The state of Iowa; something of its history, its institutions, its resources and natural advantages . pe and the most promising for the abodeof a cultured, contented and happy people. Where else on earth can be found a province or principality,a state or nation with 55,000 square miles of land so rich and ofsuch even and average And with neighbors socongenial, as the States which bound our borders ? With ahealthful climate, free from biting northern winds, or blightingsouthern blasts, there is no place more deserving to be calledhome. This booklet is especially dedicated to the
The state of Iowa; something of its history, its institutions, its resources and natural advantages . pe and the most promising for the abodeof a cultured, contented and happy people. Where else on earth can be found a province or principality,a state or nation with 55,000 square miles of land so rich and ofsuch even and average And with neighbors socongenial, as the States which bound our borders ? With ahealthful climate, free from biting northern winds, or blightingsouthern blasts, there is no place more deserving to be calledhome. This booklet is especially dedicated to the promoters of theLouisiana Purchase Exposition, not unmindful, however, of thesplendid Iowa citizenship, which has made it possible to presentsuch a record. It has been compiled and printed by the IowaPublishing Company, of Davenport, Iowa. The Hon. W. , member of the State Senate, is the editor. Bothpublisher and editor deserve credit and commendation from thereader and especially from the people of Iowa for painstakinglabor in the collection and arrangement of data for this record. ^^^^. TMt IOWA PUBL^HiNC r IOWA COMMISSION LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. St. Louis, 1904. On January 6, 1899, Governor Leslie M. Shaw appointed andcommissioned tiie following named gentlemen as a preliminary com-mission to represent the State of Iowa at a convention of representa-tives of the states in the Louisiana Purchase to be held in thecity of St. Louis, Missouri, in the month of January, 1899: SamuelB. Evans, of Wapello county; Charles M. Junkin, of Jefferson county;S. B. Ziegler, of Fayette county; Charles A. Stanton, of Appanoosecounty; A. B. Funk, of Dickinson county; James C. Milliman, ofHarrison county; Edward H. Hunter, of Polk county; LafayetteYoung, of Polk county; Edward P. Heizer, of Woodbury county;John L. Waite, of Des Moines county; David Brant, of Clinton county;Charles J. A. Ericson, of Boone county; Wm. E. Fuller, of Fayettecounty; Samuel M. Leach, of Dallas county;
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