 For the next ten years he applied himself to private legal practice in Le Mars, holding no public office until 1882.He married Adelaide E. Stone on June 3, 1874.As a result of the 1880 census, Iowa's delegation in the U.S. House increased from nine to eleven members, causing the 1881 Iowa General Assembly (where George R. Struble was midway through his term as speaker of the House of Representatives) to reapportion the state's nine-district map into an eleven-district map.