Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1920 — UNITED AGES TOTAL 169 [ARTICLE]

UNITED AGES TOTAL 169

TWO PROMINENT CITIZENS PASS HIGHLY NUMBER. ED MILESTONES. If you were asked to pick out the two best feelers in this city, you would not look among the young men or women of the city. If you knew them, and almost every one here does know them, you would never stop to think, but would name Deacon Hollister and Honest Abraham Leopold. These two men have lived in this city for many, many years, and have been important factors- in its de*velopment and have, by their genial dispositions, made life here happier ana therefore more worth living. Deacon Hollister is eighty-two * years old today. He is full of life and always ready with a joke. To be with the Deacon you would think he had never met with a disappoitment. He has had, as every man born of woman must have, trials and disappointments, but thru it all he has kept sweet and cheerful and this accounts in a large measure for his present splendid health at the ripe age of a dozen years more than the allotted three score and ten. / Deacon's real name is Dezello Elihu Hollister. He chose Independence, Ohio, as his birth place and

was satisfied to be born one' year । after Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne of England. Getting older he I became wiser and chose this city as his home, coming here in 1882. He ' has spent these years full of joy : and sadness, and what rich recol-; lection are his! He ha* seen hi* children grow to manhood and wo- j manhood, become parents, and him- j self a grandfather. Some members of his family have preceded him to ; the land where separations are no more. Many years ago he and his good wife became members of the Presbyterian church and he is faith-1 ful in it* services and lives consistent with its precepts. He is an elder in the local organization. He makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. H. R. Wood, of South McKinley avenue, when hfe is j not visiting with his son, Spencer Hollister, and family, of Billings, Monta. He thinks his four grandchildren and three great grandchildren are a real choice group of topnotches. Here is to Deacon Hollister and may it be many years before he and his happy smile leave us. Our friend, Abraham Leopold, would be one hundred sixty-nine years, old today had he been eightytwo years old when his fellow townsman, Deacon Hollister, was born. But he is only eighty-seven today. Just to remind him of the fact that this date marked the passing of another milestone a number of; his relatives gathered at his happy home on North Front street and enjoyed with him one of those famous dinners for which Mother Leopold and her household are noted. He was born in Germany, but is one of America’s most loyal citizens and has contributed far more than the average native of this country to its development. Like his friend Hollister he earljr in life found out earth’s most attractive spot and, of course, located Un Rensselaer. For a life of industry, perseverance and toil he has received many blessings. Tlis financial success has been marked. He has? done much to make a city out of this place, which, when he first saw it, was a rude hamlet.

He has been a good citizen and has reason to feel proud of the record he has made as a business man, as a citizen and as a real American. Those, who enjoyed the birthday dinner with him today, were: his good wife, Mrs. Leopold, his slaughters, Gertrude Leopold, and Mrs. Leo Wolfe, his sons, Isaac Moses and Benjamin; Mrs. Isaac and Mrs. Benjamin Leopold, Mrs. E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nowels. * The -success and happiness which have attended the earnest efforts of this splendid citizen should be an inspiration to' all. May Abraham Leopold remain with his loved ones and us for many, many years and enjoy the blessings which he has so richly deserved.