The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
CHARLES H. SULLIVAN.
Charles H. Sullivan who, in October, 1912, was made deputy warden of the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, with which in- stitution he has been connected since 1908, was born in Fayette county, Iowa, in 1878, his parents being John and Celistie (Grey) Sullivan. The father, a native of Ireland, spent the first eighteen years of his life on the Emerald isle and then sought a home in the new world. He was a railway man and came to this state in the middle portion of the nineteenth century.
Reared in his native county, Charles H. Sullivan attended the public schools of Fayette, Oelwein and New Hampton and he made his initial step in the business world in connection with the grocery trade, clerking in a store at West Union. There he remained un- til 1908. Acquainted with the warden of the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, he went to that institution as a guard and in the fol- lowing year, or in May, 1909, he was made receiving officer. Further advancement came to him in September, 19 10, when he was ap- pointed assistant deputy warden, and after two years, or in October, 191 2, he was made deputy warden, thus standing second to J. C. Sanders, the present official head of the institution. He shares m the purposes and plans of Mr. Sanders, who is one of the reform wardens of the country, and he renders good service to his superior, understanding the work so thoroughly that he can at any time assume charge in the absence of Mr. Sanders.
In 1906 Mr. Sullivan was united in marriage to Miss Lou Smith, of West Union, Iowa, and unto them has been born a son, Charles Kenneth. His fraternal allegiance is given the Masons. He belongs to the lodge, to the Knight Templar Commandery and to the Mystic Shrine, and the purposes and tenets of the craft find in him a stanch advocate and supporter. He votes with the republican party and has firm faith in the efficacy of its principles as factors in good gov- ernment. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, and his life is guided by its teachings, so that he stands as a man among men, strong in his honor and his good name.
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