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NORTHWESTERN IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
S. M. STOUFFER
It is generally admitted without argument that no one agency has done as
much for the progress of the world as the press, and an enterprising, well
edited journal is a most important factor in promoting the welfare and progress of
any community. Northwestern Iowa has been honored in the characters and
careers of her newspaper men, in the very front rank of whom stands Samuel M.
Stouffer, editor of The Sac Sun, one of the old and influential papers of this
section of the state. Mr. Stouffer was born in Ogle county, Illinois, on the
1st day of November, 1865, and is a son of Andrew and Lucinda (Rhinehart)
Stouffer, both of whom were natives of Washington county, Maryland, and of
German extraction, their respective families having been established in this
country in a very early day. In 1869 Andres Stouffer brought his family to Iowa,
locating in Marshall county, where he bought a farm which had been partly
broken and cultivated by the original settler.
Samuel M. Stouffer is the first born of the family of ten children. He
secured his early education in the district school which was located at the cross
roads upon which the home farm abutted, attending there during the winter
months and devoting the remainder of his time to work in the fields. Later he
attended Western College, at Toledo, Iowa (which was afterward absorbed by Coe College), where he was graduated in 1890. He then taught school for a short time and subsequently joined the staff of the Toledo Chronicle, with which paper he remained two years, gaining valuable experience and also a love for newspaper work. In 1893, with a brother, Frank E. Stouffer, he came to Sac City and took over The Sac Sun. On the first of November, 1923, he bought his brother's interest in the business and his son, Samuel A., eventually came into the firm as a partner. The venture was a financial success from the beginning and during the years the Sun has been regarded as the representative newspaper of Sac county. In 1925 Mr. Stouffer and his son bought the Sac County Bulletin, which they consolidated with the Sun, and in September, 1926, the
business was incorporated as the Sac Sun Company, with Samuel M. Stouffer as president and editor; Mrs. Stouffer as vice-president; and Ben J. Pruess, lately publisher of the Ida Grove Record-Era, as secretary and treasurer. Mr.
Stouffer is a forceful and effective writer, prints the news while it is news, and has shown splendid taste in the typographical make-up of the paper. He has consistently stood for the best things in community life, advocating those measures calculated to advance the public interests and opposing everything of a detrimental nature. His editorial influence has been a definite factor in the affairs of his city and county and has gained for him the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens.
On September 8, 1898, Mr. Stouffer was united in marriage to Miss Irene
Holmes, of Charter Oak, Iowa, a daughter of George W. Holmes, who was a veteran of the Civil war and for many years a well known business man of Charter Oak. To Mr. and Mrs. Stouffer have been born two children. Samuel Andrew, the elder, after completing the public school course, entered Morningside College, where he was graduated in 1921, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then
entered Harvard University, where he received his Master's degree in 1923, and is now at Chicago University, specializing in sociology for his Doctor's degree. William Holmes, the younger son, is now a senior in the Sac City high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Stouffer have for many years been active members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Stouffer served twenty years as superintendent of the Sunday school, and in 1916 was first reserve and acting lay delegate from the Northwest Iowa conference to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, held at Saratoga, New York. He has also served as secretary and president of the Northwest Iowa Laymen's Association. Personally, he is a gentleman of straightforward and unaffected manner, consistent in motive and action, and kindly and affable in his social relations. His life has been an active and useful one and he fully merits the enviable place which he has long held in public esteem.
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