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Daniel Webster Dow

Franklin County

DANIEL W. DOW was born in Michigan, October 8, 1835, and died at Hampton, Iowa, August 18, 1918. His parents removed with him to Wisconsin and then to Whiteside County, Illinois, in 1843. In 1859 he was admitted to the bar by the district court in Clinton County, Iowa, and went to Hampton and engaged in practice. He volunteered in the Forty-fourth Iowa Infantry and became a second lieutenant. He served six years as clerk of the district court of Franklin County, four years as county attorney, and in 1903 was elected representative and served in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second general assemblies. He was a Republican in politics.

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