SMITH, Walter I. from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"

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WALTER I. SMITH, one of the youngest, though most prominent members of 
the bar of Council Bluffs, is a native of this city, born July 10, 
1862.  His father, George F. Smith, was an early resident of Council 
Bluffs.  Mr. Smith was educated in the public schools of this city, 
graduating at the high-school, in the class of 1878.  He began the 
study of law in August, 1881, in the office of Colonel D. B. Dailey, 
and was admitted in December, 1882.  After his admission he continued 
with Colonel Dailey until 1885, since which time he has been alone in 
practice.  Mr. Smith, though one of the youngest members of the bar of 
Pottawattamie County, has already taken high rank as a lawyer, and is 
recognized as a young man of marked ability, whose future gives 
promise of a most successful and useful career.  Mr. Smith is a most 
industrious student of his profession, and a gentleman of extensive 
and varied reading, and is numbered among the progressive and 
enterprising citizens of Council Bluffs, where all his life, thus far, 
has been passed.  June 19, 1890, at the age of twenty-seven, he was 
unanimously nominated for the office of District Judge by the 
Republican Judicial Convention of the Fifteenth District of Iowa, 
composed of the counties of Audubon, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, 
Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page, and was elected November 4th 
following, running 667 votes ahead of his ticket in Pottawattamie 
County.

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If you would like more information about anyone mentioned in this
biography, please write to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical
Society at:

PO Box 394
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0394

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