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of Indianapolis. In political and social affairs he has taken an active part. He is a Mason, and a member of both the Indianapolis and In- diana Bar Associations. In 1882 Mr. Harding married Mary E. MeCon- nell, a native of Indiana.
WILLIAM P. EVANS.
William P. Evans, of Indianapolis, was born in Parke county. In- diana, November 9, 1SS6. He is one of three children born to Thomas E. and Mary (Pascoe) Evans, his father being a merchant. He was educated in the common and high schools of his county and in the academy of DePauw University. He entered DePauw University after finishing the academy and graduated with the class of 1907. One year later he entered Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1911. The same year he was admitted to the bar. He located in Indianapolis, where on February 1, 1912, he formed a partnership with Ex-Governor J. Frank Hanly, the firm name being Hanly & Evans. This partnership was discontinued November 1, 1915, and since he has practiced alone in offices at 1541 Lemcke Annex, Indianapolis.
Mr. Evans is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, a Mason, and a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He resides at 1825 North Delaware street, Indianapolis.
JAMES E. ROCAP.
James E. Rocap, of Indianapolis, is the son of John T. and Ellen (Dwyer) Rocap. He was born on May 21, 1881, in Kansas. His father was a contractor. The son received the advantages of the com- mon and high schools of Indianapolis, afterwards attending the Ohio State University and the Indianapolis Law School, from which he was graduated in 1903. He was admitted to the bar and began practice the same year. Until 1905 he practiced alone, but from 1905 to the present he has been a partner of Alvah J. Rucker, under the firm name of Rucker & Rocap, with offices in the Hume-Mansur building. Mr. Rocap is a Republican in politics, and a Catholic in his rellgions views. He Is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Indianapolis Bar Association. He married Abbie M. Lyons, and they are the parents of three children. Their home is at 3106 Park avenue, Indianapolis.
EDWARD DANIELS.
Edward Daniels, of Indianapolis, was born in Greene county. Ohio, November 11, 1854. He is the son of Joseph J. and Clarissa J. ( Bless- ing) Daniels. His boyhood was spent at Rockville. Indiana, where his father was a well-known contractor. After finishing his studles in the common schools he entered Wabash College, from which he graduated in 1875. The year 1876 was spent in the law school of Columbia Univer- sity. In 1877 he located in Indianapolis, entering the othee of Baker, Hord & Hendricks as a student. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar.
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The next year he formed a partnership with Albert Baker, with whom he has since practiced. He has built up a good practice. At present he is Master in Chancery. He has been a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club for a quarter of a century, has served as president of the Columbia Club, and is a member of both the Indianapolis and Indiana Bar Associations. In 1887 Mr. Baker married Virginia Johnston.
WILLIAM S. SHIRLEY.
William S. Shirley was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, September 6, 1838. At eighteen he entered the college at Lagrange, the county seat, and remained there two years. For two more years he taught school and acted as deputy surveyor, reading law in his spare time. He entered the senior class of the law school at Louisville in the fall of 1857 and grad- uated one year later. In 1858 he located at Martinsville, Indiana, and four years later formed a partnership with W. R. Harrison, which lasted until 1874. For two years following he practiced with J. C. Robinson, of Spencer, but this partnership was dissolved in 1876, when Robinson was elected to the bench. In 1872 Shirley was elected joint representative of Morgan and Johnson counties and in 1892 was one of the Cleveland dele- gates to the Democratic national convention.
NEWTON J. McGUIRE.
Newton J. McGuire, of Indianapolis, was born, November 6, 1868, on Laughery creek, near Rising Sun, Indiana, and is the only child of Michael and Missouri ( Burgess) McGuire. His great grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of southeastern Indiana, a sailor under Nelson, and a sol- dier of the War of 1812 on the American side. His father, Michael McGuire, was a soldier in the Civil War, a prominent Republican politician of Ohio county, and at the time of his death was an officer of the Supreme and Appellate courts.
