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John Hamilton Derrough

Warren County

JOHN H. DERROUGH was born in Brown County, Ohio, March 16, 1847, and died at Indianola, Iowa, December 11, 1924. He came with his parents when they removed to a farm in Warren County, Iowa, in 1856. He attended common school and Indianola Seminary, later named Simpson College, taught school twenty terms, and in 1874 began clerking in John A. Overby’s store at Hammondsburg, and later at Milo. From 1882 to 1885 he was deputy clerk of court for Warren County, and from 1886 to 1892 was clerk. He then entered the furniture business in Indianola with T. J. Proudfoot, but in 1899 became assistant cashier of the Warren County State Bank and was later advanced to cashier and remained with that institution either as cashier or vice president while his health permitted. In 1908 he was elected representative and served in the Thirty-third General Assembly.

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