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Harvey Boyd Duncan

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State Representative
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Wayne
4
12/06/1852 - 12/03/1854
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Born about 1800 in Virginia. Mr. Duncan married Elizabeth Laughlin on October 12, 1820, in Whitley County, Kentucky. He and his family removed from Kentucky and settled in Wayne County, Iowa, in 1841. He built a home and farm three miles north of Lineville (Grand River Township). Mr. Duncan had a family of eight children. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850. He then served in the Iowa House of Representatives in 1852 without changing residency by living in the strip of land in dispute that was claimed by both Iowa and Missouri. In 1849 the U.S. Supreme Court settled the dispute and it was surveyed and established in favor of Iowa. By 1895, a portion of the boundary had been disturbed. Iowa and Missouri filed suit and again asked the Supreme Court to intervene. They again resurveyed and remarked the missing boundary line in 1896. Duncan died May 6, 1861, in Lineville, Wayne County, Iowa.