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Permanent LinkRepresentative John H. Aiken View All Years
JOHN H. AIKEN was born at Iowa City, Iowa, March 27, 1875, and died in Ida Grove January 14, 1936. In 1876 he was with his parents in their removal to the Soldier River Valley in Ida County, in which locality he grew to manhood. He remained on his father’s farm properties in Grant Township, Ida County, helping to operate them, until in 1903-04 he was a few months in Valley Junction in the commission business. That was followed by eighteen months in Battle Creek, Ida County, after which he located in Ida Grove, where he looked after the farms that had been owned by his father and directed extensive cattle feeding operations. For fifteen years he served as a member of the Ida Grove Board of Education. He was a Republican, and in 1920 was elected representative, was five times re-elected, and served inclusively from the Thirty-ninth to the Forty-fourth general assemblies. He was assessor of the city of Ida Grove during 1895 and was about to begin that work for 1936 at the time of his death.