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From the above mentioned date, Mr. Ward has been a resident and a progressive practic- ing attorney of South Bend, and is firmly placed among the leading lawyers of the St. Joseph county bar. He has also been promi- nently identified with the internal revenue service of his district, and has served with credit as a state representative.
Mr. Ward's wife was formerly Miss Alice Chearhart, of Anderson, Indiana, by whom he has had one child, Wilbert. The parents are both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Aside from his general practice Mr. Ward has long been the attorney of the Work- ingmen's Loan Association. His striet princi- ples of personal honor, as well as his profes- sional ability, make him an especially promi- nent and valuable factor in the stability and progress of all such associations.
VITUS GEORGE JONES. During the four years which marks the period of Mr. Jones' professional career he has met with gratifying success. and is known as a man of high attain- ments and practical ability as a lawyer. He was born on a farm in Cass county, Michigan. June 15, 1879. a son of Thomas P. Jones, a native of Ireland. When but seven years of age. however, the father was brought by his parents to the United States, the family home being established in Michigan. Mr. Jones be- came very well known for his literary ability. and for many years taught school in Willow
Springs, Illinois, and was also connected with the Englewood Normal School. He then em- barked in business in Chicago, but his love for a country life impelled him to return to Michi- gan and engage in farming, and he still makes his home in that state and carries on his agri- cultural pursuits. He has been prominent in public life as well as in business circles, and is leaving the impress of his individuality for good upon many lines of progress and ad- vancement in his community. He married Catherine Callinane, who was born in Michi- gan of Irish parents.
Their son, Vitus G. Jones, received the rudi- ments of his excellent education in the coun- try schools of Michigan, and in 1894 he entered Notre Dame University, where he studied English and law, remaining there for nine years and receiving the degrees of LL. B. and Litt. B. He was graduated in law in 1903 and immediately opened an office for the practice of his profession in South Bend, being associated with F. M. Jackson for one and a half years. since which time he has remained alone. In January, 1905, he was appointed by the county commissioners as a justice of the peace. The following year. 1906, he formed a partnership with D. D. Bates, which continued until the firm of Ilowell, Bates, Elliott & Jones was formed in May, 1907. of which firm he is a member. As a lawyer Mr. Jones has won rank among the leading members of the bar of Indiana, and in addition to his large legal practice he is also interested in the real estate busi- ness with HI. A. Tohulka, the latter conduct- ing that part of the business.
Mr. Jones was married on the 5th of Novem- ber, 1903. to Miss Mary Morley. daughter of James Morley. of South Bend. In his frater- nal relations, Mr. Jones is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Equity and the Maccabees. He gives his political support to the Republican party, and is accorded a prominent position at the Indiana bar.
FRANK H. DUNNAHOO. One of the rising young men of South Bend is Frank H. Dun- nahoo, a representative of the bar of St. Joseph county. He is conscientious. prompt and thoroughly reliable, and has won the praise and regard of all with whom he has had dealings. He is a native son of this county, his birth having occurred on the 5th of April. 1873. His father. Griffin S. Dunnahoo, has been for many years a prominent factor in
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the agricultural interests of St. Joseph county. Reliability in all trade transactions, loyalty to all duties of citizenship, fidelity in the dis- charge of every trust reposed in him, these are his chief characteristics, and through the passing years they have gained for him the unqualified confidence and respect of his fel- low townsmen.
The public schools of St. Joseph county furnished Frank H. Dunnahoo with his ele- mentary educational training, while his pro- fessional studies were pursued in the Univer- sity of Michigan, from which he graduated in the law department in 1894, and in the same year he opened an office in South Bend for the practice of his profession. During his first six years in practice he was associated with the Hon. A. L. Brick, but during the past six years he has been alone. He is a rising young man in the profession, popular and respected by all with whom he has had deal- ings, and his prestige at the bar of St. Joseph county stands in evidence of his ability and likewise serves as a voucher for intrinsic worth of character. He gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party, and has for a number of years acceptably filled the office of city attorney of South Bend. In his social relations he is a member of the Indiana Club, the Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
DEMAS D. BATES. Honored and respected by all, Demas D. Bates has been for a number of years prominently connected with the bar of St. Joseph county, while during this time he has also been identified with its public affairs. Throughout the entire period of his residence here he has been actively interested in all measures advanced for the good of the people, and has performed his full share in the development and improvement of the city.
