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قراءة كتاب Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
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Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family
Autobiography of
Charles Clinton Nourse
Prepared for use of Members of the Family
CONTAINING THE INCIDENTS OF
MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS' PRACTICE AT THE BAR
IN THE STATE OF IOWA
PRIVATELY PRINTED
MCMXI
Copyright 1911
BY CHARLES CLINTON NOURSE
THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
Transcriber's Note: The cover of this book was created by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.
CONTENTS
| I | Ancestry and Early Life | 7 |
| II | Early Experiences in Iowa | 18 |
| III | Removed to Des Moines | 38 |
| IV | Resumes the Practice of Law | 56 |
| V | Some Important Law Suits | 79 |
| VI | Visits Virginia Relatives | 95 |
| VII | Pleasure Trip to Colorado | 99 |
| VIII | Centennial Address | 104 |
| IX | Temperance and Prohibition | 109 |
| X | Regulation of Freight and Passenger Tariffs | 142 |
| XI | Des Moines River Land Titles | 152 |
| XII | A. O. U. W. Controversy | 163 |
| XIII | Important Events in Career | 165 |
| XIV | The Brown Impeachment Case | 171 |
| XV | More Law Cases | 185 |
| XVI | Birth of a Son and Personal Incidents | 193 |
| XVII | Breeder of Short Horn Cattle | 203 |
| XVIII | B. F. Allen Bankruptcy | 208 |
| XIX | About Prohibition | 215 |
| XX | Personal Incidents | 226 |
CHAPTER I
Ancestry and Early Life
Des Moines, Iowa, May, 1908
To Master Joseph Chamberlain,
Dear Joe:
I promised your father that I would write you a long letter containing in detail something of a biography of myself. He assures me it is not intended for publication, but only for your perusal and for such friends of the family as may now or hereafter deem it interesting to know something of those of the family who have preceded them.
In Washington county, in the state of Maryland, near the little stream of Antietam creek, where was fought one of the memorable battles of our Civil War, there is located a quaint, old fashioned village called Sharpsburg. The inhabitants of the village and neighborhood were in a large part Germans or of German descent.
On one corner of the public square there still remains, in fairly good repair, an old fashioned stone dwelling house. In this house on the first day of April, A.D. 1829, I was born, as were also my two older brothers, Joseph Gabriel and John Daniel, born respectively June 25, 1826, and November 30, 1827. This stone house at one time belonged to my grandfather, Gabriel Nourse, who was the son of James Nourse. The ancestors of the latter are given in a book now in the possession of your mother, entitled James Nourse and his Descendants.
In the basement or first story of this stone building my father taught school about the time of the birth of his three boys, given above. At that early day the people of the village and surrounding country were not