Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 837
HON. FRANKLIN W. HART

Hon. Franklin W. HART, Attorney-at-law, real estate and loan broker, at Logan, Iowa, is a native of Michigan and came to Iowa in 1862, and to Harrison County, in 1883. He was born in Branch County, Michigan, in 1840, and is a son of I. D. and Emeline (LEWIS) HART, natives of Connecticut and Vermont. They reared a family of nine children, eight of whom still survive. Our subject's early life was spent in the Wolverine State, and his education received in the common schools, and the select schools at Ottawa, IL, and in 1863, he went to Cornell College, at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. In 1864, he enlisted in Company I, Forty-sixth Iowa Infantry, and served as a private in the Army of the West. After graduating at Mt. Vernon in 1869 he studied law undr Maj. THOMPSON. In 1881, our subject was nominated by acclamation and elected by a large majority in Linn County, Iowa, as a member of the House of Representatives, on the Republican ticket.

He was united in marriage at Missouri Valley, February, 1889, to Miss Causine KERN, daughter of Dr. Henry R. and Mary E. (DUVALL) KERN, both of whom are deceased.

Our subject is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Belongs to the Masonic Lodge, the G.A.R. Post; the Legion of Honor and a college society. He was a member of Gov. LARRABEE'S staff, during his four years' administration and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Mr. HART is a man well informed and is widely and favorably known throughout Iowa.

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