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On the 12th of February, 1904, Mr. Lam- bert was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Gee, a native of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. His first marriage, however, was celebrated in 1891, when Mary E. Moomaw, of South Bend, became his wife. One danghter. Mildred, was born of this union on the 13th of July,
1893. In his fraternal relations Mr. Lam- bert is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
WILL G. CRABILL was born in Wabash, In- diana, September 22, 1869. He came of sturdy Hoosier parentage. his grandfather, Michael R. Crabill, who died at Wabash in November, 1906, having been one of the pio- neers of Wabash county and a prominent factor in its history. He held many offices of publie trust, and had the distinction of being the first Democratie mayor ever elected in the city of Wabash, and that in the face of a large political majority. Charles B., eldest son of Michael R. Crabill, and father of W. G. Crabill, is a veteran of the Civil War. He married Julia Ann Gnin, a native of Howard county, Indiana, in 1866. He removed to South Bend with his family in 1882 and entered the employ of the Stude- baker Brothers' Manufacturing Company as iumber buyer and inspector.
Will G. Crabill at once entered the public schools of South Bend and graduated from the high school in 1888. At this time he re- ceived his first publie recognition, his high standing entitling him to the only honor then in the gift of the high school,-a schol- arship to Wabash College. Immediately after his graduation he entered the employ of Hon. Andrew Anderson, the leading lawyer of the St. Joseph county bar, of South Bend, Indiana, and began the study of law. In 1890 and 1891 he took a special course in law at the University of Michigan. Returning he re-entered the office of Mr. Anderson, who was then associated with James DuShane. and in the same year was admitted to the bar.
Mr. Anderson was doing an excellent class of business and so much of it that he was working day and night. So the boy did not spend much time in entting his legal teeth on the rubber ring of trivial business that usually falls to the infant lawyer, but was put to the bone of real work. He was alert and self-reliant, and depended not upon Inek. but upon studions and thorough preparation to win his cases, and he rapidly developed a precocious ability to "deliver the goods."
In the year 1893 he married Lanra C. Jones. They have two daughters. In 1897 he became a member of the firm, which then read Anderson, DuShane & Crabill. In 1906 Mr. DuShane, who had devoted his time ex-
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clusively to patent business, formally retired from the firm. The Hon. Samuel Parker, formerly of Marshall county, came to South Bend and became associated with Mr. Ander- son and Mr. Crabill, the firm style now being Anderson, Parker & Crabill. Mr. Anderson has reached the contemplative, philosophie age, and has withdrawn from active practice, willing, as he says, to "let the boys do the work." This is what Mr. Crabill has always been doing. How well he is doing it the records of St. Joseph county show. He is helping make the current history of the county and is bearing the brunt of a large number of its most important legal battles. Ile and his firm represent large corporate in- terests, being attorneys for the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company. Studebaker Brothers' Manufacturing Company. St. Jo- seph County Savings Bank, Vandalia Rail- road Company, and many concerns less pow- erful. but have never turned a deaf ear to the impecunious client with a meritorious case.
Mr. Crabill has been too deeply engrossed in business and study to attain any-great social prominence. IIe lives in a quiet. un- pretentious way. He is affiliated with a number of fraternal organizations, but is con- tent with the position of lay member in most of them. In Masonic circles he is well known. having held successive posts of honor. cul- minating with the office of Eminent Com- mander of South Bend Commandery No. 13. Knights Templar.
He has a host of friends. Ile is still young, his practice is clean, his methods are vigorous and straightforward. and his ideals are high. He has a future more brilliant than his past.
HION. LUCIUS HUBBARD. Occupying a high place among the leading law practitioners of St. Joseph county may be found the name of Hon. Lucius Hubbard. His entire life has been passed in the county. for his birth occurred within its borders in Olive township on the 7th of January, 1844. His parents. Ransom and Mariette (Whitlock) Hubbard. were natives respectively of Oneida and Delaware counties. New York. As early as 1835 the paternal grandfather of our subject. Jonathan Hubbard. came from Oneida county and settled within the borders of Olive township, St. Joseph county. Indiana. where he was engaged in agricultural pur- suits. The life history of Ransom Hubbard
was closely identified with the history of St. Joseph county, which was his home for many years, and through all that period he was closely allied with its interests and up- building. He, too, devoted his time to agri- cultural pursuits, and was of the highest type of business man. In his family were three sons, one of whom. Haven, now resides on the old homestead which has been in the possession of the family for three generations.
