MAHER, Charles J. - 1914

MAKER, CALLAGHAN, OCONNOR, HARMON, NICHOLSON, MOLYNEUX

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Date: 7/1/2009 at 12:26:25

HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

CHARLES J. MAHER.

Charles J. Maher, one of the leading and able young lawyers of Cherokee, now filling the office of county attorney in a creditable and able manner, was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, July 28, 1882. He is a son of Charles W. and Mary Elizabeth (Callaghan) Maher, the former born in Kingston, Canada, in October, 1839, and the latter in Connecticut. The father came to the United States in early life and settled first in Ottawa, Illinois, and then in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He is well known in business and financial circles of that vicinity, being director in the Iowa Savings Bank, the First National Bank, and the Iowa Telephone Company of Fort Dodge and president of the Badger Savings Bank of Badger and of the Harcourt Savings Bank at Harcourt. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church and a republican in his political views. He and his wife became the parents of nine children; Katheryn, the wife of Maurice OConnor of Fort Dodge; William F., of the same city; Mary, who married L. C. Harmon of Manistique, Michigan; Ellen V., at home; Blanche, the wife of George Nicholson, also of Manistique; Charles J., of this review; Francis S., of Fort Dodge; Olive and Angela at home.

Charles J. Maher acquired his early education in the public schools of Fort Dodge and afterward attended Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1907 and immediately afterward began the practice of his profession in Cherokee, forming a partnership with A. R. Molyneux, which still continues. This is one of the strongest and most important law firms in the city and is connected through an extensive and representative patronage with a great deal of important litigation. Mr. Maher has extensive property interests, owning three farms in Cherokee county and he is connected also with the Cherokee Sand & Gravel Company ; the Huntley Valley Land Company and the Consolidated Lumber Company of Manistique.

Air. Maher is connected fraternally with the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, the Eagles and the Foresters and joined Delta Chi during his university days. He is a devout member of the Roman Catholic church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He has gained recognition as one of the able and successful lawyers of Cherokee and by his high professional attainments and his sterling character has justified the respect and confidence in which he is held by the legal fraternity and the local public.