(Daniel W. Marquart,) Mayor of Norman, Oklahoma, was born in Allen County, Indiana, February 15, 1848.1 He served in the late war in Company H, Ninety-first Indiana Infantry and in 1866 moved to Adair County, Iowa and in 1877 was elected county auditor of that county, was re-elected for three consecutive terms, and held many other positions of trust in said county. He was appointed postmaster of Norman in May 1889, and was unanimously elected mayor of Norman in October 1889.2
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1. Date of birth is actually 16th. 2. This copy is taken from the book
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA by Marion T. Rock. HON. D. W. MARQUART
3. The facing page in this book has a wood cut picture, however, NORMAN, OKLAHOMA 3
used here is a plate courtesy the Norman Transcript.
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