Representative John L. Bascom View All Years

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John L. Bascom

Dickinson County

Representative from Dickinson county. Born in Farmersburg, Clayton county, Iowa. His father, J. S. Bascom, was born in White River Junction, Vermont, his mother in Pennsylvania. His parents moved to Clinton county in the spring of 1865 and purchased a farm near Preston, where he resided until the spring of 1882, when he entered the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he graduated in the scientific course in the class of 1884 and in the law course in 1887. He entered the law office of Ellis & McCoy in Clinton in the spring of 1888. Was admitted to the bar in this State in October, 1888. He located at Milford in August, 1890, where he still resides, engaged in law and real estate business. He married Miss Winifred Yorker September 6, 1904. He is a member of Gloaming Lodge No. 482, A.F. and A.M., and Gloaming Chapter No. 225, O.E.S., at Milford; Spirit Lake Chapter No. 132, at Spirit Lake; Esdraelon Commandry No. 52, at Estherville, and El-Kahir Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Cedar Rapids. Elected Representative in 1906. A Republican in politics.

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