Clay Milton Waite

As printed in 1915

CLAY MILTON WAITE.

Clav Milton Waite is the business manager and part owner of the Burlington Hawk-Eye, w ith which paper he has been identified for more than a quarter of a century. He was born in Burlington, October 9, 1866, a son of John Leman and Letitia C. (Williams) Waite. The public schools afforded him his early educational opportunities and later he attended IUiott's Business College. He afterward taught bookkeeping and had charge of the business e.change in the business college for one year. He made his initial step in the business world as bill clerk for the Drake Hardware Company and afterward accepted a clerkship in the Burlington postoftice. where he remained for four years. He then came to the Burlington Hawk- Eve as bookkeeper in 1888 and advancement in recognition of his ability made him assistant business manager. In IQ04 he became business manager and has since controlled the commercial interests of the paper, of which he became a part owner in 1908.

On the 9th of March, 1892, at Burlington, Iowa, Mr. Waite was united in marriage to Miss Ida May Southwell, a daughter of Calvin Bradley and Lydia Southwell. Mrs. Waite is very active in both church and club work, ofttimes taking a position of leadership in those connections. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waite are Methodists in religious faith and he is a member of the official board of the church. For fifteen years he was a member of the Burlington Boating Association until it disbanded and at the present writing he has membership with the Golf Club, which indicates something of the nature of his recreation. In politics he has been a lifelong republican, never serving from the standards of the party. His position upon any vital question is never an equivocal one and his indorsement of a measure is a strong influence in its support.

As printed in History of Des Moines County, Iowa (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.