Representative Jesse E. Cundy View All Years

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Jesse E. Cundy

Black Hawk County

JESSE E. CUNDY, former state legislator, civic official, teacher and school administrator, died at Cedar Falls, February 11, 1961; born on a farm in Taylor county March 23, 1876, the son of Edwin L. and Mary Basisto Cundy; attended country school, Iowa State Normal School at Cedar Falls, the University of Arkansas, and began teaching rural school in 1894; maried at Newell, Iowa December 25, 1902, to Minnie L. Newton who died December 9, 1960; taught at Massena, Newell, Marathon, and Milford, was superintendent of city and consolidated schools, county superintendent at Storm Lake in Buena Vista County, and farmed near Cedar Falls for a number of years; elected a member of the Forty-sixth General Assembly and in his one term as the first Democratic state representative from Black Hawk County, 1935-1936, supported legislation to establish the Iowa Highway Patrol and permit school reorganization; moved to Cedar Falls in 1938, taught at Monona and Marshalltown during World War II, and had been an instructor at Iowa State Teachers College; served as mayor of Cedar Falls from 1951 to 1958, contributing much to the rapid expansion of the city; was a member of the First Methodist Church; survived by two daughters, Mrs. Annabel Schantz, Wellsburg, Mrs. Carol Walden, Redondo Beach, California, and a son, John E. Cundy, Cedar Falls.

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