,J prlnci- Stair~ }(~·:;lxtr'r th 1: best he ever knew. nurnbnr <,f n rnagazm•; ::md as the bor:1e in The following year., JB70, ho W:'.lll .':,'('ril,11.cr is;.~. twi.~nty-n·:e cent n'i(Jnth. n wholly elf:eled to con~reHH bnt. (,lJ sut•h a W;:l.y ly t:biH will duubtleHI:i have an im ople aHk thatit involved hirri in a i.•itter qurtr- nHmKf~ R:de, ,\ndrew LnnW'' · lllua ohibiOon rr:l with )fr. Lf Picn.dilly, l.JOnrlon, elld O!" ('f:HRor. !\lr .. \Valdr~nv:entoutof puhlk: and ;\lr. Wigmore'H oftbe opening of
1 n··.· · pJ.e Jife at thf~ enrJ of OtH' term if1 .tl;f} p:tr1iamentary gnvernment in Japan · if '1oUH(~ arid .'>•:ar; n~c~ver in deetive otrie6l ar•': M nttractlv,~ a.a the stories. e re!Juh~ ~tgain except that two yearA ago he . The Augnst St. NicholnH draws the publiean waR elr:!ctf:d to the Town house. He y(;rmg folkH IJUtdoora as. it should. get the fwas a pe<:uHar man and one of the Pur:k and the faJries bAve the lead and Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. prohibi· 'uohiest and most .hJvea.ble we • ever b(.)yB a bof,lt!ng anu.Prlnce, Elecamp· :'~~.;;<<,: )Ur tory law us to try to tlw people knew. He wm; lm j
:>c- to be in faYor of it. Republicans of strong through one .,!!' Highest of md i?ither viow should fact us to through rmother. He ·the party's position in their and a child, an orator and of I th.onght nne.! yHl.)..' s.··h.oul·.( I, bring t.hern.- .ripe yo·"'·:~;1·s ~.md :1: Rirnpl~ ::s ::m un-,1 ~t'- ves to mmntam 1t. l f they mean ~;opllllo!Uc,ttou boy Hl othe1 w,t:'l s. •v- !to be republicans ler them tote fair, Inever had n friend of nobler qunli • 1 tv., · · h'l:'t' It' · lgive am.1 take on t}w:: pro 1 •1 10. 11 1es. •o- question. A prohibitionist. gains od Hlt. '\\'II,.LL\:\1,\. ll"\)010~1). 11~ nothing for his eausn by standing out · Lafe~Yonng. in the IowaC.npital has II t' 11 against a local option candldate for an interesting sketch of ex -Surgeon >>< the legislature where the county General Dr. ·william A. Hammond. · "' wants that. A local optionist gains That imperious man. Secretary Stan n-e- nothing by Htanding our for ..that ton got ~ad at Ha~mond, h;d him A.BSOU r- wben a conn ty , wants . prohibJtlOn. ! court-martialed and dismissed as sur- ·" -· ···-- Both these can then nmte also on geon-gent>ral under a seni:;euce of nne, and the Sandpipera and )': l n. ' . ·s' the state ~i.~i"~: ______great severity. 1\Ir. Young says: port and vacation days, and ,Sta;· 1 · of next year on nh anti- Cn.tholic re- I~,tsscd a plll \\ 1 th or.J~y the ";>te 0 • Ithe difference m cost of coal at ~e action. He baR recently spoken Senat?r Plumb,. _of hansas, 1 ~1 the ent localities ig not tht~ <'nlyf.r.