F. H. Guanella, marble, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1860, and engaged in the ice business in 1862. He carried on that business till 1875, when he engaged in farming, which occupation he pursued till 1879, when he engaged in the marble business. He was born in Galena, ILL., in 1854, and, in 1859, went to St. Joesph, where he remained two years, after which he came to Council Bluffs. His father still lives in Council Bluffs, at the advanced age of seventy-six years; his mother died in Council Bluffs in 1868.