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Colonel Edward D. Baker removed to Oregon, became United States Senator, commanded a brigade in the early days of the war, and met a hero's death at Ball's Bluff, Virginia.
Major John T. Stuart died at Springfield, Illinois, in Novem- ber, 1885. He practiced law nearly fifty years in Springfield, was three times in Congress, and was the lawyer with whom Abraham Lincoln read law.
Judge S. H. Treat is still in the legal ranks as judge of the United States District Court at Springfield, a position he has filled with credit for many years.
Major Wm. Callon is now practicing in Jacksonville, Illinois has served four years in the State Senate and is an eloquent and able attorney.
Captain Frank Fiske, John Moran, who studied law with Col onel Wyatt (as did Colonel Edward Lynch and Hon. Alfred Oren dorff), and now lives at Carlinville, and Hon. David T. Little were all admitted to the bar in 1860.
Before that time the lawyers of Logan County were Horace H Ballon, Lyoneal P. Lacy, Samuel C. Parks, William H. Young William E. Dicks, Eli L. Austin, John E. Cummings, George W. Estabrook, A. J. Turley, Wilford D. Wyatt, Joseph H. January, Charles Worthington, Silas Beason, D. Wyle Harts, Benjamin Williams, George H. Dana, Henry W. Dana, -Brown, C. H.
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Goodrich, William Springer, William McGalliard, A. C. Edmons and Lorenzo D. Norton. Afterward came one Kerr, a graduate of Yale and the Albany Law School, and he was in partnership with W. D. Wyatt a short time. He afterward committed suicide at Cheyenne. Rufus Mayfield succeeded Kerr as a partner of W. D. Wyatt.
W. H. Herndon, law partner of Abraham Lincoln at the time of Lincoln's election to the Presidency, retired from practice many years ago, and is now a Sangamon County farmer.
Josiah Lamborn was a Kentuckian and a lawyer of the keenest wit and shrewdest perceptions, a natural born lawyer. He was At- torney-General of the State in 1841-'42; died at Whitehall, Illinois, 1847. He was once prosecutor and General Gridley defender of a horse thief in the old court-house at Postville. Gridley asked for a continuance on ground that two material witnesses were ab- sent. Mr. Lamborn promptly outgeneraled him by a bold, ingen- ious move. He said that the prosecution would admit that the two' men would, if present, testify to exactly what the General claimed they would. On the trial Lamborn won his case and did it by showing that he had recently convicted the two men spoken of as horse thieves.
William Ferguson, perhaps the most brilliant and effective pleader of his day in Illinois, removed to California; was elected to the State Senate, and was fatally shot in a duel at Sacramento.
William P. Hackney, now a leading lawyer and politician, after the close of the war studied and practiced law with Wyatt. Sam- uel P. Davidson, now Circuit Judge at Tecumseh, Neb., was ad- mitted to practice at the Logan County bar in 1870. Charles E Forsyth was admitted about the same time, and has recently lo- cated at Winfield, Kan. W. G. Webster studied law with Beach & Hodnett, was admitted in 1878, and is now in Kansas. Hubert Orendorff was admitted here about 1864. He went, later, to Kan- sas City, where he died. William G. Bates, a farmer and lawyer of Elkhart Township, removed in 1883 to Fort Scott, Kansas. Joseph B. Bates resided in Alabama from 1867 to 1877, and was candidate for Judge. He is now on the Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph.
These, with the attorneys now in practice, complete the roll of Logan County lawyers, past and present. It is necessary in this place, however, to make special reference to those who belong to the history of Mt. Pulaski, the old county seat, though most of them have been referred to above. During the period 1847-'56, 19
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when the seat of justice was at Mt. Pulaski, Horace H. Ballou was the senior member of the bar. He followed the county seat to Lincoln; died there, and is now buried at Mt. Pulaski. W. H. Young is spoken of as an able but rather unscrupulous lawyer. James S. Jones resided here a short time and removed to Cham- paign. Samuel C. Parks and L. P. Lacey went to Lincoln soon after the removal thither of the county seat.
One of the best remembered men in legal matters at Mt. Pulaski was Colonel Nathaniel M. Whittaker, who was from Indiana. He located here about 1842, kept the Mt. Pulaski House for a time, and was for a great many years justice of the peace. As a judge of law and a safe, sagacious counselor, he, though not a member of the bar, had but few equals. In later years came W. H. H. Allen, known as " Tip " Allen, and a young man. named Martin, neither of them possessing marked abilities. About 1875, S. L. Wallace, now of Lincoln, and A. G. Jones located here. The lat- ter yet resides here, as does C. H. Curtis, who was born in the county and is a graduate of the Iowa University Law School.
