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F.P. Mattocks, of the firm of Mattocks & Pape, proprietors of the London meat market, and wholesale dealers in fish, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1852; came west with parents and settled in northeastern Iowa in 1858. He came to this city in 1869 and engaged in farming; has served as constable in Concord township one term. He married Lilliam Gibbs, and has two children-Samuel O. and Walter F.