Excerpt from Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa: Leaders in Business, Politics and the Professions, Together With an Original and Authentic History of the State All this has been accomplished by an industrious people, who have just reason for pride, not only in their material accomplishments, but in the fact that they have carried forward the state as well in all those elements - education, arts, sciences, moral and religious training - which go to make up the fully-developed, rounded, manly character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.