The walls of the old court-room have on many occasions in the past re-echoed the high-pitched voice of Abraham Lincoln, as well as the eloquence of John T. Stuart, W. H. Herndon, William Ferguson, C. H. Moore, George H. Estabrook, Joseph H. January and others.
At Atlanta, Major George H. Estabrook was the pioneer. He practiced many years; was in the Seventh Illinois Volunteers dur- ing the late war, and is now a resident of New Rockford, Dakota. William E. Dicks lived here several years. He was afterward county judge, and is now practicing in Chicago. A. J. Turley was born near Mt. Pulaski, and practiced there, at Lincoln and at Atlanta. Colonel James G. Brice, though blind, was an eloquent advocate and bright lawyer. He came to Atlanta from Louisiana, and returned South after a few years. C. H. Goodrich resided and practiced here several years, and is now at Jerseyville. Charles Worthington, from Maryland, was a resident and practi- tioner here in an early day and returned East. Joseph H. January was an early settler and attorney here. He came from Ohio in 1854, and now lives in Missouri. F. L. Capps and J. L. Bevan are the present practitioners at this point.
From the time Logan County was organized until he was elected a member of the Supreme Court, Hon. Samuel H. Treat was the judge who held the Circuit Courts of this county. He
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was succeeded by Hon. David Davis, who held our courts here until'appointed one of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by Lincoln in 1862. Judge Davis was succeeded by Hon. Jobn M. Scott, now one of the supreme judges of Illinois. After him came Hon. Thomas B. Tipton, who held court here un- til there was a! change made in the circuits by which De Witt, Logan, Mason and Menard counties were constituted a circuit. Hon. Lyman Lacey, of Havana, was elected judge of the new cir- cuit; and when this and Judge Cyrus Epler's circuit were united, Hon. Albert G. Burr, of Carrollton, was elected the third judge. In June, 1879, these three were re-elected. In 1882 Judge Burr died, and Hon. George W. Herdman, of Jersey County, was elected his successor. In June, 1885, all the old judges were re- elected, and are now the judges of the circuit of which Logan forms a part.
We are not informed as to who was the State's Attorney, under Judge Treat, any more than that Josiah Lamborn, in the early days of the county, attended the courts in that capacity. David Campbell, of Springfield, we believe, was the first State's Attorney under Judge Davis, and he died while an incumbent of that office. Prior to the legislative session of 1857, Sangamon was in this cir- cuit, but it was cut off by act of the Legislature of that session. Prior to this David Campbell had died, and Zimri McWilliams, of Springfield, had been appointed his successor. His term of office had expired, and Ward H. Lemon, afterward appointed Provost Marshal of the District of Columbia by President Lincoln, was elected his successor. Mr. Lemon, when appointed Provost Mar- shal, resigned the office, and his law partner, Hon. Harvey E. Hogg, of Bloomington, was appointed his successor by Governor Yates. Mr. Hogg was soon after appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Illinois Cavalry (and was afterward killed in the service), and Governor Yates appointed William H. Young his successor, who died before his term of office expired. Then Hon. Henry G. Green, of Clinton, now of Springfield, was appointed his successor, and was elected his own successor, but resigned the office before his term expired, and was succeeded by Thomas F. Tipton, of Bloomington. He in turn was succeeded by Hon. Jonathan H. Rowell, of Bloomington, who held the office when this and De Witt County were taken from the Bloomington cir- cuit, and the office was made elective for each county. Under the new arrangement James A. Hudson was appointed State's At-
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torney for Logan County, by Hon. Wm. E. Dicks, then county judge. Mr. Hudson was succeeded in office by Timothy T. Beach, and he by James T. Hoblit. He gave way to Randolph B. Forrest, and he was followed by Robert Humphrey, the present incumbent.
In the early days of the courts of this county most of the busi- ness was done by lawyers from Springfield, Bloomington, and other places. Among these were Abraham Lincoln, E. D. Baker, Josiah Lamborn, A. Gridley, Thomas L. Harris, David Davis, Clifton H. Moore, John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, Benjamin S. Edwards, William Ferguson, William H. Herndon, Elliott H. Herndon, David Campbell, and later on Leonard Swett and partner, General Orme, William Hannah, John M. Scott, James C. Conklin, Henry S. Green, Milton Hay, Shelby M. Cullom and others.
