S. W. Soesbe

SOESBE, SAPULDING, WILSON, NEWELL

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/23/2004 at 22:37:41

Soesbe Brothers, attorneys, have been in practice at Greene since 1877. This is a well-known firm. They came here when Greene was in its earliest infancy, and are the oldest practicing lawyers in the town.
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S. W. Soesbe was born near Mechanicsville, Jones county, Iowa, September 24, 1844. His father, William Soesbe, settled in Burlington, from Indiana, in 1840, but soon after located in Jones county. He died in Anamosa in 1880.
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Previous to engaging in the practice of law, S. W. Soesbe, Esq., was for a time engaged in bridge building with A. Spaulding & Co., who were afterward known as the “Dubuque Bridge Company.” He came to Greene in 1871 and engaged in the real estate business. In the meantime he turned his attention to the study of the law, and was admitted in Judge D. W. Wilson’s court, at Waterloo, January 5, 1877, and at once entered into the practice of his profession here. His wife was Ella L. Newell, daughter of Lorenzo Newell, an early settler of Benton county.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 336-339