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David C. Hastings
Buchanan County
Born January 4, 1830, in Connecticut. He married Margaret Cooper on August 3, 1854 in Buchanan County. They had no children, but the Hastings brought up in their home a girl, Ida Hilton and also a nephew, Carl Cooper. He was elected Senator to the 8th (1860-1862) and 9th (1862-1864) Iowa General Assembly. He was a Civil War surgeon and received the appointment to the Twenty-seventh Regiment. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon September 16, 1862, and mustered out August 8, 1865. Mr. Hastings died September 8, 1888, in Kiowa, Kansas. He is buried in Quasqueton Cemetery, Buchanan County, Iowa.
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