Smith, Walter I.

SMITH

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 21:29:13

Walter I. Smith

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.249)
WALTER I. SMITH, one of the youngest, though most prominent members of the bar of Council Bluffs, is a native of this city, born July 10, 1862. His father George F. SMITH was an early resident of Council Bluffs. Mr. Smith was educated in the public schools of this city, graduating at the high school in the class of 1878. He began the study of law in August 1881, in the office of Colonel D.B. DAILEY, and was admitted in December 1882. After his admission he continued with Colonel Dailey until 1885, since which time he has been alone in practice.

Mr. Smith, though one of the youngest members of the bar of Pottawattamie Co, has already taken high rank as a lawyer and is recognized as a young man of marked ability, whose future gives promise of a most successful and useful career. Mr. Smith is a most industrious student of his profession and a gentleman of extensive and varied reading and is numbered among the progressive and enterprising citizens of Council Bluffs, where all his life, thus far, has been passed. June 19, 1890 at the age of 27 he was unanimously nominated for the office of District Judge by the Republican Judicial Convention of the 15th District of Iowa, composed of the counties of Audubon, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page, and was elected November 4th following, running 667 votes ahead of his ticket in Pottawattamie Co.