B.J. Horchem

HORCHEM, PLASTER

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 1/19/2005 at 06:52:06

B.J. Horchem
The senator from Dubuque county, the thirty-fifth district, is principal of the Audubon school at Dubuque. He was born December 4, 1866, the son of John and Henrietta (Plaster) Horchem. His father, a Union soldier, died shortly after the war. In 1884 he was graduated from the Dyersville schools (of which he was afterwards principal); in 1892, from the normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana; and from the business college at Cedar Rapids. He has subsequently pursued special courses of sociology and psychology in Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He was three times elected superintendent of Dubuque county. His great achievement has been the development of the ideals of "Park Life," and "social center" activities. He is connected with numerous societies of an educational, sociological and scientific character. He is especially interested in all that pertains to education, health and general "uplift". He was elected representative in 1914, was re-elected in 1916, and elected senator in 1918.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Senators, pg. 326

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)