Born February 5, 1838, in Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada, the son of Nathan Lane and Mary Moote Lane. He began his school life in his native town. After graduating from Bellville seminary, he taught school until the fall of 1860. Desiring to further continue his studies, he then spent two years at Oberlin College, Ohio. The three succeeding years he spent in his native county and in 1865 went to Des Moines but located in Palmyra, Warren County, Iowa, where he again engaged in teaching. In the fall of the same year he joined the Des Moines conference of the Methodist church having been ordained as minister in 1867, and in 1869 was ordained as elder. He then had charge of various churches until 1872, when he settled on a farm in Washington Township, Polk County, and for ten years in connection with the cultivation of his land, preached for the Highland Congregationalist Church in No. 7. For seventeen years he labored faithfully in the Master's vineyard. For a number of years Mr. Lane ranked among the prominent citizens of the county and was a leading member of the Republican Party. In 1889 he was nominated by his party as a candidate for Representative to the Twenty-third General Assembly and was elected by a large majority, serving two terms in this capacity. For two weeks Mr. Lane was temporary speaker of the house. On the 21st day of October, 1863, Mr. Lane was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Brown of Dayton, Ohio.

Born February 5, 1838, in Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada, the son of Nathan Lane and Mary Moote Lane. He began his school life in his native town. After graduating from Bellville seminary, he taught school until the fall of 1860. Desiring to further continue his studies, he then spent two years at Oberlin College, Ohio. The three succeeding years he spent in his native county and in 1865 went to Des Moines but located in Palmyra, Warren County, Iowa, where he again engaged in teaching. In the fall of the same year he joined the Des Moines conference of the Methodist church having been ordained as minister in 1867, and in 1869 was ordained as elder. He then had charge of various churches until 1872, when he settled on a farm in Washington Township, Polk County, and for ten years in connection with the cultivation of his land, preached for the Highland Congregationalist Church in No. 7. For seventeen years he labored faithfully in the Master's vineyard. For a number of years Mr. Lane ranked among the prominent citizens of the county and was a leading member of the Republican Party. In 1889 he was nominated by his party as a candidate for Representative to the Twenty-third General Assembly and was elected by a large majority, serving two terms in this capacity. For two weeks Mr. Lane was temporary speaker of the house. On the 21st day of October, 1863, Mr. Lane was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Brown of Dayton, Ohio.