CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
HON. CYRUS BEARD.
Hon. Cyrus Beard, one of the well-known early practitioners of law in Harlan, was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa June 30, 1874. In 1878, after practicing law in Washington, Iowa, for a few years, he came to Harlan and practiced there until 1890, when he removed to Evanston, Wyoming, where he engaged in practice. While residing in this city he was elected justice of the supreme court of Wyoming for a term of eight years, commencing in January, 1905, and was re-eleeted for a like term, commencing in January, 1913, which term he is now serving, He was chief justice for the last two years of his first term and will serve again as chief justice for the last two years of his present term. Mr. Beard was a candidate for district judge in Iowa at the time that Judge N. W. Macy was nominated.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 541.
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