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BYRON C. WARD was born at Underhill, Vermont, November 28, 1838, and died in Des Moines, Iowa, January 18, 1922. He enlisted as a private, August 28, 1862, in Company G, Second Vermont Infantry, participated in many important battles, including Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Petersburg, Cedar Creek, and Gettysburg, and was promoted to first lieutenant. After the war he engaged in educational work and in 1869 removed to Prairie City, Iowa, and was principal of schools there for several years. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with W. G. Clements as Clements & Ward at Prairie City which continued until 1893. In the meantime Mr. Clements having removed to Newton, Mr. Ward attended to the firm’s business at Prairie City. In 1883 he was elected representative and served in the Twentieth General Assembly. In 1893 he removed to Des Moines and practiced there for a time. He was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Iowa, for the year 1914-15. He was active in Y. M. C. A. work and other good and patriotic causes.