Walter L. Eichendorf
Walter L. Eichendorf is
consistently to be designated as one of the
representative younger members of the bar of Clayton
county, and is engaged in the successful practice of his
profession at McGregor. His personality and professional
ability have given him secure place in popular confidence
and esteem and his law business shows a constantly
cumulative tendency, the while it has involved his
appearance in connection with important litigated causes
in which he has won decisive victories and proved himself
a resourceful trial lawyer. He has deep appreciation of
the dignity and importance of his chosen vocation and its
unwritten ethical code finds in him a close observer.
In the city of Clinton, judicial center of the Iowa
county of the same name, Mr. Eichendorf was born on the
26th of July, 1889, and he is a son of John and Amelia A.
(Kranert) Eichendorf, who still maintain their residence
at McGregor, and of whose three children the subject of
this sketch was the second in order of birth. Harry G.,
the elder son, resides at McGregor and is a shoe man by
vocation; and Lillian is the wife of George F. Hamilton,
of Hampton, Franklin county, this state. John Eichendoff
was born and reared in Germany, where he learned the
trade of tailor, and in the early '80s he immigrated to
the United States and engaged in the work of his trade in
the city of Clinton, Iowa. Six years later he came with
his family to Clayton county and established his home in
the thriving village of McGregor, where he has since been
engaged in successful business as a merchant tailor, his
political support being given to the Republican party and
both he and his wife holding membership in the Christian
Science church.
Walter L. Eichendorf was a child at the time of the
family removal to Clayton county and at McGregor he was
reared to adult age. He continued his studies in the
public schools until he had completed the curriculum of
the McGregor high school, and within a short time after
his graduation he followed the line of his ambitious
purpose and was matriculated in the law department of the
University of Iowa, in which he was graduated as a member
of the class of 1912, his admission to the bar of his
native state having been virtually simultaneous with his
reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His
professional novitiate was served at Lake Mills,
Winnebago county, where for eighteen months he was junior
member of the law firm of Kingland & Eichendorf and
where his initial success justified fully his choice of
vocation. At the expiration of the period noted he
returned to McGregor, where he has developed a
substantial and representative law business that is
constantly expanding in scope and importance and where he
stands forth as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. He
is a well fortified advocate of the principles and
policies of the Republican party and is affiliated with
Bezer Lodge, No. 135, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons,
of which he is serving as secretary in 1916. His name is
still enrolled on the roster of eligible young bachelors
in his native state, and he remains at the parental home.
He is popular in professional, business and social
circles and is an active member of the Clayton County Bar
Association.
source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical Times Down to
the Present; by Realto E. Price, Vol. II; pg.
105-106
-submitted by S. Ferrall
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