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but in the fall of that same year moved to Indianapolis, entering the office of Hendricks & Hord, and in the early winter of that same year located at Shelbyville, where he ever since has made his home. In 1866 he was elected prosecuting attorney and in 1872 was again elected to that office. In 1876 he was elected judge of the Sixteenth judicial circuit and occupied the bench until 1888. Upon retiring from the bench Judge Hord formed a partnership with Edmund K. Adams, under the firm name of Hord & Adams, which association has continued since that time. Judge Hord is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a Red Man. On August 20, 1867, he married Emily McFarlan, of Shelbyville, and to this union has been born one son, Luther .J. Hord. Mrs. Hord was born at Springfield, Ohio, daughter of John and Betsy McFarland, who settled in Shelbyville about 1855.
VINSON CARTER.
Vinson Carter, ex-judge of the Superior court of Marion county, was born on a farm near Mooresville, Indiana, July 16, 1840. He is a son of John D. and Ruth (Pickett) Carter, who were of Southern lineage and pioneer Hoosiers. Vinson Carter passed his childhood years on a farm and studied in the district schools of Morgan county. He attended Earl- ham College two winter sessions, and in 1S65 entered Indiana University, graduating in 1867. He served as a soldier during the Civil War in the Twelfth Infantry. He read law with Morton C. Hunter and was admitted to the bar at Bloomington in 1867. He began practice at Indianapolis, where he practiced until 1891. In 1894 he was elected a judge of the Superior court for Marion county, which office he held until 1912, when he became chief counsel and trust officer of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. He served in the Legislature in 1881. He is a Republican, a Presbyterian, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Sigma Chi. On October 1, 1867, he married Emma Maxwell, of Bloomington, and they have one child.
JAMES E. POMEROY.
James E. Pomeroy, of Auburn, was born at Canal Fulton, Stark county, Ohio, December 14, 1867. He is one of twelve children born to Francis M. and Mary (Duley) Pomeroy, of Scotch-Irish blood. He was educated from the high school in 1884. He at once began the study of law in the office of James Sterling, of the same county. He drifted into school teaching, however, and taught until he was twenty-seven. In the meantime he entered Northern Indiana University to prepare for the law. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1895. He located at Auburn, where he has since practiced. He has had success in the general prac- tice of law. One of his most noted victories was in the famous Grover Ensley murder case. On September 1, 1895, Mr. Pomeroy married Ella Bunge. They have no children of their own, but have adopted three children, Blaine Lamar, Myrtle and Alta.
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HUGH H. CONLEY.
Hugh H. Conley, of Newport, was born on January 14, 1843, in Ver- milion county. He is one of seven children born to Elijah and Nancy (Downing) Conley. His parents were pioneers of western Indiana. The father was a shoemaker by trade. Hugh H. Conley attended the common schools and spent a short time at the State Normal School. He taught for twelve years, reading law in the moments of leisure. In 1877 he was admitted to the practice of law at Newport, where with the exception of three years spent at Clinton he has since practiced. He served the Twenty-first judicial circuit as prosecutor two terms and as member of the school board several terms. The three years spent at Clinton were as county superintendent of schools. He served during the Civil War in the Eighteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He is a Re- publican. On September 9, 1874, he married Mary A. Saunders, who died in December, 1891. They have had five children, two of whom are dead. William Bert is his father's law partner; Lulu May died in infancy ; Paul H., died on June 4, 1915; Carl H., is a missionary in India; Edith A. Hugh H. Conley was married to Margaret A. Maloney, June 28, 1894, and they have two children, Mary, deceased, and Margaret.
NATHAN O. ROSS.
Nathan O. Ross was born in Boone county, Kentucky, September 14, 1819, and came with his parents to Decatur county, Indiana, in 1821. He attended Wabash College, studied law at home, and was admitted to the bar at Wabash, Indiana, in 1839. He moved to Peru in that year, but spent a large part of his later life in Logansport. He became attorney for the Panhandle Railroad Company and served many years. For twenty years he was in partnership with Robert P. Effinger, of Peru. He died at Peru, July 22, 1901.
WILLIAM E. DEUPREE.
William E. Deupree, of Franklin, was born on a farm in Johnson county, Indiana, March 2, 1864. He is a son of Daniel C. and Susan (Sanders) Deupree. The Deupree family is of Huguenot extraction, the first of the name emigrating to this country in the early eighteenth cen- tury. William E. Deupree grew up on a Shelby county farm until he was old enough to teach school. The teaching profession did not long attract him and he entered the office of John C. Orr, of Columbus, to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and opened an office in Edinburg where he practiced six years. March 1, 1893, he moved to Franklin and formed a partnership with W. C. Thompson. This lasted a year. For three years he was alone. On September 1, 1897. he formed a partnership with L. Ert. Slack, which continued till November 1. 1906. when Mr. Deupree was elected circuit judge. He had previously served six years as deputy prosecutor and six years as county attorney. He was county chairman of his party eight years and a delegate to the national
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convention of 1900. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a Templar, a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow, and in November, 1915, was elected Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Indiana. He is a member of the Christian church and a Democrat. On January 12, 1889, he married Ada M. Pruitt. They have five children, two of whom are dead.
