Cale, Arestus M. (1840-1918)

CALE

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 10/2/2019 at 23:27:27

Arestus Mansfield Cale
Jan 9, 1840 - Aug 29, 1918

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.154, Macedonia Twp.)
A. M. Cale, Farmer, P. O. Macedonia, was born in Preble County, Ohio, January 9, 1840. His father, George F. Cale, born in Pennsylvania in 1812; he emigrated to Ohio when a boy, and there followed farming in Preble County till he died in 1845. Subject's mother, Henrietta McCabe, born in Delaware in 1812, was the mother of six children, and died in 1860. Mr. Cale attended the schools of Lee County, Iowa, then entered Denmark Academy of Lee County, Iowa, where he attended four years, and would have graduated in 1862, but he left his class two months before graduation, and enlisted in Company G, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, continuing in the army till the close of the war. He was promoted after a service of nearly three years as a private, to the Captaincy of a company of scouts, which position he held till the close of the war. Mr. Cale was in nineteen general engagements. After leaving the army, Mr. Cale engaged in carpenter work, which trade he had learned before the war, and this work he followed in Kansas City, Mo., as a contractor for about sixteen months, then removed to Lee County, thence to Moulton, Iowa, where he followed contracting for four years, thence to Missouri, and went into the hotel business for about five years, then came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and settled in Macedonia Township. He built the hotel known as the Macedonia House in Macedonia. He owns 345 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre in this township. Mr. Cale is a purely self made man. He was married, September 4, 1864, in Fort Madison, Lee Co., Iowa, to Miss E. B. Babb, of Denmark, Iowa, who was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, December 23, 1845; her father, Clark Babb, born in Livingston County, N. Y., April 7, 1811, died September 27, 1865, in Lee County, Iowa; her mother, Louisa A. Case, born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, July 21, 1820, died July 15, 1876; she was the mother of five children. Mr. Cale is a Republican, and, a member of the I. O. O. F., of Macedonia Lodge, No. 421. Mr. and Mrs. Cale have four children - Ada M., born October 5, 1865; Lola B., February 11, 1868; Maud L., November 8, 1869, and Charlie F., July 18, 1871.