(From HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1883, Page 847)

Oliver D. Eno, auditor of Worth county, was born in Lower Canada, March 21, 1831, where he grew to manhood and received an academical education at East Hadley. In 1854, he went to Ashtubula Co., Ohio, where he taught school that winter, and in 1855 removed to Clayton Co., Iowa, where he opened a select school. In 1856 he went to Clayton village, teaching the district school at that place for one term, and then took charge of the select school at Farmersburg, teaching for nine months. He then went to Clayton and Elkader, and taught a term of school in each place. In the spring of 1858, he went to Garnovilla and entered the law office of J. O. Crosby, where he spent six months. In the fall of 1858, he was a candidate for county superintendent of schools, coming within seventeen votes of being elected. He then went to Guttenburg, when he again took up teaching, and in the mean time still prosecuted the study of law. When in this place, he was editor of the Mississippi Valley Register, which supported Douglas for President. In the fall of 1861, the office was moved to Lake City, Minn., when he changed it to a republican sheet, and supported Lincoln and the Union cause. Previous to going to Minnesota in 1860, he received the nomination of clerk of the district court on the democratic ticket, running 300 votes ahead of his ticket. In the fall of 1862 he gave up the publishing business and went to Dane Co., Wis., teaching school there that winter. He then returned to Guttenburg, and in 1866, went to Postville, where he commenced the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar while in Guttenburg. In the fall of 1867 he went to Osage, where he taught the public school that winter. The following fall he was employed as salesman by Eno, Bowman & Co. In the winter of 1869 he came to Bristol, Worth county, where he opened an agricultural warehouse, and remained in that business until 1875, when he was elected as auditor of Worth county, and has been reelected, being elected three consecutive times. In connection with the office, he edits and controls the Worth County Index. In January, 1873, he was married to Kate S., daughter of Hugh Sweney, an early settler of Mitchell Co., Iowa.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, March 20, 2008