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when he went on the Supreme bench. In 1892 he was again elected to the Circult bench, but after two years resigned to form a partnership with Charles B. and William V. Stuart, at Lafayette, Indiana. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Mary V. Spiller in 1864, and they are the parents of three children.
RAY MCADAMS.
Ray McAdams, of Ft. Wayne, was born in Logan county, Ohio, No- vember 27, 1882, and is one of three children born to Jasper and Laura (Ellsworth) McAdams. He attended the home schools, graduated from the Ridgeway high school and then finished his education in the Ohio Northern University, where he graduated from the arts course in 1902 and from the law course in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in 1905 and began the practice in Huntington county, Indiana. He moved to Fort Wayne in November, 1907, and in 1908 he formed a partnership with Lee J. Hart- zell, which lasted until January, 1916, since which time Mr. McAdams has practiced alone. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Elks, Modern Woodmen, Ben-Hur, Woodmen of America and Buffalos. He is a Methodist iu his religious belief, and a Democrat in politics. He married Grace Stephens, who died in 1914.
BURKE WALKER.
Burke Walker was born in Fowler, Indiana, September 26, 1SS3. He is a son of Matthew H. and Ruth A. (Matthews) Walker, natives of Tennessee. He attended the grade and high schools of Fowler, and his professional training was secured at the Indiana Law School, Indianap- olis, from which he graduated in 1906. In the latter year he was admitted to the bar and opened an office at Vincennes in 1907. After about one and one-half years at Vincennes and an equal time at Indianapolis, he located at Fowler, where he has since practiced. He is secretary of. the Republican Central Committee.
CONRAD WOLF.
Conrad Wolf, Kokomo, was born on January 12, 1863, on a farm in Grant county. He is a son of William H. H. and Kisiah (Cain) Wolf. His early education was received in the common schools and Amboy Academy. He then entered the Central Normal College in Danville, from which he graduated in 1886. He obtained his legal training at the Law School of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1890. He began the practice of law at Kokomo in January, 1891, and has since practiced there. His first partnership was with James O'Brien. After a short time he was associated with B. C. Moon. He became a member of the firm of Blacklidge, Shirley & Wolf in 1897, which continued until 1906 when, on the removal of Mr. Shirley, the firm became Blacklidge & Wolf, and became Blacklidge, Wolf & Barnes in May, 190S, continuing to
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January 1, 1916, when the present firm of Wolf & Barnes was formed. He is an active member of the Disciples' church, vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association, a Sunday school teacher, a Mason, a Templar, a member of both the American and Indiana State Bar Associations, and a Republican. On December 28, 1891, he married Mary Shenk of Howard county. They have no children.
DANIEL FRASER.
Daniel Fraser was born in Ramsey, Canada, July 14, 1855. His real name is Donald, but he is popularly known as Daniel. His parents were James and Sarah C. (Robertson) Fraser, natives of Scotland. His par- ents lived at Fort Niagara, New York, till 1870, when they removed to Benton county, Indiana. He was educated in the public schools and at Lewiston Academy, New York. He studied privately after coming to Ben- ton county. In 1876, he was admitted to the bar in Benton county, and began his professional career. From 1879 to 1884, he practiced with John T. Brown. In 1890, he formed a partnership with William H. Isham, which still continues, making it one of the oldest firms in the state. IIe presided over the thirty-fifth annual meeting of the American Bar Association, and was president of the Indiana State Bar Association, 1906-07. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, 190S.
JOHN S. NEWMAN.
John S. Newman was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, April 10, 1805. He studied law with an uncle in Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana, and was admitted to the bar in 182S. In 1847 he was made president of the Whitewater Canal Company. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1850; in 1851 he became president of the Indiana Central Railway Company. In 1860 he moved to Indianapolis and withdrew from active law practice. He later became president of the Merchants National Bank. Newman was a Whig and a Republican. He died on March 1, 1882.
JAMES C. BLACKLIDGE.
