In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
From Wolfe's history of Clinton County, Iowa (1911)
GARRETT EUGENE LAMB.
Iowa has been especially honored in the character and career of her public and professional men. In every county there are to be found, rising above their fellows, individuals born to leadership in the various vocations and professions, men who dominate by natural endowment and force of character. Such men are by no means rare and it is always profitable to study their lives and hold up their achievements as incentives to greater activity and higher excellence on the part of others just entering upon their first struggles with the world. These reflections are suggested by the career of one who has forged his way to the front ranks and who by a strong inherent force and innate ability, directed by intelligence and judgment of a high order, stands today among the successful men of Clinton county and eastern Iowa.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
As printed in Wolfe's history of Clinton County, Iowa (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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