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 495-496] J. CLARENCE LITTELL was born near New Providence, New Jersey, March 4, 1858, and is the son of JOHN and DEBORAH H. LITTELL, natives of New Jersey and New York respectively, and of English ancestry. He passed his boyhood and youth in the place where he was born, and in 1877 he went to Muskegon, Michigan, and spent nearly two years upon a farm, and was afterward in the employ of his uncle, S. C. HALL, as foreman of a lumber-yard and time-keeper. S. C. HALL, Esq., was the proprietor of a large saw-mill in Muskegon. During the summers of 1885-'86-'87 Mr. LITTELL was at Manistique, Michigan, looking after logs for his uncle. In the year 1888, until December, he was in the employ of the HALL-DUCEY Lumber Company, Minneapolis, devoting a part of his time to work in the retail office, and spending the remainder of his time in attending to the duties of shipper and time-keeper. He made a trip to Muskegon, Michigan, in December, 1888, and afterward looked up a location for the lumber business, in which he had determined to embark. He decided to settle in Quimby, Iowa, and in February, 1889, he bought out the firm of J. P. DICKEY & Co., who owned the first lumber-yard in the town. The firm now consists of S. H. and J. C. LITTELL, and they are doing a good, profitable business, dealing in lath, shingles, moldings, brick, posts, doors, windows, lime, cement, stucco, hair, lumber and coal. During the first six months of their establishment in business in Quimby, Littell Brothers had shipped eighteen car-loads of lumber, three of posts, one of brick and one of lime. They buy their lumber principally in Minneapolis and Dubuque. They have an excellent location near the station on the Dakota & Cherokee Railroad at Quimby, a neat office and excellent dry sheds for the storing of their sup- plies. Mr. J. C. LITTELL received his education in the common schools of New Jersey, and in the Muskegon High School. He is a member of the Westminster Church (Presbyterian), Minneapolis. The firm of LITTELL Brothers is composed of men of the right spirit to build up a new town, and Quimby may well congratulate herself upon the acquisition of these gentlemen. J. C. LITTELL is a Republican, and at one time was deputy collector of customs at Port Sherman, Muskegon, Michigan. STAFFORD H. LITTELL, brother of J. C. LITTELL, whose history is give above, was born near New Providence, New Jersey, July 24, 1854, and there grew to manhood, being reared to the life of a farmer. In the spring of 1877 he removed with his parents to Michigan, and settled on a farm twelve miles from Muskegon. There, in company with his father, he had the management of 1,700 acres of land belonging to his uncle, S. C. HALL. He remained there until the fall of 1888, when he went to Muskegon, and in the spring of 1889 he came to Quimby, and entered into partnership with his brother, J. C. LITTELL, in the lumber business, under the firm name of LITTELL Brothers, as given above. Mr. LITTELL was for a time assistant postmaster at Ellendor, New Jersey, and at different times held the office of supervisor, justice of the peace, clerk and trea- surer of the township of Eggleston, Michigan. Mr. LITTELL affiliates with the Republican party. Since coming to Quimby LITTELL Brothers have erected a fine residence, situated on very attractive grounds. Their grandfather was for many years surveyor of Union County, New Jersey, and was also the publisher of LITTELL'S Genealogies of the Early Settlers of Passaic Valley. The old house in which they were born was built by their grandfather, and was also the birthplace of their father. This dwelling was burned in 1869. The mother of these two brothers died March 20, 1888. Their father is still living at Muskegon, Michigan. Stafford H. LITTELL was married September 5, 1889, to Miss JESSIE M. HILBOURN, of Muskegon, Michigan. ===========================================================================