West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Muscatine Journal

"The first secretary of the West Liberty fair, who served in that capacity for the first five years of the associatiom's existence, was also the guardian for ex-president, Herbert Hoover, following the death of the latter's parents in West Branch.

He was Laurie Tatum, of Springdale, who in 1859 was one of the leaders of this community with vision and enterprise and who cooperated in planning and forming the organization which has continued for three-quarters of a century.

When Hoover was orphaned, Mr. Tatum was appointed by the courts as guardian for the man who later was to become the first president of the United States to come from the state of Iowa."

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