Wilbert Sherman Fraley (1931)

FRALEY

Posted By: Linda Smith
Date: 7/12/2025 at 08:54:25

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 25, 1931
Page 6

FORMER RESIDENT PASSES AWAY

Wilbert S. Fraley Dies At Home in Des Moines. Left Here About 40 Years Ago

Many of the older residents of Winterset have pleasant memories of a former Winterset man, Will Fraley. Mr. Fraley died at his home in Des Moines on June 15th at the age of 65.

He moved from Winterset to Des Moines some 40 years ago. From 1910 to 1919 he served in the Iowa General Assembly from Polk county. Prior to that time, he served on the city council for six years.

Mr. Fraley's father served as a plasterer here. The family resided in the northeast part of town.
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The Annals of Iowa
Fall, 1931, Vol. 8, No. 2
Page 158

Wilbert Sherman Fraley was born in Madison County, Iowa, January 19, 1867, and died in Des Moines June 15, 1931. Burial was in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Des Moines.

He attended public school in Winterset and at an early age went to the Black Hills during the gold excitement there. He was a contractor and builder at Chadron, Nebraska, and in 1890 removed to Des Moines where for many years he followed the trade of plasterer, belonging to the plasterers’ union.

He was a school director from 1894 to 1897, a member of the Des Moines City Council from 1902 to 1905, was a Republican member of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth general assemblies, 1911 to 1914, and was chairman of the Exemption Board in Des Moines in 1918.

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