•·i''• an,tr:orJzt_ng. the. -c'·'tino· the 'Jriee of Iightt:: .. te in fayor of .woman suffrage becattse tr:·I,e?.~tn.·.e,_ . , _ . , , .. . 1 _pre~:ml.eJ~t. t I>. I 1 • ,.... t - 'fh~c1 o.~G¥16\\ Lrh:. case ~me_ :es ore •· 1~ I of a streN light h): the year a:t.'r:' - 1 !w evh18nt1y i\'ants to liberalize so .ELtmrnond. to t1te.army_ :1st .as. SL1r 1 as follow!'i: Peoria $90, G:tl<'":' ·o far aXll~>. pavs. ~l-U•O: . clergy \\·a~ forced m oeceney tore- lw:n·v t)urden of di:ogr:!C'G '.t)l~.::~d ;.1pon j (''It·· ..; 1;.,!1 ~··lq. l3c'il-'"')" ,r..., ~ · I ~ <" "' ' ...) II c . , '"- . "' ~' J Fw-. ... i , .... ,l '-· .. ~ '-., : 1 j~ct the :'d~1Herons crir:~in~1ity of I~1im b~"' t.he cour~-m~rti~f:.he ret,ur.t,led St.~ Joe, :'l!o., $;'}.t •• (:>t.tnn:wa. r Ir .'\nell. Snl.J sbury no\\' . tnes. to.. ln.c1 et ~ctec~ a ~),1laun. 1 1. undenc~ .. nd! less ti.Jan any Otllf'r ('lty.· m. uw l.:~l. · ;,, bse ProteRtant prejudices against a great s:tmtartuml .whAr: h:' 1s now 1 · · h - 1 1. . < •1 • I en~a.gedm the practice of h1.s pro-~ {;-,.., 1111 ,1 t'in (;.,\···r·n·111 ,... 0 ,, .... t t. ese Cat 10 w suppor~ers 01 .r ao- fession. ' , ·• ,. • • 1 l'tone nlle::.;ing r.hat they are po1iti- I . .\I:·. .\ ;lll·t·: : ,1,<\\. wrH In call'.·Source: llicUtting Iowa Territorial as Catholit.·s. and State Legislators But the Collection compiledTHE by.\l. volunteers 1.1 .... T and)L\u staff v.t~·..:..... at the State Historical1( ,•n;':~·y. Society of:r ..Iowa m:n•<" Library, H" Des Moines, Iowa. En~lislL frish and ScotC'h dissentPrs Th\1 rnngazint• pnblisilers hn n·! l.lH• Fr··ln'h \\'" '.'·hu n1·c.·. lib.~:rn.h<. il.' . tks :111d hlt·j dm thr-il' lll!'thotl"l nnd 1 "l·'i'!l 11 l t!• HI~ i·{ ';t!ho in r• 1') " P -. , , 1 , • ! ' i\ :;.;. r 7'-~· --,/ (-:;L-0 ' S" I" I . Recollections and Sketches
i of Notable Lawyers and J Public Men of Early Iowa
Belonging to the First and Second Generations, with Anecdotes and Incidents Illustrative of the Times
By EDWARD H. STILES
For many years a member of the Iowa Bar; member of its House of Representatives, 1863-1864; member of its Senate, 1865-1866; Re porter of its Supreme Court, 1867-1875; author of Complete Digest ,fits Decisions from the earliest Territorial period to the 56th Iowa 'l.eports.
"In old age alone we are masters of a treasure of which we cannot be eprived, the only treasure we can call our own. The pleasures of memory and the retrospect of the varied images which in an active life have floated before the mind, compensate, and more than compensate, for the alternate pleasures and cares of active life."-SIR ARCHIBALD ALLISON. "Personal anecdotes, when characteristic, greatly enliven the pages of a biography."-SAMUEL SMILES.