James Courtland Blacklidge, Kokomo, was born on a farm in Franklin county, Indiana, near Brookville, September 19, 1849. His education, until eighteen years of age, was secured in the common schools of that county. His collegiate education was secured at the Brookville College. In 1873, he became a law student of the law department of Indiana University, from which he graduated on July 30, 1875. He had the record during his two years' attendance in this school, of never missing a lecture, recitation or mute court. He commenced the practice of law in Kokomo, Indiana, on August 7, 1875, where he has continuously since that time been engaged in the practice. He has been the senior member of the following firms during said period. Blacklidge & Blacklidge: Blacklidge & Shirley ; Blacklidge, Shirley & Moon; Blacklidge & Wolf; Blacklidge. Wolf & Barnes. He has confined himself exclusively to the practice of law. He Is well-known
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throughout the state and the firms of which he has been a member have always ranked among the best in the state. On September 13, 1876, he was married to Miss Addie Jemison, of Fayette county. Mrs. Blacklidge died on November 26, 1915. They have one daughter, Mary, born on November 22, 1887, and who is now Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, of Indianapolis.
SIDNEY B. HATFIELD.
Sidney B. Hatfield, Boonville, was born on a farm in Mead county, Kentucky, January 30, 1842. He is a son of William and Jane (DeBolt) Hatfield, the father a native of Virginia, the mother, of Ohio. When Sidney B. Hatfield was three weeks old his parents moved across the Ohio to a farm in Perry county, Indiana. There he received the advantages of the local schools and later entered Indiana University, from which he graduated in 1864, and from the Law Department in 1866, receiving also the Master of Arts degree. He was admitted to the bar on February 1, 1865, and began practice in Cannelton, Indiana. He practiced till 1872, when he was elected clerk of Perry county. At the close of his term, 1876, he located at Boonville, where he has since practiced. He was alone for three years; with Gaines H. Hazen, three years; with William M. Hogate for awhile; with his brother, Edwin R. Hatfield, and James A. Hemenway till about 1898; since then with his son, Frank, now of Evansville. He was prosecutor of Warrick county, 1880-1884. On December 6, 1866, he married Flora A. Helton, of Bloomington. They have six children, Mrs. Ella Bennett, Mrs. Jennie Bohrer, Margaret H., Mrs. Kate Floyd, Frank H. and William S.
LEONIDAS P. NEWBY.
Leonidas P. Newby was born near Lewisville, Indiana, April 9, 1855. When he was sixteen his parents moved to Knightstown, Indiana. Here he graduated from high school in 1875 and then studied two years under Professor Hewitt. He had begun to read law as early as 1873. In 1878 he formed a partnership with Walter B. Swain, but after one year it was dissolved. In 1880 Newby was elected prosecuting attorney of the Eight- eenth judicial circuit, composed of Henry and Hancock counties. He was elected to the state Senate in 1892 and in 1894 became a member of the Republican state central committee. He is now practicing at New Castle.
EVERY A. MOCK.
Every A. Mock, Tipton, was born at Kinderhook, in Cicero township, Tipton county, Indiana, November 10, 1870. He was one of nine children of William C. and Elizabeth (Orr) Mock, both natives of Indiana. After finishing the neighborhood schools Mr. Mock did work at Valparaiso Uni- versity, taught school and finally prepared for the law in the office of Beauchamp & Mount, at Tipton. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Windfall, Indiana, in 1895, where he practiced five years. Since 1900 he had practiced in Tipton. In 1890 he was elected
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prosecutor for the Thirty-sixth district, serving two years. He represen- ted Hamilton and Tipton counties in the State Senate in 1905, 1907, and in the special session in 1908. He was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Republican in politics.
On November 23, 1893, Mr. Mock married Isoria M. Kleyla, and they became the parents of eight children, five of whom are living. Mrs. Mock died on March 19, 1913, and Mr. Mock's death occurred on July 26, 1916.
SAMUEL PROBASCO BAIRD.
Samuel Probasco Baird, Lafayette, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, on October 16, 1842. He is a son of Zebulon and Martha (Probasco) Baird. He was educated in the schools of Lafayette, and in 1861 he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. In 1865 he graduated and started out as a midshipman on a cruiser in the Pacific, which lasted until 1870. One year later he became an instructor in seamanship at the Naval Aca- demy, but after about one year's service, he resigned and began the practice of law in Lafayette, Indiana, with his father. After his father's death in 1877, he practiced alone for ten years, then formed a partnership with W. DeWitt Wallace, which lasted until 1894, since which time he has praticed alone. He has devoted himself entirely to the practice of the law.
In 1881 Mr. Baird married Elizabeth D. Rochester, of Lafayette, and to them was born one son, Rochester, a graduate of Indiana University. 1906, and now a practicing attorney of Lafayette. Mrs. Baird died on May 26, 1903.
