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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 416-417]

   ORAN E. YOCUM, Cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, Aurelia,
   was born at Warsaw, Kosiciusko County, Indiana, November 26, 1844,
   and is a son of LEWIS M. and REBECCA B. (RIDDLE) YOCUM, the father
   being born in York County, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1820, and the
   mother in Wayne County, Ohio.  They were married May 14, 1843, and
   settled in Marshall Couonty, Illinois, when the son, ORAN E., was
   four years old; they remained until he was ten years of age, and
   then removed to Galva, Illinois.  The father was a merchant for a
   long time, but during the last twenty years has been engaged in
   banking, and still lives at Galva, Illinois. He is president of
   the bank at Aurelia, of which ORAN E. is cashier; he is a large
   land-owner in Iowa and other States, and stands personally respon-
   sible for $300,000.  O. E. YOCUM grew up accustomed to business
   transactions connected with his father's store, and after receiv-
   ing a fair education at the High School, engaged in mercantile
   business for himself at the age of twenty-one years.  For upward
   of fifteen years he continued in the general mercantile trade at
   Galva, Illinois, and also after coming to Aurelia, which was in
   1880.  He carried a very large stock of goods until the big fire
   of 1883, when he lost about $7,000.  He then discontinued the
   business, and gave his attention more fully to buying and shipping
   grain; owning an elevator at Galva, Iowa, also, he was enabled to
   do quite an extensive business in that line, which he still con-
   tinues.  March 5, 1884, the Farmers and Merchants' Bank opened
   its doors with O. E. YOCUM as President; ALEX. FRASER as Vice
   President, and J. T. McCALL as Cashier.  After one years's busi-
   ness, L. M. YOCUM, father of ORAN E., bought the interest of the
   other gentlemen, himself becoming president, and ORAN E. cashier.
   L. M. YOCUM founded the Bank of Aurelia in 1881, furnishing the
   capital issued by that institution; J. R. ATWOOD acted as cashier
   of the bank.  In two years he sold the Farmers and Merchants' Bank
   of Galva, Illinois, and in 1885, as stated above, secured the inter-
   ests of FRASER and McCALL in the present institution. Both the presi-
   dent and the cashier are men of large landed interests in Iowa,
   Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan, and are recognized in financial
   circles as being strong men.  The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of
   Aurelia is considered one of Iowa's impregnable institutions. The
   entire management of the bank devolves upon ORAN E. YOCUM, and its
   growth in popularity and volume of business is ample proof of his
   conservative and careful business methods.  He is the only child
   of his parents now living; the only daughter, JOSEPHINE ADELAIDE,
   was born December 21, 1848, was married to J. R. ATWOOD, and died
   May 6, 1881, two weeks after removing to Aurelia.  Mr. YOCUM was
   married at Galva, Illinois, March 3, 1875, to Miss LIZZIE L. DEV-
   INNEY, who was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, December 20,
   1849. They have had three children: WILLIE L., born December 31,
   1875, died at the age of nine years; ORAN G. lived but two months,
   his death occurring March 20, 1883; EARL L. was born October 9,
   1880. Mr. and Mrs. YOCUM are strong supporters of the Methodist
   Episcopal Church.  In politics Mr. YOCUM is Republican.  The effi-
   cient assistant cashier of this bank is PETER D. WINE, who was born
   in Augusta County, Virginia, December 25, 1859.  His parents are
   GEORGE and CATHERINE (GOOD) WINE, of German ancestry, who are still
   living in Virginia.  In 1881 Mr. WINE came to Iowa, and for nearly
   three years worked on a farm near Aurelia.  He then learned the art
   of telegraphy with M. O. MILLER in the station at Aruelia, and at
   Storm Lake. In the fall of 1884 he took charge of the office at
   night in Alden, Iowa, and afterward became the operator at Aurelia,
   a position which he held for two and a half years. He then accepted
   a position as book-keeper in the bank, and soon became assistant
   cashier, a position he fills acceptably and with credit. Mr. WINE
   was married October 3, 1885, to Miss CARRIE E. TEMPLEMAN, a daugh-
   ter of JAMES H. and MARY TEMPLEMAN.  She was born in Illinois,
   January 19, 1866.

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