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OREN S. HACK.
Oren S. Hack, of Indianapolis, was born in Shelby county, Indiana, on April 1, 1876, the son of John A. and Jane (Smith) Hack, the former a native of Hamilton, Ohio, and of German descent, and the latter, born in Indiana, of English descent. The subject's paternal grandparents, George Frederick and Margaret (Dingfelder) Hack, were born in Teisen- dorf, Bavaria, Germany, seventy-five miles from Munich and twelve miles from Salzburg, Austria. Oren S. Hack attended the common and high schools at Boggstown, Shelby county. From 1893 to 1895 he engaged in teaching country schools and from 1895 to 1899 he was principal of the Boggstown high school. He then became a student in the Central Normal College, at. Danville, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1896 and of Bachelor of Laws in 1SOS, receiving the latter degree also from the Indiana Law School in 1901. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 in Hendricks county and in March, 1809, began active practice in Indianapolis, entering the office of Leonard J. Hackney, where he remained until January 1, 1902, when he formed a partnership with Elliott R. Hooton, an association which has continued to the present time under the name of Hooton & Hack. In 1903-5 Mr. Hack served as deputy city attor- ney, and as deputy prosecuting attorney from January 1, 1907, to January
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1, 1910. He also served as special judge four years in criminal and pro- bate courts. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Hack has served on the various committees of his party for the past sixteen years. He is a Knight- Templar and Scottish-Rite Mason and belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations, and also belongs to the Deutsche Haus, the Contemporary Club, the Economic Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Democratic Club, being an ex-president of the latter organization. On June 16, 1908, Mr. Hack was married to Elizabeth Miller, the daughter of Timothy and Samantha (West) Miller. Mrs. Hack is well known, under her maiden name, as the author of "The Yoke" (1904, Bobbs-Merrill), "Saul of Tarsus" (1906, Bobbs-Merrill), "City of Delight" (1908, Bobbs-Merrill) and "Daybreak" (1915, Scribners). To Mr. and Mrs. Hack have been born three chil- dren, namely : John Oren, born September 17, 1910; Eleanor Miller, born March 23, 1913, and Elizabeth Virginia, born April 12, 1909, but who died on January 9, 1916. Mr. Hack owns a farm of two hundred and twenty acres in Shelby county, Indiana, and, being a lover of outdoor life, spende one day each week in hard work on the farm in summer.
EDWARD D. DANIELS.
Edward D. Daniels, of Tipton, was born at Lafayette, Indiana, April 18, 1878, and is one of three children born to Joseph and Azilda (Lord) Daniels, the father a native of New York, and the mother, of Canada. Edward Daniels was educated in the parochial schools of Lafayette and in St. John's Academy, at Tipton. In 1897 he graduated from the law department of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, and then located at Tipton, where he has since practiced. He was prosecuting attorney for the Thirty-sixth circuit in 1901-2, and served as deputy prosecutor for two terms. He is a Catholic, a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Elks. He is a Republican in politics. He organized the Tipton Chautauqua, and is secretary of the Commercial Club. On November 13, 1898, he married Elizabeth Staats, and they are the parents of two children, John Edward and Helen Louise.
EPHRAIM L. MARSH.
Ephraim Marsh was born in Hancock county, Indiana, June 2, 1845. At the age of eighteen he entered Knightstown Academy, and later entered DePauw University, where he graduated in 1870. He read law, was ad- mitted to the bar. and continued his studies under Reuben A. Riley, father of James Whitcomb Riley. In 1872 he was appointed deputy clerk of the Circuit court and two years later was elected clerk. In 1872 he became the partner of William Ward Cook. In 1880 and 1882 Marsh was chair- man of the Democratic county committee and in 1888 acted as secretary of the Democratic state committee. He was president of the school board at Greenfield and a director of the Hancock Agricultural Association. He died at Greenfield, Indiana, July 23, 1905.
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HAROLD A. HENDERSON.
