Henry Anson

Historical marker location:

1 East Main Street, Marshalltown, Iowa

( Marker is on East Main Street east of South Center Street, on the right when traveling east.)

April 19, 1826 - November 30, 1905. Founder of Marshalltown.

The first American casualty of World War I was a sailor from Iowa named Merle Hay. He was killed when the German submarine U-58 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones on December 6, 1917.