Mr. Bates was born near Liberty. St. Joseph county. Indiana, November 4, 1865, a son of Calvin Bates, a farmer by occupation. The son spent the period of his boyhood and youth on his father's farm and in attendance at the district sehool near his home, and thereafter- ward for nine years he was a member of the teacher's profession. While thus engaged he was also at intervals a student in the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso, Indi- ana, from which he was graduated in the law department in May, 1893, and in the same year he came to South Bend and opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession. Ile continued alone in his practice until Sep- tember. 1899, when he formed a partnership
with Hon. A. L. Briek, the firm being known as Briek & Bates. In 1898, Mr. Bates ac- cepted the position of referee in bankruptcy for the Thirteenth district, which was ten- dered him by Judge Baker of the United States District Court, but this position he resigned in 1899 to enter a partnership with Mr. Brick. In December, 1899, Mr. Bates was the choice of his fellow citizens for the office of county attorney. and held this position until 1906, when he resigned to become post- master of South Bend. He took charge of the postoffice April 1, 1906. and during the short period he held the office he obtained a busi- ness-like grasp of the situation which caused him to introduce methods and outline a policy that greatly increased the efficiency of the office.
In April, 1907. Mr. Bates found it neces- sary to relinquish the office of postmaster on account of pressure of other opportunities and his desire to accept them. He resigned the office of postmaster to take effect June 30, 1907, and entered into a law partnership with Hon. M. L. Howell, Hon. Gilbert A. Elliott. and Vitus G. Jones under the firm name of Howell, Bates, Elliott & Jones. The firm holds first rank with those of the central west. and occupies offices in the American Building. which are fitted up in the most modern style.
Mr. Bates has ever taken an active interest in politics as a Republican, and in the 1898 campaign, he was a member of the Republican Central Committee for the Thirteenth district, while in 1900 and 1902 he was treasurer of the Central Committee. He is a bright and skillful lawyer, and has been a faithful public servant, and is enjoying the confidence of all with whom he has business or private rela- tions.
HON. GILBERT A. ELLIOTT. The name of Gilbert A. Elliott figures conspicuously upon the legislative page of the history of Indiana. An enumeration of the men of the present generation who have won public recognition for themselves and at the same time have hon- ored the county and the state to which they belong, would be incomplete without promi- nent reference to the one whose name intro- duces this review. He is serving his second term as a member of the state legislature, where he has ever manifested deep interest in those questions which are to the statesman. as to the man of affairs, of vital importance to the commonwealth and the nation. While he has not been without the personal ambition
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which is the spur of energy and without which little would be accomplished in life, his patri- otic attachment to his country is even greater, and he has ever placed her good before self- aggrandizement. Thus over his public career there falls no shadow of wrong, and, while he has awakened envy and criticism such as always come to the man who figures promi- nently before the publie, the citizens who know him best have manifested their confi- dence in his worth and work by re-electing him to represent them in the council chambers of the state.
Mr. Elliott is a splendid example of the brilliant yet enduring stock of English-Irish ancestry transplanted to American soil and subjected to the broadening influences of western education and training. He has left nothing to chance, and taken nothing for granted except that he could never expect to reach a given point in his career without fighting obstaeles and struggling over difficul- ties, continuously and persistently. The decided ground which he has thus gained. although of unusnal extent for one of his years. has been held with determination, but. from the very nature of his character, with no indication of overweening pride. He is a native of South Bend. born on the 11th of October, 1879, a son of Gilbert L. and Anna (McElroy) Elliott, the latter being born in Ireland. The paternal grandfather was a cap- tain in the English army, stationed in India, where the father of Gilbert A. was born. The family afterward removed to Canada, and in 1870, after remaining there for a number of years, come to South Bend. The father, Gil- bert L. Elliott, died in this eity in 1893.
