The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-09-06
PERSONNEL OF THE REPUBLICAN
STATE TICKET.

PERSONNEL OF THE REPUBLICAN
STATE TICKET.
Frank F. Merriam, nominated for
auditor, is, although a public man of
considerable experience, a young man.
Mr.. Merriam's home is at Hopkinton,
Delaware county. He is native not
only OF Iowa, but of that county and
OF that town. Mr.. Merriam was born
December %, in the closing year of the
civil war. His father. Henry G. Mer-
Ram, who resides near Hopkinton, at
Coggon, was lieutenant in the
Twelfth Iowa volunteers. The senior
Merriam has always been a worker in
politics. When Mr.. Merriam was hav-
ing his opposition at home by III. C.
Haeberle, the fact that he is the son of
veteran and particularly Lieut.. Mer-
riam, helped him considerably. Com
mander r. w. Turrill, of the Iowa G..
A. r., was on his delegation, and work
ed for Merriam among the old soldiers.
The graded schools of Hopkinton were
attended by MI. Merriam and he re-
ceived broader education in Lenox
college, located in that place. For some
years he taught school, and then went
into the newspaper business, being ed
itor of the Hopkinton Leader. When
Mr.. Blythe was chairman of the state
central committee, Mr. Merriam work
ed in the republican headquarters, get
ting his first taste of state politics. In
1892 he was clark of the house appro-
priatiOns committee at the state legs-
lature. The session following he was
clerk of the senate committee on judi
ciary. lie wanted to take some part in
legislation and in 1896 took his seat in
the house as representative from Della
ware county. He was at that session
appointed member of the committee
to investigate The state institutions.
When the conn stee recommended q
board of contl Mr.. Merriam made
minority recol. nendation that if there
was any board At all it should be over
all the institG ions, and gained his
point when the board of control bill
provided for supervisory control over
the state Institutions. He returned to
the last legislature where he was chair
man of the house committee on appro-
priations as we'll as a member of the
committee on board of control.
Col. Welcome Mowry, Of Tama
county, nominated for railway commits
sioner for the long term, came to Iowa
in 1867. He located on an eighty acre
farm in Oneida township, lama county.
He has resided on that same farm ever
since, but it has grown until it extends
over 1000 acres and is one of the most
modern farms in the state. Col. Mowry
has never resided inside the limits of a
corporation and is now Sc years old. lie
was born in Illinois in 1913. Before he
had reached his majority the first call
of the civil war came. He enlisted and
served in Company d, Seventh Kansas
cavalry, re-enlisting in 1865. He was
the representative of Tama county in
the Twentieth general assembly and al
though candidate he has held no
other office. He is staunch republican
] and sJrong worker. When defeated
for nomination to congress by Cousins
one year, he turned in and helped stump
the Fifth district for him. He is an
orator OF ability. When Col. Hepburn
was sick in 1895 the state central COM
mittee drafted Col. Mowry into the SER
vice to fill out the congressman's en-.
gagements. Old soldiers think of Col.
Mowry as stirring camp fire talker.
The rest of the nominees are state
officers who were renominated.