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 EDMUND BOOTH, pioneer journalist, came to the Territory of Iowa in 1839, locating in Jones County, where he built the first frame house. It was he who gave to his home town the beautiful Indian name, Anamosa, which signifies “White Fawn,” and belonged to a bright Indian girl of that section of the country. Mr. Booth was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, August 24, 1810. At the age of four he lost his hearing through illness and was educated at the American School for the Deaf at Hartford, Connecticut, where he served several years as a teacher. He received no college education, but the honorary degree of A. M. has been conferred upon him by the Oallaudet College of the Deaf at Washington, D. C. In 1855 Mr. Booth became editor of the Anamosa Eureka which was a radical antislavery journal and one of the most ably conducted in the State. When the Republican party was organized the Eureka became an advocate of its principles. Mr. Booth wag the originator of the movement to secure the education of the deaf children of Iowa at Jacksonville, Illinois, before our State provided an institution for their accommodation. He was chairman of the National Convention of Deaf Mutes at Cincinnati in 1880. During all of the years that Mr. Booth has lived in Iowa he has been a positive force in the community and in the field of journalism has been an influential factor in politics. DANIEL H. BOWEN was born in Decatur, Wisconsin, September 6, 1850. He was reared on a farm and received a liberal education, teaching school for several years. At twenty-two years of age he began the study of medicine in Broadhead, Wisconsin, and soon after entered Rush Medical College from which he graduated in the class of 1876. He removed to Iowa, locating at Waukon in Allamakee County, where he has practiced medicine for more than twenty-five years. He was an active Republican and in 1895 was elected Representative in the House of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, and has been twice reëlected, serving in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies. He was chosen speaker of the House of the latter session, having been selected by the supporters of Senator John H. Gear. For seven years Dr. Bowen was a surgeon of the Fourth Regiment of the Iowa National Guard and has held many official positions in his home city and county. THOMAS BOWMAN was born at Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, May 25, 1848. He came to Iowa in 1868, making his home at Council Bluffs, where he engaged in commercial business. In 1875 he was elected treasurer of Pottawattamie County and was twice reëlected, serving six years. He was chosen mayor of Council Bluffs in 1882 and in 1885 was appointed postmaster, serving until 1889. In 1883 he acquired a controlling interest in the Council Bluffs Globe, a Democratic daily of which he assumed the editorial management. He was nominated by the Democrats