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ELMER M. LICHTY, retired farmer, stock feeder, and former state legislator, died in Waterloo October 11, 1960; born in Orange township, Black Hawk County, Iowa February 2, 1867, the son of Hiram J. and Sarah Lichty; moved with his parents onto the family farm when six months old, attended rural school, Mt. Morris College, Mt. Morris, Illinois, and Tobin Business College in Waterloo; married January 17, 1888 to Emma Miller of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, who died in May, 1921; began farm operations in 1890, feeding cattle, dairying, always raising a large number of swine, and also took an interest in community affairs; became a member of the original independent Orange township school board in 1916, and resigned as president of the consolidated school board, having been treasurer of the building committee when the township school was built, secretary and treasurer of the Orange township telephone company after twenty years, township trustee, and chairman of the township farm bureau upon his election to the state legislature in 1922; married to Clara Miller at Waterloo in December, 1922; served as Republican representative from Black Hawk County in the 40th, 40th extra, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, and the 48th sessions of the general assembly; retired from active management of his several farms and had resided in Waterloo since 1922; was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and treasurer of the South Waterloo Church of the Brethren for thirty years; survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Alice Klepinger, Neosheo, Missouri, Mrs. Ruth Steouffer, Oak Park, Illinois, Mrs. Dorothy Parris, three sons, Clark M., Edward and Parker Lichty, all of Waterloo; an infant daughter preceded him in death.