Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889 [page 415] A. L. BELEW. — The Aurelia Sentinel has for more than seven years been considered one of the most ably edited papers of Northwestern Iowa. It has always been a strong exponent of the right, and an earnest advocate of every good work tending to advance the town and community, and no backward step has been taken by heeding its advice. Unlike many of Iowa's so called editors who pander to de- praved tastes, and work solely for power and influence, the pro- prietor of the Sentinel has ever taken an advanced position on every important question from motives prompted by the desire to advance the public good, regardless of his own personal ambition. He has been quick to feel the public pulse, and his advocacy has frequently tended to a better development of his adopted county. Reared in the most beautiful of Virginia's many valleys, and accus- tomed to the beauties of nature, as well as to the scenes of deso- lation that no other country in America knew so well as did the valley of the Shenandoah, he grew to manhood under most excellent advantages, and much of what is best in the man may be traced to his early surroundings and associations. His father, PETER BELEW, was a physician in the town of Edinburgh, Virginia, where he still resides. The family consisted of three sons and three daughters, all of whom are living but one. When our subject had arrived at the age of twenty years he entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Edinburgh; he also did professional work at Woodstock, Virginia, and at Hagerstown, Maryland. In 1881 he decided to become a part of western enterprise and Western influence and accordingly acted upon the advice of his great predecessor, "Go West, young man." He soon found himself associated with friends in the new town of Aruelia, believing that to be an excellent opening for a newspaper, and in March, 1882, he began the publication of the Sentinel, an enterprise which has proved satisfactory in more respects than one. Assisted by his admirable wife, Mr. BELEW attends to all the details of the pub- lication, and he certainly publishes a most excellent and readable paper. He was united in marriage in September, 1886, to Miss CORA B. O'NEAL, a daughter of FELIX O'NEAL, the popular dealer in agri- cultural implements at Aurelia. ===========================================================================