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Representative Edwin F. Brockway View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 4/20/1908
Birth Place: Brockwayville, Pennsylvania
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 15 (1874)
Home County: Washington
Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Son: James M. Brockway; GAs 34, 35
Edwin F. Brockway
Washington County

EDWIN FRANKLIN BROCKWAY was born in Brockwayville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1834; he died near Letts, Louisa county, Iowa, April 20, 1908. He removed with his parents from his birthplace to Muscatine county, Iowa, in 1842, where he acquired and opened a farm and instituted a nursery. He removed to Washington county, Iowa, in 1866, to a farm which remained his home, except for a four years’ residence at Iowa City while his children were being educated, until 1902, when he removed to Louisa county. He served in the Fifteenth General Assembly of Iowa as a representative of Washington county. He was for several terms a director of the State Agricultural Society and once its president. He was an early and life-long champion of temperance and a member of the Methodist church.

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House District 27
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15th GA (1874)
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15th GA (1874)