Gilbert A. Elliott has spent his entire life in the city of his nativity, is indebted to its publie schools for his early literary training and is a graduate of its high school. elass of 1898. Subsequently he pursued a higher course in the University of Michigan, and in 1903 graduated from the law department of that institution. After his admission to the bar Mr. Elliott entered the office of Wilbert Ward, of South Bend, but in 1904 began the practice of his chosen profession alone. He early took an interest in public questions and as they were discussed and manipulated mainly through political parties he naturally drifted into politics. As it is quite foreign to his nature to take any but an active part in anything which occupies his attention, he soon became recognized as a remarkably clear-
headed and influential Republican, and after his admission to the bar his old friends at once saw that he would make a very useful legislator. In 1904, therefore, before he had fairly entered practice, he was elected to the legislature from his home city, and so fulfilled the public expectations as to his faithfulness and ability that he was re-elected in 1906.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Elliott is identified with the Masonic order, Lodge No. 294, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and socially is a member of the Com- mercial-Athletic Club. While unassuming and companionable. he is at the same time a well read and substantial lawyer and a prac- tieal man of affairs, straightforward and de- termined. At an age when most young men are unknown to but a very limited circle, Mr. Elliott has achieved a firm public standing. and his merits are freely recognized, not only at home. but in other sections of the state. He is a fine type of the progressive American citizen-enterprising in business, deeply inter- ested in the current political situation, and, whatever his position. defending it with the same zeal with which he fosters his private affairs. In every sense he is intensely, vet broadly, American.
GEORGE E. CLARKE. The history of a city, county or state, as well as that of a nation, is chiefly the chronicle of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society. The world judges the character of a community by that of its representative citizens, and yields its tribute of admiration and respect for the genius, learning, labor or virtue of those whose work and actions consti- tute the record of a state's prosperity and pride: and it is in the character, as exempli- fied in probity and benevolence, kindly virtues and integrity in the affairs of life, that we are afforded worthy examples of emulation and valuable lessons of incentive.
Among the men whose impress of individu- ality is felt upon the city of South Bend, Indi- ana. whose efforts have promoted its welfare and progress, none are more worthy of men- tion in the volume than George Edmond Clarke, whose success at the bar classes him among the foremost members of the legal fra- ternity of the state of Indiana, and who has directed his efforts along lines demanding strong mentality and keen discernment that continued progression has followed as a logical sequence. As an exponent of the law he has manifested a strength that shows comprehen-
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sive familiarity with the great judicial prin- eiples involved ; and yet his powers have not so concentrated along one line of thought as to produce the abnormal development that so often is misconstrued as genius. On the con- trary, his is an evenly balaneed mind that has found scope for activity in literary, fraternal and social circles. Nor has he been remiss in that citizenship which takes cognizance of the great questions affecting the welfare of the country, and lends hearty co-operation to the movements for municipal improvement and advancement.
George E. Clarke has been practicing law at South Bend since 1890. In recognition of his legal ability and sterling worth as a eiti- zen, the people of the county elected him twice to the office of prosecuting attorney. In this office he added numerous laurels to his snecess in criminal law. Though an active member of the St. Joseph county bar. Mr. Clarke is, perhaps, best known to the younger generation of lawyers, in this county and elsewhere, as a leeturer on legal subjects. He has taught in the law department of Notre Dame University and is a well known leeturer
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recent meeting of the State Bar Association at Indianapolis, he delivered an address which was widely and favorably commented upon and which gave him general recogni- tion as one of the able publie speakers of the west. When the American Bar association met in Saratoga, New York, he was one of the three delegates from Indiana. and was elected by his fellow delegates as a member of the council for the state.
