From Find a Grave contributor Angie H:
Daniel W. Iddings was ready to go to Yale when his father, Charles Dickens Iddings, died in 1883. His death changed Daniel’s plans and he became court page to Judge Oren B. Brown for two and a half years. He also became the librarian of the Dayton law library, and while studying law and preparing for the bar, he expanded its collection from 4,500 volumes to 13,000 volumes.
When he was admitted to the bar in 1905, he formed a partnership with his brother Andrew that lasted until Daniel’s death. In 1916 Daniel and Andrew, with a third brother, Roscoe C. Iddings, formed the Fyr Fyter Company.
In the late 1920s he was president of the Ohio State Bar Association and a member of the general council of the American Bar Association. He was also the Dayton bar’s last historian.
Iddings was a genial, extroverted, outgoing and generous man with a mane of white curly hair. A free spirit who loved to throw lavish parties, he trained Harry Jeffrey to carve roast beef so he could remain free to carouse at his legendary dinner parties.
After his first wife’s death he remarried and took his new bride on a seven-week Oriental honeymoon that used all of his assets. On his return to Dayton he had to borrow money from his brother.
When he hosted the annual meeting of the state bar during his bar presidency, he presided over a series of parties that no attendee ever forgot. He had a tent erected on the lawn of his Mad River Road home and imported a Mexican jug band to serenade the consumption of excessive quantities of food and drink. He died broke, but he enjoyed every minute of his life.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Daniel W. Iddings was ready to go to Yale when his father, Charles Dickens Iddings, died in 1883. His death changed Daniel’s plans and he became court page to Judge Oren B. Brown for two and a half years. He also became the librarian of the Dayton law library, and while studying law and preparing for the bar, he expanded its collection from 4,500 volumes to 13,000 volumes.
When he was admitted to the bar in 1905, he formed a partnership with his brother Andrew that lasted until Daniel’s death. In 1916 Daniel and Andrew, with a third brother, Roscoe C. Iddings, formed the Fyr Fyter Company.
In the late 1920s he was president of the Ohio State Bar Association and a member of the general council of the American Bar Association. He was also the Dayton bar’s last historian.
Iddings was a genial, extroverted, outgoing and generous man with a mane of white curly hair. A free spirit who loved to throw lavish parties, he trained Harry Jeffrey to carve roast beef so he could remain free to carouse at his legendary dinner parties.
After his first wife’s death he remarried and took his new bride on a seven-week Oriental honeymoon that used all of his assets. On his return to Dayton he had to borrow money from his brother.
When he hosted the annual meeting of the state bar during his bar presidency, he presided over a series of parties that no attendee ever forgot. He had a tent erected on the lawn of his Mad River Road home and imported a Mexican jug band to serenade the consumption of excessive quantities of food and drink. He died broke, but he enjoyed every minute of his life.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
From Find a Grave contributor Angie H:
Daniel W. Iddings was ready to go to Yale when his father, Charles Dickens Iddings, died in 1883. His death changed Daniel’s plans and he became court page to Judge Oren B. Brown for two and a half years. He also became the librarian of the Dayton law library, and while studying law and preparing for the bar, he expanded its collection from 4,500 volumes to 13,000 volumes.
When he was admitted to the bar in 1905, he formed a partnership with his brother Andrew that lasted until Daniel’s death. In 1916 Daniel and Andrew, with a third brother, Roscoe C. Iddings, formed the Fyr Fyter Company.
In the late 1920s he was president of the Ohio State Bar Association and a member of the general council of the American Bar Association. He was also the Dayton bar’s last historian.
Iddings was a genial, extroverted, outgoing and generous man with a mane of white curly hair. A free spirit who loved to throw lavish parties, he trained Harry Jeffrey to carve roast beef so he could remain free to carouse at his legendary dinner parties.
After his first wife’s death he remarried and took his new bride on a seven-week Oriental honeymoon that used all of his assets. On his return to Dayton he had to borrow money from his brother.
When he hosted the annual meeting of the state bar during his bar presidency, he presided over a series of parties that no attendee ever forgot. He had a tent erected on the lawn of his Mad River Road home and imported a Mexican jug band to serenade the consumption of excessive quantities of food and drink. He died broke, but he enjoyed every minute of his life.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
Daniel W. Iddings was ready to go to Yale when his father, Charles Dickens Iddings, died in 1883. His death changed Daniel’s plans and he became court page to Judge Oren B. Brown for two and a half years. He also became the librarian of the Dayton law library, and while studying law and preparing for the bar, he expanded its collection from 4,500 volumes to 13,000 volumes.
When he was admitted to the bar in 1905, he formed a partnership with his brother Andrew that lasted until Daniel’s death. In 1916 Daniel and Andrew, with a third brother, Roscoe C. Iddings, formed the Fyr Fyter Company.
In the late 1920s he was president of the Ohio State Bar Association and a member of the general council of the American Bar Association. He was also the Dayton bar’s last historian.
Iddings was a genial, extroverted, outgoing and generous man with a mane of white curly hair. A free spirit who loved to throw lavish parties, he trained Harry Jeffrey to carve roast beef so he could remain free to carouse at his legendary dinner parties.
After his first wife’s death he remarried and took his new bride on a seven-week Oriental honeymoon that used all of his assets. On his return to Dayton he had to borrow money from his brother.
When he hosted the annual meeting of the state bar during his bar presidency, he presided over a series of parties that no attendee ever forgot. He had a tent erected on the lawn of his Mad River Road home and imported a Mexican jug band to serenade the consumption of excessive quantities of food and drink. He died broke, but he enjoyed every minute of his life.
Source:
Sluff of History’s Boot Soles
An Anecdotal History of Dayton’s Bench and Bar
By David C. Greer
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