When fifteen years of age Lucius Hubbard, whose name introduces this review. entered Notre Dame University, where he received an excellent literary education, while his legal training was obtained in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in which he gradu- ated with the class of 1866. In the same year he began the practice of law in South Bend. where he has ever since been accorded a prominent position at the bar, his profes- sional career being an honor to the district which has honored him. ITis superior ability has won him marked success in public life, and from 1871 until 1873 he served as a state senator. while from 1894 until 1900 he was circuit judge. Professional eminence is an indication of individual merit. for in professional life advancement cannot depend upon outside influences or the aid of wealthy friends; it comes as the reward of earnest. persistent labor and the exercise of natural talents, and for many years Judge Hubbard has been accorded a leading place at the Indiana bar.
The marriage of Judge Hubbard was cele- brated in 1869, when Miss Mattie O. Davis, a daughter of Joshua Davis of St. Joseph county. became his wife. One son has been born to them, Arthur, a bright young lawyer who is in partnership with his father. He also graduated from the University of Miehi- gan and from Harvard law school. In his fraternal relations the judge is a member of the Masonic order of St. Joseph county.
ANDREW ANDERSON. There is no nation- ality more honored in the United States or which has been of more practical strength, value and utility than the Scotch. Intensely honorable. and ever having a clear compre- hension of the ethics of life the Scotch have wielded a wide influence. and this service cannot but be held in high estimation by those who appreciate true worth and true advancement. Although a native of White- hall. Washington county. New York. born October 6. 1830. Mr. Anderson is a descendant
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of Scotland, for his father, Andrew Ander- son, was a native of Dundee of that country, born in 1779. When twenty-three years of age he came to the United States, taking up his abode in Washington county, New York, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. His death occurred in 1870. He married Lucinda Goodrich, of an old New England family.
Andrew Anderson, Jr., attended Union College of Schenectady, New York, and grad- uated from the Albany Law School in 1856. He at once came to South Bend, and on the 1st of January, 1856, opened a law office in this city, where he has since been engaged in active practice. He enjoys a large clientage, which has connected him with much of the important litigation heard in the courts of the district for many years. while for a long period he has also been the lecturer on law at Notre Dame University. Ile is a dean of the St. Joseph county bar, a forceful speaker before judge and jury and is a man of the most sterling qualities of heart and mind. He is a true friend and an honorable opponent. For a number of years Mr. Anderson was in partnership with Thomas S. Stanfield, and he is now a member of the firm of Anderson, Parker & Crabill. His name also stands con- spicuously forth on the pages of Indiana's political history, and in 1862 he served as a member of the legislature. He was also the first man in St. Joseph county to offer his services to his country during the Civil war, becoming a member of Company I, Ninth In- diana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three months.
In 1857 Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Mary Chapin: a daughter of Horatio Chapin. a banker and an honored early set- tler of South Bend. Her death occurred in 1905, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Willis Put- nam, of Massachusetts, and Emma. the wife of James DuShane, of South Bend. Mr. An- derson continues his connection with his old army comrades by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. He is inde- pendent in his political affiliations, and re- ligiously is a member of the Presbyterian church.
JOHN W. KITCH, a substantial and progres- sive lawyer of South Bend, residing at No. 906 East Dayton street, is a native of In- diana. born in Marshall county, June 8, 1866. Of his parents. Martin Van Buren and Amanda M. (Lehr) Kitch. his father was for
many years engaged in his native county as a lumberman and farmer. He was proprietor of a saw mill, and a man of substance and considerable prominence. The mother was born in Harris township, in the extreme northeastern part of St. Joseph county, and her father was one of the first to take up land in that section. Samuel Lehr became a settler of Harris township in the early thir- ties, and until his death was a well known pioneer in the locality named.
Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin V. Kitch two died in infancy, and John W. is the oldest of the five sons. His early education was obtained in the district schools of Marshall county, and he afterward became a student in Valparaiso University. in which he pursued both scientific and classical courses. His first intention was to enter the educational field and cultivate it permanently, and, judged by the progress he made in his early manhood, he would have acquired emi- nence there. After graduating from the Val- paraiso University, he located in Holland, Michigan, where for two years he held the position of principal of the high school. Sub- sequently he was an inenmbent of the same position at Adair and Coon Rapids, both in Iowa. While thus engaged at the former place he commenced the study of the law in an attorney's office.
