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Leo
P. Bale To
attain a worthy citizenship by a life that is always honored and respected even
from childhood deserves more than mere mention.
It is no easy task to resist the many temptations which assail and beset
the pathway of youth and early manhood and plant a character in the minds and
hearts of associates that will remain untarnished for all time to come.
One may take his place in public life through some vigorous stroke of
public policy, and even remain in the hearts of friends and neighbors, but to
take the same position by dint of the practice of an upright life and without a
craving for exaltation and popularity, is worthy of the highest commendation.
One of the highly respected and industrious young men of Baxter, Jasper
County, is Leo P. Bale, who was born in Newton Township, this County, on May 3,
1886, and here he grew to manhood and received his education in the common
schools. He has always resided in this locality, of which his parents were early
settlers, his mother being eleven years old and his father twenty-one when they
came here. He is the son of John
and Mary (Donnely) Bale, the father born in Rockford County, Illinois, on July
10, 1853, while the mother's birth occurred in Louisiana on July 6, 1855. She came North when a child and grew to womanhood in Jasper
County, Iowa, was educated in the old-time schools and here she and Mr. Bale
were married and he spent the rest of her life here, dying in Newton on April
28, 1907. The father of the subject
grew to manhood in Illinois and about 1864 came to Jasper County, Iowa, and
married and here devoted his life to farming.
He is now living in Baxter, making his home with his daughter, Mrs.
Lizzie K. Bailey, she being the eldest of a family of seven children, her birth
occurring in Newton, Iowa, on January 17, 1881; the others are: William, born
September 23, 1883, lives in this County; Leo P., of this sketch; Mrs. Henry
Bunse, born April 28, 1889, lives near Newton; John, born February 21, 1892,
lives in Baxter; Vernon, born August 23, 1895, lives in Newton; Maurice, born
August 13, 1898, lives in Newton. All these children were born, reared and
educated in Jasper County. Leo
P. Bale was married on December 3, 1908, to Dora Bunse, who was born in Newton
Township, this County, November 8, 1891, and here she grew to womanhood, was
educated and has always lived here. She
is the daughter of Fred and Henrietta (Flamma) Bunse, both natives of Germany,
the father born in Helminghausen on September 29, 1848, and the mother born in
Stormbraugh on March 25, 1859. There they spent their childhood and were married
May 15, 1882, emigrating to America in August 1883, locating in Davenport, Scott
County, Iowa, where they remained until 1888, when they moved to Jasper County
and here became very comfortably established, and here the father spent the rest
of his life, dying in Sherman Township, December 16, 1900. The mother is still living in Sherman Township. Five
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bunse, namely:
Mrs. Frank Brisel, born in Germany, January 23, 1883, is living in
Sherman Township; Henry, born February 14, 1885, of Sherman Township; Herman,
born August 27, 1889; Dora, wife of Mr. Bale of this sketch; Meta, born
September 27, 1895; lives in Sherman Township.
This family was reared in Jasper County. To
Mr. and Mrs. Bale has been born one daughter, Wilma Arlene, whose birth occurred
at Ira, November 3, 1909. Mr.
Bale purchased an interest in the dray line at Baxter in 1911 and this he is
successfully engaged in. Politically,
he is a Democrat and he belongs to the Catholic Church at Newton.
Fraternally, he belongs to Active Lodge No. 516, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, at Baxter. Mrs. Dora Bale
is a member of Baxter Rebekah Lodge No. 579. The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1230. |
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