CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
J. D. CAUGHRAN.
J. D. Caughran, who was born in Iowa, and came to the town of Shelby in 1872, was for many years a prominent citizen of the county and leader in the Republican party. Later he moved to the city of Tacoma, Washington, where he achieved much distinction. He became a member of the city council of Tacoma and handled the first wheat shipped abroad from that point, consisting of one million bushels. He went into partnership with D. B. Sheller, a former resident of Harlan, in the abstract business. He was a member of the Washington Legislature during the years of 1891-2. Mr. Caughran went to Tacoma in 1885. He previously to that time had been in the grain, lumber and banking business at Shelby for thirteen years. He had served as lieutenant in the Civil War.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 565.
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