Having been admitted to the practice of his profession, in 1898 Mr. Kitch opened an office for practice at Bremen, Indiana, and engaged in professional labors at that place for three years. Early in 1901 he located at South Bend. and, with the exception of two years, when he was connected with the Lindon School, he has devoted himself to his chosen calling. Ile now has a profitable and high- grade practice, and is recognized as a leading lawyer and a valuable citizen.
On September 12, 1890, Mr. Kitch was married to Miss Ida Simpson, the ceremony occurring at the home of her parents in Fow- ler, Indiana. Mrs. Kitch is a native of Tippe- canoe county, that state, and she was raised to useful womanhood in the locality of her birth. Her father, Jeremiah Simpson, was long the foreman for Moses Fowler, a mil- lionaire farmer of that county. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kitch have two children-Lorene and Donnell. Politically Mr. Kitch is a Dem- ocrat, and is an active and effective party worker. His fraternal connections are with
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the Masons and Odd Fellows, in whose ranks he is a progressive member.
CYRUS E. PATTEE. During the past eight years Cyrus E. Pattee has been engaged in the practice of law in St. Joseph county. He is able and well posted in his profession, clear and convincing as a speaker before judge and jury, painstaking and accurate in the prep- aration of his cases, and conscientiously ad- heres to the spirit as well as the letter of the law. He was born in Kankakee county, Illi- nois on the 25th of February, 1870. a son of Cyrus and Nancy E. (Fleming) Pattee, the former a native of the state of New York and the latter of LaGrange, Indiana. In the year 1845 the father established his home in Illi- nois, where both he and his wife are still liv- ing, enjoying the comforts which many years of earnest and persistent labor have brought to them.
The elementary educational training of Cy- rus E. Pattee was received in his native coun- ty of Kankakee, after which he completed the scientifie course in the Northern Indiana Normal College at Valparaiso, Indiana, grad- uating with the elass of 1893. For one year thereafter he was engaged in the study of law in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in 1898 graduated from the law depart- ment of the University of Colorado. at Bould- er, that state. In the same year he began the practice of his chosen profession in South Bend, remaining alone until 1901. when he formed the partnership with Miller Guy which still exists, and the firm of Guy & Pattee has gained a high reputation throughout St. Jo- seph county. Mr. Pattee gives his politieal support to the Republican party, and was its nominee for the office of prosecuting attorney in 1906. His first politieal work was in the Blaine campaign. when he was a member of the School Boys' Marching Club of Yellow- head township. Kankakee county, Illinois. He is an indefatigable and earnest worker, and he is proficient in every department of the law. Before taking up the practice of the law he also attained distinction in educational fields, having been principal of the Grant Park high school of Grant Park, Illinois.
Mr. Pattee married Miss Elizabeth Miller Creed, a daughter of J. P. Creed, whose his- tory appears elsewhere in this volume. This union has been blessed with two children : Edwin John, born December 13. 1902. and Robert Stuart, born in May, 1905.
MILLER GUY, a prominent attorney of South Bend, Indiana. and well known throughout this section of the state among the younger representatives of the bar, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. on the 13th of December. 1870. His parents, S. L. and Agnes A. (Miller) Guy, were natives respectively of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and Brook county. West Virginia. The father removed to Kansas in 1887, where he was engaged in farming and stock-raising, and there his life's labors were ended in death in 1896.
Miller Guy attended the public schools of his native county and also Bethany College, West Virginia, in which he was graduated in 1889 with the degree of B. A. He also graduated in law from the University of Michigan in 1895, and after working for one vear in Ohio, he came to South Bend, arriv- ing here on the 1st of November, 1896, and from that time until April. 1901, he prae- ticed alone, but then formed a partnership with C. E. Pattee. the name of Guy & Pattee being well known in the northern portion of Indiana. Mr. Guy has won prominence at the bar of South Bend. and has been con- nected with much important litigation. while at the same time he has made a specialty of drainage law, and is looked upon as an authority on that particular branch on ae- count of the success which has attended his efforts in its practice. His activity in politi- cal lines has connected him with much cam- paign work, and he is recognized as a Re- publican leader in this section of the state.
