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J. Park Bair
Buena Vista County
Representative from Buena Vista county, Iowa, was born March 17, 1864, in Perry county, Pennsylvania. When he was one year old he moved with his parents to Gerardston, Berkly county, West Virginia. When six years old, his parents moved to Bedford, Indiana. He received his education in the county schools and southern Indiana Normal school at Mitchell, Indiana. When twenty-one years old he went to Arcola, Illinois, where he was married to Clara Belle Louthan. To them were born four children, two girls and two boys. The oldest boy died when seven years old. For sixteen years the family lived on a farm in Arcola, coming to Storm Lake, Iowa, March 1st, 1901, where he purchased a farm of 320 acres and lived on it one year. For the past thirty years he has lived in Storm Lake. For fifteen years he was engaged in buying and shipping live stock. For the past fifteen years he has farmed eighty acres of land, which he owns within and adjoining the city of Storm Lake. He has served as township trustee, school director sixteen years, city councilman of Storm Lake, and member of the Buena Vista county board of supervisors ten years. A member of the Storm Lake chamber of commerce, the Masonic order, A.F. & A.M., and the Royal Arch Chapter, the Eastern Star, K.P. lodge, M.W.A., R.N.A., and a member and ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. Was elected representative from Buena Vista county in 1926, in 1928, and again in 1930.
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