BYERS, Howard W.

BYERS

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer (email)
Date: 11/8/2004 at 20:09:15

HOWARD W. BYERS was born in Woodstock, Wisconsin, on Christmas Day, 1856.

His education was acquired in the public schools of Wisconsin. In 1873 he came to Iowa, first locating on a farm near Garner, in Hancock County.

Subsequently he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1888. He removed to Shelby County, where in 1893 he was elected Representative in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly, on the Republican ticket. He was reelected in
1895 and chosen Speaker of the House of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly.

In 1899 Mr. Byers was agian elected Representative, serving in the Twenty-eight General Asaembly. In the political contest for Governor in 1901, Mr. Byers was a warm supporter of Mr. Cummins for that position.

-source: HISTORY OF IOWA FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES
TO THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, By BENJAMIN F. GUE, 1903

-transcribed by Debbie Clough G-erischer for the Iowa History Project, and reposted to Hancock biographies with permission

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