CHICKASAW AND HOWARD COUNTIES
Vol. II
pp. 457, 459
(more info? found in Nashua Public Library, geneology section, zeroxed and retyped)

EDWARD W. STALEY

Edward W. Staley is well known as one of the prominent and representative citizens of Nashua, where he is successfully engaged in the real estate and insurance business. His birth occurred in Tallula, Illinois, on the 6th of January, 1880, his parents being John W. and Emma (Dickinson) Staley, the former born near Millersburg, Kentucky, while the latter is a native of Petersburg, Illinois. They were married in Virginia, Illinois, on the 12th of February, 1879, and for several years John W. Staley was proprietor of the Occidental Nurseries at Tallula, that state. In 1886 he took up his abode on a farm and three years later removed to Chandlerville, Illinois, where he conducted a nursery throughout the remainder of his life, passing away on the 12th of November, 1912. His widow still survives and now makes her home in Nashua, Iowa.

Following his graduation from the high school of Chandlerville, Ilinois, as a member of the class of 1897. Edward W. Stealey continued his studies in Berea College of Berea, Kentucky. In 1900 he went to Kansas City and through the succeeding four years represented a wholesale millinery house as traveling salesman. Becoming identified with the rubber business, he was for two years associated wit hteh old Trenton Rubber Company, while in 1908 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, as city salesman for the Diamond Rubber Company. A year or more later he succeeded to the management of the latter concern and continued in that important capacity until 1914, when he associated himself with the Reupblic Rubber Company, which he represented in the state of Iowa, making his home in Nashua. In 1918 he severed his connection with the Republic Rubber company and embarked in the real estate and insurance business in Nashua, where he has since conducted his interests along hat line with gratifying success. He is thoroughly acquainted with realty values and has negotiated many important property transfers, while the insurance branch of his business has also become extensive and profitable.

On the 11th of January, 1911, Mr. Staley was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Granger, a daughter of W. A. Granger, a lumber dealer and prominent business man of Nashua. Mr. and Mrs. Staley now have two children, Harlan G. and Edward R.

Mr. Staley gives his political allegiance to the republican party and fraternally is identified with the Masons, belonging to Bradford Lodge, No. 129, A. F. & A. M.; De Molay Consistory, No. 1 A. & A. S. R., of Clinton, Iowa; and El Kahir Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Cedar Rapids. In religious faith both he and his wife were Congregationalists. They are widely recognized as people of genuine personal worth and have gained many friends during the period of their residence in Nashua, where the hospitality of the best homes is freely extended them.