Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 880
ROSS MCLAUGHLIN

One of the youngest membes of the Harrison County bar is Ross MCLAUGHLIN, who has been engaged in the practice of the legal profession in Missouri Valley since 1910. He has lived in this city since he was 14 years of age and, consequently, has spent the greater portion of his life in this county. A graduate of the University of Nebraska, he is a young man of broad classical, as well as legal, education and well merits the success which has come to him as the result of his efforts. He is now filling the responsible position of county attorney and is administering the duties of this office in a very satisfactory manner.

Ross MCLAUGHLIN, son of James Ross and Anna (ROLLER) MCLAUGHLIN, was born at Blair, Nebraska, May 7, 1881. His parents were both natives of Ohio, his father coming west about 1880 and locating at Windsor, Nebraska, where he lived two or three years. He then removed to Blair, Nebraska, where he remained until 1895, at which time he removed to Missouri Valley. James R. MCLAUGHLIN is a railway mail clerk running out of Omaha. He and his wife are the parents of four children, three of whom are living: Blanche of New York City; Mrs. T. P. Welsh of Waterloo, Iowa; and Ross of Missouri Valley.

The elementary education of Ross MCLAUGHLIN was received in the schools of Blair, Nebraska, and his high school training in the schools of Missouri Valley, where he graduated in 1901. He spent the next five years in the University of Nebraska, taking two years of regular college work and three years in the law department, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in the spring of 1906. He was admitted to the bar of the State of Nebraska in the same year and, in the following year, was admitted to the practice of law in all courts in the State of Iowa. He spent two years in the county clerk's office as deputy clerk of Harrison County, and in 1910 began the active practice of his profession in Missouri Valley. He entered into partnership with J. S. DEWELL, a well-known attorney of this place. Mr. MCLAUGHLIN took the office of county attorney on January 1, 1913. he was nominated for this office by the Republicans of Harrison County and was subsequently elected to this position. As this is a two-year office, his term expired on January 1, 1915. He enforced the law against all offenders impartially and gave universal satisfaction as a prosecutor. Later he was re-elected to the same office (1915-1917).

Mr. MCLAUGHLIN was married on September 19, 1912, to Marion SHEPARD of Logan, Iowa, a daughter of F. A. SHEPARD. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Modern Woodmen of America. While in college, he was a member of the Greek letter fraternity of Kappa Sigma and Theta Nu Epsilon, and was also elected as a member of the honorary law fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, which is sufficient indication that his work in the law department at the University of Nebraska was of a high standard. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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