Senator from the thirty-eighth district comprising Black Hawk and Grundy counties, was born at Galesburg, Ill. His parents moved to Hutchinson, Kan., when he was four years of age. While he was still a young boy death deprived him of both mother and father. He then came to Iowa where he has resided ever since. His guardian was a stockman, farmer and banker, and at the age of seventeen years he was stationed in the Chicago stockyards buying and shipping cattle for re-sale in the rural districts. In 1903 he entered the college of agriculture at Ames where he graduated in 1905 and for a portion of that time was superintendent of the college farm, which, together with extra work in the agronomy department, furnished him the means of paying his way through college. Upon graduation he was offered chair in the farm crop department under Prof. P. G. Holden, who had taken a special interest in him, and two years later was given a full professorship in charge also of the farm crops experimental work. He was the originator of the "Seed Oats Special" trains that ran throughout Iowa and accompanied Prof. Holden on all the seed corn special trains in that educational campaign. He was for three years secretary of the Iowa Corn Growers' association. He lives on a farm adjoining the city of Waterloo, specializes in pure bred Holstein cattle and takes an active interest in the affairs of the city, being secretary of the Greater Waterloo association, at the time he was elected to the state senate.

Senator from the thirty-eighth district comprising Black Hawk and Grundy counties, was born at Galesburg, Ill. His parents moved to Hutchinson, Kan., when he was four years of age. While he was still a young boy death deprived him of both mother and father. He then came to Iowa where he has resided ever since. His guardian was a stockman, farmer and banker, and at the age of seventeen years he was stationed in the Chicago stockyards buying and shipping cattle for resale in the rural districts. In 1903 he entered the college of agriculture at Ames where he graduated in 1905 and for a portion of that time was superintendent of the college farm, which, together with extra work in the agronomy department, furnished him the means of paying his way through college. Upon graduation he was offered chair in the farm crop department under Prof. P. G. Holden, who had taken a special interest in him, and two years later was given a full professorship in charge also of the farm crops experimental work. He was the originator of the "Seed Oats Special" trains that ran throughout Iowa and accompanied Prof. Holden on all the seed corn special trains in that educational campaign. He was for three years secretary of the Iowa Corn Growers' association. He lives on a farm adjoining the city of Waterloo, specializes in pure bred Holstein cattle and takes an active interest in the affairs of the city, being secretary of the Greater Waterloo association, at the time he was elected to the state senate.