People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — C. D. NOWELS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

C. D. NOWELS.

The subject of this sketch was born in Jasper county in Novein ber, 1847, and has lived in the county continuously ever since. Mr.. Nowels therefore is one among our old settlers. He is a son of David Nowels, now about the oldest settler living in the county, he having helped build the first house (in the form of a log cabin) on the ground where Rensselaer now stands. This son, C. D. Nowels, was reared on a farm, and as a farmer’s son had only the priveliges of the common district schools, until he was about 18 years old, when he attended higher grade schools at Battle Ground, and Onarga, 111., after which he taught for a few terms in the schools of Jasper county, in

which he was very successful. He was married in 1870 and settled on a farm near where lie was born. He followed farm life for about twelve years, ati which time his wife's health failed and he moved to Rensselaer, where he has since lived. He first engaged in the lumberbusiness being successful in that calling for some years; then he engaged in the coal and sewer pipe trad,e, and from that into the furniture business, running that line for three years. Selling this he embarked in the lumber business again. He continued in this fbr nearly two years, selling out again. He is now engaged in the dry goods and general merchandising business, in his building, the Nowels’ block, as shown in the above cut. Mr. Nowels is a man ofgeneral business ability and is thoroughly well known as of great moral worth, one who esteems his word as good as his bond, and thoroughly respected by all who know him. Mr. Nowels has great faith in the future of Rensselaer and Jasper county.

NOWEL'S HOUSE BLOCK, C. D. NOWEES, PROPRIETOR.

C. D. NOWELS.