Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . continu-ously as President and Leader twenty-one years. She is a memberof the Womens Press Club of Des Moines, now in its eleventhyear. At a meeting of the Iowa Federation of Womens Clubs, MayFifteenth, 1907, at Oskaloosa, she was complimented by an unani-mous election as Honorary State Vice-President. She was thefirst Regent of the Abigail Adams Chapter, Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, organized in Des Moines in 1893, the honorbeing conferred upon her by the National Society, Daughters ofthe American Revolution, in recognit
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . continu-ously as President and Leader twenty-one years. She is a memberof the Womens Press Club of Des Moines, now in its eleventhyear. At a meeting of the Iowa Federation of Womens Clubs, MayFifteenth, 1907, at Oskaloosa, she was complimented by an unani-mous election as Honorary State Vice-President. She was thefirst Regent of the Abigail Adams Chapter, Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, organized in Des Moines in 1893, the honorbeing conferred upon her by the National Society, Daughters ofthe American Revolution, in recognition of her being a daughterof a Revolutionary soldier. While she has been active all her life in the efforts to broadenthe usefulness of women, and liberate them from the narrow boundsin which the customs of ages have held them, and, while a certainreward, very gratifying, has come to her from the recognition ofher work in that direction, she holds in the most sacred place thatwhich has come to her in the fulfillment of her duties as wife,mother and JUDGE JOSIAH GIVEN JUDGE JOSIAH GIVEN THOUGH not a pioneer of Polk County, Josiah Given is anearly settler, identified with much of the civic affairs of thecounty and state, and is widely known. Bom in Murrysville, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,October Thirty-first, 1828, of Irish parentage, he went, when tenyears old, with his parents to Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio,where his father settled on a farm and opened a crossroads black-smith shop as a side line, where Josiah exercised his muscles blow-ing the bellows, keeping flies from the horses his father was shoe-ing, stiffened his vertebral column picking stone on the farm, anddid such odd jobs as he could get. He devoted as much time aspossible acquiring an education, but schools were inferior, andaccessories limited, so that, whatever he secured was by persistenteffort under very adverse circumstances. When the Mexican War broke out, he enlisted as a snare drum
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