JOHN DAVIE SCHLOTTERBACK
Age 38 in 1898
Born 1860 and passed on in 1911
John Davie Schlotterback is at present county auditor and has demonstrated his fitness for public office by the conscientiousness and capability with which he has discharged the duties devolving upon him. He was born in Knoxville, Iowa, on the i3th of March, 1860, a son of Michael and Johanna (Toler) Schlotterback, natives of Ohio and Indiana respectively. The paternal grandfather was John Schlotterback, a resident of Pennsylvania of German descent. He was a carpenter by trade and went to Ohio in the early days of the history of that state. In the '505 he came to Iowa and located in this county, where he resided until his death. His wife lived to reach the remarkable age of one hundred years.
John Davie Schlotterback was reared upon the home farm and received that well-rounded education common to the sons of farmers, as he was not only well grounded in the fundamental branches of book learning, but also learned the principles of agriculture and became familiar by actual experience with the work of the farm. He followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty years of age and then learned the printer's trade and was employed for many years on various Knoxville and Des Moines papers. In 1893 he was elected city assessor of Knoxville for a two-year term and in 1895 was reelected, serving until January i, 1898. Subsequently he was again employed at the printer's trade in Knoxville until the spring of 1907, when he was again elected city assessor, resigning that position, however, on the ist of January, 1909, to become deputy county auditor. In 1912 he was elected county auditor, taking office in January of the year following. He was his party's candidate for reelection in November, 1914, and was chosen by a handsome majority, leading his ticket. As county auditor he has made a record of which he may well be proud, and his present term of office does not expire until January i, 1917. He has been prompt, accurate and systematic in the performance of his work and has been uniformly courteous in his treatment of those with whom he has been brought in contact in an official capacity.
Mr. Schlotterback is a democrat in his political affiliation and stanchly supports the candidates and measures of that party. Fraternally he belongs to the lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Red Men, the Foresters, the Knights of Pythias and the Moose. He and his wife are both members of the Rebekahs. His entire life has been spent in this county and the fact that those who have known him intimately from his early youth are his truest friends is incontrovertible proof of the genuineness of his worth as a man.
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