Montgomery County IL Archives News.....biography of Edward Jacob Absalom Cress October 13, 1911
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Montgomery County News October 13, 1911
article/ edited for brefrety: Cress, Edward Jacob Absalom, October 13, 1911, 
Montgomery NEWS, pub. Hillsboro, IL, page 2-col. 2&3

We take pleasure this week in presenting a picture of Edward A. Cress of 
Hillsboro who is a candidate for the office of State's Attorney of Montgomery 
County, Illinois.

Mr. Cress is well known over the county, having been born in Hillsboro, 
Illinois, December 16, 1870 and making this city his home all his life.  He is 
a son of Alexander Absalom Cress of this city and a grandson of the late Jacob 
Cress.

Edward Absalon Cress graduated at the Hillsboro High School in 1888 and for 
several years read law here with Messars. Lane and Cooper.  After reading law 
here, he attended school at the law department of the University of Michigan, 
at Ann Arbor and graduated from that institution in 1891.  He was admitted to 
the practice May 29, 1891, and at once secured a position as clerk in a 
Chicago law office, where he remained in order to familiarize himself with the 
practical details of his profession, until May, 1893, when he came back to his 
old home and opened an office in Hillsboro.

Mr. Cress has had considerable experience in the duties of the office to which 
he aspires, having acted as assistant State's Attorney for T. M. Jett and M. 
M. Ceighton during the time they held this office.

From 1903 to 1907 he was employed by the C. C. C. & St. Louis Railroad Co. to 
secure the right-of-way for the cut off running from Hillsboro to Mitchell.  
His ability in this line of work proved so satisfactory that he was employed 
in the same work on the Cairo Division of the C. C. C. & St. Louis 
Railway....... He completed this work in 1906.  In April 1905 he was appointed 
Master-in-Chancery of this county and served two terms or until 1909, handling 
and promptly accounting for the enormous sum of $438,051.42 during that time.

He was married October 13, 1893 to Miss Genevieve 'Jennie' Linxwiler and has 
two children.

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