Cheshire, Thomas A.

CHESHIRE, MCCLELLAN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/5/2012 at 15:16:13

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

CHESHIRE, THOMAS A. - Jackson Twp. - pg 645-6. Born in Pleasant township, this county, April 2, 1854; remained on the farm ten years, during which time he attended school at the old log school-house that stood for years at Blue Point. After removing to Montezuma he attended the graded school there until the course of study had been completed, then went to Iowa College, and afterward to the State University located at Iowa City. Owing to ill health he did not take a regular college course. When he was seventeen years old he entered the Republican printing office and served an apprenticeship of three years. Having a natural inclination for the legal profession, at the age of twenty he entered the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and after two years study received a diploma and the degree of LL.B. He then opened a law office in Montezuma, and practiced his profession for a year, at the end of which time, his father - s death made it necessary for him to abandon his profession and take charge of the Republican. He edited the paper for three years, and then again entered his chosen field - the law - and is now one of the firm of Lewis, Clark & Cheshire. Mr. Cheshire was married September 18, 1879, to Miss Virginia Belle McClellan, who was born May 25, 1862, at Montpelier, Williams county, Ohio, and died August 3, 1880, eight days after the birth of a daughter.