Magden, Capt. Wm. M.

MAGDEN, GATES

Posted By: Alice Warner Brosey
Date: 7/6/2026 at 06:07:52

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Alice Warner Brosey http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 September 2, 2011, 4:03 pm

Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

Capt. Wm. M. Magden, attorney at law, was born in Genesee county, N. Y., in
1818; he removed to Wayne county, Mich., and engaged in the manufacture of
agricultural implements; afterwards studied law in the office of Morgan &
Joslin, at Elgin, Ill., and with Gen. Baker, at Clinton, Ia., two years, and
admitted to the bar in Clinton county, in Dec., 1859, Judge Dillon presiding. He
practiced in that county until 1862 and enlisted in the 20th Ia. Inft., served
three years, and was promoted to captain. He was in a number of prominent
battles and was wounded in the right arm by a ball, in the right side by a
bursting shell, and lost the ends of two fingers of the left hand. He was
discharged in 1864, and returned to Clinton county; removed to Dunlap, Harrison
county, in 1870, and soon after opened an office at Woodbine. He is a member of
the A. F. & A. M. order. In 1855, he was married to Elizabeth Gates, at Elgin,
Ill., and has ten children.

Additional Comments:
From Harrison County Chapter, Woodbine Biographies.

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