William A. Mynster, attorney, Council Bluffs, is a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, born October 13, 1843, and is of Danish parentage. On his third birthday, he was with his parents on the ocean on the way to America. They first settled permanently at Washington D. C., where they lived three years, then moved to Louisville, KY., where they lived one year, and, in 1851 came to Kanesville, now Council Bluffs.

Mr. Mynster was educated at Sinsinawa Mound, Wis., and St. Louis University. He studied law with Clinton & Baldwin of Council Bluffs, whose office was then located opposite the present city building; afterward pursued his law studies in New York City, and at the Albany Law School N. Y. He graduated from that institution in 1866, having conferred on him the degree of L.L.B. The following year, he opened a law office in Council Bluffs, and formed partnership with B. W. Hight, present Supreme Court Reporter of Iowa, who was a classmate of his at the law school. This firm dissolved in 1872, and Mr. Mynster entered into partnership with James & Aylesworth, and remained in that firm untill 1877, when he entered into partnership with C. F. Adams, which firm still exists.