Representative Albin C. Blackmore View All Years

Albin C. Blackmore

Worth County

ALBIN C. BLACKMORE was born in Alleghany, New York, August 19, 1843, and died at Northwood, Iowa, August 29, 1915. He lived on a farm with his parents until August, 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Sixty-fourth New York Volunteer Infantry, and served three years, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He was seriously wounded in battle at Spottsylvania Court House. After the war he went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where his parents had removed. He came to Worth County, Iowa, in 1866 and followed farming and stock raising. He was elected township clerk and then county supervisor. In 1883 he was elected county auditor and served nine years. Following that he was manager of the Farmers’ Lumber Company at Northwood. In 1906 he was elected representative and re-elected in 1908, serving in the Thirty-second, Thirty-second extra and Thirty-third General Assemblies.

House District 94