Background
Mccrary, Alvin Jasper was born on March 20, 1844 in Van Buren Company, Iowa, United States. Son of Abner Harrison and Nercissa (Mangum) M.
Mccrary, Alvin Jasper was born on March 20, 1844 in Van Buren Company, Iowa, United States. Son of Abner Harrison and Nercissa (Mangum) M.
Educated Oskaloosa College (now Drake U.) and Central U., Pella, Iowa (A.M., 1888). Served private and corporal, 47th Iowa Infantry. Legal education at Keokuk, Iowa.
Admitted to Iowa bar, 1866. Appointed judge 1st Judicial District, Iowa, 1895. At end of term went to Binghamton, New York, to take charge of corporate interests as legal counsel.
President Iowa State Bar Association, 1895-1896. Iowa member general council American Bar Association, 1894-1897, Chairman of Commission judicial administration and remedial procedure, 1899-1905, member commission on uniform state laws. Delegate Universal Congress Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904.
Baptist; president Baptist State Convention of Iowa, 1889-1893. President Baptist Social Union, Broome County, New York.
Clubs: Keokuk Country (Iowa), Broome County, Country, Binghamton.
Married Annie C. Ford, of Oneonta, New York, 1868.