gree of Bachelor of Science. In 1877 he was admitted to
the bar and engaged at once in the active practice of the
law in Greencastle, Indiana, gaining speedy recognition and
marked success. In 1881 he was elected city attorney for
Greencastle and was twice re-elected, in 1883 and 1885, but
resigned in 1886 and removed to Cheyenne county, Kansas,
where he took an active part in the organization of that
county, and was elected its first county attorney, having
charge of its legal work in its formative state. In October,
1886, he was married to Miss Helen E. Jennings, the
accomplished daughter of L. A. Jennings, of Newcastle,
Indiana. In April, 1889, he removed to Omaha, where he has
continued in the practice of law, with steadily growing
reputation, and now numbers among his clients some of the
leading business men of the metropolitan city. Although
thoroughly devoted to his private business, Mr. Crow has
found time and means to discharge the duties which the
citizen owes to his government. He has taken an active
interest in public affairs. A strong republican, he has been
constantly active in club work, primaries, and conventions.
He was elected to the legislature of 1895, and made chairman
of the committee on finance, ways and means, a distinction
rarely conferred upon a new member. He was re-elected in
1896, and at the close of a long legislative contest was
unseated by a vote of the majority. During his service in
the present house Mr. Crow served on the committees on
judiciary, constitutional amendments, telegraph, telephones
and electric lights.
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