James Waldo HENNEBERRY

HENNEBERRY, BOWES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:01

James Waldo Henneberry
10 April 1869 ---- 3 July 1926

Attorney J. W. Henneberry is dead. The disease he has been so bravely fighting for many weeks overcame all resistance last Saturday and death claimed him for its own. Eagle Grove loses a citizen who has resided here since 1890.

Mr. Henneberry came to Eagle Grove from Webster City, 36 years ago. He engaged in the furniture business and was a licensed undertaker. In the meantime he was reading law and in 1897 was admitted to the practice of law and sold out his furniture business. For the past 30 years he has been engaged in successful law practice.

Mr. Henneberry was born April 10, 1869. When he was four years of age he moved with his parents to Webster City, Iowa. In November 1895 he was united in marriage with Mary Bowes and to this union three children were born, Walter Carlin of Tulsa, Okla., John, now in charge of his father's business in Eagle Grove, and Mary Margaret, a junior in Sacred Heart High School.

Mr. Henneberry was a public spirited citizen. He labored zealously for the upbuilding of this city. He was identified with every movement which had community betterment as its objective. No worthy alma seeker was ever refused his help. He was a firm believer in education and took pride in the programs of our schools, both public and private. He was proud of the fact that he won for his wife the first alumna of Eagle Grove High School. He was proud, too, of the fact that his son, Walter Carlin, was the first child of an Eagle Grove graduate to receive a diploma from Eagle Grove High School.

During his years in practice of law Mr. Henneberry became recognized over all northwest Iowa as a lawyer of unusual acumen and he always had a large and lucrative practice.

He enjoyed fraternal lodge work and the Yeomen, Woodmen, Homesteaders, Knights of Columbus, and other organizations have enjoyed the results of his unselfish efforts in their behalf.

In the passing of attorney Henneberry, a familiar figure has been removed. We will miss him. We have missed his counsel and advice since he became incapacitated a few months ago. Always kindly, always generous, it was but natural that his opinion was frequently sought on all questions affecting community welfare.

Mr. Henneberry was a lover of the best in literature and his private library is one of the largest and most extensive in the county. He took pardonable pride in the completeness of his library.

The most sincere sympathy of the city and the county and of the state wide acquaintance of the deceased is extended the sorrowing relatives.

Among those from out of the city who were here to attend the funeral of J. W. Henneberry Tuesday morning were: Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Pray and family, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Boylan and family, Pete Schomer, Mr. and Mrs. James Price, Mrs. Richard Ash, Harry Ash, Nellie Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Art Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, all of Webster City, Mary Clerk of Sioux City, Miss Margaret Bowes of Des Moines, Mr. and Mrs. James Zigrang and Harry Zigrang of Livermore, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Sterling and family of Williams, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Carney of Mason City, Richard Mullin and Earl Riley of Humboldt, Matt, Barry, and Miss Courtney of Belmond, Father Torpey of Clarion, Father Berry and Rev. R. S. Haney of Webster City, O. J. Henderson, F. J. Lund, W. H. Cunningham and Will Cole of Webster City, Rube Goslin and Sheriff Johnson of Clarion, besides the entire membership of the Wright County Bar association and the judges of the district court.

Eagle Grove Eagle ---- Eagle Grove, Iowa
July 8, 1926