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Permanent LinkRepresentative William Corse McArthur View All Years
WILLIAM CORSE MCARTHUR, lawyer, legislator and insurance executive, died at Des Moines, Iowa, July 10, 1950; born at Burlington, Iowa, July 22, 1860, son of Martin C. and Virginia Corse McArthur, and a nephew of Maj. Gen. John Murray Corse, whose equestrian figure is one of those selected by the Iowa legislature and placed upon the Soldiers Monument at Des Moines; received his schooling at Burlington; in 1877 spent a year at old Chicago university; was graduated from Cornell university in 1881, where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity; pursued a law course at Columbia university, graduating in 1882, and practiced law at Burlington twenty years; represented Des Moines county in the Iowa house of representatives in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-sixth extra sessions, and in the state senate in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth assemblies, resigning to become clerk of the United States district court for the southern district of Iowa, and held that office for over twenty years; became president of the National Travelers Casualty Co. at Des Moines in 1923, and held that position until his death, at which time his first legislative service dated back farther than any former member save one, Gov. Frank F. Merriam, who survives from the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, and now lives in California; married Harriet G. Hanmer in May 1882, a native of Nashville, Tenn., their only daughter being the widow of LaFayette Young Jr. of Des Moines, both of whom survive; a member of the Elks and the Episcopal church, and a past vice president of the Iowa Pioneer Lawmakers association.