically he was
democrat and his influence was
known and recognized in political
circles. His sons were democrats
after him. The son Fred was editor
of the Oskaloosa Times at date of
death in 1898, and the surviving son,
| l.. T.. is a we'll known attorney in
Oskaloosa and secretary of . the board
of education. The deceased was
known as a man of culture and re-
finement and he possessed in his
home private library of several
hundred volumes of the best of liter.
AZURE and text. Mr.. and Mrs. Shan
gle in their declining years made an
ideal home in Oskaloosa in which
they were pleased to greet the
| friends of earlier years. Following
the death of his good wife Mr..
Shangle has mourned and his pass
ing is due largely to the decline that
followed the death Of his helpmate
and companion.