Debby Clough has been putting these bios on the Iowa list for some months. Many are from New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Thought it might interest someone. Please go to the Iowa list or site Debby lists below to see more of these bios. Margaret Calvin. >X-Real-To: <margaret@jced.org> >Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:26:43 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: Bare67deb@aol.com Wed Apr 30 10:26:42 2003 >From: Bare67deb@aol.com >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:26:51 EDT >Old-To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com, ia-civil-war-l@rootsweb.com >Subject: [IOWA] 1903 Bio of Benjamin F. Keables >To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/20527 >X-Loop: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: IOWA-L-request@rootsweb.com > >BENJAMIN F. KEABLES was born in Genesee County, New York, November 30, 1828. > He came to Iowa in 1850, entering the medical department of the State >University which was then located at Keokuk and from which he graduated in >1852. He located at Pella where he began to practice medicine. The >following year he was president of the school board and was influential in >securing the building of the first brick schoolhouse in that part of the >State. At the beginning of the Civil War Dr. Keables was appointed by >Governor Kirkwood assistant surgeon of the Third Iowa Infantry. At the >Battle of Hatchie the doctor was conspicuous for bravery and upon >recommendation of his superior officers was promoted to regimental surgeon. > In 1869 he was elected on the Republican ticket Representative in the House >of the Thirteenth General Assembly and was a member at the extra session >which adopted the Code of 1873. In 1871 he was reelected, serving in the >Fourteenth General Assembly. He was appointed a member of the Pension >Examining Board under President Harrison; and is a member of the Army of the >Tennessee, of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Pioneer Lawmakers' >Association. > > >Debbie Clough Gerischer >Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County ><A >HREF="http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/">http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/</A> >IAGENWEB: Special History Project: >http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm >Gerischer Family Web Site: ><A HREF="http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/">http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/</A> > > >==== IOWA Mailing List ==== >The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub >instructions, list rules and other useful information. >Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237