JOHN WILLIAM LINDLEY.
John William Lindley, of Sullivan, Indiana, was born on a farm in Crawford county, Illinois, December 19, 1867. He is a son of Samuel and Harriet (Hollenbeck) Lindley. He was reared on the farm and received the training of the common schools. He graduated from the Southern Illinois Normal with the class of 1892. While teaching in the city schools of Robinson, Illinois, he read law with Bradbury & McHatton. On August 3, 1894, he took the examination and was admitted to the Illinois bar and the Supreme court of said state. He practiced in Sullivan with John C. Biggs until August 1, 1889, since when he has practiced alone. During 1903-04 he was prosecuting attorney. He is a member of the Sullivan County Bar, and is a Democrat.
WILLIAM OSCAR BARNARD.
William Oscar Barnard was born on a farm near Liberty, Union county, Indiana, October 25, 1852. He is a son of Sylvester and Lavina Myer Barnard. The parents moved in 1854 to Dublin, Wayne county, thence to a farm in Henry county, where the son grew to manhood, attending the district schools and Spiceland Academy. He taught for a number of years at Dublin and Newcastle. In 1876, he entered the law office of James Brown at Newcastle and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He began practice
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at once with David W. Chambers, at Newcastle. From 1887 to 1893, he was prosecutor and from 1896 to 1902, Circuit judge. He was representa- tive in the National Congress from the Sixth Indiana district for one term, being the first and only resident of Henry county to serve in Congress. He is now the senior member of the firm of Barnard & Jeffreys. On December 22, 1876, he married Mary V. Ballinger. They have four childen, Paul, George M. (an attorney of Newcastle), Ralph Waldo, and Ruth.
SAMUEL O. PICKENS.
Samuel O. Pickens, Indianapolis, was born in Owen county, Indiana. His education was obtained in the common schools and at Spencer Academy. He studied law at Spencer, Indiana, and later entered Indiana University Law School, from which he graduated with the class of 1873. He was admitted to the bar at Spencer, and began the active practice of his pro- fession the same year. In 1876 he was elected prosecutor of the Fifteenth judicial circuit, composed of Morgan, Owen, and Greene counties. He was re-elected in 1878, thus serving continuously from 1877 until 1881. In 1878 he was appointed solicitor for the Indianapolis & Vincennes Rail- road Company. In 1886 he removed to Indianapolis. In 1SSS he was ap- pointed solicitor for Pennsylvania Lines at Indianapolis, a position which he still holds. He has carried on a corporation and general practice dur- ing that period. He is now the senior member of the firm of Pickens, Moores, Davidson & Pickens. He is a member of the First Baptist church of Indianapolis. He is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Associations and the American Bar Association.
GEORGE W. GALVIN.
George W. Galvin, of Indianapolis, was born at Jamestown, Indiana, April 22, 1847, the son of Albert and Margaret (Piersol) Galvin, the former a native of Kentucky, the latter, of Pennsylvania. The father was a merchant. After the death of his mother in 1858, George W. Galvin lived with relatives until 1861, when he became a musician in the band of the Seventeenth Infantry. Later he enlisted in the Fortieth Infantry. After the Chattanooga campaign, by reason of sickness he returned home, but again enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war.
He attended the Northwestern Christian University (now Butler Col- lege) irregularly until 1867, where, in 1866, he, with others, obtained a charter for Rho chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1867 he took up the study of law under Samuel E. Perkins, David McDonald and Lucian Barbour, in the then Indianapolis Law School, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, being then not quite twenty-one years of age. He then went to Kansas City, Missouri, where he practiced until 1875, in partnership with Henry Clay Dean, ex-chaplain of the United States Senate, and Abner M. Jackson, afterwards
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Judge of the Crawford Circuit Court of Ohio. In 1875 he came to Indian- apolis and a partnership was formed with Jonathan Harvey, they being later joined by Samuel A. Huff. Since the death of the two latter, Mr. Galvin has practiced alone. His specialty is real-estate law, but he has been engaged in many damage suits.
In September, 1868, Mr. Galvin was married to Mary Kingbury, of Elmira, New York, and they are the parents of two children, Mary, wife of Robert F. Davidson, an attorney of Indianapolis, of the firm of Pickens, Moore, Davidson & Pickens, and Georgia, wife of Mansur B. Oak, an insurance man of the same city. Mr. Galvin is a Presbyterian.
