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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

WALTER HAMILTON McELROY.

Walter Hamilton McElroy has been successfully engaged in the practice of law at
Ottumwa since 1900, being still in the same location where his father opened
offices about forty-one years ago. He is numbered among the worthy native sons
of Wapello county, his birth having occurred in Ottumwa on the 15th of August,
1878. His father, Ebenezer Erskine McElroy, was born near Greenfield, Ohio, on
the 16th of February, 1849, and supplemented his early education by three years'
study in Cornell University, which institution conferred upon him the degree of
B. S. in June, 1872. Subsequently he prepared for the practice of law as a
student in the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, being graduated therefrom
with the class of 1873. In August of that year he located in Ottumwa, Iowa,
which continued the scene of his professional labors throughout the remainder of
his life, and an extensive and lucrative clientage was accorded him. He served
on the school board for a longer period than any other school director of the
county, holding the office for twenty-two years and acting as president of the
board for ten years. Ebenezer E. McElroy was a republican in politics and served
as a member of the city council for some time. His demise, which occurred in
Ottumwa in 1906 was the occasion of deep and widespread regret. On the 2d of
July, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Belle Hamilton, a native of
Greenfield, Ohio, and a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hamilton. The children
of this union are five in number, four sons and one daughter, namely: Clifford
T., an architect of Minneapolis; Carl E., a wholesale grocer of Seattle; Walter
Hamilton, of this review; Ralph T., who is engaged in the real-estate and
insurance business at Ottumwa; and Evalyn, who is identified with the work of
the Young Woman's Christian Association in Nashville, Tennessee. The mother of
these children was called to her final rest on the 10th of May, 1883, and in
1884 Mr. McElroy was again married, his second union being with Elizabeth
Milner, of Ohio, the ceremony taking place near Des Moines. To them were born
two children: Edna M., who is now the wife of Ernest LeCompte, who conducts five
shoe stores in Oklahoma City; and Edith M., the wife of M. D. Fezler, who is
associated in business with Mr. LeCompte in Oklahoma. Mrs. Elizabeth (Milner)
McElroy survives and makes her home in Ottumwa.

Walter H. McElroy completed the high-school course in Ottumwa in 1898 and
subsequently took up the study of law in the State University of Iowa at Iowa
City, from which institution he was graduated in 1900, being the youngest member
of his class to receive a diploma. He immediately began practice in association
with his father as a member of the firm of McElroy & McElroy and has since
remained a successful representative of the profession in Ottumwa, devoting his
attention to the general practice of law along realty lines principally. Mr.
McElroy conducts an abstract department, doing business in the same location
occupied by his father at the time of his birth. He is likewise a factor in
financial circles as a director and stockholder in the Citizens' Savings Bank.

On the 6th of October, 1904, Mr. McElroy was united in marriage to Miss Lucille
H. Wycoff, a native of Iowa and a daughter of H. E. Wycoff, of Cedar Rapids. Her
mother has passed away. Mr. and Mrs. McElroy have a daughter and two sons,
namely: Dorothy Alice, Robert Hamilton and John Wycoff.

Mr. McElroy gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is now
ably serving as treasurer of the school board. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum,
the Wapello Club and the Country Club, and his religious faith is that of the
First Presbyterian church. He has a wide acquaintance throughout Wapello county,
and his circle of friends is extensive, for his reliability and personal worth
and his social, genial nature have gained for him the warm regard of all with
whom he has come in contact.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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