The Daggett Families of Wapello County, Iowa

WALLACE R. DAGGETT, one of Ottumwa's most progressive business men, is cashier of the Iowa National Bank, of Ottumwa. He was born in Ottumwa in 1863 and is a son of William Daggett, now deceased, who was vice-president of the Iowa National Bank, of Ottumwa, and a prominent business man of the city.

Wallace R. Daggett was reared and primarily educated in Ottumwa, taking a collegiate course at Andover, Massachusetts, and a business course at Poughkeepsie, New York. He has always followed the banking business, and after leaving school was at several different places before locating here. He was cashier of a bank at Englewood, Kansas, about three years, and then went to North Carolina and accepted the presidency of the First National Bank at Mount Airy, a position he filled until the spring of 1894, Avhen he resigned. He spent about a year looking up a place to lo- cate, and passed a portion of this time at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. In 1895, he accepted the position of assistant cashier of the Iowa National Bank of Ottumwa, and was made cashier in the spring of 1900, an office he has filled in a highly satisfactory manner. He is also president of the Iowa Steam Laundry Company, of Ottumwa, a flourishing concern, and secretary of the Janney Manufacturing Company of Ottumwa, one of the most extensive and best equipped plants in the United States for the manufacture of agricultural implements. '

Mr. Daggett was joined in matrimony with Male Beach, a daughter of J. H. Beach, secretary and treasurer of the, Iowa Steam Laundry Company, located at 218 South Market street. Mr. and Mrs. Daggett have two children, Genevieve and Ruth. Politically Mr. Daggett is a Republican and has served in the capacity of alderman. He is a member of several fraternal insurance orders. In religious views he is an Episcopalian. He has a very comfortable home at No. 30,4 East Fifth street.

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Edgar Daggett, engaged in the livery, transfer, undertaking and storage business in Ottumwa, was born in New York, October 9, 1843, and comes of New England ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Daggett, was born at Needham, Massachusetts, in 1762, and died in 1845. His wife, Jeanette Patterson, a native of Enfield, Massachusetts, was born in 17-8 and passed away in 1859. Itwas in Enrteld that Ebenezer Daggett, father of Edgar Daggett, was born in 1798. He became a manufacturer, devoting his life to pursuits of that character. He died in 1859, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Pope, passed away in Ottumwa in 1862, at the age of sixty-one years, her birth having occurred in 1801.

Edgar Daggett is indebted to the public-school system of New York for the educational privileges which he enjoyed during his youthful days. In early manhood he made his way westward to Wapello county and began clerking in Ottumwa for the firm of Daggett & Edgerly, the senior partner being his brother. They were proprietors of a hardware store, in which Edgar Daggett remained for six years, during which time he carefully saved his earnings until his capital was sufficient to enable him to embark in the dairy business on his own account. He continued in that line until 1900 and something of the growth of his patronage is indicated in the fact that, while he started with six cows, ere he closed out his business he had one hundred and thirty-five cows. He conducted both a retail and wholesale business, running three wagons. After closing out he embarked in the livery, transfer, undertaking and storage business and still conducts all these. Since its organization the business has grown year by year, having increased at least fourfold, and he now employs thirty-five people. He has never been afraid of work. Indolence and idleness are utterly foreign to his nature, and through his determination and unflagging energy he has reached success.

On the 2d of March, 1865, Mr. Daggett was united in marriage to Miss Helen Hammond, who was born in Wapello county, in December, 1844, a daughter of Harrison and Eliza (Baker) Hammond, the former a mill man before the roller system of flour manufacture was introduced. Mr. and Mrs. Daggett have become parents of three sons: Henry and Ernest Lee, who are associated with their father in business; and Frank. The eldest married Sarah Coffin and they had one child, Helen. Following the death of the mother Henry Daggett wedded Etta Jones and to this union has been born a daughter, Dorothy. Ernest Lee married Anna Doty and has two children: Doty and Mary. Frank married Leora Sprague and has one child, jeannette. The family are members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Daggett belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while his political allegiance is given to the republican part. Mr. Daggett deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, for his success is attributable entirely to his own efforts. Gradually he has worked his way upward, and what he has undertaken he has accomplished. He is now at the head of an important and growing business, and the future seems to hold out promises of still greater success.

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FRANK L. DAGGETT.

Frank L. Daggett, who is engaged in the undertaking and embalming business in Ottumwa, his native city, was born on the 4th of June, 1874. His youthful days were spent in the home of his parents, and at the usual age he entered the public schools, in which he passed through consecutive grades until graduated from the high school. He also attended a business college in this city and then, in preparation for his chosen line of work, he entered the Hohenschuh Embalming School at Iowa City, from which he was graduated in 1901. He then entered the undertaking business, which he still conducts under the name of Daggett & Sons, Frank L. Daggett being manager. The firm is liberally patronized and has a well appointed undertaking establishment, carrying an excellent line of everything needed in their business.

In 1898 Mr. Daggett was married to Miss Maud L. Sprague, who is also a graduate of the embalming school in which her husband completed his course, and she now assists him in the business. To Mr. and Mrs. Daggett have been born four children, but Nellie, the first-born, is deceased, twins have also passed away and Jeannette is the only one now living.

Mr. Daggett is prominently and popularly known in fraternal circles. He belongs to the Masonic lodge and has attained high rank in the order. He also has membership with the Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen. He is likewise connected with the Yeomen lodge, and both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star and the Royal Neighbors. Both are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is president of the Young Peoples Association of the church. His wife, a graduate in music, is an excellent pianist. Theirs is an attractive and hospitable home, and its good cheer is greatly enjoyed by their many friends. They possess in large measure those attractive social qualities which win warm regard in every land and clime.

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