Harold A. Henderson, of Rockville, was born at Vincennes, Indiana, December 3, 1SSO. He is the son of George B. and Ellen (Adams) Hen- derson, both native Hoosiers. They moved to a farm in Parke county when Harold was about one year old. There he grew up under the usual rural conditions. In addition to the district schools, he had the ad- vantage of the training of Bloomingdale Academy. He studied some time at the Law School of Valparaiso University and then entered the law office of Puett & McFaddin in Rockville, Indiana. In August, 1903, he was admitted to the bar. At the age of twenty-five he was elected county auditor, serving four years. On January 1, 1911, he formed a partnership with Elwood Hunt, with whom he practiced until January 1, 1914, when he formed a partnership with Judge Ared F. White and Jacob S. White, which continued until Judge White's death. He has ever since been in partnership with Jacob S. White, under the firm name of White & Hen- derson. On June 12, 1907, he was married to Sarah Katherine Strouse, daughter of Isaac and Juliet V. Strouse, who died April 28, 1912, leaving one child, John Jacob Henderson. Mr. Henderson remains unmarried ..
GEORGE C. CLARK.
George C. Clark was born near Guilford Court House, North Carolina. He came to Rushville, Indiana, in 1835, where he attended the public schools. He later studied law in North Carolina and opened an office at Rushville but the competition of older men was too keen, so he turned to other fields. Clark taught school two years and became the first telegraph operator in Rushville. In 1854 he was elected on the Whig ticket to the state Legislature. In 1856 he formed a partnership with Pleasant A. Hackleman, which continued until 1861. In 1864 he became president of the Rushville branch of the Bank of Indiana. A year later he was ap- pointed director of the Southern State Prison. He retired from active law practice in 1884.
WARREN G. SAYRE.
Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, was born on a farm near Lagro, Wabash county, Indiana, July 29, 1844. He is one of nine children born to Daniel and Mary N. (Grover) Sayre. The father was a native of New York, a farmer, merchant, and a member of the state Legislature in 1871: Warres G. Sayre was educated in the public schools and in Union College, Schenectady, New York, graduating in 1865. He read law with John U. Pettit, of Wabash; was admitted to the bar in 1866, and has since practiced in Wabash. In 1865, he was appointed school examiner ; in 1866, was elected mayor, and was re-elected three times; in 1SSO, elected joint senator from Wabash and Kosciusko counties; in 1884, elected repre- sentative from the same counties; in 1886, elected from Wabash county alone; was speaker in 1887; member of the Cherokee commission, 1889- 1893; 1902 and 1904, again elected to the Legislature. On January S,
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1865, Mr. Sayre married Martha Jane Bronk, of New York, who died on October 22, 1906. They have four children, one of whom, Daniel Bronk Sayre, survives. On November 13, 1909, Mr. Sayre married Mrs. Ida A. Davis, of Wabash.
ALBERT O. MARSH.
Albert O. Marsh was born at Windsor, Ohio, September 15, 1840. He attended Hiram College and at the age of eighteen began teaching school and studying law. He enlisted and served as private and officer in the Civil War. In 1867 he located at Seymour and was admitted to the bar, but in 1869 moved to Winchester. The law firm of Watts & Marsh was formed in 1873. From 1874 to 1876 Marsh was associated with A. Gullet. In 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the Twenty-fifth judicial circuit. He served as judge of the Twenty-fifth circuit from 1894 to 1902. He died at Winchester, Indiana, October 29, 1912.
WILLIAM H. H. MILLER.
William Henry Harrison Miller, of Indianapolis, former Attorney-Gen- eral of the United States, is a native of New York, born at Augusta, Oneida county, September 6, 1840, one of the ten children born to Curtis and Lucy (Duncan) Miller, natives, respectively, of New York and Massa- chusetts. The Miller family was founded in America in the seventeenth century and the branch of which Curtis Miller was a representative was established in Oneida county, New York, in 1795. At the early age of fifteen, William H. H. Miller began teaching school and later resumed his studies at an academy at Whitestown, New York, and at Hamilton College, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1861. He located at Maumee City, Ohio, and there, in May, 1862, enlisted as a private in the Eighty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil War, and was elected lieutenant. Upon the close of his term of enlist- ment he located at Toledo, Ohio, and entered upon the study of law with Morrison R. Waite, afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme court of the United States. Later, he was appointed superintendent of schools at Peru, Indiana, and moved to that city, where he later served as county school examiner and where he was admitted to the bar in 1865. The next year, 1866, he moved to Fort Wayne, where he formed a partnership with William H. Coombs. Upon the retirement of Hon. Albert G. Porter, who later became governor of Indiana, from the law firm of Porter, Harrison & Hines, at Indianapolis, in 1874, Mr. Miller was invited to become a member of that firm, which became then the firm of Harrison, Hines & Miller and thus continued until the election and inauguration of General Harrison as President of the United States. Upon General Harrison's in- auguration as President in 1889, he appointed Mr. Miller Attorney-General of the United States and the latter remained a member of the President's cabinet throughout the entire period of that administration. Upon his retirement from the cabinet, Mr. Miller returned to Indianapolis and re- sumed active practice as a member of the firm of Miller, Winter & Elam,
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later was succeeded by the firm of Miller, Shirley, Miller & Thompson. Mr. Miller is now counsel to the firm of Miller, Dailey & Thompson. During his college days Mr. Miller became a member of the Delta Upsilon frateer- nity. In 1889 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and for several years he served as a trustee of Hamilton College. Mr. Miller is one of the corporators of the Crown Hill Cemetery Association at Indianapolis; one-time president of the Indianapolis Bar As- sociation ; a member of the Columbia Club and of the Indiana Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and for years was an elder of the First Presbyterian church at Indianapolis. On December 23, 1863, Will- iam H. H. Miller was united in marriage to Gertrude A. Bunce, daughter of Sidney A. Bunce, of Vernon, New York, and of this union seven children were born, of whom three survive: Samuel Duncan Miller, a member of the law firm of Miller, Dailey & Thompson ; Florence, who married Clifford Arrick, now residing in Chicago, and Jessie, who married Augustus M. Hopper, of Baltimore, Maryland, now residing in Englewood, New Jersey.
THOMAS P. GALLAGHER.
Thomas P. Gallagher, of Terre Haute, was born in Shawnee, Ohio, February 12, 1885, and is the son of Anthony and Ann (Mohan) Gallagher. His elementary education was received in the common schools of Shawnee, Ohio, and in the high school of Terre Haute. He read law in the office of Frank L. Tilley, of Terre Haute, and was admitted to the bar on June 9, 1913, becoming a partner of Mr. Tilley. He is a member of the State and local bar associations, being secretary of the latter.
GEORGE P. HAYWOOD.
George Price Haywood was born on December 15, 1852, on a farm in the southern part of Tippecanoe county, Indiana. He is one of eleven children born to Henry and Martha (Sherwood) Haywood. He was educated in the common schools, Green Hill Academy and Valparaiso Uni- versity, graduating from the latter in 1876. He began teaching school in his nineteenth year and taught more or less for a period of about six years, studying law in the meantime. In 1SSO he was admitted to the bar at Lafayette, and for two years he was in the law office of Behm & Behm, of Lafayette. In 1882 he formed a partnership with W. F. Bechtel, but from 1884 to 1896 he practiced alone. From that time until the first of January, 1915, he was practicing law in partnership with Charles A. Burnett, the firm being Haywood & Burnett. Since January 1, 1915, he has been practicing alone. In 1SS6 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Twenty-third judicial circuit, which embraces Tippecanoe county, and was re-elected in 1SSS. In the spring of 1892 he received the Re- publican nomination for reporter of the Supreme court, at the Republican state convention held that year at Fort Wayne. He was defeated with the rest of the Republican ticket in the fall of 1892. In 1894 he was appointed city attorney for the city of Lafayette, and continued in that position for twelve years. In 1894 he was selected as the Republican
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county chairman for Tippecanoe county, and served in that capacity for two years. He is a Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the Scottish Rite and a Shriner; an Elk and a Knight of Pythias. He is and always has been a Republican in politics. He was the owner and publisher of the Lafayette Journal, a morning daily newspaper, for four years from the spring of 1910. He is the president and principal owner of the Hay- wood Publishing Company, of Lafayette. In 1879 Mr. Haywood married Mary Marshall, of Montmorenci, Indiana, and they are the parents of three children, Leona, Marshall and George P., Jr.
EDWARD W. FELT.
