Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . religious and social life of the community. A large Sabbath School is maintained by the cougTegation, inwhich there are four divisions, for instruction in Jewish History,Religion, and Hebrew, by competent teachers. Beginning with his little store on Second Street, Mr. , by enterprise, integrity, and public spirit, become one of thesolid, substantial men of the city. Politically, he is a Democrat, but not iu any wise a , he is quiet, taciturn, imostentatious, eai-es very littleabout ordinary social fu
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . religious and social life of the community. A large Sabbath School is maintained by the cougTegation, inwhich there are four divisions, for instruction in Jewish History,Religion, and Hebrew, by competent teachers. Beginning with his little store on Second Street, Mr. , by enterprise, integrity, and public spirit, become one of thesolid, substantial men of the city. Politically, he is a Democrat, but not iu any wise a , he is quiet, taciturn, imostentatious, eai-es very littleabout ordinary social functions, is coui-teous and affable; in tem-perament, decidedly positive. I would classify him with the home-builders. He is a member of Pioneer Lodge, Number Twenty-two,of the Masonic order; Corinthian Chapter, Xumber Foui-teen,Royal Arch JMasons; Des Moines Consistory, S. P. R. S., Thirty-second Degree; a chai-ter member of Lazai-us Samiseh Lodge ofK. S. B., organized JSTovember Seventeenth, 1876, and was electedits first Vice-Piesident. December First, DAVID B. MURROW DAVID B. MURROW APIOjSTEER of Polk County who has been a resident, for sixtyyears, and prominently identified with it« development, isDavid B. Murrow. Bom in Parke County, Indiana, March Second, 1832, of Scotch-Irish ancestry on the side of his father, and Welsh on that of hismother, he passed the days of his youth on the farm of his father,who, in addition to farming, dealt in live-stock. During the Winter, he acquired such education as the commonschool of that time afforded, in a log schoolhouse with puncheonlAmr and slab seats, without back or desk. lie attended no other school, but by keen observation and dili-gent reading, stored his mind with such intelligence as made himsuccessful in business, a good and helpful citizen. In the Fall of 1843, having a family of children and a verysmall farm, his father decided to come to Iowa, where there wasmore land to the acre and more acres to be had, not only
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