In fact, Logan County was seemingly regarded as an out-post of Springfield and Bloomington lawyers, who claimed it as a part of their bailiwick and monopolized or "gobbled up " all the pay- ing practice; but a time came when the lawyers here were not only able to sustain themselves and hold their practice at home against all comers, but were able to retaliate upon the enemy by carrying the war into their own camps and "foraging " upou them; and for many years past all the business in the courts, at. least all of any importance and having pay in it, has been done by the members of the local bar; and according to numbers no county in the State has an abler or more reliable local bar than Logan County. As will be seen by reference to the names of the attendants of the conrts here in early days, as well as later on, many of the gentlemen subsequently acquired a world-wide repu- tation. The illustrious Lincoln heads the list, the distinguished Congressman and martyred President; the gallant and eloquent Baker, Congressman, United States Senator, and hero of two wars; the profound jurist, able and enlightened statesman, David Davis, Circuit Judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Senator, President of the Senate and ex-officio Vice-President of the United States; the gallant Major Thomas L. Harris, of Colonel Baker's Fourth Illinois Regiment, who, with Captain Hart's company from Logan County and a company from Menard County, belonging to that regiment, in night-time mounted the cannon on the top of the mountain heights at Cerro Gordo, and at daybreak opened them upon the enemy,
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thus surprising and driving them from the field and a position deemed impregnable, which resulted in the historic victory of Cerro Gordo. He was later elected for four terms to Congress, and died on the evening of the day of the last election. He is re- membered as a man distinguished alike as a soldier, a lawyer and statesman. The able lawyers and enlightened statesmen John T. Stuart, Shelby M. Cullom, and Wm. M. Springer; the distin- guished lawyer and jurist, Hon. John M. Scott, Circuit Judge and Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court; the learned lawyers and jurists, Stephen T. Logan and Benj. S. Edwards; the eloquent Leonard Swett; the gallant General William Orme, Colonel Har- vey Hogg, the brilliant William Ferguson, the able and distin- guished railroad attorney, Henry S. Green, and others too numerous to mention, are remembered; and yet the leading mem- bers of the local bar of Logan County reflect high credit upon the profession even when following in the wake of such illustrious men.
The following anecdotes of Lincoln are authentic:
Lincoln and Judge Treat, while returning from Postville to Springfield on a quiet moonlight night, camne suddenly upon a polecat in the narrow track before them. Lincoln, remarking that he had had more experience in such matters than the judge, took the reins and made a wide circuit through the timber, saying: "I have been caught once and taught a lesson, and this is my way of dealing with all such, be they two-footed or four-footed!"
In 1843 or 1844 Judge Treat was holding court at Postville. Lincoln was attorney for a Logan County man on a suit to collect a note. The evidence showed that Lincoln's client had misrepre- sented and really had no case whatever, as he was trying to collect the note a second time. Lincoln became disgusted, quit the court- room, and, when sent for to make his argument for the prosecu- tion, sent word: "Tell the judge he must excuse me; my hands are dirty!" His innate honesty and abhorrence of rascality could in no way be better expressed. When Lincoln first visited Post- ville, he was gay and rollicking-a regular boy-and used to wrestle, jump, run foot-races, tell jokes, throw the maul or " beetle " and ride to and from Springfield on horseback.
In 1859, while en route to Columbus, Ohio, to meet Mr. Doug- las in a political discussion, Mr. Lincoln remarked to Mr. Sylvester Strong, of Atlanta, this county, that Mr. Douglas would be a can- didate before the Democratic National Convention of 1860, and,
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says Mr. Lincoln, " should he be nominated and defeated he will not live a year; I know the constitution and temperament of the man." How prophetic this was is now a matter of history. Mr. Lincoln at this time also expressed a desire to live to see every man, woman and child in America free, and the possessors of bread earned by their own paid labor.
PRESENT BAR.
The lawyers now residing at Lincoln are: E. D. Blinn, James T. Hoblit, Timothy T. Beach, Joseph Hodnett, D. H. Harts, Edd. E. M. Cochran, Edmund Lynch, W. D. Wyatt, Oscar Allen, W. W. Stokes, S. A. Foley, John Johnston, R. C. Maxwell, L. C. Schwerdtfeger, E. G. Hudson, George B. Hudson, James A. Hudson, O. C. Sharp, S. J. Woland, S. G. Allen, W. B. Jones, W. O. Jones, Robert Humphrey, Frank Fiske, S. L. Wallace, J. F. Hilscher, A. D. Cadwallader, Henry W. Dana and W. P. Randolph.
At Atlanta are J. L. Bevan and F. L. Capps; at Mt. Pulaski, W. B. Teft; and at Hartsburg, W. B. Teft.
BIOGRAPHICAL MENTION.
OSCAR ALLEN is a native of Massachusetts, born in 1836. He . came to Logan County in 1867 and was admitted to the bar in 1871, and has since practiced in Lincoln.
