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Gardner Cowles

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State Representative
Republican
Real Estate
Kossuth
29
01/13/1902 - 01/10/1904
83

Born in a Methodist minister's parsonage in Oskaloosa, Iowa, February 28, 1861. He received his early education in numerous schools in Iowa. He attended Grinnell College, Penn College, Oskaloosa, and Iowa Wesleyan at Mount Pleasant where he received his M.A. in 1885. He was raised in the home of a Methodist minister and lived meagerly working for farmers, a dry goods store, and the Muscatine Journal newspaper. Mr. Cowles married Miss Flora Call December 3, 1884, in Algona, Iowa. His professions included banker, real estate and newspaper editor. Mr. Cowles represented Kossuth County in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Iowa General Assemblies, 1900-1902.

Information from State Historical Society of Iowa resources
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State Representative
Republican
Real Estate
Kossuth
28
01/08/1900 - 01/12/1902
83

Born in a Methodist minister's parsonage in Oskaloosa, Iowa, February 28, 1861. He received his early education in numerous schools in Iowa. He attended Grinnell College, Penn College, Oskaloosa, and Iowa Wesleyan at Mount Pleasant where he received his M.A. in 1885. He was raised in the home of a Methodist minister and lived meagerly working for farmers, a dry goods store, and the Muscatine Journal newspaper. Mr. Cowles married Miss Flora Call December 3, 1884, in Algona, Iowa. His professions included banker, real estate and newspaper editor. Mr. Cowles represented Kossuth County in the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Iowa General Assemblies, 1900-1902.

Information from State Historical Society of Iowa resources