W. B. TEMPLE
Among those holding position of honor and trust in Cass county in 1884, is Mr. W. B. Temple. He is a native of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county, Iowa, and was born November 30, 1846. He is the son of Judge Henry and Anna E. (Wright) Temple. He received his education in the common schools. In 1858 his parents removed to Lewis, and in 1868 to Atlantic. Soon after coming to Atlantic, Walter was appointed to the position of postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and he served in that capacity two years. In the fall of 1878, he was chosen by the electors of Cass county to fill the office of recorder, and he has held the position uninterruptedly since that time, with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people of the county, irrespective of party. In 1863 he enlisted in the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, company M, and served with them in their skirmishing and fighting, which was principally in Arkansas. He was mustered out of the service with the command, at Davenport. Mr. Temple was married in 1879 to Miss Ella Herrick, a daughter of Edson Herrick, of Audubon county. Though yet on the sunny side of the meridian of life, Mr. Temple has seen most of the real progress which has been made in changing Cass county from a comparatively unsettled state, with its naked prairies, to its present really prosperous condition, with scarcely a tract of land unused for purposes of agriculture and stock raising, save that taken up by the growing towns and cities. And in that time he has won the respect of its citizens, who have shown their appreciation by elevating him to prominent public office.
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. 360.
