Representative Edwin Clay Roach View All Years

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Edwin Clay Roach

Lyon County

ROACH E. CLAY Born in Abington, Knox County, Illinois, December 31, 1850, but moved to Iowa when he was a boy, and has since resided in that state. He was educated at Oskaloosa College and the Iowa State University, graduating from the law department of the latter institution in 1875 with the degree of LL.B. In June of the same year he was admitted to the bar at Iowa City. He practiced his profession in Jasper County from the time of his admission until 1882, when he moved to Lyon County, where he formed a partnership with J.W. Ramsey. In 1898, in connection with Mr. Ramsey and F.L. Sutter, he organized the Iowa Savings Bank at Rock Rapids. As a Republican Mr. Roach was been active in politics for many years. He had been a delegate to every Republican state convention since 1885, and in 1896 was a delegate to the National Republican convention at St. Louis. He was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second General Assemblies, and was chairman of the judiciary committee in the House of the Twenty-second General Assembly. He is a member of the Lodge, Chapter, and Commander of the Masonic Fraternity, a public spirited citizen, and thoroughly identified with every important object which has the welfare of the community at heart. Mr. Roach was married December 31, 1875 to Mary A. Ramsey of Jasper County. They have four children. He died on March 9, 1946 in Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa.

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