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William Tramel In
the history of Jasper County as applying to agricultural interests, the name of
William Tramel occupies a conspicuous place, for through a number of years he
has been one of the representative farmers of Independence Township,
progressive, enterprising and persevering.
Such qualities always win success, sooner or later, and to Mr. Tramel
they have brought a satisfactory reward for his well directed effort, and while
he has benefited himself and community in a material way he has also been an
influential factor in the educational, political and moral uplift of the
community favored by his residence, and at the same time won and retained the
high esteem of his fellow men, by his honorable record and his unassuming
demeanor. Mr.
Tramel has been content to spend his life in his native County, wisely deciding
that no better locality existed for a young man to rise in the world if he was
willing to put his shoulder to the wheel. His birth occurred in Clear Creek
Township, Jasper County, Iowa, on July 2, 1870, and there he grew to manhood,
was educated in the public schools and he has always been identified with the
agricultural interests of this community.
The Tramel family has been one of the best known in this County since the
pioneer days, W. A. B. Tramel, the paternal grandfather of the subject, having
been one of the very earliest settlers of Clear Creek Township and from that
period to this the several members of this family have figured in the
development of this section and have led such exemplary lives as to be a credit
to the same. The parents, Joseph
and Cynthia (Leonard) Tramel, were widely known here, having become well
established through their industry. They are both now deceased, the father having passed away in
Portland, Oregon, at the age of sixty-five, and the mother was called to her
rest in Des Moines, Iowa, when sixty-three years old. Their family consisted of four children, of whom William, of
this sketch, was the eldest; Stella Whitehead lives in Poweshiek Township;
Walter C. lives in Clear Creek Township; Bertha Allspaugh lives in Boulder,
Colorado. William
Tramel was married on October 25, 1898, to Blanche Dodd, who was born in Clear
Creek Township, December 25, 1879, the daughter of Samuel and Maggie (Thompson)
Dodd. The father, who was born near Newton, is residing in Clear
Creek Township, having a, good farm there.
There were four children in the Dodd family, as follows: Blanche, who
married Mr. Tramel, of this sketch; Maude Kenyon is deceased; Leo is living in
Clear Creek Township; Chloe is living with her parents on the old home place. To
Mr. and Mrs. Tramel have been born four children, namely: Helen, born November
30, 1899; John, born February 5, 1901; Samuel, born February 25, 1903; William,
Jr., born May 30, 1908. These
children were all born in Jasper County. Mr. Tramel has been very successful as a general farmer
and stockman and has accumulated a competency. He operated for a number of years
one of the finest farms in the County, which consisted of one hundred and twenty
acres in Independence Township, but this he recently disposed of.
He has a commodious and well-furnished home at Ira. He is one of the
County's most successful young businessmen.
The major part of his income was derived from the extensive handling of
livestock of all kinds, which he raised, and he has bought and sold many head of
horses annually. He formerly shipped them to market by the carloads, but he
confines himself at present to local exchange.
No better judge of a horse could be found in the County than he and he
has always been a great admirer of a good saddler, trotter or draft horse. Politically, Mr. Tramel votes
independently. Fraternally, he is a
member of Unity Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Baxter; he is a
member of Baxter Lodge No. 168. Knights of Pythias, and is also a member of, the
Modern Woodmen of America of Ira. Past
and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F.
Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1095. |
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