SAMUEL G. ALLEN, attorney at law, Lincoln, was born in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1854, his parents, David and Sarah (Grenninger) Allen, being also natives of Pennsylvania, and of English and German descent respectively. When he was ten years old he came with his parents to Illinois, they settling on a farm in Orvil Township, Logan County, where he lived till sixteen years old, being educated till that time in district schools. In the spring of 1872 he entered the Illinois State University at Normal which he attended, and defrayed his expenses till 1874, when he was taken sick with malarial fever and was obliged to leave school. On his recovery he engaged in teaching in the district schools of Logan County which he followed till 1877. From 1875 in connection with teaching school he read law during his leisure hours with Hon. Ed. Lynch, of Lincoln. In June, 1877, he was admitted to the bar at Mount Vernon, Illinois, after which he practiced with his preceptor of Lincoln till 1879, when he opened
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his present office in Lincoln. Mr. Allen is a member of Glendower Lodge, No. 45, K. of P., of which he is Past Chancellor.
TIMOTHY TILDSON BEACH, senior member of the law firm of Beach & Hodnett, of Lincoln, was born at Rosendale, Ulster County, New York, December 18, 1843. His parents, Phineas and Martha (Wel- drum) Beach, were both natives of New Jersey, the former being of Scotch and Irish descent, and the latter of German and French descent. T. T. Beach, our subject, was quite young when his pa- rents settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, in which city he attended school till he was fourteen years old. He then learned the carpenter's trade which he followed till the breaking out of the late war. He then enlisted, in June, 1862, as a private in Company B, One Hun- dred and Fiftieth New York Infantry, in the three years service. He participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Rocky Ford, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoochie, Peach Tree Creek, sieges of Savannah and Bentonville, and others of minor impor- tance. He was discharged with [his regiment in June, 1865, and during his term of service was never off duty from sickness, and was never wounded, although he had some narrow escapes. In July, 1865, he came to Lincoln and began working at his trade. In September, 1867, he entered Lincoln University from which he graduated in the class of 1870. He then studied law with Hon. S. A. Foley at Lincoln, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1871, since which he has been engaged in the practice of law. In the spring of 1872 he was elected city attorney of Lincoln for one year, and the following fall he was elected State's Attorney for Logan County for a term of four years. In 1873 he was appointed by the Circuit Court of Logan County, Master in Chancery, which office he held for six years by reappointment. In June, 1874, he was chosen one of the trustees of Lincoln University, and still holds that position. In 1874 Joseph Hodnett became associated with him, when the present firm of Beach & Hodnett was formed. Mr. Beach has gained an extensive legal reputation, and for the past eight years ne has taken part in all the important litigations, both crimi- nal and civil, in the courts of Logan County. He was first married at Mt. Pulaski, May 3, 1871, to Isabelle W. Swing, who died at Lin- coln, Oct. 13, 1878, leaving two children-Bessie Leona and Flora Belle. Mr. Beach was again married Aug. 23, 1882, to Grace A. Lynn, of Lincoln. In his political views Mr. Beach is a Democrat, and has served as Chairman of the Logan County Democratic Com- mittee. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and
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belongs to the lodge, chapter and commandery of Lincoln. JOHN L. BEVAN, attorney at law of Atlanta, is a native of Logan County, Illinois, born December 15, 1845, a son of Samuel and Eliza A. Bevan, the father deceased. He was reared on his father's farm till his twenty-first year, receiving his primary education in a district school. In the fall of 1866 he entered Shurtleff College, of Alton, Illinois, which he attended five years, and in the fall of 1871 he became a student at Brown University, an Eastern institution of national importance, graduating therefrom in June, 1872. The fol- lowing fall he entered the law department of Ann Arbor Univer- sity from which he graduated in March, 1874. The same year he began the practice of law in Atlanta, Ill., where he has built up a large and lucrative practice, and is classed among the leading legal advisers of Logan County. He is at present clerk of Atlanta Town- ship, which position he has filled for years. October 4, 1877, he was married to Armada S. Thomas, daughter of Rev. E. J. Thomas of Atlanta. Of the three children born to this union two are liv- ing-Lynn J. and Carl. In politics Mr. Bevan affiliates with the Re- publican party.
