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Born 1861
From History of Muscatine County, Iowa, from the earliest settlements to the present time; (1911)
IRVING B. RICHMAN.
Irving B. Richman should be noted among men of letters. Some time since the Brown University honored him with the title of LL. D. He has been vice president of the Iowa Literary Association, has written historical articles for the Atlantic Monthly, Political Science Quarterly and the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of ''John Brown Among the Quakers," "Appenzell, A Swiss Study," "Rhode Island, Its Making and History," and has just sent to the printer for publication "A History of California."
Mr. Richman is fifty years of age and is a native born son of Muscatine. He was educated in the public schools of this city and the State University of Iowa and is one of the county's distinguished alumni of that institution. In 1908 the State Historical Society honored him as a guest and tendered him a banquet, which was attended by many of the notables of the state.
As printed in History of Muscatine County, Iowa, from the earliest settlements to the present time; (1911). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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