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he enlisted in Company I, 3d Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 

 and served through the war. Returning home in 1865, 

 scarcely 20 years of age, he entered Cedar Valley Semi- 

 nary, Osage, Iowa, graduating from there in 1867. In 

 1868 he married Miss Elizabeth Murray, a graduate from 

 the same school, and a bright and talented woman who 

 has made him a worthy helpmate and who is a useful and 

 energetic Alliance worker. Mr. Wardall is not only a 

 reformer, but is a philanthropist, and can always be 

 found on the right side and at the front. He was an 

 active worker in the Grange movement for many years. 

 He went into the Alliance at the beginning in Dakota 

 and at once came to the front as an organizer and 

 disciplinarian. He started the Alliance insurance enter- 

 prise, under instructions of the Dakota State Alliance, 

 including fire, life and hail, each in separate departments, 

 and has made it a grand success saving to the members 

 many thousands of dollars and giving unqualified satisfac- 

 tion. By request of the National officers he is now per- 

 fecting a plan to extend the benefit of cheap and reliable 

 insurance to the members of the Order in every State, 

 under the auspices of the National Alliance. Mr. Wardall 

 is a man of unusual ability and integrity, and possesses 

 the confidence of all his associates. He is a member of 

 the South Dakota Alliance Executive Board, and much 

 credit is due him for the success of the Order in his State. 

 In the fall of 1889 the Alliance supported him for United 

 States Senator. He was a delegate to the St. L,ouis Con- 

 vention in December, 1889, and did some good work in 

 behalf of consolidation. He is a strong temperance man 

 and a champion of equal suffrage. Personally, Mr. 

 Wardall is a man of fine appearance, standing 6 feet and 

 3 inches high, and weighing over 200 pounds. He is the 

 picture of vigorous health and boundless energy 



