Senator for eighteenth district, composed of the counties of Madison and Adair, was born in West Boscawen, (now Webster) New Hampshire, January 30, 1842. His parents were Eliphalet Kilburn and Mehita-L Foster, the latter still living at over 90 years of age. His grandfathers were both soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Senator Kilburn was born and reared on the farm, and his education acquired in the public schools, and at the Academies of New Loudon at Boscawen in New Hampshire. Like many of the young men of native State, he passed his youth at farm work in summer and teaching in the public schools in winter, and was for two years superintendent of schools in his native town. He enlisted in New Hampshire volunteers in October, 1862, and served in the 19th Army Corps, in the department of the Gulf. Came to Iowa in November 1868 and the next year settled on and improved the farm near Fontanelle where he now resides. He has never sought or held public office (except local positions) till he became a candidate for the position to which he has just been elected. He has always been a strong Republican from the formation of the party casting his first vote for president, for Abraham Lincoln, he voted for every Republican candidate for president since that time. In legislation he is prominently interested in horticulture, fine stock breeding, better methods of agriculture, education, temperance and all that goes to make better citizenship, and more elevated society. Senator Kilburn is a member of the Grand Army of Republic, and has served for several years as. commander of Lents Post at Fontanelle; he is also a member of the Good Templars and Iowa Legions of Honor. In religious convictions he is a liberal, believing in the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of humanity, to their fullest extent, untrammeled by creed or sect. He helped form, an has been president from its organization, the Farmers Insurance Association of Adair county, a successful fire and lightning insurance company, which has materially reduced the cost of insurance to the farmers of that region. He is especially interested in better laws to promote the educational interests of the State in better methods to secure justice in criminal procedure by which the laws may be more surely executed, the guilty punished and the innocent protected, and is also interested in more just and equitable assessment laws, and in all that tends to improve society.

Senator for eighteenth district, composed of the counties of Madison and Adair, was born in West Boscawen, (now Webster) New Hampshire, January 30, 1842. His parents were Eliphalet Kilburn and Mehita-L Foster, the latter still living at over 90 years of age. His grandfathers were both soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Senator Kilburn was born and reared on the farm, and his education acquired in the public schools, and at the Academies of New Loudon at Boscawen in New Hampshire. Like many of the young men of native State, he passed his youth at farm work in summer and teaching in the public schools in winter, and was for two years superintendent of schools in his native town. He enlisted in New Hampshire volunteers in October, 1862, and served in the 19th Army Corps, in the department of the Gulf. Came to Iowa in November 1868 and the next year settled on and improved the farm near Fontanelle where he now resides. He has never sought or held public office (except local positions) till he became a candidate for the position to which he has just been elected. He has always been a strong Republican from the formation of the party casting his first vote for president, for Abraham Lincoln, he voted for every Republican candidate for president since that time. In legislation he is prominently interested in horticulture, fine stock breeding, better methods of agriculture, education, temperance and all that goes to make better citizenship, and more elevated society. Senator Kilburn is a member of the Grand Army of Republic, and has served for several years as. commander of Lents Post at Fontanelle; he is also a member of the Good Templars and Iowa Legions of Honor. In religious convictions he is a liberal, believing in the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of humanity, to their fullest extent, untrammeled by creed or sect. He helped form, an has been president from its organization, the Farmers Insurance Association of Adair county, a successful fire and lightning insurance company, which has materially reduced the cost of insurance to the farmers of that region. He is especially interested in better laws to promote the educational interests of the State in better methods to secure justice in criminal procedure by which the laws may be more surely executed, the guilty punished and the innocent protected, and is also interested in more just and equitable assessment laws, and in all that tends to improve society.

Senator for eighteenth district, composed of the counties of Madison and Adair, was born in West Boscawen, (now Webster) New Hampshire, January 30, 1842. His parents were Eliphalet Kilburn and Mehita-L Foster, the latter still living at over 90 years of age. His grandfathers were both soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Senator Kilburn was born and reared on the farm, and his education acquired in the public schools, and at the Academies of New Loudon at Boscawen in New Hampshire. Like many of the young men of native State, he passed his youth at farm work in summer and teaching in the public schools in winter, and was for two years superintendent of schools in his native town. He enlisted in New Hampshire volunteers in October, 1862, and served in the 19th Army Corps, in the department of the Gulf. Came to Iowa in November 1868 and the next year settled on and improved the farm near Fontanelle where he now resides. He has never sought or held public office (except local positions) till he became a candidate for the position to which he has just been elected. He has always been a strong Republican from the formation of the party casting his first vote for president, for Abraham Lincoln, he voted for every Republican candidate for president since that time. In legislation he is prominently interested in horticulture, fine stock breeding, better methods of agriculture, education, temperance and all that goes to make better citizenship, and more elevated society. Senator Kilburn is a member of the Grand Army of Republic, and has served for several years as. commander of Lents Post at Fontanelle; he is also a member of the Good Templars and Iowa Legions of Honor. In religious convictions he is a liberal, believing in the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of humanity, to their fullest extent, untrammeled by creed or sect. He helped form, an has been president from its organization, the Farmers Insurance Association of Adair county, a successful fire and lightning insurance company, which has materially reduced the cost of insurance to the farmers of that region. He is especially interested in better laws to promote the educational interests of the State in better methods to secure justice in criminal procedure by which the laws may be more surely executed, the guilty punished and the innocent protected, and is also interested in more just and equitable assessment laws, and in all that tends to improve society.