Edward W. Felt, judge of the Appellate court, was born in Allegany county, Virginia, November 7, 1859. He is the son of Sylvester W. and Rebecca J. (Latshaw) Felt, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Pennsylvania. He received his elementary education in the common schools of Hancock county and his higher education in the Cen- tral Normal College of Danville, Indiana. His legal training was obtained in the office of James A. New. He was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in 1887, with Mr. New; then practiced alone for a time and, in 1889, formed a partnership with U. S. Jackson, with whom he practiced six years. Mr. Felt was elected prosecuting attorney in 1890 for the Eighteenth judicial circuit, and re-elected in 1892, serving four years. In 189S, he formed a partnership with Earl Sample, which continued until November, 1900, when he was elected judge of the same circuit and served one term of six years. In 1906, he was nominated by the Democratic party for judge of the Appellate court, but was de- feated with the rest of the state ticket; he was nominated and elected in 1910 and unanimously renominated in 1914 and re-elected. Judge Felt is a Mason, a Knight Templar, an Eastern Star, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a Maccabee and a Modern Woodman, a Methodist and a Democrat. He has taken great interest in Sunday school work, having served ten years as president of the county Sunday school Association of Hancock county, and also eight years as vice-president of the state organi- zation. On April 17, 1885, Mr. Felt married Martha L. Thomas, of Han- cock county. They have been the parents of five children, Alfred Earl, deceased; Edward T., deceased ; Mabel M., Elsie R. and Truman T.
CHARLES S. BATT.
Charles S. Batt, ex-judge of the city court of Terre Haute, was born February 2, 1873, at Salem, Indiana. His parents, William and Malinda (Kirby) Batt, resided at Salem until 1885, when they moved to New Albany. Here Charles S. Batt had the advantages of the city grade and high schools. After a short time with the Tribune, three years in the Monon offices, and four years as a clerk in the Big Four offices at Louis- ville, he entered the University of Michigan Law School, from which he graduated in 1904. The same year he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Terre Haute. In 1909 he was elected city judge. After four
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years in this office, he was appointed city and county attorney. He is a member of the local bar association. He is a Democrat and in 1912 was a delegate to the Baltimore convention. Ilis wife was Miss Florence Wyeth. They have one child, Virginia Marie.
JOHN CHRISTIAN DODSON.
John Christian Dodson, of Cambridge City, was born, August 12, 1869, on a farm near Tell City, Perry county, Indiana. He is a son of Joseph N. and Emma (Gengelback) Dodson, the father being of a pioneer family of Perry county. John C. Dodson was educated in the common schools of Perry county, Central Normal College, and Indiana University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1898 and that of Bachelor of Law in 1901. In the meantime he had taught in the district schools, as principal at Troy and at Cambridge City. On July 4, 1901, he opened an office in Cambridge City, where he has since practiced. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a Democrat. On October 20, 1906, he married Mary Agnes Barefoot and they have two children, Barbra Emma and Ruth Agnes.
EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER.
Hon. Edgar D. Crumpacker, senior member of the law firm of Crum- packer Brothers, at Valparaiso, former Judge of the Indiana Appellate court, for many years representative in Congress from the Tenth Indiana district and a practicing attorney at Valparaiso since the year 1876. is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Laporte county, May 27. 1852. He is the son of Theophilus and Harriet (Emmons) Crumpacker, natives of Virginia, the former of whom, born in 1823, died in 190S. They were the parents of eight children, two of whom are associated together in the practice of law at Valparaiso, Judge Crumpacker's partner being his brother, Grant Crumpacker, a biographical sketch of whom appears else- where in this volume. Upon completing the course in the public schools, Edgar D. Crumpacker attended Valparaiso College and later entered the law department of the University of Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1875. In the fall of 1876 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office for the practice of his profession at Valparaiso, where he ever since has made his home. For two years he served as city attorney of Valpa- raiso and also served for two terms as prosecuting attorney for the judi- cial circuit then comprised in the counties of Porter and Lake. In March, 1891, he was appointed by Governor Hovey on the bench of the Indiana Appellate court, serving until January 1, 1893. In 1892 he was nominated by the Republican party to succeed himself on the Appellate bench, but was defeated for election. In 1896 Judge Crumpacker was the nominee of the Republicans of the Tenth district for Congress and was elected, taking his seat in the fifty-fifth Congress, being thereafter re-elected and serving continuously up to and including the sixty-second Congress, going down to defeat in the political division of his party in 1912. Following his retirement from Congress on March 4, 1913, Judge Crumpacker resumed
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his law practice at Valparaiso and in the May following formed the pres- ent law firm of Crumpacker Brothers, in association with his brother, Grant Crumpacker, and his eldest son, Owen L. Crumpacker. Judge Crum- packer is a member of the Porter County Bar Association, a member of the Christian church, a Mason, connected with the commandery at Valpa- raiso, and a noble of Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Washington, D. C. To Judge and Mrs. Crumpacker, the latter of whom, before her marriage, was Charlotte Lucas, daughter of Albert Lucas, three sons have been born, Owen L., Frederick C. and Maurice E. Owen L. Crumpacker, junior partner in the law firm above mentioned, was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan and admitted to the bar in 1905 and has been engaged in practice at Valparaiso since that time. In 1907 he was admitted to practice in the Supreme court of Indiana, the Federal courts and in the Supreme court of the United States. Frederick C. Crumpacker, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Michigan, is a member of the firm of Crumpacker & Crum- packer, and is engaged in the practice of law at Hammond, Indiana.
