Haines, R. M.

HAINES, HARRIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/15/2013 at 07:43:44

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

HAINES, R.M. - Grinnell Twp - pg 900. The subject of this sketch was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, December 29, 1838. In October, 1856, he came to Iowa Falls, and the spring of 1860 removed to Poweshiek county, where he entered Iowa College, from which he graduated in 1865. After leaving college he became a tutor in Troy Academy, Davis county, for two years. Thence he returned to Iowa College and was employed as a tutor for two years, when he entered the law department of the State University and graduated in 1874, but leaving the university a few weeks before commencement, he did not receive his diploma with the class. He immediately began the practice of law, which he has since continued. In 1877 he was elected Senator from the Forty-fifth district and still holds the office. As a lawyer he has acquired an enviable reputation for ability and probity of character. As a legislator he has proved a wise counselor, and was honored with a place upon important committees, which were filled with great fidelity and honor to himself and his district. He is of nervous sanguine temperament, positive in his convictions, which when once fixed are not easily changed. He is courteous and affable, possessing those traits of character which tend to make him popular without subserviency. Whatever he undertakes he does with his whole might, which is a good thing for a client. He was married at Grinnell, August 19, 1867, to Miss Joanna H. Harris, daughter of Capt. James Harris. She was also a graduate of Iowa College, graduating at the same time with himself. By this marriage they have had five children: Mary, James H., Sarah A., Robert M. and Charles H.