CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
EDWARD P. NOBLE.
Edward P. Noble, now a resident of Chicago, Illinois, has been long associated with many of the important movements having for their purpose the betterment of Harlan and Shelby county. He, for many years, bought grain in the county, and subsequently resided on his farm a mile south of Harlan. For many years he has shown unusual ability and skill as an artist. He it was who furnished all of the designs for the decorations on the Shelby county court house. For the last few years Mr. Noble has devoted himself exclusively to the designing of special letter heads, coats of arms, book plates, trade marks, monograms and lodge work, in all of which departments of art he excels. He now fills orders for many of the leading men of Chicago as well as for patrons all over the United States. The special design constituting the frontispiece of this history is one furnished by Mr. Noble.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 556-557.
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