WILLIAM A. PICKENS.
William A. Pickens was born on a farm in Owen county, Indiana, July 22, 1858. He entered Indiana University, but did not graduate. He later studied in the Columbian University Law School, of Washington, D. C., and was admitted to the bar of his home town of Spencer, Indiana, in May, 1881. After twelve years of practice, he moved to Indianapolis, where he has since followed his profession. During this time he has specialized in corporation law. At Spencer he was local counsel for the Vandalia and Monon railways. However, he has always enjoyed a wide general practice. He was appointed corporation counsel for the city of Indianapolis by Mayor Joseph . E. Bell in January, 1914, which position he is holding at this time. He is now the senior member of the firm of Pickens, Cox & Conder. He has never held office, except as above, though he has taken an active interest in politics. In 1SS9 he helped organize the Tariff Reform League of Indiana. Later he assisted in the preparation of the present secret ballot election law, known during its passage as the Andrews bill.
HANNIBAL H. LORING.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin Loring, Judge of the Porter Circuit court, president of the Citizens Bank of Valparaiso, president of the Porter County Bar Association and a practicing attorney at Valparaiso since the year 1895, is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Grant county, Decem- ber 23, 1862, being the last-born of the seven children born to his parents, -John A. and Nancy ( Kane) Loring, the former of whom was a native of Kentucky. Upon completing the course in the public schools, H. H. Loring began teaching school and presently was elected county superintendent of schools of Porter county, serving in that capacity from June, 1SS9, to
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September, 1895. Meanwhile he had been studying law and in the early nineties entered the law department of Valparaiso University, from which he was graduated in 1894. In June of that same year he was admitted to the bar and in the following year, 1895, opened an office for the practice of his profession at Valparaiso, where he has been located ever since. In 1902 he was elected city attorney of Valparaiso and served in that capacity until 1908. In 1914 he was elected Judge of the Porter Circuit court and is now occupying the bench of that court. Judge Loring has long given close attention to the financial interests of his home town and in the year 1912 was elected president of the State Bank of Valparaiso, a position which he still occupies. Judge Loring is president of the Porter County Bar Association and a member of the Indiana State Bar Association. He is a Republican, and a York-Rite Mason, being a member of the com- mandery of Valparaiso. Judge Loring married Emily Brunmitt, daughter of William Brunmitt, of New Carlisle, Indiana, and to this union three children have been born: Mildred, who is the wife of W. Q. Fitch, of. Lafayette; Bruce L. and Mary L., aged respectively eighteen and sixteen years.
ALBERT E. COTTEY.
Albert E. Cottey, of Indianapolis, was born, February 5, 1874, on a farm near Pendleton, Indiana, his parents being William and Margaret (Elsbury) Cottey. His father was a native of Kentucky and his mother ;. of Indiana. The former was a farmer and died in 1893. Albert E. Cottey attended the common and high schools at Pendleton, and later studied at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. . He was a graduate of the Indiana Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1898, having practiced continuously ever since. He served one term as deputy prose- cuting attorney for Marion county, and also served on the city council for six years. Mr. Cottey is a Republican in politics and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Albert E. Cottey married Clara Fausset and they reside at No. 1601. Nowland avenue, Indianapolis. Mrs. Cottey is a member of the Chris- tian church.
ROBERT H. MOORE.
Robert H. Moore, of Michigan City, a practicing attorney in that city since 1907, and a nominee of the Republican party for the office of prose- cuting attorney for the Thirty-second judicial circuit in 1916, was born near Dundee, Michigan, on the 27th day of May, 1886. Shortly after his birth, his parents, D. A. and Ida R. (Robbins) Moore, moved to the state of Indiana, where they resided up to the time of their death. Mr. Moore's father died when he was a boy seventeen years of age. His mother died in the year 1913. She was a daughter of H. R. Robbins, a lawyer of Knox, this state. Handicapped as he was at an early age, and with only the aid of a widowed mother, Robert H. Moore was compelled, practically, to
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