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Permanent LinkRepresentative William E. G. Saunders View All Years
WILLIAM E. G. SAUNDERS, banker, soldier and legislator, died at Altadena, California, January 16, 1947; born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, in 1865; came to America in 1882; lived four years in New Mexico and located at Emmetsburg, Iowa in 1886; associated with the old Scottish-American Land Company, and was one of its agents in northwest Iowa; became captain of Old Company K, Emmetsburg’s Iowa National Guard unit; served as quartermaster of the 52nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-Ameican war; became president of the former Commercial bank at Emmetsburg before it was absorbed by the First National Bank, and was a director of the latter bank; served the state banking department as a bank receiver; a member of Fortieth, Fortieth extra, Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-second extra sessions of the Iowa House of Representatives; always an active and energetic civic-minded citizen, influential in his section of the state; after retirement from business removed to California, where three sons are living—George, a Los Angeles banker, Gordon, a lawyer there, Ewart, residing at San Mateo, and the only daughter, Mrs. William del Valle (Vina Saunders), has been in California with her family, but soon will remove to Seattle, Washington.