CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
C. H. WHITNEY.
C. H. Whitney was brought up in Union township, Shelby county. He taught the country schools, subsequently entering the law department of the State University of Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1S90. He entered upon the practice of law at Harlan with his brother, J. B. Whitney, under the firm name of Whitney Brothers, later moving to Hartington, Nebraska. He became county judge, a position which he held for several years. He became prominent in Democratic politics of the state of Nebraska and was nominated for attorney-general of the state. He now resides in California.
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. 557.
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