City: Jamestown
CASE, Ward Roland, lawyer; born Brown Co., O., April 6, 1876; English-Dutch and Scotch-German descent; son of D. R. and Frances (McBeth) CASE; father’s occupation, teacher; paternal grandparents Henry Butler and Mary (Lake) CASE, maternal grandparents, Jas. P. and Elizabeth (Spires) MCBETH; educated in the local schools of Brown and Warren Cos. O., and Morgan Co., Tenn.; taught one term of school 1895; studied shorthand at home and law in law offices while working as a stenographer of O. C. Cornatser 1896-8, and Ingersoll & Peyton, 1898-9, Knoxville, Tenn.; admitted to bar Aug., 1897, and formed partnership with O. C. Cornatser, under the name of Cornatser & Case in 1899, which has continued to date; married Mollie ALBERTSON Dec. 10, 1899; member Trinity Consistory No. 2, Nashville 32d degree, Jamestown Lodge No. 281 F. & A. M., Jamestown Lodge No. 83, I. O. O. F., at present secretary of Jamestown Lodge No. 281, F. & A. M., and as served as S. W. and W M. of same; Republican; chairman of the Co. Board of Education 1907-1910; present Co. Judge of Fentress Co., by appointment.
