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SCOTT A. POWER was born near Pulaski, Davis County, Iowa, December 9, 1869, and died at the home of his mother in Bloomfield August 9, 1925. Burial was at Bloomfield. His parents were Albert and Angeline Wilson Power. He attended country school, was graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal Institute at Bloomfield in 1888, and from Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant in 1893. For eighteen years he was in school work, being high school principal at Mediapolis and Fairfield, town superintendent at Colfax and Coon Rapids, and in 1903 came to Fairfield as city superintendent, remaining six years, at the end of which time he entered the retail coal business in that city. He was active in local affairs at Fairfield, was secretary of the Chautauqua Association, and president of the Community Club. In 1912 he was a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which met in Minneapolis. In 1912 he was elected representative and served in the Thirty-fifth General Assembly. The last few years of his life he resided on and managed the farm near Pulaski on which he was born.