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FRANCIS MARION EPPERSON was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, November 14, 1841, and died at Eddyville, Iowa, May 19, 1921. His education was obtained in the public and select schools of Mill Springs, Kentucky. In 1860 he removed to Iowa and settled on a farm in Marion County. In 1862 he enlisted at Eddyville in Company D, Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served to the end of the war. For ten months he was a military prisoner at Tyler, Texas. Returning to Iowa in 1865 he took a clerical position with the mercantile firm of Manning, Caldwell & Co., and in 1871 formed a partnership with Edwin Manning under the name of Manning & Epperson. In 1878 the firm also entered the banking business and in 1902 the banking department of the firm was incorporated as the Manning & Epperson State Bank, and Mr. Epperson continued active in its business until his death. He was a member of the town council of Eddyville for many years and was mayor several times. In 1879 he was elected representative and was re-elected two years later, serving in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth general assemblies. He was again elected representative and served in 1906 in the Thirty-first General Assembly. He was an active Republican and for many years attended nearly all its conventions, district, state and national.