WALTER, John G.

WALTER

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Date: 5/31/2021 at 17:20:21

John G. Walter
born June 2, 1859

John G. Walter, of the firm of Walter Bros., extensive dealers in grain and live stock, is one of the well-known business men of Ida Grove. This firm is composed of three brothers, J. G., of Ida Grove, J. L., of Charter Oak, and C. A., of Oto. Their business operations extend over a large portion of western Iowa, and at the following named places they have grain elevators: Ida Grove, Battle Creek, Danbury, Castana, Charter Oak and Oto. They annually handle more than 250 carloads of grain and over a hundred carloads of live stock. The firm was founded in 1885 and began operations at Correctionville. In 1887 they sold out their interests and located at Ida Grove and Charter Oak, and subsequently branched out to the other points above named. They erected all the elevators except the one at Ida Grove and this they have recently renovated and enlarged, its present capacity being 20,000 bushels. They are among the most active and enterprising business men in this part of the State, and have from ten to twelve efficient assistants employed.
Our subject was born in Lake County, Indiana, June 2, 1859, and spent his boyhood days from the time he was six until he was nineteen in Illinois. When he was nineteen he came with his parents to Sac County, Iowa, and settled on a farm. His common-school education was supplemented with a course in the German and English College at Galena, Illinois, where he graduated in the class of 1883. In 1885, as above stated, he and his brothers engaged in the grain business, and their career has thus far been one of marked success. They own a farm of 240 acres on Maple River, north of Ida Grove, in sections 11 and 12, Logan township, which is devoted to the cultivation of grain. Mr. J. G. Walter recently purchased a residence in Ida Grove, which he enlarged by adding thereto, and in which he and his family now reside. Mr. Walter was married November 10, 1887, to Miss Flora Petersmeyer, a native of Lake County, Indiana, and a daughter of F. and Lydia Petersmeyer, residents of Odebolt, Sac county, Iowa. They have two children: Wilmot and Edna. Mr. and Mrs. Walter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ida Grove, he being a trustee and Steward of the same. Politically, he is a staunch Republican. Socially, he has a membership in Kane Lodge, No. 377, A. F. & A. M.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.592