LAUGHLIN, E. P.

LAUGHLIN, OBRIEN, OBRIEN

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 2/2/2004 at 07:14:13

E.P. Laughlin

Representative from Fremont county, was born May 10, 1881, on the farm he now owns where his father first broke the prairie. Completed Imogene public school and the Christian Brothers college in St. Joseph, Missouri. Taught school in Fremont county in 1900, 1901 and 1902. Was married April 20, 1909, to Theresa O'Brien. They have three children, Matthew, Lucille and Louis. Farmer and stock raiser. Started raising pure bred polled Shorthorn cattle in 1908 and has improved and enlarged the herd. In politics a democrat.

source: Iowa Official Register 1927-1928; Biographies of State Representatives; pg. 249