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3 unusual facts about Thomas Harris MacDonald


Thomas Harris MacDonald

In 1907, he married Elizabeth Dunham of Ames, Iowa and they had two children before her death in 1935.

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(He attended elementary and high school at public schools in Montezuma, Iowa, the county seat.)

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Most people of the era saw railroads as the solution, but MacDonald went to Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts at Ames (transferring after a year at Iowa State Teachers College) to learn road building as a student of Anson Marston.



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