JAMES T. JOHNSTON.
James T. Johnston was born on January 19, 1839, on a farm in Put- nam county, Indiana, He was the eldest child of Anderson and Louise Johnston. He was educated in the common schools of Putnam county. In 1861 he began the study of law in the office of Williamson & Daggy, at Greencastle. Before he had finished his studies he enlisted in the Sixth Indiana Cavalry, in which and the Eighth Tennessee, One Hun- dred Thirty-third and One Hundred Forty-ninth Indiana, he served during the war. He opened a law office in Rockville in 1866, the year he was admitted to the bar. In 1868 he was a representative and in 1874-1878 a senator to the State Legislature. He passed from the Legislature to Congress, where he served from March 4, 1SS5, to March 3, 1889, In his race for Congress he defeated John E. Lamb of Terre Haute. He was a Mason, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (at one time com- mander of the Department of Indiana), and a Republican. On February 14, 1866, he married Martha Morrison. She died in 1872, leaving one child, Martha Morrison Johnston (now Mrs. A. W. Cooper, of Putnam county, Indiana ). On November 6, 1873, he married Lucy Daly of Rockville. Mr. Johnston died on July 19, 1904, at his home in Rockville.
HARLEY A, LOGAN.
Harley A. Logan, president of the First National Bank of Plymouth, ยท former mayor of Plymouth and a practising attorney in that city since 1889, is a native son of Plymouth and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 6, 1864, son of James W. and Anna L. ( Brooke) Logan, and upon completing the course in the public schools took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1889. For years Mr. Logan was associated in the practice of his profession with the late M. A. O. Packard. for forty-three years president of the First National Bank of Plymouth. and following the death of Mr. Packard in July, 1915, was elected president of the bank, which position he still occupies. For several years Mr. Logan served as mayor of Plymouth. He is a member of the Marshall County Bar Association. Mr. Logan married Margaret Louwella How, and to this union was born one daughter, Ruth, who married Walter Binder, of Colum- bia City, Indiana.
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GEORGE D. SUNKEL.
George D. Sunkel, Daua, Indiana, was born on a farm near Redman, Illinois, October 15, 1879. He is one of four children born to George N. and Susanna (Young) Sunkel. The parents are both natives of Ohio. George D. Sunkel was reared on a farm in Illinois where he received the customary common and high school education from the common schools of Terre Haute and the high school of Dana. He early was attracted to the law and in response to that desire entered the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis and graduated with the class of 1901, and was that year admitted to the Marion county bar and the Supreme court. He was ad- mitted to the Vermillion county bar in 1904, where he practiced until March, 1915, when he was appointed Judge of Parke Circuit court of In- diana and took up his residence at Rockville. He was elected to the state House of Representatives from Vigo and Vermilion counties in 1908 and 1910, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Forty-seventh judicial cir- cuit, comprised of Vermilion and Parke, in 1912, for one term. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Democrat. On September 15, 1907, he married Miss Jennie Wimsett. Their home is in Edgar county, Illinois.
JACOB J. TODD.
Jacob Jefferson Todd was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 12, 1843. He came to Wells county, Indiana, in 1851 and was educated at Roanoke Seminary and Ft. Wayne College. From 1861 to 1865 he taught school and then enlisted in the army. In 1865 he began the study of law and entered upon the practice at Bluffton in 186S. Todd served as dele- gate to the Republican national conventions of 1872 and 1880. In 1890 . he was appointed member of the board of insane hospital commissioners. After 1889 he was connected with the militia of the state and for four years served as quartermaster of the Fourth Regiment. He died at Bluff- ton, Indiana, May 13, 1900.
JOHN S. McFADDIN.
John S. McFaddin was born in Rockville, Indiana, May 21, 1869. He is the son of Isaac and Ruth (Curl) McFaddin. His father was a Virginian and his mother's people were from North Carolina. The father served in First Regiment Arkansas Confederate Cavalry during the Civil War. John S. McFaddin received the training of the Rockville schools as he grew to manhood. After finishing the Rockville high school on May 7, 1887, he entered Wabash College, from which he graduated in 1891, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and afterward from the same college the Master's degree. Having determined on law, he began reading with Sam- uel D. Puett, with whom he formed a partnership on January 1, 1893, the firm being Puett, Adams & McFaddin, till January 1, 1895, when Mr. Adams retired. Mr. Puett died in May, 1907, and in June of the same year a firm was organized by Mr. McFaddin and Howard Maxwell. This firm continues at present. From 1897 to 1900 he was county attorney. He
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served seven years on the school board of Rockville, Indiana, and is now a member of board of trustees of State Tuberculosis Hospital. He is a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow, a thirty-second-degree Mason, a Shriner, a Phi Kappa Psi, a charter member of the Rockville Shakespearean Club, and a Democrat. On January 15, 1896, he married Miss Cora A. Mehurien, of Bloomingdale. They have four children.
