Henry Carroll Timmonds

Who was Henry Carroll Timmonds?

Henry Carroll Timmonds was an American judge and state legislator.

The oldest child of Dr. Landon Marion Timmonds and Jane Mandeville Tichenor, was born in Knoxville, Iowa, on May 12, 1853, less than a year after his parents moved there. Most of his life was spent in Missouri, growing up in Lamar and the general Barton County area where he was "Principal of Public Schools" for one term, then marrying Katherine Faust in 1873 and moving to neighboring Cedar County, where he became editor of the “Stockton Journal” from 1873 to 1878.

Even prior to his marriage and work as a journalist, H. C. Timmonds had been interested in the law, and had read law under a local Lamar attorney. He continued to study the subject while producing the newspaper and while Superintendent of Stockton Schools for two years. Finally, after studying under Judge D. P. Stratton, he was admitted to the Stockton bar in 1880, becoming a lawyer. After passing the bar, Henry Carroll Timmonds moved back to Lamar, and set up legal offices with several other local attorneys, becoming Prosecuting Attorney for Barton County for two terms.