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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

FRANK W. CHOATE, newspaper publisher at Glenwood, Mills County, was born in
that section of Iowa, and has long been one of the community's ablest and most
influential citizens.

Mr. Choate was born at Glenwood, Mills County, June 9, 1868, an adopted son
of Wayne and Elizabeth (McBride) Choate. His father was born in Milan, Ohio,
and his mother at Youngstown in the same state. The family came to Iowa in
1860, and they were married in Cass County, this state. Wayne Choate drove
across the country in a wagon. He was a tinner by trade, and when he left
Ohio his intention was to go to New Orleans, but was diverted from that course
on account of the cholera epidemic. At Davenport he was engaged in teh
hardware business and later was a hardware merchant in Iowa City. For a time he was
in teh freighting business over the plains to Denver, and in 1864
established his home at Glenwood. For many years he was one of the most successful
farmers of Mills County. He died in 1912 and his wife in 1918. She was a
member of the Presbyterian Church. Wayne Choate was a Republican and at one time
served at township trustee.

Frank W. Choate attended common schools in Mills County and for twenty-five
years his chief business was farming and cattle raising. He started with a
few hand of scrub cattle and eventually had a stock farm widely known as the
home of some of the best pure bred stock in this part of the state.

Mr. Choare has been in teh newspaper business since 1919, when he bought the
Glenwood Opinion. Later he acquired the Tribune, and consolidated the two
papers under the name Opinion-Tribune. This is the leading paper of Mills
County, enjoying a circulation of 3,200 copies. The business is carried on as
the Cnoate Printing Company and has complete facilities for handling all
classed of job and commercial work.

Mr. Choate was elected county auditor in 1923 and was in the county
auditor's office for six years. He is a leading Republican, and has been delegate to
several state conventions. He is treasurer of the Glenwood Building
Association, is a Royal Arch Mason, member of the Knights of Pythias, and for years
has had a sustaining part in the First Congregational Church of Glenwood, of
which he is a deacon.

Mr. Choate married, in 1894, Miss Carrie D'Val, who was born in Clarke
County, Iowa, and was educated in grade and high schools there and in Valparaiso
University in Indiana. For ten years she taught school in Mills County. Mr.
and Mrs. Choate have three children: Wayne D., born in 1896, was educated at
the University of Nebraska, where he took the course in journalism and is now
editor of the Opinion-Tribune; Richard C., who also attended the University
of Nebraska, and is in charge of the advertising department of the
Opinion-Tribune; Leonard F., a graduate of the University of Nebraska, who was for a
time associated with his father's newspaper business, but is now in the
Government service, a forest ranger in Mount Ranier Park in Washington.


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