BLAKE, WILLIAM EDGAR

BLAKE, HURD, NEWMAN, HAMMACK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/31/2025 at 23:53:46

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

BLAKE, WILLIAM EDGAR, born in Morning Sun, Preble Co., Ohio, June 27, 1844; came to Louisa Co., Iowa, in 1845 ; graduated at Monmouth College, Illinois, in 1867, then studied law in the law department of the Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa, where he graduated in 1869 ; he came to Burlington, in August of the same year, and has since been engaged in the practice of law ; the firm was styled Newman & Blake until September, 1874, when it was changed to Blake & Hammack, Jan. 1, 1879; Mr. Blake again associated himself with Judge Newman. He was married July 4, 1867, to Miss Sarah Lucretia Hurd, of Morning Sun, Iowa.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879