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SETH BENJAMIN DURANT, farmer, teacher and legislator, died at his home in Madison township, Hancock county, Iowa, January 22, 1947; born in Madison township just west of the township school, within one-half mile of the present home place, January 9, 1873, of pioneer parents, John and Matilda Durant; educated in the rural schools and at Garner business college; at age of seventeen took the teacher’s examination and was given a certificate to teach, which he followed for twelve years; united in marriage to Edith A. Howland, of Madison township, November 5, 1902, and to them were born two daughters, Doris and Velma, and two sons were adopted, Donald and Duane Leo; continued upon the farm since 1903, and assisted in sponsoring a rural telephone line, a farmer’s co-operative elevator, the Farm Bureau and the Farmer’s Mutual telephone company; energetic and active in community affairs; served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives in the Thirty-sixth General Assembly, the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-fifth extra sessions; served as school treasurer twenty years, chairman of the official board of the Calvary Baptist church at Forest City, Iowa, and as an officer or director of numerous local organizations.