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JOHN M. RAMSEY, publisher and legislator, died February 23, 1944, at Clarksville, Iowa; born February 25, 1869 at Clarksville, residing there his entire life; educated in the local schools, graduated from the high school and a private college; learned the printer’s trade early in life, and almost continuously since had been connected with the Clarksville Star, of which he had long been the publisher; served as town clerk, assessor, and Butler county treasurer; was senator from the Thirty-ninth Iowa district consisting of Butler and Bremer counties in the Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-second extra sessions; also was a member of the House of Representatives from Butler county in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Fortieth extra sessions; at time of death was serving as justice of the peace at Clarksville; married to Della Shafer September 30, 1893 and at time of death was divorced, with two daughters surviving, Mrs. Gay Jackson of Clarksville and Mrs. Lavon Anderson of Des Moines, and two sons preceding the father in death; a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellow orders.