History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/4/Horace M. Towner

by Benjamin F. Gue

HORACE M. TOWNER was born at Belvedere, Illinois, October 23, 1855. He attended public school in his native town and Chicago, teaching and studying alternately, thus earning the means to enable him to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and began the practice of his profession in Corning, Adams County, Iowa, where he had located. In 1890 he was elected on the Republican ticket judge of the Third Judicial District and at the close of the term in 1894, his renomination was endorsed by the Democrats and he was reëlected without opposition. In 1898 he was again elected, and has been prominently supported for a seat on the Supreme bench. Judge Towner is a man of literary taste and has musical talent, being a composer of merit.