A physician and surgeon of considerable prominence, residing at Ottumwa. He was born in Jefferson County, Indiana, May 17, 1837. Daniel La Force came to Iowa with his parents in 1842, when about five years of age. Here he attended the common schools and supplemented the education received therein by an attendance of several terms at the Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) Western University. It was during the year 1858 that our subject came to the conclusion that he would study medicine, and made a beginning in the office of a local physician. Subsequently he entered the College of Physicians arid Surgeons at Keokuk, and graduated from there in 1862. Immediately after receiving his diploma he was commissioned Surgeon of the 56th U. S. Colored Troops, and after nine months service was placed in charge of a U. S. general hospital at Helena, Arkansas, and was also appointed Medical Director for the district of Eastern Arkansas. During this time he also served on the staff of General E. A. Carr. Dr. La Force continued in the service until Sept. 15, 1866, when his regiment was mustered out. Returning from the field of conflict Dr. La Force located at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and there entered upon the practice of his profession and continued the same with success until 1869, He then removed to Burlington, and after a residence there of two years, engaged in practice, he took up his abode in Agency City, where he enjoyed an extensive practice for fourteen years. He then removed to Ottumwa, which continued to be his home, and devoted himself closely to his profession. He is a member of the Wapello County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association, Politically Dr. La Force is Republican, and represented his county in the Twenty-first General Assembly of Iowa. Dr. La Force was married, October 18, 1866, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss Mahala J. Dudley, the daughter of Rev. Edward and Eliza Dudley, natives of Athens, Ohio. Socially Dr. La Force was a member of the Masonic fraternity, the I. O. O. F, and the Knights of Pythias. Religiously he was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.