Born in Pawgrove, near Rockford, Ill., November 11, 1849, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Courtright. When he was 9 years old, he came with his parents to Grundy County and settled on a farm near Parkersburg. At that time the Courtright home was the only house between Parkersburg and Grundy Center. Judge Courtright received his primary education in the country schools of Grundy County, after which he attended the Rockford academy at Rockford, Ill., from 1868 to 1870. He then went to Nebraska and spent two years there as a pioneer farmer. He married Miss Clara Whiting at Red Cloud, Neb., November 27, 1872, and soon thereafter came to Ackley, Iowa, and purchased a newspaper, the Ackley Enterprise. He was editor of the paper for two years and associated with it for five years more. While working as a newspaper man he read law and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1877. He practiced law at Parkersburg for several years. He represented Black Hawk County in the senate of the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first Iowa General Assemblies, 1902-1906. He was appointed to the Waterloo municipal bench to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of W. N. Birdsall. He was elected to succeed himself in 1920, and continued as judge until 1924.

Born in Pawgrove, near Rockford, Ill., November 11, 1849, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Courtright. When he was 9 years old, he came with his parents to Grundy County and settled on a farm near Parkersburg. At that time the Courtright home was the only house between Parkersburg and Grundy Center. Judge Courtright received his primary education in the country schools of Grundy County, after which he attended the Rockford academy at Rockford, Ill., from 1868 to 1870. He then went to Nebraska and spent two years there as a pioneer farmer. He married Miss Clara Whiting at Red Cloud, Neb., November 27, 1872, and soon thereafter came to Ackley, Iowa, and purchased a newspaper, the Ackley Enterprise. He was editor of the paper for two years and associated with it for five years more. While working as a newspaper man he read law and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1877. He practiced law at Parkersburg for several years. He represented Black Hawk County in the senate of the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first Iowa General Assemblies, 1902-1906. He was appointed to the Waterloo municipal bench to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of W. N. Birdsall. He was elected to succeed himself in 1920, and continued as judge until 1924.

Born in Pawgrove, near Rockford, Ill., November 11, 1849, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Courtright. When he was 9 years old, he came with his parents to Grundy County and settled on a farm near Parkersburg. At that time the Courtright home was the only house between Parkersburg and Grundy Center. Judge Courtright received his primary education in the country schools of Grundy County, after which he attended the Rockford academy at Rockford, Ill., from 1868 to 1870. He then went to Nebraska and spent two years there as a pioneer farmer. He married Miss Clara Whiting at Red Cloud, Neb., November 27, 1872, and soon thereafter came to Ackley, Iowa, and purchased a newspaper, the Ackley Enterprise. He was editor of the paper for two years and associated with it for five years more. While working as a newspaper man he read law and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1877. He practiced law at Parkersburg for several years. He represented Black Hawk County in the senate of the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first Iowa General Assemblies, 1902-1906. He was appointed to the Waterloo municipal bench to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of W. N. Birdsall. He was elected to succeed himself in 1920, and continued as judge until 1924.