HENRY TEMPLE
In 1859, at the fall election Henry Temple was chosen to fill this office, and entered upon the discharge of his official functions, January 1, 1860, and held the same until October 17, 1861, when E. W. Hall was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Henry Temple has held a variety of offices, and has the reputation of having faithfully discharged the duties of each, to the credit of himself and the honor of his constituents. He is a native of Franklin county, Massachusetts, and the son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Christie) Temple. He was born on the 20th of August, 1816, at the village of Heath, which is close to the line that separates Massachusetts and Vermont. He is English by descent, both of his grandsires having come over with Burgoyne's army of subjugation, and being taken prisoners, never returned to their native land. Mr. Henry Temple was thrown upon his own resources at an early age and when but twelve years of age, went to Hatfield and found employment on a farm. He remained in that vicinity until he had reached the age of nineteen, working at hard manual labor. In 1835, with but five dollars in his pocket, he reached the town of Marietta, Ohio, on his way west. He remained there several years, attending the academic department of the College at that place, most of the time for four years, teaching school or doing some farm work in the interim, to furnish himself with the necessary funds for his schooling. In the spring of 1840, Mr. Temple came to this state, locating at first at Fairfield, Jefferson county, where he read law with Judge Cyrus Olney, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. The following year he removed to Mahaska county, where after a season spent in farm work, he opened a law office in Oskaloosa, the county seat, and remained in practice there until the autumn of 1858, when he removed to Lewis, then the seat of government of Cass county. Here he was postmaster for four years, county judge one term, deputy provost-marshal of the district formed by the counties of Adair and Cass, and county recorder from 1864 to 1870. He removed to the town of Atlantic, in 1869, where he still occupies a prominent place among the legal luminaries of that city. His marriage occurred in Oskaloosa, January 18, 1846, at which time he was united to Miss Anne E. Wright.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 351-352.
