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Bio. of S. B. Durant ~ born Madison Township, Hancock County, Iowa
Posted by: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (ID *****1616) Date: April 25, 2005 at 13:25:09
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IOWA OFFICIAL REGISTER 1933-1934

BIOGRAPHIES OF STATE REPRESENTATIVES

S. B. DURANT, Forest City. - Representative from Hancock county, was born on
a farm in Madison township, Hancock county, January 9, 1873, where he and his
family now reside. He grew to manhood in this neighborhood. At the age of
seventeen he passed a teacher's examination and taught school twelve years.
Since 1903 his principal occupation has been farming. Was farm bureau
director eight years, school treasurer twenty years, is stockholder and member of
a number of cooperative organizations, and is chairman of the official board
of the Calvary Baptist church at Forest City Married Miss Edith A. Howland,
November 5, 1902, and has one daughter, Velma, and two adopted boys, Donald
and Leo. Served in the thirty-sixth and forty-fourth general assemblies as
state representative, and re-elected to the forty-fifth. A republican.

http://www.iagenweb.org/history

1880 Census Madison Township, Hancock County, Iowa
Parents were John and Matilda Durant and S. B. is Seath B. Durant




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