Representative Elmer Ellsworth Overfield View All Years

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Elmer Ellsworth Overfield

Howard County

Another of the native Iowans in the Twenty-seventh General Assembly will be the Hon. E. E. Overfield, of Elma, Howard county. His birthplace was Deerfield and the date October 19, 1862, and he has lived in Iowa during his entire life. He is one of the numerous bachelors of the 1898 assembly. Dr. Overfield belongs to the Masonic order, as high as a Knight Templar, also the I. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen and O. E. S. He has served his home town as mayor two terms and his county as coroner. After finishing the school at home he entered the State Normal school, where he studied three years, then entered the State university, graduating from the medical department in 1888. Since that time he has been in the continuous practice of medicine at Elma, with the exception of the year 1896, which he spent in Europe. While abroad he attended the University of Berlin, where he took a special course of study in the medical department of that famous foreign institution. He is a progressive professional man in every sense of the word, counting no cost where his profession is concerned. Politically he works with the republican party, which sends him to the legislature this winter. He comes into the work highly respected for his natural ability and qualified to take an active part in legislation.

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