Born in Andrew County, Missouri, September 3, 1846, and was a son of Joel and Patsy (Stollings) Estes, the latter of Virginia and a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Stollings. He was educated in the district schools of Andrew County, Missouri, leaving school at the age of thirteen years. Until he was twenty years old he remained at his home in Estes Park coming from Colorado to Fremont county, Iowa, in the spring of 1866. Mr. Estes was married August 30, 1866, to Miss Mary C. Hiatt, who was born in Peoria County, Illinois, a daughter of Reuben and Nancy (Spence) Hiatt, all of Illinois. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Estes began their domestic life on a tract of land consisting of forty acres. An active member of the Democratic Party, Mr. Estes has long been regarded as a leader in his part of the state. He well represented his district in the state legislature for the terms of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third general assembly and assisted in framing the excellent laws for the maintenance of the normal schools. He was also the author of the Australian system of voting adopted in the Twenty-third general assembly. He was a justice of the peace and president of the school board of Sidney Township. Socially he has been for many years connected with the Masonic order and he has long been a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist Church.

Born in Andrew County, Missouri, September 3, 1846, and was a son of Joel and Patsy (Stollings) Estes, the latter of Virginia and a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Stollings. He was educated in the district schools of Andrew County, Missouri, leaving school at the age of thirteen years. Until he was twenty years old he remained at his home in Estes Park coming from Colorado to Fremont county, Iowa, in the spring of 1866. Mr. Estes was married August 30, 1866, to Miss Mary C. Hiatt, who was born in Peoria County, Illinois, a daughter of Reuben and Nancy (Spence) Hiatt, all of Illinois. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Estes began their domestic life on a tract of land consisting of forty acres. An active member of the Democratic Party, Mr. Estes has long been regarded as a leader in his part of the state. He well represented his district in the state legislature for the terms of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third general assembly and assisted in framing the excellent laws for the maintenance of the normal schools. He was also the author of the Australian system of voting adopted in the Twenty-third general assembly. He was a justice of the peace and president of the school board of Sidney Township. Socially he has been for many years connected with the Masonic order and he has long been a consistent member of the Primitive Baptist Church.