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rather stout and not above the medium in height, as I recollect him. His integrity was unquestioned and his character without a blemish. He was a man of kindly ways and accommodating disposition. Madison M. Walden was the seventh Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa, in 1870 and 1 871, but before the expiration of his term, he was nominated and elected to Congress from his district, and S!!rved in the F arty-Second Congress. Before that he had represented Appanoose County in the House of the Eleventh General Assem· bly, in 1866; in the State Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly, in 1868, and as Lieutenant-Governor, was the presiding officer of that body in the Thirteenth Gen· era! Assembly, in 1870. My acquaintance with him began while we were members of the Eleventh Gen· era! Assembly. He represented Appanoose County in the House, and I, Wapello County in the Senate. We were appointed a joint committee on the part of the House and Senate to· visit the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant, and report its condition to the Legislature. We were several days together on this mis sion, and became quite closely acquainted. He was a pleasant companion. He had light hair, eyes and complexion. Ordinarily he was quiet, undemonstrative and unaggressive, but he lacked neither courage nor patriotism, for he was a valiant sol dier, and served throughout the war, first as captain in the Sixth Regiment of Iowa Infantry, and later as captain in the Eighth Regiment of Iowa Cavalry. While serving in the latter position, he with a number of his comrades, was taken prisoner at the Battle of Newman, Georgia, and confined in the loathsome prison of Ander· sonville, the horrible character of which, and the sufferings of the men, he vividly described in an article which appeared in the Iowa State Register of March 6, 1885, which I have before me and which well illustrates the vigor of his pen. Later in life, in 1890, he was again elected to the Legislature from Appanoose County, and soon after the close of this service he received an appointment in the Treasury Department at Washington, where he died in 1 892. He, as well as his father and mother, were natives of Adams County, Ohio. He was born in 1836. In 1852 the family removed to Lee County, Iowa. Gov· ernor Walden was a refined and educated gentleman. He was a graduate of Den· mark Academy, attended the Wesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant, and finally graduated from the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. After the close of the war he became the proprietor and editor of the Centerville Citizen, and made it a newspaper of great influence. This connection continued until 187 4, when he sold the paper to other parties. He was an able editor, a useful legislator, an effi· cient public servant, a worthy and highly honored citizen, who did much in shaping the early affairs of Appanoose County and the State. I cannot leave Appanoose County without saying a word of Dr. Nathan Udell,
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FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE BEGINNING oF THE TwENTIETH CENTURY
FOUR VOLUMES _I J _.
Bv BENJAMIN F. GUE
Illustrated fiJith Photographic Yiefvs of the Natural Scenery of the State, Public Buildings, Pio11eer Life, Etc.
WI'l'H PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE MEN AND, WOMEN OF IOWA
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SEAL OF THB STATE OF IOWA
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MARTIN J. WADE was born in Burlington, Vermont, on the 20th of October, 1861. He came to Iowa in 1870 and received his education in the common schools, at St. Joseph's College at Dubuque and in the Iowa State University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1886. In 1892 a professor in the Law Department of the State University and since the latter date has been a lecturer in the same department, and since 1897 has been lecturer in the Medical Department. In 1889·90 he was president of the State Bar Association; and has been president of the Iowa City Public Library ~ince its organization in 1897. In 1893 Mr. Wade was elected judge of the Eighth Judicial District, serving until 1902 when he was elected Representative in Congress for the Second District on the Democratic ticket.
(~.,.JOHN. L. WAITE, journalist; was born in Ravenna, Ohio, August 29, .. )40. He was educated in the publre sehools of his native place and at -- :,tended· business college at Chicago. For twelve years he was a telegraph .•operator; and later was one of the projeetors of the Burlington & l\Iissouri ·.• Railroad telegraph line which he helped to construct, and of which he be .came superintendent. In 1869 he became identified with the Burlington HOIUike:IJ•}, 'first a8 city editor and in 1874 be<:ame associate editor. In 1877 he was promoted to managing editor and in 1881 he was appointed postmaster of Burlington. At the close of hi5 term he became editor in chief and general manager of the Hawkeye which, under his direction, has wielded wide influence among the Republican journals of Iowa. In 1898 Mr. \Vaite was again appointed postmaster of Burlington retaining the management of the Hawkeye.
GEORGE W. WAKEFIELD was born November 22, 1839, at De Witt, Illinois, and was educated in the common schools and at Lombard College. When the Civil War hegan he enlisted in Company F, Forty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving three years. After the close of the war Mr. Wakefield was engaged in farming and teaching. Finally studying law he was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1868. The same year he came to Iowa, lof·ating at Sioux City, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1870 he was elected auditor of \Voodbury County, which position he held four years. In 1885 he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the Fourth Judieial Distrid, ~erving two years, and in 1887 Was chosen Judge of the District Court which position he has held up to the year 1903. Judge ·wakefield has been one of the promoters of the Sioux City public library, "erving as president of the board of trustees from ! 892 to 1903.
