HERBERT T. GRANGER

GRANGER

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 13:08:52

HERBERT T. GRANGER, lawyer at Corning, was born in the Province of Canada, the son of John L. and Laura J. (Taylor) Granger, native of New York, who moved to the Province for a brief period, and thence to Illinois when their son was two years old. The father is a Congregational minister of twenty-five years' standing.

Mr. Granger, whose name heads this sketch, was educated at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, and at Oberlin (Ohio) College. His first employment thereafter was in the capacity of bookkeeper for three years by the Sandwich Manufacturing Company, of Sandwich, Illinois. He then took up the study of law at Hennepin, Illinois, and after a further course of study at Bunker Hill, that State, was admitted to the bar by the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1883 he established himself here in Corning, in connection with W. O. Mitchell, but he is now practicing alone. His steadily growing practice and the increasing confidence of the public in his ability indicate that he is a man of industry and integrity. His future is full of promise. Clear and concise in statement, comprehensive in comparison of authorities, and forcible, almost brilliant, in public address, he has a great advantage. He is devoted to his profession, holding al other avocations subordinate.

He married Miss Mary Jones, of Corning, and his home life is as pure and devoted as his public is honorable and successful. He is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, also of the Congregational Church, and in his political principles is a Republican.