A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 WILLIAM C. SAUL. On the roster of able and representative members of the bar of Carroll County appears the name of William C. Saul, who now ranks as one of the veterans of his profession in his native state and who has here been engaged in the active practice of law fully thirty-five years. He maintains his home and professional headquarters at Carroll, the county seat, and has long controlled a substantial important general law business, in which he now has an effective coadjutor and partner in the person of his elder son, W. Irving Saul. Mr. Saul was born in the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 21, 1862, when that beautiful "Parlor City" of the Hawkeye State was little more than a village. He is a son of James and Maria Saul, who were born in Ireland, where they were reared to adult age and who were young folk when they thence came to the United States, their marriage having been solemnized at Camden, New Jersey, in the year 1851, and their removal to Iowa having occurred in 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Saul became pioneer settlers in Cedar Rapids, where Mr. Saul for a time followed his trade, that of shoemaker, his attention thereafter having been given mainly to farm industry. In 1879 he removed with his family from Iowa County to Crawford County, where he long continued his activities as a substantial exponent of agricultural and live stock enterprise, but he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives at Denison, Crawford County, where he died in 1916, aged eighty-seven years. His widow passed away at the home of her son, William C., March 19, 1918, aged eighty-four years, their names meriting enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Iowa. The childhood and early youth of William C. Saul were compassed by the environment and discipline of the home farm, and his preliminary education was acquired in rural district schools. In 1883 he attended the academy of Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, and within a short time thereafter he engaged in railroad service in Nebraska. He followed this vocation two years, and during the ensuing four years he was a successful teacher in the public schools. During the period of 1891-93 he was in the railway mail service, and in the latter year he became a student in the law office of F. M. Powers, at Carroll, Iowa. Under the preceptorship of Mr. Powers he continued his studies two years, and in 1895 he gained admission to the bar of his native state. He has been established in general practice at Carroll during the long intervening period and has been prominently concerned in much important litigation in the courts of this section of Iowa, and has a secure status as a resourceful trial lawyer and conservative counsel. The political allegiance of Mr. Saul is given to the Republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he has long been a member of the official board. He is now one of the veteran members and the present president of the Carroll County Bar Association and has membership also in the Iowa State Bar Association. In his home city his basic Masonic affiliation is with Signet Lodge No. 264, A. F. and A. M., and here he likewise has membership on Copestone Chapter No. 78, R. A. M.; Cryptic Council No. 38, R. and S. M.; and Azgad Commandery No. 63, Knights Templar, of which he was the first eminent commander. At Carroll he has membership in the Citizens Club and the Carroll Country Club. The year 1885 recorded the marriage of Mr. Saul to Miss Elida J. Thomas, of Dow City, this state, and the children of this union are three in number: W. Irving, who is now associated with his father in the practice of law, was born at Denison, this state, January 25, 1887, and in 1904 he was graduated in the Carroll High School. During the ensuing three years he was a student in Iowa State College, at Ames, and he then gave four years to service as an electrician, in various cities of Iowa. During the year 1911 he was editor of the Carroll Herald, and the ensuing eighteen months found him functioning as editor and publisher of the Breda, News, in the village of Breda, Carroll County. He then sold the property and business and in 1912 he became a student in his father's law office, his admission to the bar having occurred in 1915, and he being now a partner of his father in the practice of law. In 1907 W. Irving Saul wedded Miss Viola E. Williams, of Ames, and of their two children the one surviving is Helen Anita, a graduate of Grinnell College in the class of 1929 and now a teacher at Dallas Center, Iowa. The second son of Mr. William C. Saul is Major Leslie T. Saul, who was graduated in the United States Military Academy, at West Point, as a member of the class of 1916, and who is now stationed, with rank of major, at Schofield Barracks, near Honolulu, Hawaii. Major Saul married in 1920, Miss Cecil Lynn, of Ida Grove, and they have three children: Dorothy, John and Nancy. Jean Elizabeth, youngest of the children, is a graduate of Cornell College, where she was elected to the honorary society of Torch and to the Phi Beta Kappa, and is now teaching in the high school at Colome, South Dakota. It may be noted that W. Irving Saul is affiliated with the same Masonic bodies as is his father and that he succeeded the latter as eminent commander of Azgad Commandery of Knights Templar, he having thus been the second incumbent of that office. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220085203x1201389322/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DMarchfooterNO62)