Wapello county Republicans selected a winner in their candidate for Representative in 1893. They chose a man from the more secluded ways of life and when the returns were in they found that W. G. Crow was to represent them in the House. Mr. Crow was born in Jefferson county, eastern Tennessee, July 20, 1837. His parents moved to Iowa while their boy was still young, and gave him a common school education. Among the Iowa troops that went with Sherman to the sea was Company D, 6th Iowa Infantry. W. G. Crow was a private in that company. At the battle of Kenesaw mountain he received a wound, but that did not keep him from continuing on that glorious march. On returning from the campaigns in the south he learned the blacksmith trade and also became a locomotive engineer. He followed the latter calling for eleven years on the Rock Island road. On retiring from that Mr. Crow went into the mercantile business. He has now discontinued that and is farming on a small scale. He has always been an ardent Republican. He is a member of the Odd Fellows. His parents trained him up in the Methodist church, and he has not departed from the faith. In the House two years ago he was chairman of the committee on fish and game, and served on the committees on school for the deaf, retrenchment and reform, compensation of public officers, board of public charities, horticulture, judicial districts, representative districts.

Wapello county Republicans selected a winner in their candidate for Representative last fall. They chose a man from the more secluded ways of life and when the returns were in they found that W. G. Crow was to represent them in the House this winter. Mr. Crow was born in Jefferson county, eastern Tennessee, July 30, 1837. His parents moved to Iowa while their boy was still young, and gave him a common school education. Among the Iowa troops that went with Sherman to the sea was company D, 6th Iowa infantry. W. G. Crow was a private in that company. At the battle of Kenesaw mountain he received a wound but that did not keep him from continuing on that glorious march. On returning from the campaigns in the south he learned the blacksmith trade and also became a locomotive engineer. He followed the latter calling for eleven years on the Rook Island road. On retiring from that Mr. Crow went into the mercantile business. He has now discontinued that and is farming on a small scale. He has always been an ardent Republican. He is a member of the Odd Fellows. His parents trained him up in the Methodist Church, and he has not departed from the faith.