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Permanent LinkThomas Eakin Haines
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State Representative
Republican
| Farmer | |
| Polk | |
| 19 | |
| 01/09/1882 - 01/13/1884 | |
| 38 |
Born in Carroll county, Ohio, January 21, 1831, and died at Altoona, Polk county, Iowa, May 9, 1908. Mr. Haines left Ohio in 1863 and in company with a friend shipped twelve hundred sheep to Chicago and drove them to Mahaska County, Iowa. The sheep industry was followed for four years, when Mr. Haines entered the grain business at Altoona, continuing this until 1906, when he closed up business affairs and retired. In August 1869, he married Loretta Berridge of Ohio. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives of the Nineteenth General Assembly, being on committees on Public Buildings, Roads and Highways, Claims and Reform Schools. He was very successful in business, a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian Church.