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EDWARD E. REARDON
Vol. 3, p. 1177

In the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma as one of the
sovereign states of the Union, Mr. REARDON was elected county
attorney of Oklahoma County, and during the formative period of the
legal department of the county government under the new regime he
wielded large and effective influence in the formulating and
directing of the legal business of his jurisdiction, his services
having left a distinct and enduring impression upon the history of
jurisprudence in the state because of the numerous early
constitutional questions arising in Oklahoma County, the most
important in the state, as the seat of the government of the
commonwealth and the location of the capital city and metropolis. Mr.
Reardon has been engage in the active work of his profession in
Oklahoma City since 1901 and has secure vantage-ground as one of the
strong and resourceful trial lawyers and well fortified counselors of
the state, besides which he is known and valued as a citizen of high
principles and civic ideals and as one whose influence has always
been given in support of those things which make for the general well-
being of the community.

Edward Emmet Reardon was born at Hopedale, Tazewell County,
Illinois, on the 22d of December, 1867, and is a son of Bryan and
Anna (FLEMMING) Reardon, both natives of Ireland, the father having
immigrated from the fair Emerald Isle to America about the year 1850.

In the public schools of Illinois Edward E. Reardon acquired his
early education, which was supplemented by a well defined course of
higher academic study in the University of Illinois. After having
decided to prepare himself for the profession in which he has since
achieved both success and prestige, he finally entered the law
department of the University of Nebraska, in which he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1901 and from which he received the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He had left his native State of Illinois
in 1894 and had resided two years in Iowa before going to Nebraska
and entering the university of that state, as noted above.

In the year that marked his graduation Mr. Reardon came to Oklahoma
Territory, and, as an ambitious and well equipped young lawyer,
engaged in the practice of his profession in Oklahoma City, where his
energy and ability soon gained to him a substantial and lucrative law
business, the scope and character of which attested to high estimate
placed upon him in the community. He soon became an active and
influential leader in the councils of the republican party in the
territory, and he has not wavered in his allegiance to and advocacy
of the cause of his party, in the ranks of which he is known as a
safe counselor and as one of well fortified convictions concerning
economic and governmental policies. When the state was admitted to
the Union, in 1907, Mr. Reardon was elected the first county attorney
of Oklahoma County under the new regime, and he continued the able
and valued incumbent of this office for a period of over three years.
His are the attributes that make for loyal and useful citizenship,
and he well merits the unqualified esteem in which he is held in the
city, county and state with whose development and progress he has
been worthily identified.

On the 18th of August, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Reardon to Miss Corinne O. SUMNER, daughter of Josiah and Ada
(PATTERSON) Sumner, of Lincoln, Illinois. Of this union have been
born three daughters, two of whom are living: Audrey was born August
14, 1902; Katherine was born August 7, 1904, and was summoned to the
life eternal in 1909; and Margaret was born November 19, 1911.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Linda Ricco November 17, 1998.