West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
AMERICA'S WHO'S WHO

Nationally prominent persons who were either born or lived in West Liberty, received their education in our public school and listed in "America's Who's Who," are:

Wade Crawford Barclay, church official, born in West Liberty, Aug. 8, 1874, a son of Crawford and Emily H. Barclay. He is the executive secretary of the Joint Commission on Religious Education in Foreign Fields, a lecturer on religious education at the Garrett Bible Institution, Evanston, Illinois. Author of several religious books. Married May Hartley of Los Angeles.

Lucy Scott Bower, born at West Liberty, Iowa, January 18, 1864, the daughter of James Y. and Hannah Haight Scott. Graduate of West Liberty high school. Became an artist : author in a minor vein of verse. Her paintings have been hung at the Univertsity of Iowa, the local library and high school. Her home for many years was at the Pen and Brush club, New York. Died abroad.

Harry O. Buckman, born at West Liberty, Iowa, on July 4, 1883, the son of Charles E. and Louisa M. Buckman. He is an expert in soil technology and an instructor in the Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y. Graduated from the West Liberty high school. Married Rita Mae Shannon of West Liberty.

Edgar Stepheson Furniss, son of Rev. George and Ann Jane ( Stepheson ) Furniss, born at Hunter, N. D., April, 1, 1890, lived in West Liberty for many years and graduated from the high school. Economist, professor of political and social science. Author. Dean of the graduate school at Yale. His home is Whitneyville, Conn.

Jesse Holmes, born in West Liberty, January 5, 1864, a son of Jesse and Sara Morgan Paxson Holmes. Professor at Swarthmore College, Pa. Author of several religious books, writes verse for magazines. Lives at Moylan, Pa.

Wilbur Wilson, son of Mathias and Ruth Mosher Wilson, born at West Liberty, July 6, 1881. Married Tressa May Stewart of West Liberty in 1905. Is head of the Department of Engineering research at University of Illinois at Urbana. Graduate of West Liberty high school in 1897. Home in Urbana.

John H. Maxson, son of William G. and Alice Chesebro Maxson, professor at the California Institute of Technology. Listed in "Who's Who" in science at the age of 24 years. Was graduated at the West Liberty high school.

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