J. W. Blythe 1850 - 1909

BLYTHE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/20/2019 at 11:32:50

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 16, 1909, 2, C3

Dies Suddenly,
J. W. Blythe, one of the best known men in Iowa politics, and general counsel for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, dropped dead at a hunting lodge in the country at Wapello, in Louisa county. He expired as he was preparing for duck hunting.
Mr. Blythe was fifty-nine years old, having been born at Cranberry, N. J., in 1850. He was a graduate of Princeton university and was admitted to the bar in 1876, since which time he had been practicing in Iowa. For the past seven years he had been general counsel for the Burlington railroad and during that time had been a prominent figure in the politics of the state.
He was a “standpatter” and made a tremendous fight against Governor Cummins and the anti-railroad legislation.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington and was born January 16, 1850 and died March 6, 1909.