Montgomery-Cedar-Muscatine County IA Archives Biographies.....Deemer, Horace E September 24, 1858 - 
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Author: Benjamin F Gue

Horace E Deemer was born on the 24th of September, 1858, at Bourbon, Marshall
County, Indiana. In 1864 his parents, who were Quakers, removed to Iowa, making
their home near the Quaker colony of Springdale, made famous for harboring John
Brown while he drilled his band for the Harper's Ferry raid. Here the young man
began his education in the public schools, taking a course later in the High
School at West Liberty and eventually graduating from the State University at
Iowa City. He first engaged in the furniture business at West Liberty but later
took up the study of law and removing to Red Oak, entered upon the practice of
his new profession. He met with marked success and was chosen chairman of the
Republican county committee and secretary of the county agricultural society. In
November, 1886, he was elected a Republican judge of the Fifteenth Judicial
District and at the close of the term was reelected but, before the expiration
of his second term was appointed by Governor Jackson, Associate Judge of the
Supreme Court. In 1898 he became Chief Justice, one of the youngest men who has
attained that position in Iowa. In 1898 he was reelected. Judge Deemer has been
one of the Lecturers at the Law Department of the State University, author of
Synopsis of Legal Subjects, member of the State and American Bar Associations.
He has written several opinions involving constitutional questions. 

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History of Iowa: From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Four Volumes by Benjamin F Gue
Volume IV 
Iowa Biography

Copyright 1903

The Century History Company
41 Lafayette Place
New York City

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