ZEBULON BAIRD.
Zebulon Baird was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, December 21, 1817. He came to Warren county, Ohio, with his parents and went to Miami University. He studied law under Thomas Corwin at Lebanon, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1838. The following year he located at LaFayette, Indiana, and formed a partnership with Judge Ingram. In the Civil War he was taken prisoner, confined in Libby prison, and finally exchanged. On his way to a new post he argued, in Captain's uniform, a case before the Supreme court at Washington. After the war he resumed his law practice. He died in 18777.
SAMUEL M. MCGREGOR.
Samuel M. McGregor was born January 17, 1849, in a log cabin in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. From 1863 to 1865 he lived at Flora, Illinois, and in 1865 moved to Poland, Clay county, Indiana. Here he studied medicine under his father and taught school. He entered Wabash College in 1868 and remained until 1871. He then entered the law office of Enos Miles, at Bowling Green, Indiana, and was shortly afterwards admitted to the bar. In 1877 the county seat was changed to Brazil and McGregor moved to Brazil and formed a partnership with Isaac M. Crompton. In 1882 he was nominated by the Democratic party and elected prosecuting attorney of the Thirteenth judicial circuit, composed of Clay and Putnam counties. Two years later the Republicans did not contest his re-election. In 1888 he was elected Judge of the Thirteenth circuit and was re-elected in 1894, serving until 1900.
OSCAR H. MONTGOMERY.
Oscar H. Montgomery, of Seymour, former justice of the Indiana Supreme court, is a native Hoosier, born on a farm near Seymour, in Jackson county, this state, April 27, 1859, son of Theophilus W. and Susan H. Close) Montgomery, both natives of Indiana, the former born at Jef- fersonville and the latter at Madison, both being of Scottish parentage. He received his elementary education in the district school in the neigh- borhood of his home supplementing the same by a course in Hanover College, from which he was graduated in 1881, with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts, and later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. For three years he taught school in his home county, studying law during the vacation periods, and on April 22, 1884, was ad- mitted to the bar. He began his legal career at Greenfield, Indiana, prac-
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ticing there in partnership with his cousin, L. H. Reynolds, under the firm name of Reynolds & Montgomery, but nine months later returned to Seymour, where he opened an office and was there engaged In practice until his election to the state Supreme bench in 1904, on which he served for six years, and where he made an enviable record as an able and impartial jurist. In 1910 he was renominated by the Republican state convention, but failed of election. On leaving the bench, Judge Montgom- ery reopened his law office at Seymour and is now engaged In practice there, having as a partner his son, T. H. Montgomery.
On October 27, 1SS6, Oscar H. Montgomery was united In marriage to Ida E. Harding, to which union four children have been born: Madge, wife of Judge John B. Steel, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania ; T. H., asso- ciated with his father in practice; Merrill M. and Harriet E. For more than twenty years Judge Montgomery has been a member of the board of trustees of Hanover College He is a member of the American Bar Asso- ciation, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Jackson County Bar Association. He is a member of the Columbia Club at Indianapolis. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1896 and in 1912. Judge Montgomery is a Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
WILLIAM C. WILSON.
William C. Wilson was born in Crawfordsville. Indiana, November 22. 1827. He graduated from Wabash College in 1847 and from Indiana University law school in 1849. He was admitted to the bar the same year and elected prosecuting atorney of Montgomery county. In 1850 he moved to Lafayette, Indiana, and formed a partnership with Major Danlel Mace. Wilson served in the army from 1861 to 1864, being colonel of the Fortieth Indiana. In 1866 he became assessor of internal revenues and from 1867 to 1869 was postmaster of Lafayette. He was defeated for attorney- general on the Republican ticket in 1884. He died at Lafayette In 1891.
WILLIAM M. BROWN.
William M. Brown, of Angola, was born on a farm in Lagrange county, Indiana, March 6, 1846. He is one of a family of five children born to Russell and Laura (Sweet) Brown. Russell Brown was a native of Mas- sachusetts, who came to Indlana in 1836. Willlam M. Brown received the training afforded in the local common and high schools and then entered the University of Michigan, graduating with the class of 1867. He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He located in Angola in 1884. where he formed a partnership with Mr. Woodhull. the firm name being Brown & Woodhull. This firm was succeeded by that of Brown & Davis. which continued until 1898, when the present firm of Brown & Carlin was formed. Mr. Brown represented his county in the General Assembly from 1890 to 1894. He is a member of the Steuben County Bar Association. a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He married Maggie Hopkins, of La- grange county, and both attend the Congregational church.