Mr. Guy is also a prominent worker in the Young Men's Christian Association, having done much valuable and voluntary work for the organization, and was president of the board of directors for two years, also chair- man of the executive committee and a mem- ber of the building committee.
WLADYSLAW ALEX GRZESK. a prominent at- torney of South Bend, is known as a man of high attainments and practical ability as a lawyer. He was born in Portage township. St. Joseph county, Indiana, June 4, 1880, a son of Thomas and Anthony Grzesk, both natives of Poland, but who came to this eoun- try in 1873 and located in South Bend. In 1885 they took up their abode on an eighty acre farm ten miles west of this city. their first home being a little log cabin. and on this old home farm the father still resides, but the mother died on the 7th of June. 1906. In
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their family were eleven children, nine of whom grew to years of maturity and are still living.
Wladyslaw A. Grzesk, the third child and second son in order of birth, spent the early years of his life on the homestead, attending the district schools and also the South Bend public schools until seventeen years of age, when he began traveling for the MeCormick Harvesting Machine Company. his territory extending over northern Indiana and south- ern Michigan. After remaining with this com- pany abont one year he pursued a course in the South Bend Commercial College. In April. 1901. however, he returned to the Me- Cormick Harvesting Company, but on the 1st of October following became a student in the law department of the Valparaiso college, completing the course and graduating in 1904. All during his vacations, however, he continued with his old employers, the Me- Cormick Company, but since 1904 he has given his entire time and attention to his law practice, his prestige at the bar of Sonth Bend standing in evidence of his ability and likewise serves as a voucher for intrinsie worth of character. Mr. Grzesk is a member of the Polish Turners Association, is a stock- holder in the Jan III Sobiski Building and Loan Association, and is also extensively in- terested in real estate operations, handling much valuable property. As a Republican he has taken an active part in the public life of his community. and at one time was a can- didate for the office of justice of the peace.
On the 6th of June, 1905, Mr. Grzesk was united in marriage to Martha Gierzk, and their only daughter is Jeneva. He is a splen- did example of the boys who have educated themselves and secured their own start in life, and as the record of a young man it is one of which he may justly be prond.
A. MCMULLEN CREED. None of the young and progressive attorneys of St. Joseph conn- ty have a brighter outlook than A. MeMI. Creed, of South Bend. a partner of Herbert D. Warner, with convenient offices in the Jefferson building. He is a native of Sin- clairville, New York, born January 20, 1879, and is the son of Rev. Edward K. and Fannie (MeMullen) Creed. His father, long an hon- ored figure in the Methodist ministry, was born in New York state, and his mother was a native of Warren, Pennsylvania. In their family of three children he is the only son and the oldest.
A. MeMullen Creed received his prepara- tory education in the high school of South- ington, Connecticut, and afterward pursued an academic course at Pennington, New Jer- sey. After leaving school in 1900 he became a clerk in a New York law office, and in the spring of the following year came to South Bend to study his profession under the guid- ance of his uncle, J. P. Creed. He was about a year in his office, when he entered the law department of the Maryland University at Baltimore. After his gradnation therefrom he returned to South Bend, and since July, 1904, has practiced with ability and inereas- ing reputation.
Mr. Creed was married October 10, 1906, to Miss Winifred Purshall. a native of Erie. Pennsylvania. He is a member of the col- lege fraternity Kappa Sigma, and while a college student at Pennington, New Jersey, was a leading athlete. Ile has retained his enthusiasm and skill for all forms of exercise, and at one time was director of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium at South Bend, holding a simi- lar position at Mishawaka. Politically Mr. Creed is a Republican of firm convictions. and, fraternally, a Mason in good standing.
