GEO. S. ALLYN Representative from Ringgold county, was born in Clinton, Ill. (His father was an itinerant Methodist preacher in the days of Peter Cartwright.) His education was received in the public schools of Illinois. After the death of his father, moved to Iowa while in his teens. Taught school in the winter time and farmed in the summer time. He was elected clerk of courts in his twenty-third year-served three terms. Was postmaster at Mount Ayr, Iowa. He engaged in the real estate, abstract and farm loan and farming and live stock business. In 1880 he organized the Mount Ayr bank of which he was cashier and president until September, 1915. He has served as president of the board of education four years, was on the board of trustees of the agricultural college at Ames, and is at present a member of the city council. He served in the senate in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-sixth extra, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth sessions. He also served in the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth session, in the House of Representatives. He being the only member of the Thirty-ninth general assembly who served during the session of the last Code Revision of 1897. He is a Methodist and a republican.

Representative from Ringgold county, was born in Clinton, Illinois. (His father was an itinerant Methodist preacher in the days of Peter Cartwright). His education was received in the public schools of Illinois. After the death of his father, moved to Iowa while in his teens. Taught school in the winter time and farmed in the summer time. He was elected clerk of courts in his twenty-third year-served three terms. Was postmaster at Mt. Ayr, Iowa. He engaged in the real estate, abstract and farm loan and farming and live stock business. In 1880 he organized the Mt. Ayr Bank of which he was cashier and president until September, 1915. He has served as president of the Board of Education for years, was on the board of trustees of the Agricultural College at Ames, and is at present a member of the city council. He served in the senate in the twenty-sixth, twenty-sixth extra, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth sessions. He is a Methodist and a republican.

Ringgold county had the honor last summer of naming the Republican candidate for the Senatorial district composed of Decatur, Ringgold, and Union counties. The man successful before the convention and at the polls was the Hon. Geo. S. Allyn of Mt. Ayr. He is the son of a Methodist minister, and was born at Clinton, Illinois, March 9, 1847. While the father was alive he changed his residence according to the custom of itineracy prevailing in the Methodist church, so George received his schooling in the various towns where his father was stationed from time to time. After the death of his father he took up teaching as a means of gaining a livelihood along with farming. He came to Ringgold county in 1866. and has made his home there ever since. In 1873 the Republicans elected him clerk of the district court. He held the place three terms, then was postmaster at Mt. Ayr during the Hayes administration. On retiring from the office he helped organize the Mt. Ayr bank. Since 1880 he has been cashier of that institution. Mr. Allyn was married about twenty years ago to Miss Mary V. Kinsell. They have five children, Madge, aged 18; Earle K., 16; Clare G., 13: Clinton D., 9, and Baby Georgie, 18 months. Mr. Allyn is a member of the Methodist church. He is a practical man, does not like experimenting too much in legislation, and wants to see the mulet law given a fair trial.

Ringgold county had the honor last summer of naming the Republican candidate for the Senatorial district composed of Decatur, Ringgold, and Union counties. The man successful before the convention and at the polls was the Hon. Geo. S. Allyn of Mt. Ayr. He is the son of a Methodist minister, and was born at Clinton, Illinois, March 9, 1847. While the father was alive he changed his residence according to the custom of itineracy prevailing in the Methodist church, so George received his schooling in the various towns where his father was stationed from time to time. After the death of his father he took up teaching as a means of gaining a livelihood along with farming. He came to Ringgold county in 1866. and has made his home there ever since. In 1873 the Republicans elected him clerk of the district court. He held the place three terms, then was postmaster at Mt. Ayr during the Hayes administration. On retiring from the office he helped organize the Mt. Ayr bank. Since 1880 he has been cashier of that institution. Mr. Allyn was married about twenty years ago to Miss Mary V. Kinsell. They have five children, Madge, aged 18; Earle K., 16; Clare G., 13: Clinton D., 9, and Baby Georgie, 18 months. Mr. Allyn is a member of the Methodist church. He is a practical man, does not like experimenting too much in legislation, and wants to see the mulet law given a fair trial.

Ringgold county had the honor last summer of naming the Republican candidate for the Senatorial district composed of Decatur, Ringgold, and Union counties. The man successful before the convention and at the polls was the Hon. Geo. S. Allyn of Mt. Ayr. He is the son of a Methodist minister, and was born at Clinton, Illinois, March 9, 1847. While the father was alive he changed his residence according to the custom of itineracy prevailing in the Methodist church, so George received his schooling in the various towns where his father was stationed from time to time. After the death of his father he took up teaching as a means of gaining a livelihood along with farming. He came to Ringgold county in 1866. and has made his home there ever since. In 1873 the Republicans elected him clerk of the district court. He held the place three terms, then was postmaster at Mt. Ayr during the Hayes administration. On retiring from the office he helped organize the Mt. Ayr bank. Since 1880 he has been cashier of that institution. Mr. Allyn was married about twenty years ago to Miss Mary V. Kinsell. They have five children, Madge, aged 18; Earle K., 16; Clare G., 13: Clinton D., 9, and Baby Georgie, 18 months. Mr. Allyn is a member of the Methodist church. He is a practical man, does not like experimenting too much in legislation, and wants to see the mulet law given a fair trial.

Ringgold county had the honor last summer of naming the Republican candidate for the Senatorial district composed of Decatur, Ringgold, and Union counties. The man successful before the convention and at the polls was the Hon. Geo. S. Allyn of Mt. Ayr. He is the son of a Methodist minister, and was born at Clinton, Illinois, March 9, 1847. While the father was alive he changed his residence according to the custom of itineracy prevailing in the Methodist church, so George received his schooling in the various towns where his father was stationed from time to time. After the death of his father he took up teaching as a means of gaining a livelihood along with farming. He came to Ringgold county in 1866. and has made his home there ever since. In 1873 the Republicans elected him clerk of the district court. He held the place three terms, then was postmaster at Mt. Ayr during the Hayes administration. On retiring from the office he helped organize the Mt. Ayr bank. Since 1880 he has been cashier of that institution. Mr. Allyn was married about twenty years ago to Miss Mary V. Kinsell. They have five children, Madge, aged 18; Earle K., 16; Clare G., 13: Clinton D., 9, and Baby Georgie, 18 months. Mr. Allyn is a member of the Methodist church. He is a practical man, does not like experimenting too much in legislation, and wants to see the mulet law given a fair trial.