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Show Iowa's First White Child. The first white child born in Iowa territory ter-ritory is still living at the age of 91, healthy, fairly active and not at all bad looking. She is Mrs. Malvina Bankbead, and recently celebrated her Jtirthday by a horseback ride to Humboldt, thirteen miles from her farm, resting but an hour I on the way. She has twelve children living in the same county with herself, the oldest a daughter of 70. She also has seventy-two grandchildren, fifty-five great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren. She smilingly says that Iowa "was considered a mighty , sickly country when I was a gal." |