EDWARD D. BLINN, attorney at law, senior member of the firm Blinn & Hoblit, Lincoln, Illinois, was born at St. Johnsbury, Ver- mont, September 12, 1844, a son of Charles and Lefee (Harrington) Blinn. His father was a native of Canada, of English descent, and his mother of Vermont, of English and French descent. He was given a good education, and when eighteen years of age left home and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where for eighteen months he was employed as bookkeeper in a pump manufactory. In 1864 he be- gan the study of law in the office of Kebler & Whitman, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar by the Superior Court of Cincinnati. He remained with Kebler & Whitman till the following Septem- ber, when he came West and in November located at Lincoln. In January, 1869, he became associated with Silas Beason, and the firm of Beason & Blinn continued till April, 1882, when James T. Hoblit succeeded Mr. Beason, and the name was changed to Blinn & Hoblit. In 1875 Mr. Blinn was a member of the County Board of Supervisors, representing East Lincoln Town- ship. In politics he is a Republican, and has been chairman of the Logan County Republican Central Committee several years. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Con- vention at Chicago; and in 1884 was one of the Presidential electors for the State of Illinois. Jan. 1, 1869, Mr. Blinn was
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married at Cold Spring, Kentucky, to Nettie L., daughter of John C. Youtsey, a prominent citizen of that place. They have three children-Edith, Eva and Nettie L. Mr. Blinn is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lincoln Lodge, No. 210; Lin- coln Chapter, No. 147, and Constantine Commandery, No. 51.
ALBERT DOUGLAS CADWALLADER, postmaster at Lincoln, and at- torney at law, is a native of Ohio, born in Harveysburg, July 25, 1846, a son of John T. and Rachel (Farquhar) Cadwallader, the former a native of Virginia, of Welsh and Scotch descent, and the latter of Ohio, of Scotch descent. When nine years of age he accompanied his parents to Canton, Illinois, they removing when he was thirteen to Havana. When sixteen years old, in August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Eighty-fifth Illinois Infantry, and served till May, 1865. In the spring of 1864 he was promoted to First Lieutenant of his company, and soon after receiving his com- mission took command of his company. He participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Rome, Buzzards' Roost, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and others of minor importance. At Peach Tree Creek, July 19, 1864, he lost his arm, and received his discharge in May, 1865. After regaining his health, in the winter of 1865-'66, he took a course at the Commercial College of Indianapolis, and in the summer of 1866 studied telegraphy at Corwin, Ohio. The fol- lowing fall he came to Lincoln, where his parents were then living, and soon after was appointed operator in the office of the Chicago & Alton and the Toledo, Peoria & Western railroads, at Chenoa, Illinois, remaining there about a year. In 1867 he was given charge of the passenger and telegraph department of the Chicago & Alton Railroad at Lincoln. In the spring of 1868 he was elected City Clerk of Lincoln, and performed the duties of his . office in addition to his other duties. In May, 1869, he was ap- pointed postmaster of Lincoln, and resigned his position with the railroad to assume the duties of his new position, which he has fol- filled with efficiency and to the satisfaction of the citizens of Lin- coln. He began the study of law with Beach & Hodnett, attorneys of Lincoln, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1883. Mr. Cad- wallader was married May 5, 1869, to Sevillah E., daughter of John Wyatt. She died, leaving one child-Albert Clifford, who is also deceased. December 24, 1873, he married Vesta Meguire, of Oquakwa, Illinois. They have one child-Imogene Farquhar. Mrs. Cadwallader is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
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of which he is an attendant. He is a member of Lincoln Lodge, No. 204, I. O. O. F .; Leo W. Myers Post, No. 182, G. A. R., and the American Legion of Honor.
FERDINAND L. CAPPS, attorney at law, Atlanta, came to America with his parents, who first settled in Wisconsin, and shortly after, in 1858, located in Logan County, making their home in Atlanta. They had a family of six children, five of whom are still living-Henry F., August L., Emil, Eliza and Ferdinand L. Our subject was reared to manhood in Logan County, and there obtained a good education. In January, 1864, he enlisted in Company H, Seventh Illinois Infantry, Army of the Tennessee. On October 5 of the same year he was wounded in the thigh at Allatoona Pass, and was taken to Rome Hos- pital, Georgia, remaining there till a few days prior to the battle of Nashville, when he reported for duty and was as- signed to the provision corps which consisted entirely of con- valescents, and embraced several hundred men, included in the command of General Steadman. A few days after the battle of Nashville he was sent back to his regiment, which was then with General Sherman near Goldsboro, North Carolina, with which he continued till his discharge in July, 1865. He then returned to Atlanta, and some years afterward read law in the office of ex- Judge Dicks, of Logan County. Having passed his legal exami- nations he was admitted to the Logan County bar, and in 1877 he opened his present law office in Atlanta. He is a successful prac- titioner, and is at present serving his fourth term as city attorney. October 23, 1879, he was married to Ella Collins, of Atlanta. Mr. Capps has served one term as supervisor of Atlanta Township.
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