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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.

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

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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