Ament, W. S.

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Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/10/2006 at 13:59:35

W. S. Ament

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.4, Council Bluffs)
W. S. Ament, attorney, Council Bluffs, has been a resident of Council Bluffs since August 13, 1877. On the 15th of the same month, he became the junior member of the firm of Sapp, Lyman & Ament. He remained a member of this firm for three and a half years, when he formed a new partnership under the firm name of Ament & Sims, which still exist. Mr. Ament is a native if Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill. He graduated from the high school of his native town, and then went to Lincoln, Ill.; he had spent about two years there as a salesman, when he was appointed Deputy County Clerk, and held that position but three months, when he was appointed Deputy Circuit Clerk, and discharged the duties of that position for about two years; he then began the study of law with Mr. D. H. Harts of Lincoln, with whom he remained two years, and then attended, and subsequently, graduated from the Albany law school of Albany, N. Y. Since becoming a resident of Council Bluffs, he has devoted his time exclusively to the practice of law, and has met with good success.