Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
OUR JUDGES.
[Couneil Bluffs Nonpariel.l
JUDGE W. r. GREEN.

Judge w. r. Green is a native of
Connecticut, having been born in the
town of Colchester of that state III
1857. While yet a boy he moved west
with his parents to Illinois. Here he
attended the public schools, and when
boy of IS he graduated from the high
school of Princeton, ILL., After the
completion of his work in the public
schools, he entered Oberlin college at
O5erlin, Ohio, and graduated in 1876,
recleving the degree of A. B. He be-
came 4 law student in the offices OF
Pratt & Mccoy of Chicago and was adj
mitted to the bar of Illinois i'll 1882.
He removed to Dow City. Crawford
county, i'll this state, and practiced
! there for two years III 1855 he spent
! a year in the offices OF Wright, Bald
win 4 Haldane of this city, and in 1885
he located at Audubon, forming Il
partnership with the firm of Nash u
/ Phelps. He was a member ofthiS part.
nership until 1894, when he was noml-
mated for district judge at Red Oak.
He was elected and this year termi-
mates his first term on the bench, which
has been most satisfactory to the
members of the bar in every respect.
JUDGE WALTER l. SMITH.
Judge Walter /. Smith is u Council
Bluffs product through and through,
and the citizens of this city are proud
of it, too. He is man they respect
most highly, and whom they love to
honor Judge Smith was born in this
city July 10, 1862. His father, George
F. Smith, was one of the early resi-
dents of Council Bluffs. Mr.. Smith
was educated in the public schools Of
the city and graduated from the high
school i'll 1878. lie began the study Of
law in the office of Colonel Daley in
1881 and passed the examination for
admission to the bar in December, 1882.
He practiced with Colonel DALEY until
1885.
Judge Smith is gentleman of mark
ed ability and deep learningin the law.
He is also man OF extensive and var
led reading and his library numbers
among its volumes many rare and val
liable books. He possesses the rare
ability of conversationalist and as Il
public speaker he is gifted with mark
ed eloQuence.
III June, 1890, he was unanimously
nominated judge of this district by
the republican party and elected; in
Pottawattamie county he ran 667 votes
ahead of his ticket. Iu 1894 he was
again nominated and elected.
JUDGE ANDREW b. THoRNELL
Andrew 3. uornell, who has graced
the bench of this district for twelve
years comes of English stock, and has
own cousins in England who carry the
family name of Thornhill. He was
born in Plttsford n. Y. October %,
1916. and there lie received his element
airy and academic education. In 1862
he enlisted in the 10Stn New York vol
unteers, but was rejected, much to his
disappointment, because of his small
stature. His natural inclination for
study, though somewhat restrained by
: a rather frail physique, led him to the
pursuit of a collegiate education, which
he found at the Genesee Wesleyan SEM
mary, at Lima. N. Y, at Knox College,
Galesburg, Ill.,, and at Tabor College,
Tabor, Iowa, graduating from the last
nam ed institution in 1873. While in
school at Lima, n. Y, he studied rhet-
oric under Miss Frances E. Willard and
beca me one of her arpent admirers.
During his school years he maintained
himself by his own efforts and
while attending Tabor college increas.
ed his exchequer by purchases and
sales of live stock, in which he was ex-
ceptionally successful. At Galesburg
he taught elocution and calisthenics at
a young ladies seminary.
In the year 1884 he read law in the
office of Chancellor l.. w. Ross of
| COilllCll DIullS, anu IHC lO1O"lllS yCdi
1915, attended the law school of the
State University, graduating therefrom
and being admitted to practice in 1875,
entering the Office of Judge E. II. Sears
of Sidney, and finally locating there.
In 1878 he formed partnership with
George E. Draper, and the firm of Drap-
er & Thornell, so long as it exsted, was
known as one of the strongest law
firms in western Iowa.
On January 18th 1877 he was mar
ried to Olive b. Gray, the accomplished
: daughter of the then county treasurer
of Fremont county, and their home
has been in Sidney ever since. They
have family of seven children about
them.
In 1884 the convention held at Coun-
Gil Bluffs nominated Mr.. Thornell as
prosecuting attorney for the judicial