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Mccrary, Alvin Jasper

lawyer, jurist, was born March 20, 1844, in Keosauqua, Iowa. He took part as a union soldier during the civil war. He then studied law in Keokuk, Iowa, which city has been his home ever since, actively engaged in the practice of his profession for over thirty years. He has served with distinction as judge of the district court of the first district of Iowa.

He has been president of the Iowa State Bar association; is an active member of the American Bar association, and represents Iowa in the general council of that association. He has devoted much time and money to religious work in the state; for twenty-two years has been superintendent of the Sunday-school of his home church; and for five years president of the Iowa baptist state convention.

MCCRARY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 29, 1835, in Evansville, Ind. In 1857 he was elected to the Iowa state legislature; and in 1861 was elected to the state senate for four years.

In 1868 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second, fortythird and forty-fourth congresses. In 1879 he was appointed United States circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit. He was the author of Treatise on the American Law of Elections; and Reports of the Circuit Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83. He died in 1890.