A conspicuous statesman in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies on the floor of the house was the Hon. W. P. Harriman, of Hampton. Two years ago, when casting about for the right man to send to the senate, the republicans of Franklin, Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties decided they could do no better than to elect Senator Harriman to that position. He brought to the legislative work a fund of experience from an active professional and business life. He was born in Warner, N. H., August 16, 1841, and came to this state thirty-seven years ago. He received his education in the Warner public and high school, and the New London Literary and Scientific institution. In 1860 his parents removed to Iowa and located at Rockford. There the senator taught school for several years, then studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1869. He practiced law fifteen years, then he engaged in farming and fine stock raising. He was married in December, 1865, to Miss Ellen E. Mitchell, and they have three sons. He is identified with the Masonic and I. O. O. F. lodges, and belongs to the Congregational church. He has held various county and city offices, and was a member of the special committee from the house six years ago on the world's fair, where he did exemplary work. He has been actively connected with the Iowa state fair organization, and to his untiring efforts is due much of the appropriation from the state. He is an earnest and convincing talker, and has served his constituents faithfully and well the past few years. Last term he was chairman of the committee on highways, and served on the committees on judiciary, appropriations, agriculture, public health, and horticulture and forestry. He is a valuable man in the republican party, and a public spirited man in his life as a citizen.

A conspicuous statesman in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies on the floor of the house was the Hon. W. P. Harriman, of Hampton. Two years ago, when casting about for the right man to send to the senate, the republicans of Franklin, Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties decided they could do no better than to elect Senator Harriman to that position. He brought to the legislative work a fund of experience from an active professional and business life. He was born in Warner, N. H., August 16, 1841, and came to this state thirty-seven years ago. He received his education in the Warner public and high school, and the New London Literary and Scientific institution. In 1860 his parents removed to Iowa and located at Rockford. There the senator taught school for several years, then studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1869. He practiced law fifteen years, then he engaged in farming and fine stock raising. He was married in December, 1865, to Miss Ellen E. Mitchell, and they have three sons. He is identified with the Masonic and I. O. O. F. lodges, and belongs to the Congregational church. He has held various county and city offices, and was a member of the special committee from the house six years ago on the world's fair, where he did exemplary work. He has been actively connected with the Iowa state fair organization, and to his untiring efforts is due much of the appropriation from the state. He is an earnest and convincing talker, and has served his constituents faithfully and well the past few years. Last term he was chairman of the committee on highways, and served on the committees on judiciary, appropriations, agriculture, public health, and horticulture and forestry. He is a valuable man in the republican party, and a public spirited man in his life as a citizen.

A conspicuous statesman in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies on the floor of the house was the Hon. W. P. Harriman, of Hampton. Two years ago, when casting about for the right man to send to the senate, the republicans of Franklin, Cerro Gordo and Hancock counties decided they could do no better than to elect Senator Harriman to that position. He brought to the legislative work a fund of experience from an active professional and business life. He was born in Warner, N. H., August 16, 1841, and came to this state thirty-seven years ago. He received his education in the Warner public and high school, and the New London Literary and Scientific institution. In 1860 his parents removed to Iowa and located at Rockford. There the senator taught school for several years, then studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1869. He practiced law fifteen years, then he engaged in farming and fine stock raising. He was married in December, 1865, to Miss Ellen E. Mitchell, and they have three sons. He is identified with the Masonic and I. O. O. F. lodges, and belongs to the Congregational church. He has held various county and city offices, and was a member of the special committee from the house six years ago on the world's fair, where he did exemplary work. He has been actively connected with the Iowa state fair organization, and to his untiring efforts is due much of the appropriation from the state. He is an earnest and convincing talker, and has served his constituents faithfully and well the past few years. Last term he was chairman of the committee on highways, and served on the committees on judiciary, appropriations, agriculture, public health, and horticulture and forestry. He is a valuable man in the republican party, and a public spirited man in his life as a citizen.

Meritous service on the part of the Hon. W. F. Harriman in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies brought about his return to the Twenty-sixth by the people of Franklin county. In the previous Legislatures he was one of the most active and able members on the Republican side of the House and his constituents are well aware of his good work. He was born in Warner, New Hampshire, August 16. 1841. and attended the high school at Warner and at New London Literary and Scientific Institution, in his native state. He came to Iowa with his parents in 1860, and located at Rockford. He taught school several years, and afterward studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1869. For fifteen years he followed his profession, then turned aside to take up the easier life of a farmer and fine stock breeder. He has held various city and county offices, always elected by the votes of Republicans. He is a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows and is a member of the Congregational church. Besides serving on a number of the standing committees of the House four years ago he was a member of the special committee on World's Fair, and did good work thereon. In the last Legislature he was chairman of the judiciary committee, and a member of the committees on printing, state university, public lands and buildings, Congressional districts, Senatorial districts, rules and domestic manufactures. Coming into the Senate with the experience of two sessions to aid him he will do excellent work for the counties of Franklin, Cerro Gordo and Hancock, which he represents.

Meritous service on the part of the Hon. W. F. Harriman in the Twenty-fourth General Assembly brought about his return to the Twenty-fifth by the people of Franklin county. In the last previous legislature he was one of the most active and able members on the Republican side of the House and his constituents are well aware of his good work. He was born in Warner, New Hampshire, August 16, 1841, and went to school both at Warner and New London in his native State. Law was his special study at the latter place, and when he came out he was ready to begin practice. He moved to Iowa soon after and located at Hampton. For fifteen years he followed his profession, then turned aside to take up the easier life of a gentleman farmer and fine stock breeder. During his twenty years of residence in Hampton he has held various city and county offices, always elected by the votes of Republicans. He is a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows and attends the Congregational church. Besides serving on a number of the standing committees of the House two years ago he was a member of the special committee on World's Fair, and did good work thereon. He is known as an intelligent, conservative man and a good legislator.

Born in Warner, New Hampshire, August 16, 1841. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native town and in the New London Literary and Scientific Institution. He worked on a farm and taught school until his parents removed to Iowa in 1860, when he began to read law. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar at Charles City and settled in Cherokee where he began practice. He soon became a large land owner and planted the first artificial grove in that county. In 1876 he removed to Hampton in Franklin County where he resumed the practice of law. Retiring from active practice in 1888, Mr. Harriman engaged extensively in farming and stock raising. In 1891 he was elected on the Republican ticket Representative in the House of the Twenty-fourth General Assembly, serving by reelection also in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly. In 1895 he was elected to the Senate from the district composed of the counties of Cerro Gordo, Hancock and Franklin, serving in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh General Assemblies. He was the author of the act creating the Department of Agriculture.