History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa . ted as township trustee, as school director, as recorder and was alsomayor of the town of Lawler, to which he gave a businesslike and progressive administration. He had always been a stalwart champion of republican principles and in thefall of 1875 his party nominated him for the office of state representative and he waselected to that position by a majority of four hundred. In the same fall he establishedthe Bank of Lawler in company with D. R. Kirby and in November, 1877, he opened theHoward County Bank at Cresco. He figured prominently in fin
History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa . ted as township trustee, as school director, as recorder and was alsomayor of the town of Lawler, to which he gave a businesslike and progressive administration. He had always been a stalwart champion of republican principles and in thefall of 1875 his party nominated him for the office of state representative and he waselected to that position by a majority of four hundred. In the same fall he establishedthe Bank of Lawler in company with D. R. Kirby and in November, 1877, he opened theHoward County Bank at Cresco. He figured prominently in financial circles as onewhose word was above question and whose methods were always enterprising and pro-gressive. Forceful and resourceful, he extended his efforts into various fields and be-came proprietor of the Kendallville Roller Mills, which he operated in addition to hisbanking, commercial and official interests. He also entered the stock raising business,keeping a herd of fine shorthorn cattle, and he was an enthusiastic stock man He did t. JOHN McHUGH b CHICKASAW AND HOWARD COUNTIES 403 with thoroughness and energy everything that he undertook and never stopped short orthe successful accomplishment of his purpose. In religion he was a strict Catholic andwas an active worker in the church. The Republican party found in him a most stal-wart advocate and his natural powers of oratory enabled him to sway his hearers, whilethe force of his logic carried conviction home to the minds of those who listened to eight years he filled the office of National Bank Examiner for the state of Iowa. Orvine J. McHugh, whose name introduces this record, spent his youthful days inCresco, to which city he had removed with his parents in 1878. He there attended theparochial schools and afterward had the benefit of further instruction in Notre DameUniversity at Notre Dame, Indiana. Later he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he waaemployed as head bookkeeper by the Northern Trust Company a
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