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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 516-517]

  BENJAMIN RADCLIFFE, attorney at law, Marcus, Iowa, is a native of
  Liverpool, England.  He was born April 15, 1852, and is a son of
  BENJAMIN and MARY (NOBLE) RADCLIFFE.  They were the parents of eleven
  children, BENJAMIN, Jr., being the second.  In 1856 they emigrated to
  America, believing that their children would have better opportunities
  to make homes for themselves.  They settled in Portage County, Wiscon-
  sin, on a farm; this was a new occupation for Mr. RADCLIFFE, Sr., but
  there he lived and reared his family, training his sons to agricultural
  pursuits.  BENJAMIN, Jr., attended the district schools in the neigh-
  borhood three months during the winter each year, until he reached his
  fourteenth year; he afterward attended a graded school for a short time,
  and in 1869, in his eighteenth year, he began teaching school.  He
  followed this profession during the winter months, and in the summer-
  time worked in a saw-mill and did rafting on the river.  In 1879 Mr.
  Radcliffe began giving some attention to the study of law, but it
  was not until 1882 that he devoted his entire time to its study. He
  is now the only attorney at Marcus, and has built up a good practice.
  It was in the spring of 1878 that he came to Cherokee County, and in
  the spring of 1879 he was engaged to teach the Marcus public school.
  He continued to fill this position until 1882, excepting the summer
  term of 1880, when he was a student at Ames Agricultural College.
  After he abandoned teaching as a profession he turned his attention
  to the practice of law. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1884,
  and served in that office until March, 1889, when he resigned.  He is
  a stanch Republican, and does all that he can to promote the interests
  of his party.  Mr. Radcliffe was united in marriage, December 14, 1881,
  to Miss ANNA WARD, the oldest daughter of GEORGE and SARAH WARD,
  residence of Amherst Township.  She was born July 12, 1862.  Three
  children have been born of this union: LEWIS H., CLARENCE O. and
  LAWRENCE W.  Mr. RADCLIFFE is an energetic young man, and is considered
  one of the rising attorneys of Western Iowa.

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