A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 WILLIAM F. POORMAN is one of the well known insurance actuaries in the Middle West, and his abilities have attracted him to the capital of the Iowa insurance world at Des Moines, where he is actuary for the Central Life Assurance Society. Mr. Poorman was born near Livingston, Montana, January 17, 1897, son of Jacob L. and Nona (Cole) Poorman. His father was born in Wisconsin and his mother in Missouri, and his father want out to Montana in the early days and became a rancher and cattle man. He died in 1902 and his wife in 1908. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his wife was a Methodist, while he belonged to the Christian denomination. Of their three children two are living, William F. and Mildred, the latter the wife of Walter A. Fouts, a Montana cattle man. William F. Poorman graduated from the Park County, Montana, High School. In the spring of 1918, when he was twenty-one years of age, he was called to the colors and was in training with the Coast Artillery Corps at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, until after the armistice. He now has rank as second lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps. After leaving the army he returned to the University of Michigan, and was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1921 and with the Master of Arts degree in 1922. His first experience in the insurance business was with the Lincoln National Life Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with which he was employed for six months before graduating from the University of Michigan. For three years he was actuary for the Farmers National Life Insurance Company of Chicago, and in December, 1925, removed to Des Moines as actuary of the Central Life Assurance Society. Mr. Poorman is a member of the Actuary Society of America, the American Institute of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuary Society. he is a Knight Templar Mason, member of the Wakonda Club and the Episcopal Church, while his wife is a Presbyterian. He married, December 22, 1923, Miss Zella Carr, daughter of J. H. Carr, of Peru, Indiana. Her father is an accountant with the Wabash Railway Company. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)