Edwin W. Radach has made for
himself secure vantage place as one of the
representative business men of the younger generation
in his native county and is engaged in the conducting
of a well-equipped general store in the village of
Clayton, where his substantial trade is based upon
effective service and fair and honorable dealings.
Mr. Radach was born in the
village of Guttenberg, this county, on the 16th of
July 1883, a member of a family of five children, of
whom two are living. He is a son of John and
Henrietta (Meltzer) Radach, who were born and reared
in Germany, where their marriage was solemnized and
whence they came to America in 1883, in May of which
year, about two months prior to the birth of the
subject of this review, they established their home
in Clayton county, Iowa,where they still reside and
where the father has been sexton of the City
Cemetery.
In the public schools of his
native county Edwin W. Radach continued his studies
until his graduation in the high school at
Guttenberg, and he then put his acquirements to
practical test and utilization by becoming a teacher
in the district schools, his activities in the
pedagogic profession having continued, and that with
marked success, during a period of three years. He
then established his present business enterprise at
Clayton and he has since been known as one of the
leading business men and influential citizens of this
village, with inviolable place in popular confidence
and good will.
He has not sought public
office or to enter the domain of practical politics,
but he gives staunch support to the cause of the
Democratic party and takes helpful interest in those
things that tend to conserve the civic and material
welfare of the community. Both he and his wife hold
membership in the Lutheran church.
In 1908 was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Radach to Miss Linda Wedemeyer, who
was born and reared in this county, and who is a
daughter of Henry and Mary (Stade) Wedemeyer. Her
parents were born in Germany and came to America in
the '50s. Her father was one of the substantial
farmers of Clayton county at the time of his death
and here his venerable widow still maintains her
home.
Mr and Mrs Radach have one
son Orville J.H.
source: History of
Clayton County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical
Times Down to the Present; by Realto E. Price,
Vol. II; pg. 337-338
-OCR scanned by S. Ferrall
