- HADLEY, EUGENE - The position of president of a reputable
bank warrants no other con-
- clusion than that the incumbent is a man of character, purpose
and integrity, Isolated case which discredit his calling and
plunge the country that every man who has in him the making of
a successful banker is possessed of these strong and fundamental
requisites. The pursuit of agriculture in many instance has led
to honors of this description, and practically all communities
have at the head of some of their financial institutions men
who have raised themselves upon the tillage of soil. To this
class belongs Eugene HADLEY, president of the First National
Bank of Mapleton. Mr. HADLEY was elected to his resident position
in 1906, and under his administration, brief though it has been,
the affairs of the bank have prospered exceedingly, more then
justifying its reputation as one of the most dependable monetary
concerns in Blue Earth county.
- Mr. HADLEY's early opportunities were in no way exceptional,
and he was early confronted
- with the responsibility of self support. Born in Richmond
Township, Walworth county, Wisconsin, May 31, 1866, [actually
May 31, 1857] he is a son of Alfred and Lura HADLEY, natives
of Brattleboro, Vermont, and New York, respectively, and who
settled in Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1852. The eight children
older than Eugene were born in New York and accompanied their
parents by way of stage, canal and the lakes to Wisconsin, the
father taking up government land which he tilled for the balance
of his life. Eugene attended the public schools of Wisconsin,
and for a couple of years was a student at Milton College, a
Seventh Day Baptist Institution. He remained at home until his
marriage, October 5, 1878, to Bettie TAYLOR, daughter of Joshua
TAYLOR, an Englishman by birth, an early settler of Wisconsin,
and whose death occurred December 21, 1903.
- With his newly wedded wife Mr. HADLEY started housekeeping
on a farm purchased by him in
- Blue Earth county, Minnesota, on a line between Mapleton
and Danville townships, and engaged in general farming and stock-raising
with characteristic good judgment and success. In 1887 he removed
to Wisconsin and lived in Whitewater until 1889, when he returned
to Mapleton, and in 1896 settled on a farm in Iowa. All of this
time he had retained possession of his farm in Mapleton township,
Blue Earth county, which he still owns, and he also owns a farm
in Bedford township, the the same county, which now is operated
by a tenant. After six years in Iowa he returned to Mapleton,
purchased an eleven acre tract in the village of that name, and
since has made that his home. The improvement of this small but
valuable property has afforded him interest and occupation, and
taken in connection with his responsibility at the bank, keeps
him a busy and much engrossed Citizen.
- Mr. HADLEY is an ardent fraternalist, and a member of the
Josephus Blue Lodge, No. 128, A.F.
- and A.M., Mapleton. He is the parent of five children; Lura,
deceased; Mary, wife of Mr. M. CHENEY, of North Springs, Iowa;
Maud; Eugene; and Calvin. Of a kindly and generous nature, he
has made many and warm friends along the course of his well directed
life, and his wealth consists as much of the confidence and esteem
of his fellow men as of the convertable assets of the business
man.
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- Taken from "History of Blue Earth County, Minnesota"
by Thomas Hughes; (c)1909 Chicago, p. 415.
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- Courtesy of Fred
Truman
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