HON. R. G. DIEFENDERFER.

HON. R. G. DIEFENDERFER.
Hon. R. G. Diefenderfer, who for two terms filled the office of county and prosecuting attorney of Sheridan county and who has made for himself a splendid record as a leading member of the bar, practicing at the present time in the city of Sheridan, was born in Hilliard, Pennsylvania, on the 8th of January, 1888, and is a son of F. A. and Florence (Ball) Diefenderfer. He acquired a public and high school education in Conneaut, Ohio, to which place his parents removed during his early boyhood, and he afterward had the benefit of instruction in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, attending that institution from 1904 until 1906. A review of the broad field of business, with its many varied lines of activity, led him to the determination to take up a professional career, and still further concentrating his choice, he decided upon the practice of law and entered the State University of Michigan as a law student, winning the LL. B. degree at Ann Arbor as a member of the class of 1911. In the meantime he had provided for his own support in connection with newspaper work. On the 11th of August, 1911, following his graduation from the University of Michigan, he located for the practice of law in Sheridan, where he has since remained, making for himself a most creditable position at the bar. Along with those qualities indispensable to the lawyer—a keen, rapid, logical mind, plus the business sense and a ready capacity for hard work—he brought to the starting point of his legal career certain rare gifts—eloquence of language and a strong personality. Moreover, he has ever recognized the fact that thorough preparation must qualify him for defense as well as for attack, and his cases have been prepared with the utmost thoroughness and care. In 1913 he was elected to the position of county and prosecuting attorney .of Sheridan county and served in that capacity until 1917, having been reelected in 1915, so that he remained the incumbent in the office for four years. In January, 1918, he was appointed city attorney of Sheridan for a two-year term. His clientage is now large and of an important character and connects him with much of the most interesting litigation that is heard in the courts of his district. Mr. Diefenderfer belongs to the Masonic lodge and also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a loyal adherent to the teachings of these fraternities. He has made for himself a most favorable position in public regard and is numbered among the representative and valued citizens of Sheridan county.

Hon. R. G. Diefenderfer, who for two terms filled the office of county and prosecuting attorney of Sheridan county and who has made for himself a splendid record as a leading member of the bar, practicing at the present time in the city of Sheridan, was born in Hilliard, Pennsylvania, on the 8th of January, 1888, and is a son of F. A. and Florence (Ball) Diefenderfer. He acquired a public and high school education in Conneaut, Ohio, to which place his parents removed during his early boyhood, and he afterward had the benefit of instruction in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, attending that institution from 1904 until 1906. A review of the broad field of business, with its many varied lines of activity, led him to the determination to take up a professional career, and still further concentrating his choice, he decided upon the practice of law and entered the State University of Michigan as a law student, winning the LL. B. degree at Ann Arbor as a member of the class of 1911. In the meantime he had provided for his own support in connection with newspaper work. On the 11th of August, 1911, following his graduation from the University of Michigan, he located for the practice of law in Sheridan, where he has since remained, making for himself a most creditable position at the bar. Along with those qualities indispensable to the lawyer—a keen, rapid, logical mind, plus the business sense and a ready capacity for hard work—he brought to the starting point of his legal career certain rare gifts—eloquence of language and a strong personality. Moreover, he has ever recognized the fact that thorough preparation must qualify him for defense as well as for attack, and his cases have been prepared with the utmost thoroughness and care. In 1913 he was elected to the position of county and prosecuting attorney .of Sheridan county and served in that capacity until 1917, having been reelected in 1915, so that he remained the incumbent in the office for four years. In January, 1918, he was appointed city attorney of Sheridan for a two-year term. His clientage is now large and of an important character and connects him with much of the most interesting litigation that is heard in the courts of his district.
Mr. Diefenderfer belongs to the Masonic lodge and also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a loyal adherent to the teachings of these fraternities. He has made for himself a most favorable position in public regard and is numbered among the representative and valued citizens of Sheridan county.