Newton J. McGuire took full advantage of the district and high schools of his county. He then attended the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, preparing himself for teaching. After two years in the school room, he entered the Law School of Michigan University in 1890, from which he received his degree in 1892. He at once opened a law office at Rising Sun, where, until November, 1893, he practiced his profession. He then came to Indianapolis and entered the firm of Griffith & Potts, remaining with this firm a little over three years, at which time he resumed an inde- pendent practice, in which he has succeeded. In 1910 he was appointed assistant city attorney by Mayor Lew Shank. While city attorney he briefed the three test cases in the Supreme court of Indiana and defeated the efforts of the business interests of the city to obtain damages against the city for the elevation of railroad tracks. These cases will be remembered as the celebrated cases where the Indianapolis Light & Heat Company had received judgment and collected $25,000 damages from the city, which was refunded at the close of this trial, the company having been under a bond to return same if the case was reversed. Mr. McGuire has always been
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ยท an enthusiastic member of the order of Sons of Veterans, being the com- mander-in-chief of the national organization in 1911-1912. He is also a Mason, a Knights of Pythias, a member of the Marion Club and the Board of Trade of Indianapolis; of the Indianapolis and Indiana State Bar Asso- ciations, and is identified with the College Avenue Baptist church of his home city. On October 2, 1894, he married Abbie L. Harris, and they are the parents of one son, Russell Harris.
DAVID E. BEEM.
David Enoch Beem was born in Spencer, Indiana, June 24, 1837. After working on the farm he entered Indiana University in 1856 and graduated in 1860. He formed a partnership with Samuel H. Buskirk, of Bloom- ington. At the outbreak of the war, Beem was the first man to volunteer from Owen county. He served throughout the war and on his return resumed practice at Spencer. He organized the banking firm of Beem, Peden & Company. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention and in 1888 was chosen presidential elector.
EDWARD F. QUIGLEY.
Edward F. Quigley, of Indianapolis, was born in Hancock county, Indiana, February 24, 1881. He is the only child of Michael C. and Hannah (Reagan) Quigley, the father being a druggist. He attended the common and high schools of his home and entered Notre Dame Uni- versity, graduating in 1903. The same year he was admitted to the kar and began practice at Greenfield, Indiana. In 1912 he located in Indian- apolis, forming a partnership with John R. Rochford, the style being Rochford & Quigley.
Mr. Quigley is a member of the Knights of Columbus and is a Democrat in politics.
CHARLES W. SMITH.
Charles W. Smith, of Indianapolis, was born on a farm in Washing- ton township, Hendricks county, Indiana, February 3, 1846. He enjoyed the advantages of country life on a good farm, and had the opportunity for education afforded by the subscription schools of the state until he was twelve years old, when he began attendance at the Danville Academy, which continued until the breaking out of the Civil War, when by reason of enlistments, farm hands were scarce, and he worked on the farm until the fall of 1863, when he entered Asbury (now De- Pauw) University, as a freshman. Shortly after he was eighteen years of age he entered the volunteer service of the United States, and con- tinued therein from April, 1864, to October, 1865, reaching the grade of adjutant of his regiment. After the close of the war he returned to college, and by dint of hard study in 1867 he graduated with his original class.
In August, 1867, as a student of law, Charles W. Smith entered the
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office of Barbour & Jacobs in the city of Indianapolis. He took the two years course of study in one in the Indiana Law School and was grad- uated in 1868 and admitted to the Marion county bar. He practiced his profession of law alone until the fall of 1870, when, upon invitation, he returned to the office in which he studied law as a member of the firm of Barbour, Jacobs & Smith. After one year there, he for the time being retired from the general practice, and became counsel for the Singer Manufacturing Company, for the district covering the state of Michigan, most of the state of Indiana and parts of Ohio and Illinois.
In 1872 he formed a copartnership with Roscoe O. Hawkins for the practice of law, under the name and style of Smith & Hawkins. This partnership continued until June, 1877, when a partnership was formed with Robert B. Duncan and John S. Duncan, under the name and style of Duncan, Smith & Duncan, with offices at 128 East Wash- ington street, in the city of Indianapolis. From that date until now he has occupied the same offices. By reason of the death of his asso- ciates, there have been many changes of the firm-first Duncan, Smith & Wilson, then in order : Duncan, Smith & Hornbrook; then Smith, Duncan, Hornbrook & Smith; then Smith, Hornbrook & Smith; until now it is Smith, Remster, Horubrook & Smith. These several firms in turn have had a large and constantly increasing practice, in the state and federal courts, both at nisi prius and the intermediate and Supreme courts, both of state and federal jurisdiction, and of late before the various state de- partments.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
On October 12, 1869, Charles W. Smith married Mary E. Preston, of Greencastle, Indiana, and to this marriage four children have been born, all of whom survive.
WILLIAM A. KETCHAM.
