Representative K. W. Macomber View All Years
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K. W. Macomber
Cass County
Born in Franklin county, Massachusetts, March 13, 1813, his parents being Ebenezer and Sallie (Jewell) Macomber. He grew to manhood in Massachusetts, and was educated at the Shelburn Falls Academy. Mr. Macomber and his brothers afterwards conducted the Academy, in 1839 and 1840. After retiring from the Academy, he went to Springfield, Massachusetts. There he remain two years, and then went to Northampton and engaged in the manufacture and sale of silk. He made that his business for eight years and then went to Boston, where he remained until coming to Iowa, which was in July, 1855. He located near the present site of Atlantic and improved and cultivated a farm. He held office of assessor of Cass county in the years 1857 and 1858, and in 1859 was elected as representative to the General Assembly from the district of which Cass county was a part. He served one term of two years, and the extra session of 1861, held for the purpose of arranging for Iowa's part in the war. He was married in Massachusetts, December 12, 1839, to Miss Martha Alexander.
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