Charles E. Haverly received his education in the subscription schools of New York, and later attended the common schools of Illinois. He takes an active interest in educational matters, and has served as school director for about seven years in the city schools of Ames, Iowa. He started out to work for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and although he had been reared to farm life he first served as an apprentice to a miller. February 6, 1865, he married Miss Sarah E. Lanning, a native of Iowa, who was educated in the common schools and who took a course at Mt. Vernon College, in Linn County, Iowa. Six children are the result of this union—three sons and three daughters: Frank (is a graduate of the high school at Ames, Iowa, and is engaged in the city mills with his father), Harry (attended the I. S. A. C., and is now residing at home), Mollie (also attended college, and is now at home), John (attending the Ames graded schools), Bertha and Aggie. During the late war, or on the 31st of July, 1862, Mr. Haverly enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, and his regiment was assigned to the Thirteenth Army Corps, under Gen. John A. McClernand. His regiment was in about seventeen active engagements and many severe skirmishes, of which he has no record. He was in the battles of Port Gibson, Edwards Station, Champion's Hill, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Carrion Crow Bayou, Red River Expedition, Sabine Cross Roads, Cane River, Grand Prairie and Yellow Bayou. Then his regiment was assigned to Gen. Sheridan's command, in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1864, after which he was in the battle of Winchester, of " Sheridan's fame." At this battle, in a charge, Mr. Haverly received a gunshot wound in the left wrist and hand, also a wound in the left thigh, which confined him to the hospital for about eight weeks. He came home in the fall of 1864 on a " leave of absence," but returned to his regiment in March, 1865. He was honorably discharge at Savannah, Ga., on the 31st of July, 1865, and was mustered out of service at Davenport, Iowa. At the organization of the company Mr. Haverly was appointed fourth sergeant and afterward orderly sergeant, then second lieutenant, and for his bravery and valuable services as a "wearer of the blue" was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Haverly has always identified himself with the Republican party, and cast his first vote for Gen. U. S. Grant, the " Soldier President." He held the position of township clerk for ten years in Iowa County; was a member of the town council in the city of Ames for eight years, and also served as justice of the peace in Ames, Iowa. He is a member of the Elsworth Post No. 30, at Ames, and has been commander and adjutant of the post. He is also a Master Mason, belonging to Arcade Lodge No. 249, Ames, Iowa, and a member of the I. O. O. F. in Story Lodge, at Cambridge, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Haverly are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Haverly has been Sunday-school superintendent for about six years.
Hon. James Hawthorn. On this page of the history of Story County, Iowa, is found the life record of a man, briefly written, whose career has been as honorable and as untarnished by reproach as any man mentioned herein. He was born in the " Emerald Isle," May 14, 1814, a son of Thomas and Jane Hawthorn, the former of whom died in his native land in 1815, his wife dying at Hagerstown, Md., in the eighty-fourth year of her age. She came with her family, which consisted of eight children, to this country, in 1818, the voyage across the Atlantic lasting eleven weeks, and soon after landing, they settled at Hagerstown. Hon. James Hawthorn is the only surviving