GEORGE G. FELDMAN. The name of George G. Feldman is inscribed on the pages of St. Joseph county's history in connection with the records of her jurisprudence, and he is also accounted one of the political leaders of this section of the state. He was born in Marshall county, Indiana, June 27. 1861, a son of August and Barbara ( Michael) Feld- man. the former a native of Altendorf. Grand Duchy of Hesse, born September 1, 1821, and the latter of Bavaria, Germany, and both are now prominent old residents of South Bend. In 1848 the father came to the United States and settled in Greenville, Ohio, and was there married December 26, 1849. That city con- timied to be his home for six years, and on the expiration of that period. in 1854. he took up his abode within the borders of Indiana. the first year in this state being spent in Elkhart county. Ho then settled in the woods near Bremen, where he erected a log cabin and engaged in agricultural pursuits. To establish a home amid sneh surrounding as he here encountered and to cope with the many privations and hardships which were the inevitable concomitants. demanded an in- vineible courage and fortitude, strong hearts and willing hands. All these were character- isties of the pioneers, whose names and deeds
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should be held in perpetual reverence by those who enjoy the fruits of their toil. So well did he succeed in his business ventures that in 1900 Mr. Feldman was enabled to lay aside the active duties of a business life, and removed to Bourbon, Marshall county, In- diana, while in 1906 he came to South Bend, where he and his wife are now enjoying the reward of their former toil, surrounded by the many luxuries which a life of industry has brought to them.
George G. Feldman received his elementary educational training in the schools of Mar- shall county, and after completing his studies therein he was engaged in teaching from 1879 until 1889. In 1889 he entered upon a course in the Northern Indiana Normal Col- lege at Valparaiso, Indiana, now the Univer- sity of Valparaiso, graduating in the next year with the degree of B. S., and two years later. in 1892, graduated in law and classics with the degrees of A. B. and LL. B. On May 18th of the latter year he was granted a life state teacher's certificate on examina- tion on twenty-four subjects. and this he prizes very highly, as such documents are very rare. In August, 1892, Mr. Feldman took up his abode in South Bend and com- meneed the practice of law. His prestige at the bar of St. Joseph county stands in evi- dence of his ability, and he has used his in- tellect to the best purpose. He is also ac- counted one of the leaders of Democracy in this section of the state, and was a candidate for the legislature in 1894, while from 1896 until 1898 he was chairman of the County and City Democratie Committees. In 1902 he was elected city judge, the duties of which he discharged with such ability that in 1905 he was re-elected for another term of four years, by an increased majority of over two hundred votes. What higher testimonial of his able service on the bench could be given than the fact of his long continuance thereon ?
On the 27th of June, 1897, Judge Feldman was married to Miss Louise A. Wenger, a daughter of Gustavus Wenger, a mannfac- turer and a prominent early settler of South Bend, a well known and highly respected business man of this city for many years. This union has been blessed with three ehil- dren : Horace W., born March 20, 1899; Earl R., born September 12. 1900: and George G., Jr., born January 26. 1904. Judge Feld- man has been identified with the Masonic or- der for sixteen years, a member of Lodge No.
294, also of the Chapter and Commandery, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
HON. E. VOLNEY BINGHAM. Everywhere in our land are found men who have worked their own way from humble beginnings to places of leadership and high esteem, and thus it has been with the eminent member of the bar of St. Joseph county, E. Volney Bingham, in whose life history many useful lessons may be gleaned. IIe is a native son of Penn township of this county, born August 1. 1844, his parents being Alfred and Ann (Miller) Bingham. The father, a native of New York, took up his abode in St. Joseph county in an early day, and was for many years associated with the St. Joseph Iron Works.
E. Volney Bingham attended during his boyhood days the public school near his home, and after the completion of his studies be- came an employe in the furniture factory. In his early youth he had a desire to become a member of the legal profession, and had made up his mind to enter npon the study of law, but at the inauguration of the Civil war he put aside all personal considerations and enlisted for service in the Union cause, becoming a member of Company G. Forty- eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served throughout the entire struggle and was promoted to sergeant major of his regi- ment. After the close of his military career he returned to Mishawaka and for two years thereafter was employed as a clerk, and later became a traveling salesman. In the mean- time Mr. Bingham had found time to gratify his old desire for the study of the law, and when he gave up his position on the road on account of ill health he was elected to the office of justice of the peace on the Demo- cratie ticket, winning the election in a strong Republican township and continuing as its incumbent for twelve years. He was ad- mitted to the bar of St. Joseph connty in 1875, and at once began the battle for name and position, and from that time forward he has prospered. During Cleveland's admin- istration he served as postmaster of Misha- waka, but higher honors awaited him and he was made a member of the state senate, 1892. for St. Joseph and Starke counties, suc- ceeding Judge Howard, who was promoted to Judge of the Supreme Court. To this high position Mr. Bingham was returned in No-
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