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Permanent LinkRepresentative Edwin F. Brockway View All Years
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.