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Dennis Hamblin

Taylor County

Dennis Hamblin was born at Summerhill, New York, March 28, 1836, and died at Clarinda, Iowa, January 10, 1916. Interment was at his home at Sharpsburg, Taylor County. He lived in New York state until grown to manhood, and then came west. In 1861 he enlisted at St. Charles, Illinois, in the Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry. He was wounded and came home, but recovered and returned and served to the end of the war. Soon thereafter he came to Taylor County, Iowa, and engaged in farming. He held many offices of trust in his township and in 1883 was elected representative and served in the Twentieth General Assembly. In 1901 he was appointed a rural mail route inspector and served five years with marked usefulness. His district included sixteen states.

House District 17