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Subject: [IAFREMON] Long before 1935,the Cowles brothers and E. O. Greenwalt lived in Sidney.
Date: 1 Nov 2006 18:08:36 -0700
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Surnames: Cowles, Greenwalt, Curran, Searles, Lindsay, English
Classification: Biography
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THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. September 12, 1935. "Two Old Timers Tell of Days of Long Ago".-- This office had a pleasant visit Saturday from Ed Cowles, Sidney born boy, whose grandfather, the Hon. Giles Cowles, was among the early day merchants of Sidney, having as assistant his son, Perry Cowles, who after he grew up, held various offices in Fremont county. Grandfather and father have long since been called beyond.
The four Cowles boys went from Sidney to Council Bluffs and for years were engaged in the cigar business. Ed in the meantime was elected treasurer of Pottawattamie county and served four years.
Later all four, together moved to Santa Ana, California, where Walter, who never married, lives with his mother and looks after the family finances; Ed runs a drugstore, assisted by his brother Don, and Carl is a lawyer.
The years are many since the Cowles boys left the place of their birth, but whenever one of them comes back he likes to talk of the days of his boyhood in a manner that shows none of the family has ever lost interest in the old town.
In the midst of this conversation, quite by chance, though the timing had the appearance of pre-arrangement, in pops another old-timer, E. O. Greenwalt, who years ago -- in 1891 to be exact -- left two fingers in the lynchpin coupling of a train on the branch while he was working as brakeman. Greenwalt, a single man at the time, boarded with Jimmie Curran and wife and worked along with Jim Godwin, engineer; Uncle John Searles, conductor; Dick Lindsay, mail clerk; and "Hooker" Joe English, man of all work at the roundhouse.
Mr. Greenwalt now lives in Chicago where he is connected with the Rock Island railroad in an offcie position. Accompanied by his wife he was on a vacation trip and stopped to have one more look at Sidney. He found few who knew him in that long gone day.
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