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1853, locating at Centerville in Appanoose County. He was a printer and for a long time the able editor of the Centerville Citizen, a Republican weekly of wide influence. When the War of the Rebellion began Mr. Wal den raised a company for the Sixth Infantry Regiment and was commis sioned captain. In December, 1862, he resigned and in 1863 recruited a company for the Eighth Cavalry. He was taken prisoner in an engagement at Newnan, Georgia, in July, 1864. Mr. Walden was an excellent officer and remained in the service until near the close of the war when he re turned to his home at Centerville. In 1866 he was a member of the House of the Eleventh General Assembly and at the close of his term was elected to the Senate for four years. But after serving one session he was nomi nated by the Republican State Convention for Lieutenant-Governor and elected. Before the expiration of his term he was nominated for Repre sentative in Congress by the Republicans of the Fourth District and elected. In 1890 he was again a member of the Legislature from Appa noose County. Soon after the close of the session he received an appoint ment in the Treasury Department at Washington and removed to that city where he died on the 24th of July, 1892. Governor Walden was an able editor, a graceful writer, an influential legislator and an accomplished presiding officer.
WILLIAM W. WALKER, one of the pioneer railroad builders cf Iowa, was born in Cooperstown, New York, in 1834, receiving the educa tion of civil engineers. He came to Iowa in 1855 and was soon chosen chief engineer of the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad Company with charge of the location of the trunk line of what is now the Chicago & North western Railroad from Clinton to Council Bluffs. After the completion of that line he was one of the leading promoters and chief engineer of the Sioux City & Pacific and Elkhorn Valley railroads. He was an active member of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Company, and for many years its superintendent. He was afterwards engaged in building railroads in ::\iissouri and Arizona. Mr. Walker was the first president of the First National Bank of Cedar Rapids and was for many years one of the proprietors of the Cedar Rapids Republican. His life was one of great usefulness and he will long be remembered as one of the pioneer railroad builders of the State. He died in Chicago on the 22d of September, 1893.
JOHN H. WALLACE was born on August 16th, 1822, and was reared on a farm in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the common schools and at Frankfort Springs Academy. Though natur ally an eager student, his health was so delicate that he determined to seek an outdoor life rather than one of study, and in 1845 he removed to Muscatine, Iowa, locating on a farm near the city. He became an active
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The civil positions which he has held have been con of the First National Bank of Hamburg; Anna, the fined to local matters. ·While at Sidney 4e was presi wife of Joseph M. Metcalf, of Hamburg; Albert J ., dent of the school board for many years, and did a a student at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; noble work for the cause of education. and Edward J ., a student in Tabor College, Iowa. In religious sentiment, Colonel Cornish is liberal. The colonel is a cautious, skillful and prudent man, He was married in August, 185o, to Miss Virginia and one of the best financiers in Fremont county. Raymond, of Cuba, New York. They have had four He keeps thoroughly posted in regard to values and children: ALancaster, 1867, when be rett HON. MADISON M. WALDEN, been his home and in business.'> He CENTERVILLE. 