W.C. UTTERBACK, the proprietor of the Broadway Livery Barn, at 228, 230 and 232 Central Broad Street, assumed control there August 24, 1889, and keeps a stock of about $2,000 doing all the kinds of business usually transacted at such establishments, and also has a wholesale and retail feed store, delivering sold goods to all parts of the city.

He was born September 28, 1851, in Illinois, a son of Charles and Rachel (White) Utterback, of German descent. He moved to Mills County, Iowa, and next to Hold County, Missouri, and then back to Mills County, where Mrs. Utterback died.

W.C. was then given in charge of his grandmother who died three years afterward, bequeathing the boy a small amount of livestock; but it was never delivered to him by his grandfather. Charles Utterback (W.C's father) married again; the boy returned to live with him. They moved to Nebraska a few months afterward and the boy was employed on a shingle machine on winter in Missouri River Bottom at $6 a month. When nine yers old he chopped cordwood for making charcoal at 75 cents a cord. Next he was employed on a Nebraska farm at $8 a month for one summer. The next year he worked on the Missouri River seven miles above Nebraska City. When he was ten years of age he was bound out till of age to a Mr. Wood, who in the course of two years became so abusive that the lad was obliged to leave him to save his life. The fellow would sometimes come home drunk and threaten to kill the boy. One time he actually got him down, sat himself upon him and endeavored to choke him to death!

After spending another summer with his father, his stepmother died, and he was once more thrown out upon the cold world. His father now told him that he could keep all he made. Returning to Mills County, he was employed upon farms until he was nineteen years of age. He then married, rented a farm, worked it during the summer and labored for his father in his brickyard during the winter. After four or five years thus employed he made brick on his own account two years at Malvern, Mills County. Then he moved to Council Bluffs in 1881, taking charge of brickyards for James Wickham one season, and then for Henry Delany and Richard Foxley one seas. Next for a short time he was engaged in sinking wells and cisterns, taking contracts for the same for six years longer, when he settled down to his present situation. He is a representative businessman of Council Bluffs, a Republican and a member of the V.A.S. Society, and also, with his wife, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

March 3, 1871, he married Miss Harriet C. Hubbard, who was born in 1852, and they are the parents of nine children: Eva, Ora, Mellie (deceased), Amos, Minnie, Bertha, Thomas and Agnes.