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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] Bio of William A Allred
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:53:25 -0600

BIOGRAPHIES OF STATE OFFICERS
>From Iowa Official Register 1909-1910


WILLIAM A. ALLRED
Representative from Wayne county, is a native of North Carolina, Randolph
county, born April 26, 1846. Came with his parents, who were American-born,
to Wayne county, Iowa, October 5, 1854, and settled on a farm in Monroe
township. Acquired his education in the district schools of Wayne county. At
the age of eighteen years he enlisted as a private in Company H, Forty-sixth
Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry. At the close of the war he attended two
additional terms of school. On December 12, 1869 was married to Miss Louisa
Kellogg; they have three daughters and four sons. Has been a resident of
Iowa fifty-two years, all of the time engaged in farming and stock raising.
Has held the offices of township clerk four years, township trustee six
years, secretary of the school board twelve years, a member of the
Republican county central committee in 1896-1897, and was county recorder of
deeds in 1900, serving four years. Elected Representative in 1906 and
re-elected in 1908. A Republican in politics.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa History Project
http://iagenweb.org/history/

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