P. H. BRISTOW

BRISTOW

Posted By: Becke Dawson (email)
Date: 1/2/2008 at 18:02:03

IOWA STATE REGISTER, Friday August 26, 1881

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES:

MR. P. H. BRISTOW

The present deputy Auditor and nominee of the convention for Auditor, was born in Henry county, Iowa, in 1846, the same year in which Iowa was admitted as a State into the Union. He parents removed when he was only four years old, to Denmark, Lee county, in this state, which has been their home until the last four or five years. Mr. Bristow received a good academic education at Denmark Academy, then under the management of Prof. Edson, now one of the first teacher of the State and a professor in the Iowa College at Grinnell. After leaving school he taught for three years, most of the time near Jacksonville, Illinois. He was a soldier, although too young to go into the army at the opeing of the war, and has always been identified with the gathering of the soldiers in Polk county. He came to Des Moines in 1871, and for nearly three years was connected with the STATE JOURNAL when it was a daily paper, published under the name of the REPUBLICAN. For about three years he was Deputy United States Collector under Mr. L. P. Sherman, and for four years has been Deputy Auditor.