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Title: History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hartman, John C., 1861- ed
Subjects: Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- History Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e City. Mr. Tedford is a progressive republican and at the polls supports the policiesin which he believes. He has served upon the city council for four years andfor several years has been a member of the school board. There are many inthe county who are his loyal friends and those who have known him most inti-mately value his good opinion most highly and his character is of such sterlingworth that it is most appreciated where best known. HOWARD M. SMITH. Howard M. Smith is general superintendent of the Citizens Gas & ElectricCompany of Waterloo, in which city he has resided for three and one half years.His birth occurred near Nashua, but across the line in Bremer county, Iowa, in1881, and his boyhood days were spent upon a farm in that county, where helived until he had attained his majority, dividing his time between the work of thefields, the duties of the schoolroom and the pleasures of the playground. Atlength he entered the Iowa State College at Ames and was graduated on the
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HOWAED M. SMITH HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 145 completion of a course in electrical engineering with the class of 1905. Subse-quently he spent six months in Hammond, Indiana, with the gas company ofthat place and on the expiration of that period went to Mobile, Alabama, wherehe remained for four and one-half years with a gas company. On severing thatconnection he took up his abode in Waterloo, where he accepted the superin-tendency of the gas department of the Citizens Gas & Electric Company. Ability,however, won him advancement and since the ist of January, 1914, he has beengeneral superintendent of the entire plant. Waterloo is a growing western city. It has developed rapidly in recent yearsand its outlook for the future is bright. Among the organizations which havebeen formed to advance its interests and upbuilding are the Commercial Club andBoard of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and Waterloo Club and the TownCriers Club, with all of which Mr. Smith is identified. He likes t

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