McWilliams, H. L.

MCWILLIAMS

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Date: 10/3/2008 at 13:46:40

H. L. McWilliams

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.190, Neola Twp.)
H. L. McWilliams, attorney, Neola, was born October 2, 1849, near Mineral Point, Iowa Co., Wis.; was raised and brought up on a farm near the place of his birth; obtained his early education through the district and normal schools of his native State, and largely through his grandfather, Francis McKenna, who was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; left home in 1870; came to Iowa; became a schoolteacher and farmer; gave that up, and went into the real estate business, and took up the study of law at the same time; continued in that business about a year; moved to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he again took up the study of law, in the office of Flickinger Bros., at Walnut and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in 1878; opened an office in Walnut, Iowa, and continued in the practice there about six months; came to Neola, his present residence, in March, 1879; formed a copartnership with Mr. J. C. Chapman, under the firm name of McWilliams & Chapman, attorneys at law and real estate agents. The above firm have built up a large business since coming here. Was married, at Walnut, Iowa, April 29, 1882, to Miss Anna Stuart, a descendant of the Stuarts of Scotland.