. Annals of Iowa. w 24, 1846; he died at his home in Wyoming, Iowa, December 10,1909. He attended the public schools and academy at Binghamptonuntil 1864, when he removed with his parents to Wyoming, studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1870. In 1880he purchased the Wyoming Journal, which he continued to publishduring the remainder of his life. Aside from his work as a law-yer and editor, he held many offices of trust and confidence. TIIHU) .-iblJEh. VOL. IX. NO. APRiL, lyiO. ^ ^^TNALS OF lO*A. A riiSTORiCAL QUARTCIvLY li! OF low4 ANNALS OF IOWA CONTKXTS FOR Ainai
. Annals of Iowa. w 24, 1846; he died at his home in Wyoming, Iowa, December 10,1909. He attended the public schools and academy at Binghamptonuntil 1864, when he removed with his parents to Wyoming, studied law and was admitted to the practice in 1870. In 1880he purchased the Wyoming Journal, which he continued to publishduring the remainder of his life. Aside from his work as a law-yer and editor, he held many offices of trust and confidence. TIIHU) .-iblJEh. VOL. IX. NO. APRiL, lyiO. ^ ^^TNALS OF lO*A. A riiSTORiCAL QUARTCIvLY li! OF low4 ANNALS OF IOWA CONTKXTS FOR Ainai., 11)10 Mi scdlanc-ou iiAzto Beniaoiln Fianldin Hiiaroth (Portrait) . S2i Escape froin Con\ di^! ;: • Pr^*-! (Two Portraits, Group) . ;537 Capt. V. A. Duckworth Trial of John Brown Gi.:oiir-i: E. Caskie Tho Deioe 1 •family in lo--a Portrait) SSO]MFis. 0^.^ Smith ,E Ai)r;Uia:ii Ll-oai ariu Hi: ::::);.s CvH Notable P : ? ,s i --^v /iHi ov):j i. Annals of Iowa. Vol. IX, No. 5. Des Moines, Iowa, April 1910. 3d Series. AZRO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HILDRETII. BY GEORGE D. PERKINS. When I came to Iowa in the latter part of the second monthin the year 1860 and engaged with my brother in planting anewspaper at Cedar Falls, in Black Hawk county, Azro Ben-jamin Franklin Hildreth had been established in like businessat Charles City, Floyd county, since the summer of county is in the second tier of counties north of BlackHawk, and by that measure in that early day it was deeperin the wilderness. Mr. Hildreth was my senior by exactlytwenty-four years, for we were born in the same month andon the same day of the month, which time, rather oddly, wasthe 29th of February. What attracted my early attention,however, was the fact that Mr. Hildreth was at the head of hisclass in Cedar valley. My first meeting with Mr. Hildreth was during the politicalcampaign of 1864. The late Senator Allison was first chosento the House of Representatives
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