ELMORE L. EDMONDSON.

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         One of the promising and highly esteemed young attorneys of Wapello is Elmore L. Edmondson, who was born in this county on the 14th of December, 1886. He is a son of Micajah and Sarah (McCleary) Edmondson, both natives of this county, who reside on a farm in the vicinity of Columbus Junction.

         Reared at home, Elmore L. Edmondson continued to remain there for two years after he was graduated from the high school at Columbus Junction, devoting his summers to agricultural pursuits, while he taught school in the win- . . .

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. . . ter. He subsequently entered Cornell College at Mount Vernon and after receiving his degree, matriculated in the law department of the Iowa State University at Iowa City, from which institution he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Law, being admitted to the bar in 1910. Immediately following he came to Wapello and entered the office of Oscar Hale, where he has ever since been located. In addition to his law practice he also handles real estate and furnishes abstracts. Always a student and thinker, Mr. Edmondson is well fitted for the profession he has elected to follow both by nature and preparation. He possesses the mental sagacity, keen powers of deduction and command of English and choice of words so essential in his practice.

         Fraternally Mr. Edwards is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic order. Public-spirited and progressive in his ideas, he takes an active interest in all municipal affairs, giving his political support of the candidates of the republican party. A young man of high ideals, incorruptible integrity and sound principles, fully recognizing his duties and responsibilities as a citizen and member of society, Mr. Edmondson has made many friends during the brief period of his sojourn in Wapello, by whom he is highly regarded.