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JOHN B. COCKRUM.
John B. Cockrum, of Indianapolis, was born on a farm near Oakland City, Indiana, September 12, 1857, and is the son of Col. William M. Cockrum. He was educated at Oakland City, graduating from the high school at seventeen, and at once entered the teaching profession. His summers were devoted to reading law in the office of J. E. Mccullough, of Princeton, and, later, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1879. Mr. Cockrum was at once admitted to the bar and began practice with Charles W. Armstrong at Booneville. In 1882, John B. Handy was added to the firm. In 1889, Mr. Cockrum became assistant United States attorney for Indiana. In 1893 he became general counsel for the Lake Erie Railroad, which position he has held since to the present time. He has twice (18SS and 1904) sat in Republican national conven- tions. He is a thirty-third-degree Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, and was president of the Columbia Club when it built its new home. He married Fannie Bittrolff, of Evansville, in 1880, and they have two children.
ROBERT P. DAVIDSON.
Robert Parks Davidson was born in Kentucky, October 26, 1826. He attended an academy when fourteen and taught school at eighteen. He went to school at Miami University but left in his senior year and grad- uated from Center College, Kentucky, in 1848. After graduation he be- came instructor in Latin and mathematics at Sharpsburg Academy. He was admitted to the bar by examination in 1851 and immediately located in Frankfort, Indiana. Davidson supported Douglas in 1860, but later supported Lincoln. In 1862 Governor Morton appointed him draft com- missioner of his county. After his removal to Lafayette he was chosen presidential elector in 1864 and cast his vote for Lincoln. Davidson served a term as prosecuting attorney (1852-1853), a short term as Judge of the Common Pleas court (1854), and a term in the Legislature.
WILLIAM HENRY LEAS.
William Henry Leas, of Waterloo, was born in Salem township, Steu- ben county, Indiana, September 16, 1849. He is one of twelve children born to John and Susan (Schimpff) Leas. He took full advantage of the common schools of his neighborhood, after which he taught for a time in the district schools and in the town of Waterloo. In 1873 he began the study of law at Angola, but in the same year entered the law school of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in March, 1875. He had already been admitted to the bar at Angola in 1874, and in 1875 opened a law office at Waterloo. His first partner was C. M. Phillip, from June 1, 1875, to October, 1875. In November, 1876, he formed a partnership with R. W. McBride and Joseph L. Morlan. In August, 1878, Mr. Morlan died, and the firm was dissolved, since which time Mr. Leas has practiced alone. He has served two terms on the local school board, ten years as attorney
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for Waterloo, and has been attorney for Corunna. He helped to organize the Dekalb County Bar Association. He is a Democrat in politics.
Mr. Leas married Emma J. Danks, and they are the parents of two children : Stella, now Mrs. R. Earl Peters, secretary to Congressman Cline, and Earl D., a hay and grain merchant of Waterloo.
OLIVER J. GLESSNER.
Oliver J. Glessner was born at Frederick, Maryland, October 11, 1828. In 1836 his father settled on a farm in Morgan county, Indiana. When a young man, Glessner studied law with W. R. Harrison and later entered Indiana University, where he graduated in 1856. He opened an office in Martinsville. In 1864 the Democrats elected him Judge of the Eighth judicial circuit, composed of Morgan, Shelby, Johnson, Brown and Monroe counties. Glessner moved to Shelbyville in 1865. Two years later he was elected to the state Senate and in 1890 to the House. He dled at Shelby- ville, June 2, 1903.
JOHN T. BEASLEY.
John T. Beasley, lawyer and capitalist of Terre Haute, was born on a farm in Sullivan county, Indiana, May 29, 1860, and is the son of Ephraim and Sarah (Williams) Beasley. His early education was secured in the district schools. From the age of sixteen to twenty he taught school. In 1880 the family removed to Sullivan, and Mr. Beasley entered the law office of Buff & Patten to prepare for the law. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and practiced first with Buff & Tatten, and then with A. B. Williams, until November, 1893, when he became the partner of the late John E. Lamb at Terre Haute, the firm being Lamb, Beasley & Saw- yer. This association continued until the death of Mr. Lamb in 1915. The firm is now Beasley, Douthitt, Crawford & Beasley. Mr. Beasley served in the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh General Assemblies, 1886-1892. He is president of the United States Trust Company, of Terre Haute. He is a Democrat. On November 5, 1885, John T. Beasley was married to Cora E. Hoke, of Sullivan, and they have one son, John Hoke Beasley.