FRANCIS E. BAKER.
Francis Elisha Baker was born at Goshen, Indiana, October 20, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of Goshen and at Indiana Univer- sity and the University of Michigan. In 1SS2 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and in 1914 he degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan. He was engaged in the general practice of law from 1SS5 to 1898, and was a member of the firm of Baker & Baker from 1885 to 1892. The firm name was then changed to Baker & Miller and remained such until 1898, when Baker was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana. He served in this capacity until 1902, when he was commissioned by President Roosevelt as Circuit Judge for the Seventh judicial circuit. Since October, 1911, he has been Presiding Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Seventh circuit. In 1SSS he married May Irwin, of Goshen, Indiana, and they have three children, Florence, John Merrill and Frances.
LAMBDIN P. MILLIGAN.
Col. Lambdin P. Milligan was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 24, 1812. He was self-educated and began teaching at the age of nineteen. He read law and history and in 1835 was admitted to the bar by the Supreme court of Ohio. Milligan practiced law in Ohio ten years and then moved to Huntington, Indiana. Here he soon became recognized among the ablest lawyers of northern Indiana.
THOMAS H. NELSON.
Thomas Henry Nelson was born in Mason county, Kentucky, August 12, 1834. He was a brother of Major-Gen. William Nelson, whose name is associated immortally with the battle of Shiloh. He came early to Indiana, locating first at Rockville and then at Terre Haute, and here he resided until his death in 1896. From 1857 until his death he was actively engaged in law and diplomacy. He was a leader of the Whig party and a founder of the Republican party. In 1860 he accepted the nomination for Congress, but was defeated. President Lincoln appointed Nelson envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to Chile and he ably filled that post from 1861 to 1866. During his service in Chile he won great popularity by his bravery in the rescue of several persons at the burning of the Santiago cathedral. He took an active part as mediator in the war between Chile and Spain in 1864-1866. In 1869 President Grant appointed him minister to Mexico. He resigned this post in 1873, but the
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resignation was not accepted for some months after it was tendered. He headed his party in the campaign of 1876, 1880 and 1SS8, canvassing the entire state each time. Nelson was a graceful and eloquent speaker and had great power in enlisting the sympathies of those who differed from him politically.
THADDEUS M. TALCOTT, JR.
Thaddeus M. Talcott, Jr., of South Bend, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 18, 1875. He is one of the four children of Thaddeus M. and Nellie (Rodney) Talcott, both natives of Connecticut, the father later being a wholesale merchant of South Bend. The son was educated in the public schools of Chicago and at Northwestern University, graduating from its Law School in 1896. He took a post-graduate course in Yale, receiving the degree of Master of Laws in 1897. He began practice in Chicago, but came to South Bend in 1900, where he has since practiced. He was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1903, and to the Senate in 1905- 1906. He was appointed United States Commissioner in 1907, a position which he still fills. He is a member of the Chicago and St. Joseph County Bar Associations, is a Mason, a Knight Templar, a Shriner, and a member of the Commercial, Athletic and Indiana Clubs. He married Maude Rod- ney, of New York. Both are members of the First Presbyterian church.
EDWARD R. WILSON.
Edward Ruthven Wilson was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, January 14, 1827. He came to Lagrange county Indiana, in 1840. The little educa- tion he received came from the district schools. As a young man he read law with ex-Governor Joseph A. Wright and began practice at Bluffton in 1851. Wilson was soon elected prosecuting attorney for the Tenth judicial circuit, including Wells, Adams. Allen, Whitley, Kosciusko, Elk- hart, Lagrange, Steuben, Dekalb and Noble counties. The young attorney made a success and in 1858 was elected Judge of the Tenth circuit. After one term, he was appointed national bank examiner for Indiana. In 1867 he moved to Madison, Indiana, and began law practice with his brother. In 1878 he was elected to the state Senate from Jefferson county. He died several years ago.
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