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Permanent LinkRepresentative Harwood G. Day View All Years
HARWOOD G. DAY was born in Jericho, Vermont, July 15, 1844, and died at his home in Albert Lea, Minnesota, April 14, 1914. He attended common and select schools at Attica, Wisconsin, and Evansville Seminary, Evansville, Wisconsin. He enlisted as a private in the Civil War and was detailed as clerk in the assistant quartermaster’s department, Army of the Cumberland. He read law in the office of Judge Knowlton, of Chicago, and completed his law course at Webster City, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar there May 18, 1868. He practiced law at Estherville, Iowa, from 1868 to 1878, and assisted in editing The Vindicator. In 1869 he was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives and served in the Thirteenth General Assembly. In 1878 he removed to Lainsboro, Minnesota, where he continued the practice of law until 1883, when he abandoned that profession, removed to Albert Lea and purchased the Freeborn County Standard, which he owned and published until his death. He became a prominent and influential newspaper man, and was for one term president of the Minnesota State Editorial Association. He was affiliated with the Democratic party.