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HENRY CLAY LAUB was born in Little York, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1824; he died at Denison, Iowa, November 21, 1910. His youth was spent in Gettysburg, but before attaining his majority he went to Maryland. He learned the trade of a shoemaker, but after a course of rigid self-instruction, supplemented by a few months’ attendance in school, he began teaching school, following that work for four years. He removed to Iowa in 1851, taught school in Muscatine county two years, then opened a store at Cedar Rapids. He purchased land in Crawford county in 1855, and in 1857 exchanged his land for a store in Denison, and the mercantile business engaged his principal attention throughout the remainder of his life. He had extensive interests in stores in other towns. Mr. Laub served Crawford county as sheriff, as county surveyor, county superintendent of schools and representative in the Eighteenth General Assembly. Mr. Laub was a most practical and useful pioneer. He took contracts for the erection of buildings and for the supplying of materials for railroads, and otherwise supplemented enterprises when many feared to venture along these lines. He suffered many reverses but never discouragements, and the result of his long life was a pronounced and permanent advantage to his community.