- CHARLES A. LYTLE, a reputable citizen and formerly a druggist
of Monroe, Green county, had,
- during his business career, a patronage that extended far
out into the adjacent country, and he has ever borne a good name
that is the result of years of industry and integrity.
- Mr. LYTLE was born in Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Penn.,
March 24, 1845, a son of Samuel
- S. P. and Anna Belle (HENDRICKSON) LYTLE, both natives of
that county. Three sons and four daughters were born to them,
four of their children are now living: Charles A.; Samuel S.
P., Jr., of Mount Joy; Jennie R., the wife of Michael DETWEILER,
of Mt. Joy; and Anna Bell, of the same place. The father was
a farmer, and died at his home in Mt. Joy, in January, 1898,
at the age of seventy-nine, and his wife died in 1886, when sixty-two.
They were Presbyterians. Joseph LYTLE, his father, was a native
of Scotland, and a farmer. He had seven children, and lived to
be over eighty years of age. Okey HENDRICKSON, the father of
Anna Belle whose name appears above, was a native of Pennsylvania,
and of Scotch descent. He built the first hotel in Mt. Joy and
reached an advanced age. He was the father of two daughters and
five sons.
- Charles A. LYTLE spent his earlier life in Mt. Joy, Penn.,
where he attended the public schools
- and the academy, and obtained a very fair education for the
times. He entered a drug store in Harrisburg, Penn., Jan. 1,
1862, and two years later stood the medical examination, and
received the appointment as surgeon steward on board the United
States steamer "Stettin," where he served until the
close of the war. Mr. LYTLE left the naval service at the conclusion
of the war, and returned to the drug store in Harrisburg, where
he remained unit the spring of 1866. That year he made his first
appearance in Wisconsin, and began clerking for J. K. EILERT,
who was the first druggist in Green county, and who had been
a resident of Monroe for many years. Warm bonds of personal attachment
soon came to exist between the two, and Mr. LYTLE continued with
Mr. EILERT as long as that gentleman lived, and when he died
in 1892, succeeded to the business, which he conducted until
December, 1900.
- Mr. LYTLE and Miss Alice S. BANKS were married Dec. 20, 1871.
Mrs. LYTLE is a daughter
- of James A. and Grace M. (WALKER) BANKS, of Leeds, England,
and is a lady of most charming character. She is the mother of
two children, Grace M. and Samuel J., both the single. Mr. and
Mrs. LYTLE are members of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated
with the Royal Arcanum, and O.F. Pinney Post, No. 102, G.A.R.
He is a Republican, and is highly esteemed business man and citizen.
His home is at the corner of Main and Farmer streets, in Monroe,
which town has been his abiding place for thirty-four years.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 774.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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