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CHARLES FRANKLIN LYTLE, contractor, investment broker, and business man, died of heart failure while driving an automobile near Council Bluffs, May 9, 1938. He was born on a farm near Solon, Iowa, September 11, 1869, the son of Robert B. and Sarah E. Kemp Lytle. Moving to Buena Vista County at the age of seven, he obtained a grade school education and later that of a business college. He came to Sioux City in 1898, which since remained his home. Of wide business interests, Mr. Lytle first engaged in banking business in Nebraska, and also the grain business, before beginning the highly successful contracting company which bears his name. In addition he was head of an investment company, the Iowa Joint Stock Land Bank of Sioux City, and was vitally interested in the oil business, having several holdings in Texas. Elected to the Senate of the Iowa General Assembly as a Republican in 1916, he resigned before the end of his two year term. In 1932, as a Democrat, he was unsuccessful in his candidacy to secure the nomination as United States Senator.