BIOGRAPHY: Case, Louis
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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	Honorable LOUIS CASE.  Representative from Bremer County in the Legislature of 
Iowa in 1874-5, was born in the town of Harmony, Chautauqua County, New York, July 6, 
1834.  He was the twelfth of fourteen children of the same parents of whom eleven were 
boys, and all reared upon a farm.  He attended one term at the Mayville academy, and 
one at the Jamestown academy, prominent educational institutions of Chautauqua 
County, with these exceptions his education was obtained at district schools.  In 
November, 1854, when in the 21st year of his age, Mr. Case resolved to seek fame and 
fortune in the West, and accordingly emigrated to Illinois.  Locating in DeKalb County in 
that State, he there remained one year, engaged in teaching school.  In March, 1855, 
again emigrating westward, he located at Delhi, Delaware County, Iowa, in the office of 
the Recorder of which county he became a clerk.  This position he retained until August 
in the same year, when he settled at Waverly, Bremer County, where he has ever since 
continued to reside.  Entering as a clerk the office of the Recorder of Bremer County 
soon after his arrival at Waverly, Bremer County, Mr. Case continued therein until June, 
1858.  In August of that year he was elected Clerk of the District Court.  In October, 1860, 
he was re-elected to the same office.  In October, 1864, he was elected Recorder, 
continuing in that office the succeeding two years.  Thereafter, In January, 1869, he was 
appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Bremer County to fill the vacancy occasioned 
by the resignation of the Honorable O. F. Avery, county Judge.  In October following, he 
was elected the first County Auditor, serving the full term.  He was next elected 
Representative from Bremer County in the State Legislature in October, 1873.  Besides the 
several more important offices named, Mr. Case was a member of the School Board of 
the City of Waverly in the years 1873-4-5, and three times elected Assessor of the same 
city – in 1869, 1873, and 1875.  Otherwise, he was joint proprietor of The Waverly 
Republican, in 1861; has been Notary Public for Bremer County during eighteen 
successive years, and has profitably conducted an extensive land and conveyancing 
business, when not officially engaged.  In all his political life, Mr. Case has been invariably 
a Republican.