Allan J. House

HOUSE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/18/2014 at 15:58:56

Jackson Sentinel, October 29, 1908

POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT

Judge Allan J. House of Maquoketa, one of the presiding judges on the bench of the Seventh Judicial district, is known to us all as a man of high character, studious habits, unbiased on his conclusions on any point of law and eminently just. Born in Ontario, Canada, he came to Iowa in the early 1860's and first found employment with his now deceased uncle, D. T. Farr, on his farm near Bridgeport. While driving the reaper in the harvest field one season, the team ran away and he was thrown beneath the machine miraculously escaping death. In the accident he lost one arm and all but two fingers and thumb on the other hand. He found it necessary to take up professional life, taught school, studied law, was elected to the offices of county superintendent and county auditor several times by large majority, was thereafter one of the law firm of Keck & House and for more than fifteen years has been on the bench of this district, being elected each time on the non-partisan judiciary ticket by large majorities. It is to be hoped that Judge House will receive the strong home endorsement he is entitled to at the election next Tuesday.

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