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Des Moines County >> 1915 Index History of
Des Moines County, Iowa... T Unless otherwise noted, biographies submitted by Dick Barton. Colonel
E. D. Trostle, who is engaged in the real-estate business and in auctioneering
in Mediapolis, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1868, a
son of William and Catharine (Diller) Trostle, who were also natives of the same
county. The father died there in 1875, at the age of fifty-one years, after
which the mother went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where she passed away in
1909, at the age of seventy-one years. The ancestry of the family can be traced
back through several generations to the great-grandfather of our subject, who
came from Germany and settled in the Keystone state during the colonial epoch in
the history of this country. Colonel
Trostle was one of a family of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters,
of whom the sons and two daughters are yet living. He was only seven years of
age when he lost his father and almost immediately afterward he began making his
own way in the world, working for two dollars and a half per month. When
eighteen years of age he removed to eh middle west, settling in Monmouth,
Illinois, and in that locality he worked as a farm hand for eleven years. He had
no home save where he worked up to the time of his marriage, when he established
a home of his own. In 1898 he came to Mediapolis, Iowa. During the past
twenty-six years he has engaged in the auctioneering business and has conducted
more than sixteen hundred sales. He also carried on farming until about nine
years ago but since that time has concentrated his energies upon auctioneering
and the real-estate business, making a specialty of handling Iowa farm lands. In
the real-estate business he is a partner of Charles E. Lee, the firm conducting
business under the style of Trostle & Lee. Both branches of his business are
bringing to him success, for he is energetic, determined, resourceful and
ambitious - qualities which always win substantial results. Colonel
Trostle has been married twice, In 1893 he wedded Miss Sadie Sawin, who was born
in Kirkwood, Illinois, and died in Mediapolis in 1898, leaving two children,
Catharine Gertrude and William Spencer. In 1901 Colonel Trostle was united in
marriage to Miss Mary Cocayne, who was born in Missouri, and they have one
child, Everett Hanson. Since
are conferred upon him the right of franchise Colonel Trostle has voted with the
republican party and is in thorough sympathy with its purposes and principles.
For the past five years he has served as city alderman of Mediapolis and does
everything in his poser to promote the welfare and advance the best interests of
the community. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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