were extremely beneficial to the county. He was a director of the Royal Union Mutual Life Insurance Company of Des Moines, with which he was thus associated for many years. He was also at one time president of the Iowa Dairy Association, was president of the National Butter Makers Association, vice president of the National Dairy Union, one of the trustees of the State Agricultural College at Ames for a term, and was state dairy commissioner for four years.
In 1877 Mr. Boardman was married to Miss Addie H. Henningsen, who was born in Jackson county, Iowa, January 6, 1857, and there resided until 1865, when she removed from Sabula to Lyons with her parents, Hon. B. H. A. and Mrs. Henningsen. Her father was a capitalist and a man of affairs at Lyons, and it was there that the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Boardman was celebrated. They became the parents of two children : Frank Mead, now manager of the Independent Telephone Company of Story county and a resident of Nevada; and Lois Knight, at home.
Mr. Boardman was numbered among the charter members of the Knights of Pythias lodge and of the Modern Woodmen camp of Nevada. He held membership in the Presbyterian church and gave his political allegiance to the republican party. While he was never a politician in the usually accepted sense of the term, he was twice elected to the city council, of which he was a member when taken ill. Success attended him in his business ventures, enabling him to spend the winter seasons in California or in other districts where there is a more salubrious climate than can be found in Iowa.
HENRY WOLFFE BOWERS, M. D.
Although it is less than a year since Dr. Henry W. Bowers began practice in Nevada he has been remarkably successful and the outlook is exceedingly encouraging as to his future career. Born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1882, he is the son of George A. and Alice B. (Hershey) Bowers, both of whom are natives of the Keystone state. The father devoted his active life to farming and attained a goodly measure of success. He and his wife are now living retired at Biglerville, Pennsylvania, the former having reached the age of fifty-four years, while the latter is three years his junior. They are both members of the German Lutheran church. Politically Mr. Bowers has been in sympathy with the democratic party during the greater part of his life, although he is also an earnest advocate of prohibition.
The fourth in a family of thirteen children, Henry W. Bowers was reared under the paternal roof, remaining at home until sixteen years of age and assisting to the extent of his ability in the work upon the home farm. He received his preliminary education in the district schools, later