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From Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901)
JAMES L. BEVER.
Few men are more prominent or more widely known in the enterprising city of Cedar Rapids than James L. Bever. He is an important factor in business and financial circles, and the high esteem in which he is held is well deserved. He is public-spirited, and thoroughly interested in whatever tends to promote the moral, intellectual and material welfare of the city where almost his entire life has been passed.
Mr. Bever \\as born in Coshocton, Ohio, March 4, 1838, and is a son of Sampson C. Bever, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. At the age of six years his parents removed to Millersburg, that state, where he attended a private school, and for a time was a pupil of Josiah Given, then a young law student, now chief justice of the supreme court of Iowa. When twelve years of age he came with the family to Cedar
As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Sampson C. Bever (b. 1808)
Their biographies name James L. Bever: Joseph Bair John B. Bever (b. 1852) Charles Denecke Godfrey Quaas
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