LESTER LEROY BALDING
BALDING, LESTER LEROY: Merchant; b Atlantic, Iowa Oct 8, 1893; s of Finley Charles Balding-Della Mary Conover; ed Atlantic HS 1914; Atlantic Business Coll 1916; Pi Phi Alpha, pres; m Naomi Pauline Lindeman May 7, 1921 Atlantic; 1915-16 clk in shoe store while att sch, Atlantic, also 1916-17; 1917-22 mgr Conrads Inc, shoe store, Atlantic; 1922-29 owner & opr shoe store ptr of F M Nebe, Economy Shoe Store, Atlantic, 1929- ptr of Paul Marshall; owner shoe stores, Ottawa Kas, Clarinda & Denison; 1937- dir Whitney Loan & Trust Co; past pres C of C; ch mbr & past secy Lions; Atlantic Golf & Country Club; Izaak Walton; BPOE, life mbr; First Presby Ch, trustee since 1928; Rep; hobbies: yard, travel; off 403 Chestnut; res LaVista Place, Atlantic.
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From "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 194.
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