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James B. Dakin
The shelves are filled with a complete line of staple goods, dry goods,
clothing, groceries and other necessities arranged on the departmental plan.
The basement floor of the building is also occupied with goods, and Mr. Dakin
carried a stock exceeding fifteen thousand dollars in value. Mr. Dakin began
business in Schaller with a small stock of goods located in a smaller room in
the year 1900 and moved to his present location in 1905. He employs five
salesman.
J.B. Dakin was born in Dexter, Jefferson county, New York, August 15, 1859. He
is the son of James B. and Mary L. (Bassett) Dakin, natives of Massachusetts
and New York respectively.
The paternal parent of J.B. Dakin was born March 2, 1804, in Concord, N
Hampshire, and married Mary L. Bassett, of Watertown, New York. He was the son
of Amos and Phoebe Bowman Barrett Dakin. Amos Dakin was born August 20, 1770,
and was the father of six children, Elbridge, James B., Phoebe, Hannah, George
and Charles B. Amos was the son of Samuel, Jr. and Elizabeth Billings Dakin.
Samuel (1) was the son of Joseph Dakin, who took to wife Dorothy Wooster, of
Concord. Joseph Dakin was the offspring of Thomas Dakin, who married Susan
Stratton, of Concord. Thomas Dakin, the founder of the family in America, was
born in England, the son of John and Alice Dakin, who sailed from the land of
their ancestors in the good ship “Abigail” July 2, 1635, with the ostensible
purpose of locating in New England. They eventually became part of a colony
which settled in the vicinity of Concord, Massachusetts.
James B. Dakin, father of J.B. Dakin, located in New York state, whe
died. He was the father of three children: Mrs. Minnie L. Gilmore, of
Sackett’s Harbor, New York; Mrs. Katie Snook, of Watertown, New York; James B.
James B. Dakin was educated in the public and high schools of Dexter, N
York. At the early age of seventeen years he moved westward and was employed
in a merchandise store at Toledo, Ohio. Here he remained until he attained the
age of nineteen years, then returned to New York and was employed for four
years, at the end of which time he embarked in business for himself in the
village of Barnes’ Corners, New York. In the year 1898 he came to Des Moines
and was engaged in the grocery business for two years, and in 1900 he located
permanently in Schaller. It is here in Sac county that his greatest successes
have been obtained, his previous experience being but the preliminary for the
exercise of talents which have enabled him to forge ahead rapidly and take
first rank among the business men of the county.
Mr. Dakin is a Republican in politics, is an active member of the city council
and has served as a member of the school board. He takes a keen interest in
municipal affairs and is always found in the forefront of innovations which
will have a tendency to improve conditions in his adopted city. He is a
prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and takes an active part in
religious matters, being himself a moral and upright man in every sense of the
word. Fraternally, he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Maso
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Yeomen.
Mr. Dakin has been twice married. In 1883 he married Jennie E. Canfield, who
died in October, 1888, and was the mother of one child, James Chauncey, born
April 26, 1887, and who is his father’s right hand assistant in the store. His
second marriage occurred in May, 1897, with Myrtle M. Snell, of New York. Two
children have blessed this union, Mildred May, aged thirteen years, and Cora
Fern, aged ten years.
This brief review is placed herein for the perusal of the many friends and
acquaintances of this whole-souled, genial gentleman, who has lived a life of
usefulness, is an exemplary citizen and is especially deserving of a tribute
in the page of this history.
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