S.B. Durant

DURANT, HOWLAND

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Date: 3/23/2008 at 23:31:52

S.B. Durant, Forest City. Representative from Hancock county, was born on a farm in Madison township, Hancock county, January 9, 1873, where he and his family now reside. He grew to manhood in this neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he passed a teacher's examination and taught school twelve years. Since 1903 his principal occupation has been farming. Was farm bureau director eight years, school treasurer twenty years, is stockholder and member of a number of cooperative organizations, and is chairman of the official board of the Calvary Baptist church at Forest City. Married Miss Edith A. Howland, November 5, 1902, and has one daughter, Velma, and two adopted boys, Donald and Leo. Served in the thirty-sixth and forty-fourth, general assemblies as state representative, and re-elected to the forty-fifth. A republican.

~source: Iowa Official Register
Thirty-Fifth Number
1933-1934
pg 90

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