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EDWIN CLAY ROACH is the dean of the bar of Lyon
County. He has practiced law at Rock Rapids for over
forty-five years, and his work as a lawyer has been
accompanied by a varied service of a public nature and a
constant participation in the work of the community.
Mr. Roach was born in Knox County, Illinois, December 31,
1850, son of James P. and Jane (Castle) Roach. His father was
a captain in the Twenty-third Iowa Regiment in the Civil war.
Edwin Clay Roach attended school at Oskaloosa, receiving part
of his education in Oskaloosa College, now a part of Drake
University, and in 1875 was graduated from the law department
of the University
of Iowa. During the following seven years he practiced in
Jasper County and in 1882 moved to Rock Rapids, which was then
a small town in a comparatively sparsely populated section of
the state. Mr. Roach has practiced law ever since coming to
Rock Rapids.
He was elected and served as a member of the Twenty-first and
Twenty-second General Assemblies in 1886-88 and was a delegate
to the National Republican convention at Saint Louis in 1896.
He is affiliated with Lodge No. 406, A. F. and A. M., is a
Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and attends the
Congregational Church.
He married, December 31, 1875, Miss Mary A. Ramsey, of Jasper
County, Iowa, daughter of John and Catherine (Humphrey)
Ramsey. They have four children: Loran J., born in March,
1878, served in the Fifty-first Iowa Regiment during the
Spanish-American war and in the Philippine Island, being
discharged in 1900. He graduated from the Iowa State
University and took his law course at
Columbia University, New York, and is now in the employ of the
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He
married Georgine Reed, of Texarkana, Texas, and they have
three children: Edwin R., George L. and Lillian. Lena, born in
1880, is a teacher at Rock Rapids. Rollin E., born in 1885,
died in 1911. Paul R., born March 1, 1893, graduated from the
University of Wisconsin, at Madison, and served in the World
war, in Battery E. One Hundred and Tenth Field Artillery, and
later in the Aviation Service and is now in the life insurance
business at Rock Rapids. He married in 1921 Miss Doris Kline,
of Saint Paul, and they have two boys, James and Frederick. |
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~ source: A Narrative History of The People
of Iowa, Edgar Rubey
Harlan, LL. B., A. M.,
Chicago and New York, 1931
~ transcribed and contributed by: Debbie Clough
Gerischer, Iowa History
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