Frainey, John J.

FRAINEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/18/2008 at 13:51:05

John Jay Frainey

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.23, Council Bluffs)
John Jay Frainey, attorney, Council Bluffs, was born in Harrison County, Ky., January 13, 1856, and lived there until 1862, when he went to New York City, where he was educated, also attending the Brooklyn common schools. In 1870, he commenced clerking for Messrs. Ottinger & Bro., wholesale cotton and tobacco brokers, in New York. He came West in 1872, to Washington, Ind., and commenced reading law with Judge James W. Ogden, of that place, and in the fall of 1877 entered the law class of Bloomington, Ind., University, from which he graduated in the spring of 1878, having conferred on him the degree of LL. B. He then began the practice of law at Washington, Ind., where he remained one year, then went to St. Louis, where he remained three months. From St. Louis he went to Chicago; stayed there three months, and in the spring of 1880, came to Council Bluffs, where he began practice, and in the fall of 1880 was elected Justice of the Peace on the Democratic ticket, the Republican majority of the city being 160; he received a majority of eighteen, and still holds that office. He is of Irish descent.