A man of exceptional attainments in vari- ous fields of effort, Mr. Clarke has had a varied career, though his endeavors have been applied in one general direction ever since he attained manhood. Born in New Orleans. Louisiana. May 8, 1860, he was the son of a railroad and steamboat official whose home was at that place. Both parents, Matthew and Ellen Clarke, were natives of Ireland. He is a graduate of the public schools. Dur- ing his earlier years he had experience in various capacities, at one time being private secretary of the president of the M. & O. railroad and later a newspaper reporter. For sometime he was in the employ of the Stude- baker Brothers of South Bend. He soon gained the prestige that comes through the recognition of ability, and. moreover, as a. young man with a reputation to make, he
displayed the unremitting industry and energy without which success in any walk of life is impossible. His college training and experience were received in several of the foremost schools of the country, namely, St. Vincent's College, Cornell University, the University of Michigan and Notre Dame University. He thoroughly informed himself concerning great judicial principles involved and his preparation of cases has always been most thorough and exhaustive. Notre Dame University has conferred upon him the de- gree of LL.B., B.A. and M.A. The Uni- versity of Michigan made him a Master of Laws.
Hle is one of the best known officials of the order of Knights of Columbus of Indiana, being a district deputy, and in the interests of this order, as well as a lawyer. he is known outside of the state, where he has conferred the degree of the order and has lectured in its interests. He is also a member of the Indiana State Bar and the American Bar Associations. He is an active member of the Catholic church.
Mr. Clarke is an influential Republican and has advocated the doctrines of the party from the platform in many campaigns, setting forth the real issues before the people in a concise, logieal and forcible manner that car- ries conviction to the minds of his auditors. He was honored by being appointed a mem- ber of the reception committee to receive Vice-President Fairbanks in Chicago in March, 1907.
Mr. Clarke married in 1887, Miss Mamia Giddings. At her death she left two child- ren. His present wife was Miss Mary Vanderhoof, of South Bend, Indiana.
THOMAS W. SLICK. The law has ever called into the circles of its devotees the brightest minds, the most gifted sons of the nation. The keen intelleet is sharpened by its elash with others as brilliant, and gains thereby an added strength and power. A prominent represen- tative of the bar of St. Joseph county is Thomas W. Slick, who is a native son of South Bend, born on the 5th of July, 1869. His father. Thomas J. Slick. is a native of Ohio. but came to St. Joseph county, Indiana, in the early '50s. when a young man, and was thereafter engaged in business in South Bend for a number of years. In 1876, however, he took up his abode upon a farm, and from that time until 1886 was actively engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, but for a number of years
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past he has been prominently engaged in the laundry business in this city. His life has been one of untiring activity, and he is now numbered among the honored pioneers who aided in laying the foundation on which to erect the superstructure of St. Joseph county's present prosperity and progress. His wife bore the maiden name of Laura Ann Whitten, she being a daughter of President Whitten, of South Bend.
Thomas W. Slick, whose name introduces this review, received his early educational training in the public schools of South Bend, graduating from its high school in 1889, and he thereafter taught school for two years. On the expiration of that period he entered upon the study of the profession which he had de- termined to make his life work, and in 1893 graduated in law and literature at the Michi- gan University at Ann Arbor. His prepara- tion for the bar was thorough and compre- hensive, and he was therefore ably fitted to open an office in South Bend and engage actively in practice. During the present year his brother was also admitted to the bar and has been taken into partnership. Throughout the period of his majority Mr. Slick has been a zealous and efficient worker in the Republi- can party, and for four years he served as prosecuting attorney.
The marriage of Mr. Slick was celebrated in 1894, when Mollie G. Falknor, of Covington, Ohio, became his wife, and they now have two sons, Glenn. born July 9. 1895, and Ralph, born September 29, 1896. In his fraternal re- lations Mr. Slick is a member of the Masonic order, lodge No. 294. of which he is a past master, and also a member of the Chapter and Knights Templar. Mr. Slick is accorded a prominent position at the Indiana bar, and his professional career is an honor to the dis- triet which has honored him.
