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CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
W. A. YODER.
W. A. Yoder is a son of Rev. Yoder. a former pastor of the Dunkard church located about four miles east of Harlan. Mr. Yoder was brought up in Center township, attended the country schools and later became a student in the University of Nebraska, from which he graduated. Coming to Omaha, he was elected county superintendent of the schools of Douglas county, in which the city of Omaha is situated. He has held the office successfully for ten years and was re-elected last fall. He started bis educational career by holding the position of superintendent of schools at Florence. Nebraska.
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. 558.
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