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Born 1863
From History of Wapello County, Iowa, and representative citizens (1901)
ALLACE 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.
As printed in History of Wapello County, Iowa, and representative citizens (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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