WILLIAM A. MYNSTER, of Council Bluffs, one of the leading members of the bar of Pottawattamie County, is the only son of Christopher O. and Maria MYNSTER, pioneers of this county, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this work. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, October 13, 1843, having been but a child when the family emigrated to America.

He was educated at Sinsinawa Mound College, Wisconsin, and at St. Louis University, Missouri, graduating from the latter institution in 1861, and from the Albany Law School, at Albany, New York, in 1865, and has been actively engaged in the practice of law in the city of Council Bluffs since that time. One year after beginning the practice of his profession he became associated with Mr. Hight. This co-partnership continued for several years, when the firm of James, Aylesworth and Mynster was formed, and later that of Mynster, Mickle & Davis, and still the later that of Mynster & Adams. His next association was in the firm name of Mynster, Lindt & Seabrock. He is still associated with Mr. Lindt, the firm being Mynster & Lindt.

Mr. Mynster was married to Miss E. A. Plater, daughter of Ira Plater, an early settler of Council Bluffs. Mr. Mynster was bereft of his wife by death in November 1886. He has five children: William Rufus Choate, Marie, Ira C., Lester A., and Henry F. Mr. Mynster is one of the representative citizens of Council Bluffs and an enterprising and progressive citizen. He has served as attorney of Pottawattamie County, and President of the City Council of this city. Politically Mr. Mynster affiliates with the Democratic party.