William A. Ketcham was born in Indianapolis, January 2, 1846. He is the son of John L. and Jane (Merrill) Ketcham, among the early pio- neers of the state, the father coming from Kentucky at the age of seven and his mother born in Indiana. William A. Ketcham was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis, Germany, Wabash College, where he was interrupted by the Civil War, and Dartmouth, where he received his degree in 1867. He had spent two years at Wabash College when in 1864 he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. This regiment served in the East, in Virginia and North Carolina. After graduating from Dartmouth, Captain Ketcham returned to Indianapolis and began the study of law under his father and Judge David McDonald, two of the best lawyers at the Indianapolis bar at that time. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1869, and at once entered the partnership with his father and Major James L. Mitchell. After the death of his father he was associated with Major Mitchell and Judge Horatio F. Newcomb until
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the latter went on the Superior court bench. From 1873 until 1880 Solo- mon Claypool was a member of the firm. Since 1890 Captain Ketcham has practiced alone, holding a high position at the bar. In 1894 he was elected attorney general of the state, and re-elected in 1896. In this posi- tion he established a national reputation in litigation with several pow- erful corporations. He is an active member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and American Bar Associations.
On June 25, 1873, Captain Ketcham was married to Flora McDonald, daughter of Judge David McDonald, and to this union seven children have been born, one son and six daughters.
DAVID D. BANTA.
David D. Banta was born in the wilderness of Johnson county, May 23, 1833. He attended the "Shiloh" settlement school and searched the coun- try for books. In 1852 he went to Iowa, worked in a saw-mill and began reading law. The next year he returned to Indiana and entered Franklin College, where he remained until fall, then entered Indiana University. He returned to Franklin in 1857 and began the practice of law. While waiting to build up a practice he engaged in newspaper and local his- torical writing and worked in the recorder's office. He also served a term as district attorney of the Common Pleas court. In 1870 he was elected Judge of the Twenty-eighth judicial circuit without opposition from the Republican party. On retiring from the bench in 1876 he began practice with Thomas W. Woollen and continued until he became dean of the Indiana University law school in 1889. From 1877 to 1SSS he was a trustee of the university. In 1SSS Franklin bestowed upon Judge Banta the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He died April 9, 1896, at Bloom- ington, Indiana.
IRA M. HOLMES.
Ira M. Holmes, of Indianapolis, was born at Pendleton, Indiana, De- cember 20, 1876, son of Squire W. and Olive M. (Parson) Holmes, who moved to Indianapolis while he was a child and his schooling was there- fore obtained in the public schools of that city, graduating from the high school in 1895. During his school days his time out of school hours was devoted to work in the morning in the office of the Indianapolis Journal, in the afternoon in a bicycle shop and in the evenings as an usher in a theater. After seven years of this night and day work he entered Indiana Law School, in October, 1896, and was graduated In May. 1898. After starting to law school he continued to sell papers on the street and even after his marriage in February, 1902, he continued to sell newspapers until he received the appointment to the position of deputy prosecutor in the fall of that year. In May, 1898, Mr. Holmes was admitted to the bar and for two years he practiced alone, after which he formed a partner- ship with Daniel Brown and the latter's son, under the firmn name of Brown, Holmes & Brown, which partnership continued for three years, at
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the end of which time Mr. Holmes and Charles J. Orbison entered into an office partnership which continued until November, 1902, when he was appointed deputy prosecutor in the city court and served in that capacity until 1906, after which he practiced alone until January 1, 1914, when he formed a partnership with Fred McCallister, under the firm name of Holmes & McCallister, which arrangement continues.
On February 2, 1902, Ira M. Holmes was united in marriage to Jos- ephine Satterwaite, of Columbus, Indiana, daughter of Myrtillus and Minnie (Thompkins) Satterthwaite, and to this union two children have been born, Marianne, born on November 8, 1902, and Horace Conde, Oc- tober 21, 1907. Mr. Holmes is a member of the Indiana State Bar Asso- ciation, the Marion Club, the Columbia Club, the Independent Turnverein, and the Indianapolis Maennerchor. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen of America.
WILLIAM J. HENLEY.