111 iting by his discipj ADISON M. WALDEN. lieutenant-governor and served throughout the war. At the close of e~ttensive practice.;tl M of Iowa in r87o-r8]1, and member of the the war Captain Walden purchased "The Citizen" 18 forty. second congress, is. a native of Adams county, newspaper, at Centerville, and built it up, making it a ~ Ohio, and was born on the 6th of October, 1836. first-class paper, and selling out in November, 1874· The Waldens were an early Ohio family, both of his On the 2 r st of June, 1877, he started "The Tribune," parents, Joseph Minor and Malinda Prather Walden, having in three or four months a voluntary subscrip :'I • being born there, his mother in the same house in tion of fourteen hundred names. Meantime, while II which he was born. She is yet living, being in her a journalist, Captain Walden has served the state in EORGE GR~ seventy-eighth year. The fan1ily moved to Lee various positions of trust and honor. He was a G. States seliato county, Iowa, in 1852, and there the father died member of the lower house of the general assembly mechanic, and R~1 the same year. in the session of 1866; was a member of the senate Bloomington, Indiaa The subject of this brief memoir receil·ed his in the session of 1868; was the presiding officer of The progenitor of u
academic educ'ation at Denmark, Lee county; at that body in 1870; and was a member of the forty native of Wales, a; 1 . tended the Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant, second congress from the old fourth district, serving Pennsylvania. Th~ 1 Iowa, one year, and graduated at the University of on the committees on patents and Mississippi levees. George G. was e11 the same name at Delaware, Ohio, in 1851), receiving Capt;1in Walden is a trustee of the Weslepn Uni located in his nativ<1
the degree of A.M. He located in Centerville in versity at .l\Iount Pleasant, and delivered the annual read law with an elci1 1859, and was principal of the graded school. A few lecture before the students of that institution in A. Wright, once g~ years later he was county superintendent of schools June, 1877. quently minister to on·e year. He was married in October, 1861, to Miss Fran The subject of th 0 Mr. Walden entered the Union army in May, r86r, ces A. Holt, of Centerville. in 184o, and in No1 at Keosauqua, Van commenced legal pt removal to Des M WILLIAM S. LAMBERT, M. D_, 1865. While law h a tor Wright, and w ALBIA. Wright, Gatch and ILLIAM SPERRY LAMBERT, son of Isaac county, Iowa, in 1844, and there the son was en time for practice fot W and Nancy Sperry Lambert, and the leading gaged in farming until sixteen years of age, when he for he has been ah
. surgeon in Monroe county, Iowa, dates his birth in commenced attending school, continuing for three the state in some ca 1 Lawrence county, Ohio, on the 4th of January, I8J6. years, most of the time at a select school in Troy, bench or in the upp, His father is yet living, his residence being Davis Davis county, to \\hich county his father removed .-. he was prosecuting i county, Iowa, and his age eighty-seven. The Lam in 1852. the next year he was berts and Sperrys aretboth Virginia families. The Young Lambert read medicine at first with Dr. served two terms, bt paternal great-grandfather of William was a soldier D. A. Hurst, of Bloomfield, Davis county, then with on the whig side. in 1775-82; his fatheriin r8I2-15. Dr. D. L. McGugin, of Keokuk. He graduated from W. Jones was elecl : Isaac Lambert· mov,ed from Ohio to Van Buren the medical college at Keokuk in February, 1859; democrats of the st; r 83 I.
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~·· mained in line of battle all night. The next i fluence under his control. He has taken ... ~ :~ day his regiment, still in his command, was an active interest in the politics of his State ~~ u in the fight as a part of General Garfield's and has held many important and influen- .+.+. brigade. He was obliged to resign the tial positions. From r866 till r868 he was following December, on account of a severe a member of t~e State Legislature; from hemorrhage of the lungs. In the early r868 till 187owas State Senator; from 1870 summer of i 863 he was enrolling officer for till 1872 was Lieutenant-Governor of Iowa, Appanoose County, and later he raised and from 1871 till 1873 was a member of another company for the sen·ice, and was the Lower House of the United States mustered in as Captain of Company H, Legislature. He usually takes an active Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Davenport, Sep- part in the political campaigns of his State tembet· 30. In r864 he was with Sherman and nation. In 1876 he visited Ohio, on the Atlanta campaign, and took part in speaking in behal£ of the Republican party, many severe battles. He was captured and in 188o visited New York on the same July 30, 1864, in the rear of Atlanta, where mtsswn. he had gone with his regiment, in General ~·e===s:,-~ ·~ ;t-,;t. '.'