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DAVID SNYDER FLECK was born near Leighton, Mahaska County, Iowa, November 21, 1858, and died in Newton March 24, 1932. He was a son of William and Cassa Ann Fleck. He received his education in the Leighton public schools, and in Oskaloosa College. On becoming of age he followed farming for a while, after which he engaged in the grain and lumber business in Leighton. In 1889 he removed to Minden, Nebraska, where he was in the grain business, but later changed to Templeton, Iowa, and finally settled at Killduff, Jasper County, where he conducted a lumber and grain business, as well as operated a grain and stock farm near there. The later years of his life he resided in Newton. He held various township offices, and in 1906 was elected a member of the Jasper County Board of Supervisors, and was re-elected in 1908, serving from January, 1907, to January, 1912. In 1914 he was elected senator and served in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh general assemblies. He was a Democrat in politics and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church.