William J. Henley, ex-judge of the Appellate court of Indiana. was born at Carthage, Rush county, Indiana, October 15, 1863, and is the son of Thomas W. and Hannah C. Henley. He received a good common school education, supplemented by that received from the Friends Academy at Carthage. He studied law two years with Mellett & Bundy at Newcastle, and one year with George Clark at Rushville, Indiana. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and began practice with B. L. Smith. In 1889 he formed a partnership with L. D. Guffin. In 1894 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for Circuit Judge. In 1896 he was elected to the Appel- late court and re-elected in 1902. He resigned as Appellate Judge in 1903 to accept the position of president and general counsel for the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad and removed to Chicago, where he remained for six years. In 1910, he resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis.
DAVID A. MYERS.
David A. Myers, of Greensburg, son of Henry C. and Mariah (Bright) Myers, is a native of Indiana, born on a farm near Logansport, August 5, 1859. Upon completing the course in the Logansport public schools he took supplemental courses in Smithson College at Logansport and at the Central Normal School at Danville, Indiana, and then entered the law department of Union University, Albany, New York, where he graduated in May, 1881. He was admitted to the bar in the State of New York in 1881 and in September of the same year he was admitted to the bar in Indiana and began the practice of law at Greensburg, which ever since has been his home. On March 1, 1898, he was appointed judge of the Eighth judicial circuit, then Decatur and Rush counties, by Governor Mount and served in that capacity until November 31, 1898. On October 18, 1904, he was appointed by Governor Durbin to the Indiana Appellate bench, and on the same day selected by the Republican state committee
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to go on the state ticket that year and was elected, and in 1908 was re-elected to that office, serving until January 1, 1913. In April, 1916, Judge Myers was nominated by the Republican state convention as the candidate for the office of justice of the Supreme court from his district. In addition to his judicial service, Judge Myers served as prosecutor for the Eighth judicial circuit for two terms, 1890-94. He is a director and a member of the board of trustees of the Greensburg Young Men's Chris- tian Association. On August 25, 1880, David A. Myers was united in mar- riage to Laura Hart, of Greensburg, who died on December 19, 1883 and on September 3, 1907, he married Margaret MeNaught, of Greensburg.
ELMER E. STEVENSON.
Elmer E. Stevenson, of Indianapolis, was born on July 28, 1861, at Rozetta, Illinois. He is the son of Thomas P. and Cassandra (Ewing) Stevenson, the former a native of Kentucky and a farmer by occupation. Elmer E. Stevenson prepared for Franklin College in the common and high schools of his home. He graduated from Franklin in 1883, but was not admitted to the bar until 1891, having taught several terms of school and read law in the meantime with A. C. Downey and with the firm of Overstreet & Hunter. He began to practice in Marion, Indiana, but has been at Indianapolis for twenty-three years in the active prac- tice, and is now actively engaged in the practice in partnership with his son, Thomas D. Stevenson. He is a member of the Indianapolis. Indiana State and American Bar Associations. He holds membership in the Columbia, Century and Marion Clubs, of Indianapolis, and is identified with the Baptist church.
Mr. Stevenson was married to Sally Harris Wilson, and they are the parents of two children : Marie, the wife of J. C. Okey, and Thomas D. The family home is located at 1326 North Alabama street, Indian- apolis.
CHARLES N. THOMPSON.
Charles Nebeker Thompson, of Indianapolis, is the son of Willian Thompson, a farmer and merchant of Covington, Indiana. He was born on July 7, 1861. He attended the public schools of Fountain county, and later entered DePauw University. He graduated with the class of 1882. and after his graduation came to Indianapolis and entered the office of his brother-in-law, Francis M. Dice, reporter of the Supreme court. He served as clerk to Judge William Niblack until 1SS5, when he entered the law office of Duncan, Smith & Wilson, where he devoted himself to the study of law. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar and formed a partner- ship with John F. Carson, who died on December 4, 1910. In 1900 he was elected to the state Senate on the Republican ticket. serving in 1901 and 1903. He is a member of the Indianapolis Literary Club. Marion. Country and Columbia Clubs, a Presbyterian. a member of the Phi Kappa Psi. a
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director in the Fletcher Savings & Trust Company, Marion Title & Guar- anty Company, and the Indianapolis Light & Heat Company, to which he is general counsel ; also author of "Thompson on Building Associations," second edition of which was published in 1899. He is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association. On October 7, 1891, Mr. Thompson married Julia Alice Conner.
ALFRED R. HOVEY.
