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== Notable people == <!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WikiProject Cities/US Guideline--> <!-- NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE Only people who already have a Wikipedia article may appear here as Notable people. This establishes notability. The biographical article should say how they are associated with THIS CITY examples = born, raised, residing etc. An external reliable source of their association with THIS CITY should be cited in their Article and MUST be cited HERE. All others will be deleted without further explanation. Alphabetical by last name please. Use a short one line description of Notability. If the person you think is Notable and does not have a Wikipedia Article for themselves create one. Guidelines for the Notability of a person can be found by entering WP:PEOPLE in the wiki search. Guidelines on what is needed and how to write the Article can be found by entering WP:MOSBIO in the wiki search. END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *END OF NOTICE --> {{div col}} *[[Josiah H. Bonney]] (1817β1887), Iowa Secretary of State and territorial legislator.<ref>[http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0305 University of Iowa Libraries-Papers of Josiah H. Bonney]</ref> *[[Smith W. Brookhart]] (1869β1944) US Senator from Iowa<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000873|title= BROOKHART, Smith Wildman|dictionary= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2011-01-17}}</ref> *[[Henry Clay Caldwell]] (1832β1915) [[United States federal judge]] and Union Army officer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=354&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na|title= Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Caldwell, Henry Clay|publisher=Federal Judicial Center|access-date=2011-01-17}}</ref> *[[Caroline Matilda Dodson]] (1845β1898), physician *[[Sallie Fox]] (1845β1913), California pioneer who spent her childhood in Keosauqua<ref name = "Cheney">Cheney, J.W. (1915). [https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/12255/ "The Story of An Emigrant Train"]. ''The Annals of Iowa'', Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 82β83.</ref> *[[James B. Howell]] (1816β1880), newspaper editor and U.S. Senator, resided in Keosauqua<ref>"James B. Howell," ''National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Volume 9.'' New York: James T. White and Company, 1899; pg. 450.</ref> *[[Leonard John Rose]] (1827β1899), California pioneer and leader of the [[RoseβBaley Party]] who lived in Keosauqua from 1848 to 1858<ref name = "Cheney" /> *[[Theodosia Burr Shepherd]] (1845β1906), botanist<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8h4nb5hq/ Online Archives of California-Theodosia Burr Shepherd papers]</ref> *[[Phil Stong]] (1899β1957), an American author, journalist and Hollywood scenarist. He is best known for writing the novel ''[[State Fair (novel)|State Fair]]'', upon which three films were based; one starring [[Will Rogers]] (1933) and two that were [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] musicals (1945 and 1962). *[[Voltaire P. Twombly]], (1842β1918), Iowan politician, businessman and Medal of Honor recipient for the American Civil War, is buried in Keosauqua. Twombly briefly served as mayor of Keosauqua, where he had worked as a merchant.<ref name="Projects">{{cite web|url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3072|title=Voltare Paine Twombly|access-date=July 11, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714111915/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3072|archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> *[[Edward K. Valentine]] (1843β1916) US Representative from [[Nebraska]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000005|title= VALENTINE, Edward Kimble|dictionary= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2011-01-17}}</ref> *[[George G. Wright]] (1820β1896) US Senator from Iowa<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000759|title= WRIGHT, George Grover|dictionary= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2011-01-17}}</ref> {{div col end}}
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