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Permanent LinkAbram O. Garlock
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State Senator
Republican
| Banker | |
| Pocahontas | |
| 22 | |
| 01/09/1888 - 01/12/1890 | |
| 50 |
Born in Otsego County, New York, December 4, 1842. He immigrated to De Kalb, Illinois, in 1859. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Forty-second Illinois Infantry, as a first sergeant and later was commissioned a lieutenant. He removed to Pocahontas County, Iowa, in 1869 and became the first permanent settler of Cedar Township of that county. In 1871 he was elected county auditor and served eight years. In 1887 he was elected state senator and served in the Twenty-second General Assembly. He engaged in banking in Pocahontas County but removed to Des Moines in 1890. After 1902 he spent most of his time in California.