Alfred R. Hovey, of Indianapolis, was born on a farm at Nunda, Livingston county, New York, November 6, 1853. He is one of three children of Goodwin S. and Salina (Weed) Hovey, natives of New York. His early education was obtained in the common schools. At the age of fifteen he entered Nunda Academy; at eighteen, Alfred University, at Alfred, New York. He taught school in New York and Illinois. During this time he was studying law and in November, 1877, he entered the law office of Lucian Barbour, in Indianapolis, where he prepared for and was admitted to the bar in March, 1878. In 1880, the law firm of Harding & Hovey was formed and continued to September, 1915. He is now practicing alone. He is a member of the Marion Club, a Mason, Knight of Pythias, a Methodist and a Republican. He was county at- torney from 1896 to 1899. In November, 1882, he married Sylvia M. Wade, of Ohio. They have six children.
WILLIAM R. HARRISON.
William R. Harrison was born in Knox county, Tennessee. He was reared in Kentucky and was educated in the district schools and by his parents. Later he studied two years under skilled teachers in Ohio. He began reading law in Kentucky under Col. J. J. Anderson, John D. Taylor and Athelstone Owen. In July, 1848, he moved to Martinsville and was admitted to the bar in 1849 and began practicing with Judge A. S. Griggs. When Judge Griggs retired, Harrison was left the legal business, which extended over several counties. After 1873 he left the law for the packing business, but returned to the practice several years later. Harrison took an active part in the development of Martinsville and the school system there.
LLOYD T. BAILEY.
Lloyd T. Bailey, of Columbia City, was born on a farm at Adrian, Michigan, December 29, 1SS3. He is one of two children born to Truman and Elma A. (Fulkenburg) Bailey. He was educated in the common and high schools of Adrian and in Brown's Business University. He read law in the office of A. A. Adams, and was admitted to the bar' in 190S. He at once began in Whitley county and has been engaged ever since. He was joined by George O. Compton in 1910, and the firm of Bailey & Compton has since continued. He is a member of the Whitley County Bar Association, a member of the Masonic order, a Knight Templar, a
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Woodman, and is a Progressive in politics. He was assistant prosecutor 1909-1910. He married Lena B. Campburn and they are the parents of two children, Eloise L. and Joseph W. The family are members of the Presbyterian church, and they live at North Line street, Columbia City, Indiana.
ANDERSON B. HUNTER.
Anderson Barnes Hunter was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, Octo- ber 1, 1826. He came to Johnson county, Indiana, with his parents in 1840. His schooling opportunities were poor and his constitution and eye- sight weak. At eighteen he secured a teacher's certificate and taught school in a neighbor's smoke-house. At twenty he began the study of law under Gilderoy Hicks, of Franklin. In November, 1848, he entered the senior law class at Indiana Uniersity and studied under Judges McDonald and Otto. In 1849 Hunter and G. M. Overstreet became partners. Hunter was a close student, but not interested in either politics or oratory. He died in August, 1891.
EDGAR W. ATKINSON.
Edgar W. Atkinson, of Auburn, was born on a farm at Beverley, Ohio, February 21, 1877. He is one of three children born to Joseph and Hannah M. (Ludman) Atkinson. He was educated in the neighborhood schools, after which he entered Valparaiso University, where he grad- uated from the law course in June, 1903. He then located in Auburn, Indiana, forming a partnership with John Stafford, which continued a year. In June, 1906, he became deputy circuit clerk of Dekalb county, serving until the end of 1908. During 1909 and part of 1910, he prac- ticed at Garrett, Indiana, with Mr. Sharpless. On March 1, 1910, he re- turned to Auburn and formed a partnership with Dan M. Link, which continued until Mr. Link became Circuit judge in 1914. He is a member of the Dekalb County and Indiana State Bar Associations. He married Mary E. Rose, and they are the parents of two children, Virginia Rose and Joseph Edward.
KENDALL MOSS HORD.
Kendall Moss Hord, former judge of the Sixteenth Indiana judicial circuit, who has been located in the practice of his profession at Shelby- ville since the year 1863, is a native of Kentucky, born at Maysville, that state, October 20, 1840, son of Francis T. and Elizabeth (Moss) Hord, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia, who were the parents of nine children. Francis T. Hord was a prominent at- torney at Maysville and three of his sons followed him in adopting the legal profession. Kendall M. Hord was graduated from Maysville Semi- nary at the age of nineteen and immediately thereafter entered upon the study of law in his father's office at Maysville. He was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1863 and opened an office at Flemingsburg, Kentucky,
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