Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01
Other keosauquans.

left s5,OO0,OO0 when he died in 1896
at the age Of 49,.
Other keosauquans.
Benton j. Hall, member of congress
from the first district; GEM b. Weaver
congressman and twice populist candi-
date for president. once polling over
100000 votes; Capt. John A. T. Hull
now representative of the Des Moines
district in congress, chairman of the
house committee on military affairs;
William Webster, congressman from
Nevada and for years it's leading law
yer, now dead; e. K. Valentine, con-
gresham for several terms from a
Nebraska district; Elisha Cutler, Jr.,
elected secretary of state of Iowa when
admitted into the union; Josiah Bonney
who succeeded Cutler as secretary Of
state and afterward refused a nomin-
alton for governor; Capt. V. P. Twom.
bly,, treasurer of the state; Samuel FL
bert, twice supreme judge of Colorado
and afterward twice governor OF that
state; Lemuel Allen, now lieutenant
governor of Nevada; Volney Smith, son
OF Delazon Smith who became lieuten-
ant governor of Arkansas; Jacob G..
vail, antimonopoly candidate for gov
ernor Of 1owa-these are few of the
keosauquans who have held offices
worthy of mention.
Had Many War Veterans.
But not alone as lawyers and poll
ticians were Keosauquans noted They
made remarkable record in the civil
war. Gen. Jas. M. futile went out
as captain of Van Buren's first COM
pany OF volunteers; became colonel of
the famous Second Iowa; became brig
adler and then major general
Another captain in the Second Iowa
was V. P. Twombly, who is known to
fame as the youth who planted the
colors on the works of Fort Donelson
and kept them thereafter four
men had been shot down with the
flag in their hands. Captain Twom-
bly's heroic act is depicted in a mag
nificent bronze on the Iowa sol
diers and sailors monument at Des
MoineS.
| Judge Caldwell, too, was gallant
soldier. He rose from the ranks
to be major of the Fourth Iowa cav
airy. One of the most promising ca
reers was that of Captain Lee Ebert,
cut short by a rebel bullet in the very
| beginning of the war, while he was
performing, not for the first time, an
act OF notable and distinguished gal
lantry. He was even then, though a
mere boy, marked for military hon
orS of the first class. His father, DR..
Samuel Ebert should not be over
looked, for he was president of the
territorial council of Iowa and did a
large part in saving Iowa to the union
in her present beautiful conformation
DR.. Ebert was one of those who op,
posed and helped secure rejection of
| the first constitution submitted to the
people, looking to admission of the
! state with western boundary about
100 miles east of the Missouri. Iowa
wanted into the sisterhood but not
badly enough to sacrifice her claim
to the Missouri slope; and so congress
tried again and this time passed an
act naming the present boundaries
and the state approved.
Major Hugh Brown of the regular
army went as private from Van Bu
rem county at the opening of the wal
and retired from the service in 1888
Col. o. H. P. Scott of the Forty-eightt
Iowa infantry, went out from Keosau
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Nineteenth Iowa.
Edwin Manning Foremost Man.
Edwin Manning, who went to Keo
sauqua in 1887 and lived there till his
death in 1892 was one of Iowa's
wealthiest citizens when he died. Hi
| conducted many stores, invested il
railroads, lands and banking, and wa:
| one OF the foremost men OF the state
| for half century in politics as well as
business. He was the great patriarch
of the town for his last decade of life
| the only one remaining there of the col
ony of early residents who had met dis
| tinguished success. e,
/ Hon. G. c. Nourse, attorney genera
of Iowa and now a prominent member
of the Des Moines bar, was a keosau
qua boy. So was d. G. Beaman, gener
al solicitor of the big Colorado .fue
and iron company from its beginning Il
the present. So was Calvin Manning 0
! Ottumwa commissioner to the Pari!
exposition for the United States gov
eminent and leader in politics ant
finance OF Iowa. He is son of Edwin
Manning.
Many Legal Lights.
George B. Redd and George Stidge
leading attorneys of Denver are repre-
sentatives of the Keosauqua schoo
of legal instruction that conferred in tn,
old Wright, Knapp & Caldwell office
So are w. A. Work and F. M. Hunte
OF Ottumwa; w. S. Mayne of Council
Bluffs, Hon. Argus Cox of Bolivar Mo
circuit Judge George A. Rankin of Sal
! Francisco, and Judge Robert Sloan fo
over twenty years district judge of Thu
district, position he still holds. He i:
one of the veteran jurists of the state
Fl. Clay Dean, namesake of the"Mill
| boy of the Slashes," was one of tn
most widely known men keosauqu
produced. He was man of magnificen
intellect and courage. Beginning a
a Methodist preacher, his interest il
public affairs led him into politics. an,
he became in the time of Greeley
prominence democrat. Vallandighan
never said more bitter things thai
. Dean was wont to say in his speeches
He hated the republican party for it
reconstruction policies and he woul
hurl his anathemas in the faces of an,
audience and dare it to attack him. H
{. was perfectly able to thrash any hal
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