BIOGRAPHY: Donnan, William G.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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     Honorable WILLIAM G. DONNAN, was born at West Charlton, New York, 
June 30, 1834; his early education was received on the farm at the 
district school, and at the Cambridge Academy; he attended Union 
College, New York, in 1853, and graduated in 1856.  He removed in 
August, 1856, to Independence, Iowa, where he studied law, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1857; in August of that year he was elected 
Treasurer and Recorder of Buchanan County, and held the office by re-
election until 1862, when he entered the Union Army as a private, and 
was promoted to first lieutenant, breveted captain and major for 
efficient service in the field, and served to the close of the 
Rebellion.  He was a Member of the State Senate of Iowa from 1868 to 
1870; was elected to the Forty-Second Congress as a Republican, re-
elected to the Forty-Third, and then declined being a candidate for 
further re-election.