~ McCook's division, to tear up the railway; ••· ~- ~~~~7~r~~:~~s~~~: ~~:I;l~~:d ·:~d~~·~~: P A~~~~r?,;,~~ Ta~.::! a~~ ,;~~;;:~.~,:~ ~~ u of the Federal arms. In October he '~ of Johns Township, Appanoose ...... (--]~:: escaped from the prison and reached his County, was born in what is now Tipton se - .. -~ regiment at Columbia, Tennessee, in time County, Indiana, near the town of Tipton, ~~ '.:::.~.:.t,l.~.:.. ~.:a~e ~:r~~~:~; ~::~::i~~.F~:~::~"ber~~ ~~ ~:~.~:,,h~~~i~t~be'~~~ !<~:~~~ ~: ~~1~: :...~.~-i:~.·. and 16, 1864,·when he commanded a battal- were both natives of New jersey, remov- ..,. :o: ion of the Eight Iowa Cavalry. Early in ing from that State to Indiana. They came :o: !.·!..! ~~;,~:~ ·~~s ;:;;~~:; ~~ g~~?e;:; g~xF~·t0·<,;s,~t: ~~5~.P~:~c~~~~~c~~~J~~~~~i~'wit~~~~;, ~:~e~!~_;.. ~ .• . commanding First Brigade of the 1 they hved till ·their death. Thev had a ..... ~:. Division Cavalry Corps, and was with him famih· of ten children, six sons a-nc'! four ::,~ !:!: during the famous raid in Alabama, just daughters, of whom five children are yet =!'! es before the fall of Richmond, and helped living. ~)anford S., our subject, passed his ss !;~~ destror the foundn and iron works at youth on a farm, and received his education ~~ ~:: Tuscaloosa and I31u~ Mountain. His com- at the district schools. He came to Appa- :!~ s~ mand marched 65o miles in the month of noose County with his parents in 1855, re- ~~ •''.' April. swimming four large rivers, and de- maining with them till twenty-six years :,: !~ straying an immense amount of property. of age. He was then married to Miss ;~~ ~~ !:e~~'~,:O~~a~:h;:'.,d ;~;;:~~~~~: ;~~:::: ~;{~L~,~~h~~~~;,d ,;~~gs~~~;~~f 7:mt~~; ~ ~~ ter how E,reat the danger. His bravery county in 1864. Of the five children born ~~ ~'+' won for him the esteem and admiration of to Mr. and Mrs. Cole two are deceased. ~~' ~~ ~~ !;~ his entire command, and elicited praise Those living are-Oscar M., Proctor C. and ~~ ~~ from all h1s sup· erior officers. For ten Grace C. After his marriage Mr. Cole set- ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~; years follo,ving the war Mr. \Vaiden was tied onhispresentfarmonsection II, johns ~~ ~ editor and proprietor nf the Centerville Township, which contains r6o acres of val- :~ (· j Citz'ztn, a journal which acqtured wide in- uable land, with good substantial barns and as ·:•:•r•· ... :...... <~:.~:.;~,..:.;~~~~~'. .•. ~...• .'W~.,~,*,,+".,,+.,~,+,_,*,,•,,•,,•,;t,,.,;+..~,+.,,+..,+..~,~;t._,+..,+..~;t,~,;t,_,+..;t,~,;t,~o.;+,~,·,~,,+,,+,,*,~;:+,:+.~~~:...;:..;:...;l!;:...;:..;:..;Wl..iW~~..iW~W~~":.!~W~~~W~ ...... ~ ...... ~"' ~·:· ~-= as •• •,Y,"'""' ,:+;~,+..+.;t,~;to; ....+..+..+. +.,+,,+,,+.::+,:+;:+;~~~;t::+;;t:~~;t:;t:;t:;t:,+.~:+.:+;:+,:+...... ~.,.., ..,:+;;Y.,T.~,T,~'"';,?;"""''""''"'""'""'""'~""'· ...... "••" '"'' ••" •Source: Iowa Territorial and State Legislators Collection compiled by volunteers and staff at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library, Des Moines, Iowa. WALDEN, Madison Miner (1836-1891) Biographical Information Page 1 of 1
WALDEN, Madison Miner, 1836-1891
WALDEN, Madison Miner, a Representative from Iowa; born near Scioto, Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, October 6, 1836; moved to Iowa in 1852; attended Denmark Academy, Lee County, Iowa, and Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and was graduated from Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1859; served in the Union Army as captain in the Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and the Eighth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, from May 1861 to May 1865; taught school; published the Centerville (Iowa) Citizen 1865-1874; member of the State house of representatives in 1866 and 1867; served in the State senate in 1868 and 1869; Lieutenant Governor of Iowa in 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871- March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872; engaged in agricultural pursuits and coal mining in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa; was appointed chief clerk in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury in 1889 and served until his death in Washington, D.C., July 24, 1891; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Centerville, Iowa.
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