JONATHAN P. CREED. The name of Jona- than P. Creed is inseparably associated with the history of jurisprudence in northern In- diana. Ile has not looked to publie or official life for advancement. but has found it in the line of his chosen profession. wherein he has manifested ability of a superior order, and in the faithful performance of each day's duties in accordance with the princi- ples of the loftiest and most noble manhood.
Mr. Creed was born in Benton. Yates county. New York, on the 2d of December, 1844, his father, William H. Creed, being a well known contractor and builder of that
city. During his early manhood the son Jonathan attended Genesee Wesleyan Semi- nary at Lima, New York, and at the age of seventeen years he offered his services to the Union cause in her efforts to overthrow the South, enlisting in the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to the front. His regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac, being a part of the Second Army Corps commanded by General W. S. Hancock. The One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth was one of the fa- mous "three hundred fighting regiments," and young Jonathan saw much arduous serv- ice, as his command took part in all the battles and skirmishes in which the Army of the Potomac participated. On the 4th of July, 1863, at Gettysburg, he was shot through the side and right arm. He was a brave and fearless soldier and suffered many hardships and privations for his country's cause.
The year 1868 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Creed in South Bend, where he began the study of law in the office of J. B. Arnold. with whom he afterwards formed a partner- ship. In 1881 he began the practice of law alone, but since 1897 he has had associated with him his daughter, Miss Alice M. Creed, who is a graduate of the South Bend high school in the class of 1892. She pursued her law studies at the University of Indianapolis, graduating in 1897, and was admitted to practice before the supreme court of Indiana. Her mother, nee Lucretia Miller, is a daugh- ter of Solomon Miller, of South Bend. Mr. Creed is a member of Auten Post, No. 8. G. A. R., of which he served as commander for three years. For many years he has been accorded a prominent position at the Indiana bar, and he and his popular and gifted daughter form a strong combination.
FRANCIS E. LAMBERT. Many years have passed and gone since the family to which this well known lawyer belongs became iden- tified with St. Joseph county. and its various members have won for the name an enviable distinction by their intelligence and worth. This high reputation is in no way dimin- ished in this generation. and Francis E. Lam- bert, who is numbered among the leading members of the bar in St. Joseph county, displays in a marked degree the admirable characteristics which the name suggests.
A native son of this county, Mr. Lambert was born on a farm on the 4th of June.
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1860, a son of Oliver C. and Ellen (MeMul- len) Lambert, the former a native of Vir- ginia, and the latter of Henry county, In- diana, born November 27, 1825. In their family were ten children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom five are now living. The father was born in Frederick county, Vir- ginia, in 1818, and as early as 1835 cast in his lot with the early pioneers of the Hoosier State. For many years after his arrival he conducted a cooper shop in South Bend, and in 1853 purchased the farm in Warren town- ship on which his remaining days were spent, passing away in 1872, when one more name was added to the list of honored dead whose earthly record closed with the words, "Well done."
Francis E. Lambert obtained his early educational training in the schools of old St. Joseph county, this being later supplemented by attendance at the Northern Indiana Nor- mal College at Valparaiso, Indiana. from which he graduated with the class of 1884. For twelve years thereafter he was numbered among the prominent and efficient teachers of the county, and was also connected with the South Bend Commercial College as princi- pal of the business department. During all this time his ambitions had been to become a lawyer, and as a means to that end he pur- sued a course in the law department of the Valparaiso College. After his admission to the bar in 1891 he immediately began the practice of his chosen profession in South Bend, and for a number of years thereafter was in partnership with F. M. Jackson, but is now alone. He is recognized as a man of exceptional attainments and mental culture, and his success has made him one of the leaders of the South Bend bar. He advo- cates the principles of the Republican party, and for two terms. 1894-1898, was a member of the state legislature. Prior to that time St. Joseph and Laporte counties formed one judicial district, and during his term in of- fice Mr. Lambert introduced and had passed a bill making this county the circuit. He was also appointed referee in bankruptcy in 1898, and is now filling that position.
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