child has blessed this union-H. Delioux. The Doctor has been a life-long Republican, and socially belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of Lodge No. 99, of Pittsburg. He also belongs to the G. A. R., and he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Osmond O. Stole was ushered into this mundane sphere near the city of Bergen, in Norway, October 7, 1846, and passed his youth in that country, receiving a fair education in his native language, and emigrating in the year 1875. Arriving in April, when Mother Nature wore her brightest smile, he found Story County a most charming home in the strange country of America. After one year he moved to Illinois, but soon returned to Story, where he is now located. His attention was for a long time devoted to agricultural pursuits, but changing to mercantile business, he started the first store in Roland, and carried a fine stock of hardware. He has at all times been successful, and in 1883 returned to his native land to view once more the scenes familiar to his childhood. February 14, 1879, Mr. Stole married Miss Mary Myrah, of Wisconsin, and a daughter of Erick Myrah. Mr. and Mrs. Stole are members of the Lutheran Church. The parents of our subject were natives of Norway. The father, Osmond Stole, was married to Miss Jennie Holland.
George Templeton is a native of England, born in Yorkshire, in the town of Knaresborough, on October 8, 1827. The parents were also natives of that country, where they were reared, and where they received very limited educational advantages. Both are deceased, the mother dying when about fifty years of age. They were the parents of four children, who were named as follows: Margaret (married Charles Thackary, a stone-mason by trade, and was residing in Philadelphia at the time of her death), an infant (who was accidentally scalded to death), Mary (who was accidentally killed in a linen factory at Stay-ley, England, when about twelve or fifteen years of age, by having her clothing caught, and being drawn into the machinery before the eyes of her horrified mother), and George (who is the youngest of this family). The latter received a fair education in the National school of Knaresborough, and this, together with the unlimited amount of good practical common sense, with which his head is well stored, has rendered him a man of superior ability and judgment. He spent a number of years of his early life in a linen factory, and when about fourteen years of age he began for himself as an agriculturist, which he followed for about a year, and then entered a coach-maker's employ, by whom he was finally chosen as a servant. He remained with his employer for about a year, and then began working for a doctor, accompanying him as his servant to the famous watering resort, Harrogate, so well known in England. He continued with the doctor for about six years, and when eighteen years of age he made the acquaintance of an invalid gentleman, entering his employ as his valet de chambre, and remaining with him one year. After this he went to the town of Cottingham, near Hull, England, and was in the employ of a widow for about one year. He then resided with a doctor in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, but afterward learned the trade of letter presser in Edinburgh. As work became scarce he took the advice of a gentleman, and in 1852 came to America. He sailed from Glasgow on April 6 of that year, and after a pleasant voyage of twenty-eight days reached New York City. After remaining there for two years Mr. Templeton shipped as steward on board a coasting vessel belonging to the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and was on the ocean until the breaking out of the late Rebel-