IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934 BIOGRAPHIES UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ALBERT CLINTON WILLFORD, WATERLOO. - Representative in Congress for the third congressional district, was born September 21st, 1877, at Vinton. Benton county, Iowa; attended country and town schools and for a short time Tilford's Academy at Vinton. Served as chief engineer of the electric light, power and water company at Vinton for eight years; moved to Waterloo in 1906; built and operated an artificial ice plant for three years, and for the last twenty-five years has been engaged in the seed, feed and coal business; was public library trustee for twelve years; served on the Black Hawk county jury commission for six years president of the Iowa stationary engineers for one year; served two years as president of the Izaak Walton League of America for Iowa, and has been a national and state director of the Izaak Walton League for ten years; president of the Waterloo Baseball Club for four years; member of the A. F. and A. M. and thirty-second degree Mason; president of the Consistory Club at Waterloo for one year; on the court of honor for the Boy Scouts of America for fifteen years, and an active member of that organization since its inception in Iowa: married Miss Edna Tharp, September 15th, 1898, and has one son, Berl C. Elected to the seventy-third congress in November, 1932. A democrat. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)