Bio. of Paul C. Ambler ~ son of T. M. and Nellie (Paul) Ambler
A Narrative History of The People of Iowa Volume IV 1931
PAUL C. AMBLER has brought to bear in his administration as mayor of the
City of Shenandoah, Page County, the same loyalty and progressive policies that
have marked his course as one of the representative business men of this fine
little city, he being one of the two principals in the Nishna Seed Company,
which has here developed a substantial and important industrial and commercial
business in the wholesale handling of seeds.
Mr. Ambler was born in Fremont County, Iowa, August 1, 1888, and is a son of
T. M. and Nellie (Paul) Ambler, the former of whom was born at Barnsesville,
Ohio, and the latter at Thurman, Fremont County, Iowa, where their marriage
was solemnized. T. M. Ambler came to Iowa in the year 1881 and at Thurman he
engaged in the livery and mercantile business, of which latter line of
enterprise he there continued a representative until 1900, when he removed to
Shenandoah, where he built up a prosperous retail grocery business and where he is now engaged in the coal business. His political allegiance is given to the Democratic party and he and his wife have membership in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. His parents, Calvin and Mary (DuVall) Ambler, passed their entire lives in Ohio, where the respective families made settlement in the pioneer days. William Paul, maternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Missouri and was a pioneer settler in Fremont County, Iowa, where he became a leading banker and merchant at Thurman. Of the six children of T. M. and Nellie (Paul) Ambler, Paul C., of this sketch, is the eldest; Fay L. is associated with the Dunnegan Construction Company of Shenandoah; Walter is engaged in the theatrical business; Carroll remains at the parental home in Shenandoah; Doris, who resides at Shenandoah, is the widow of Thomas R. Murphy, whose death occurred in the earlier part of the year 1929; and Frena remains at the parental home.
After completing his studies in the Shenandoah High School Paul C. Ambler
was employed in a wholesale establishment in Omaha, Nebraska, during the period of 1908-13, and in 1914 he returned to Shenandoah and purchased a half interest in the Nishna Seed Company, in the ownership of the business of which his coadjutor is G. A. Chambers. This enterprise was initiated in a modest way and has been developed to one of broad scope and importance. In the wholesale seed trade the company's business has been extended throughout the
territory east of Omaha from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border, as well as into the Canadian provinces of the Northwest. Major attention is given to the selling of the finest types and grades of seedcorn and bluegrass, and the business has contributed much to the precedence of Shenandoah as a commercial and distributing center.
Mr. Ambler is known as a resourceful business man and progressive and public
spirited citizen. He is a Democrat of independent proclivities, and after
having given four years of constructive service as a member of the Shenandoah
city council he was, in the spring of 1929, elected mayor of the city, in
which office he is giving a characteristically vigorous and forward looking
administration. He is affiliated wit the Masonic fraternity, and he and his
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The year 1919 marked the marriage of Mr. Ambler to Miss Catherine Norris,
who was born at Saint Joseph, Missouri, the early education she there received
having been supplemented by her attending school in Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. and
Mrs. Ambler have two children: Bettie Lee, born in October, 1920, and
Marylin, born March, 1922.
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