John B. Hungerford, a son of Maurice Hungerford, was born in McKean County, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1854. When eleven years old he came with his parents to Iowa. They located in Wapello County, near Ottumwa, where his father died in 1869. His mother is now living in Kansas. Mr. Hungerford graduated at the State Agricultural College at Ames in 1877. He taught school for four years at Morning Sun and Montezuma, and has since been in newspaper work. In June, 1886, he bought a half interest of P. M. Maclean in the Carroll Herald, and has since, with Mr. Maclean, conducted that paper in the interests of the Republican party, of which he is a strong adherent.

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