Representative from Mahaska county. Born September 4, 1857, at Forest Home, Poweshiek county, Iowa. His parents were American-born. His education was acquired in the pioneer schools of Poweshiek county, the Preparatory Department of Iowa College at Grinnell, the Grinnell High School and Penn College at Oskaloosa. When fourteen years old his father’s family moved to Oskaloosa. Here he began work as a clerk and bookkeeper in his father’s store, afterwards entering the general mercantile, grain and livestock business at Springville, in Linn county, in partnership with his brother. While at Springville he held the offices of town recorder and secretary of the independent school district. In 1885 he moved to Oskaloosa, where he made a study of real estate law, and has since that time been engaged in the real estate business and as examiner of titles in the firm of Cowan, Hambleton & Loring Company. He was married in 1879 to S. Josepha Roberts. For seventeen years he has been a trustee of Penn College, at the present time being president of the board. Mr. Hambleton was president of the Iowa State Sunday School Association from 1904 to 1906 and was sent as a delegate from that body to the international convention at Toronto, Canada. He has been a member of the Friends Church since boyhood. For three years he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska county. He was elected Representative in 1903 and re-elected in 1906, serving in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies. A Republican in politics.

Representative from Mahaska County. Born September 4, 1857, at Forest Home, Poweshiek County, Iowa. His parents were American-born. His education was acquired in the pioneer schools of Poweshiek County, the Preparatory Department of Iowa College at Grinnell, the Grinnell High School and Penn College at Oskaloosa. When fourteen years old his father’s family moved to Oskaloosa. Here he began work as a clerk and bookkeeper in his father’s store, afterwards entering the general mercantile, grain and livestock business at Springville, in Linn County, in partnership with his brother. While at Springville he held the offices of town recorder and secretary of the independent school district. In 1885, he moved to Oskaloosa, where he made a study of real estate law, and has since that time been engaged in the real estate business and as examiner of titles in the firm of Cowan, Hambleton & Loring Company. He was married in 1879 to S. Josepha Roberts. For seventeen years he has been a trustee of Penn College, at the present time being president of the board. Mr. Hambleton was president of the Iowa State Sunday School Association from 1904 to 1906 and was sent as a delegate from that body to the international convention at Toronto, Canada. He has been a member of the Friends Church since boyhood. For three years he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska County. He was elected Representative in 1903 and re-elected in 1906, serving in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies.

Representative from Mahaska County. Born September 4, 1857, at Forest Home, Poweshiek County, Iowa. His parents were American-born. His education was acquired in the pioneer schools of Poweshiek County, the Preparatory Department of Iowa College at Grinnell, the Grinnell High School and Penn College at Oskaloosa. When fourteen years old his father’s family moved to Oskaloosa. Here he began work as a clerk and bookkeeper in his father’s store, afterwards entering the general mercantile, grain and livestock business at Springville, in Linn County, in partnership with his brother. While at Springville he held the offices of town recorder and secretary of the independent school district. In 1885, he moved to Oskaloosa, where he made a study of real estate law, and has since that time been engaged in the real estate business and as examiner of titles in the firm of Cowan, Hambleton & Loring Company. He was married in 1879 to S. Josepha Roberts. For seventeen years he has been a trustee of Penn College, at the present time being president of the board. Mr. Hambleton was president of the Iowa State Sunday School Association from 1904 to 1906 and was sent as a delegate from that body to the international convention at Toronto, Canada. He has been a member of the Friends Church since boyhood. For three years he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska County. He was elected Representative in 1903 and re-elected in 1906, serving in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies.