ÛCourts and Legal Profession
Source: Courts and Legal Profession of Iowa
Hon. Chester C. Cole, Historia,
Hon. E. C. Ebersole, Editor
H. C. Cooper, jr. & Co.
Chicago, Illinois
1907
HISTORICAL.
This county was named and its boundaries fixed by the territorial legislature of Wisconsin at its session of 1838 and 1839 at Burlington. The name given it was in honor of General George W. Jones, who was United States surveyor with his office at Dubuque; also delegate to congress from Wisconsin territory, and later presentative of Iowa in the United States senate. The first term of court was held at Edcnburgh, in 1840, by Thomas S. Wilson, judge. In 1845 the county-seat was removed from Edenburgh to Newport by a vote of the people. There was at this time only a small log cabin in the place. In 1847 the county-seat was removed to Lexington. The name of the town was soon changed to Anamosa in honor of a handsome Indian girl, who once made her home there, and whose
father was a chief named Nas-i-nus. William Haddock issued the first newspaper in the county in February, 1852.
It was called the "Anamosa News."
THE PRESENT BAR.
The attorneys of Jones county are as follows:
R. M. Corbit
Cash & Rhinehart
Park Chamberlain
W. I. Chamberlain
A. A. Cole
Geo. D. Sailor
J. W. Doxsee
Ellison & Gorman
N. W. Hutchins
Herrick & Bauder
J. J. Locher
B. J. Lawcamp
Geo. C. Lawrence
Davis McCarn
Remley & Remley
D. D. Rorick
E. E. Reed
J. S. Stacy
Welch & Welch
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Benj. H. Miller is a native of Iowa being born in Jones county April 10, 1845. His father was a native of West
Virginia, and his mother was from Pennsylvania. They both went to Ohio when quite young. They settled in Jones county, Iowa, in 1844. The subject of this sketch was educated at the district and graded schools of Jones
county. He read law alone, under Thomas Pierce, at Anamosa, but he was never in his ofhcc except to borrov books. He was admitted March 13, 1876, before Judge McKean, circuit judge of Jones county. He began to practice his profession in 1876 at Olin, and continued there until 1897, when he removed to Anamosa. In 1899 he formed a partnership with Park Chamberlain which continued until Mr. Miller was elected district judge in 1902. Judge Miller is a democrat and has served several terms as mayor of Anamosa.
Howard M. Remley was born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, January 17, 1846. His parents were James and Jane C. (Anderson) Remley. His father's folks came from Germany to the United States about 1760 and settled in Pennsylvania. Then in about 1790 they removed to Virginia (now West Virginia). His mother's family were English and settled in New Jersey in 1699. Twenty years afterwards, 1719, they moved to Virginia. Howard M. received his education in a private school at Lewisburg and at the Iowa City high school. He took a collegiate course at the State University and was graduated in 1869, In 1872 he graduated from the law department of the same institution and was admitted the same year. He opened an oflice with his brother under the firm name of Remley & Remley. They were together about four years, when his brother moved to Iowa City. Then he joined with T. R. Ercanbrack and continued with him for twenty years, when he went on the bench and served nearly seven years. Since then he and his son, J. E., have been together as Remley & Remley, and they are doing a general law business. In politics he is a republican and generally active, more on account of his friends than for self. He has never held office other than district judge.
James E. Remley was born in Anamosa, Iowa, February 24, 1877, and is a son of Judge Howard M. and Mary (Underwood) Remley. His mother's folks were from Rhode Island, coming to Iowa in 1855. He graduated from the public schools and high school in 1896. He then took a collegiate course at the Iowa State University, Iowa City, and graduated in 1900, and from the law department in 1901. He practiced alone from July, 1901, to January 1, 1903, when he joined his father under the firm name of Remley & Remley. He is a republican and generally active in politics. He was admitted to the Iowa bar in
1901.
Frank O. Ellison was born in New York City July 4, 1853. He attended the common and high schools in New York, and Mount Morris Academy. He read law over two years at Indianola, Iowa, and was admitted before Judge Maxwell in 1874. He was in the office of Major E. S. Bailey of Clinton, when in the spring of 1875 he removed to Wyoming, Iowa, and practiced his profession until 1889, then removing to Anamosa. He has been city attorney, county attorney, member of the Twenty-fifth general assembly and state senator. In 1904 he was presidential elector from the Fifth congressional district.
John S. Stacy was born March 13, 1833, at De Kalb, St. Lawrence county, New York. His early education was obtained at the old plank school house at De Kalb, New York. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York. He read law by himself and was admitted before Judge Tuttle at Tipton, Iowa, in 1858. In 1859 he formed a partnership under the firm name of Cutler & Stacy, which continued until the fall of 1862. He then practiced alone five years, when in 1867 Milton
Remley joined him, and the firm became Stacy & Remley. They were together until 1872 when Mr. Stacy removed to California. In about 1875 he returned to Anamosa and has been in general practice since. He was revenue collector seven years, county judge one term and member of national convention which nominated Lincoln for second term.
Thomas R. Ercanbrack was born in New York State August 19, 1832. He had a good education, having graduated from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1858. He was admitted to the New York bar November 25, 1859, and to the Iowa bar December 3, 1867. He began to practice at Anamosa in 1868. He Avas a delegate to the republican national convention held at Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. Ercanbrack died August 4, 1901.
D. McCam was born at Newark, New York, April 11, 1832. His father was James and his mother Margaret (Failing) McCarn. They came from an old New York Dutch family. His education w^as acquired at the common schools of his native town under private tutors. He read law at Newark, New York, with S. K. Williams, and was admitted to practice in that state in 1855. He came west and opened an office at Tipton in the fall of 1856. In 1857 he removed to Anamosa, and he has been in practice here since that time. He was probate judge for five years — 1864 to 1869 — under the old law. In politics he is a republican, but has not been active in late years.
Park Chamberlain was born at Wyoming, Iowa, February 6, 1877. He was educated at the Wyoming public schools and the State University of Iowa. He read law with his father, W. I. Chamberlain, and at the State University of Iowa, and was admitted May 10, 1899. He began to practice at Wyoming, removing to Anamosa in July, 1900, when he entered into partnership with B. H. Miller, which continued until January, 1903.
Chas. J. Cash was born at Anamosa, Iowa, February 20, 1870. He was graduated from the Anamosa high school in 1889. He read law with F. O. Ellison two years, and was admitted in 1894. He was county attorney from 1903 to 1904.
George C. Gorman was born in Jones county December 21, 1882. He attended St. Joseph college, Dubuque, Iowa, and graduated from the law department of the State University in June, 1905, and was admitted to the bar.
Bennett E. Rhinehart was born in Pennsylvania November 27, 1868. He came to Iowa with his parents and settled in Taylor county, in 1869. He read law and was admitted in 1896. He has served as city attorney of Anamosa.
A. G. Bauder, Ionticello, was born May 6, 1875, and was educated in the public and high schools of Elgin, Iowa, where he spent his boyhood. He graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal, at Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1897, and from the Iowa State University law department in 1900, and he was then admitted. He began the law business with Mr. Wilds at Anamosa, under the firm name of Wilds & Bauder. In 1901 he removed to Monticello and became a member of the firm of Herrick & Bauder. They are engaged in general practice. In politics Mr. Bauder is a republican, and he is county attorney at the
present time - 1906.
Jacob W. Doxsee was born in Summitt county, Ohio, January 17, 1857, and is a son of Alfred R. and Mary J. (Bennett) Doxsee. His grandfather came from Holland and settled in New York, and then removed to Ohio in an early day. Jacob attended the high school at Monticello, and Lenox College, Hopkinton, Iowa. He graduated from the State Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, in 1877. He read law with M. W. Herrick, Monticello, two years, and was admitted before Judge McKean in March, 1879. In 1880 he formed a partnership with Mr. Herrick, which continued until 1889. Since that time he has practiced alone, making probate law a specialty. Mr. Doxsee was a delegate to the republican national convention that nominated Roosevelt in 1904. Mr. Doxsee, in collaboration with Mr. Herrick, published a work on probate law and
practice in 18S4, which was received with much favor by the lawyers of Iowa.
Envin E. Reed was born June 15, 1873. He graduated from the Monticello high school in 1891. He then took a law course at the Drake University and was graduated in 1898, and admitted in 1900. He was county attorney of Jones county from 1901 to 1902, and city attorney of Monticello. He served in the Spanish-American war thirteen months, being discharged May 13, 1899.
John J. Locher was born in Delaware county, Iowa, December 8, 1877. His parents settled in Monticello, Iowa, in 1871. John J. took a legal course at the Drake University and graduated in 1904 and was admitted that year. He is city attorney, secretary and director of the Carnegie library, and secretary of the Business Men's Association of Monticello.
W. I. Chamberlain, Wyoming, Iowa, was born in Binghamton. New York, March 24, 1846. He was educated at the Binghamton academy. He read law from 1867 to 1870 with B. H. White, Wyoming, Iowa, and was admitted in 1870. He has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Wyoming continuously since 1871. Since 1880 has edited the "Wyoming Journal."
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