J. M. JOHNS.
J. M. Johns, of Rockville, was born on a farm in Raccoon township, Parke county, Indiana, February 5, 1869. He is one of the two sons born to Jacob and Amanda (Rutter) Johns. The family is of Welsh stock and among the pioneers of Parke county. J. M. Johns grew up on the farın, taking full advantage of the excellent district school In his neighborhood. He continued his education in the Bloomingdale Academy. and in the C. C. Koerner Commercial College at Indianapolis. In 1889 he began the study of law in the office of Puett & Modley, at Rockville. Later he formed a partnership with Puett & Adams which lasted only a year. Since then Mr. Johns has practiced alone. Besides his law practice he has extensive
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commercial interests. He assisted in organizing the company that built the Rockville Opera House, and has taken a prominent part in public im- provements of his home town and county and is interested in other pro- jects. He is a Knight of Pythias, a Modern Woodman, a Red Man, a Republican and a Methodist. On November 16, 1892, he married Carrie Aydelotte, a descendant of the Breckenridge family of Kentucky. They have one child, Katharine.
JACOB L. WHITE.
Jacob L. White was born in Johnson county, Indiana, December 15, 1849. As a youth White was not strong, but he attended school regularly. At seventeen he entered a private academy in Williamsburg and remained there three years. In 1869 he entered the National Normal Institute at Lebanon, Ohio. He taught in and around Edinburg for several years, but in 1872 began the study of law in the office of Woollen & Byfield, of Franklin. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced a year with Judge Woollen and R. M. Johnson, and with Johnson alone until 1880. In 1878 White was deputy state attorney and two years later was elected attorney for the Sixteenth circuit. In 1886 and 1SSS he was elected to the Legislature by the Democratic party. He died in 1889.
FORREST WAYNE INGRAM.
Forrest Wayne Ingram, of Newport, was born on a farm near Dana, Vermillion county, Indiana, December 20, 1889. His father was James Vorhees Ingram, a native of Vermilion county, Indiana; his mother was Georgia (Mclaughlin) Ingram, of Vermilion county, Indiana. Forrest Wayne Ingram grew up on the home farm near Dana, enjoying the best advantages of the schools of his neighborhood, and of the Dana high school. He next entered Indiana University and graduated with the class of 1910. He entered the law school of Indiana University the following year and finished the prescribed course in 1911. The same year he was admitted to the bar and opened an office at Newport in October, 1911. He has been in the practice but a few years, but has a bright prospect before him.
ROBERT WILLIAM McCLASKEY.
Robert W. McClaskey was born at Lagrange, Indiana, July 4, 1886. His parents were John Edgar and Alta (Crampton) McClaskey. John E. McClaskey was prosecuting attorney of the Thirty-fourth judicial circuit, including Lagrange and Elkhart counties, from 1887 to 1889. His brother, Miles R., was prosecutor of the same circuit from 1893 to 1897.
Robert W. McClaskey received his education in the schools of Lagrange and after graduating from the high school entered Indiana University, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1911. He at once engaged in the practice of his pro- fession at Lagrange and won such recognition at the bar that the Repub-
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licans nominated him for the state Legislature in 1914. He was elected to represent the lower House for the counties of Lagrange and Steuben and served during the 1915 session. Mr. McClaskey was married on June 1, 1914, to Louise Hite Ferrell, of St. Louis, Missouri. They have one son, Robert Bruce, born on September 30, 1915.
FREDERICK F. MCCLELLAN.
Frederick F. Mcclellan, of Muncie, was born on a farm near Muncie, August 12, 1875. He is a son of Frederick H. and Mary (Jewett) Mc- Clellan. The father died two weeks before the son was born. The mother was a member of one of the oldest families of Delaware county, having located in 1838. Frederick F. McCfellan was educated in the Muncie high school and Georgetown University. He read law with Gregory, Sil- verberg & Lotz, of Muncie, teaching school in Muncie for nine years. In 1904 he took his Bachelor of Laws degree from Georgetown University, and began practice with D. D. Hensel. He is now the senior member of the firm of Mcclellan, Guthrie & Hensel. In 1906 he was appointed city attorney.
LLOYD B. GATTEN.
Lloyd B. Gatten, of Auburn, was born on a farm in Ohio, May 10. 1886. He is one of two children born to Casper P. and Anna J. (Garrett) Gatten. He received his elementary training in the district and high schools of Ohio. After studying for some time in the Ohio Northern Uni- versity at Ada, Ohio, he entered the Ohio State University, from which he was graduated in 190S. He read law in the office of Judge Best, at An- gola, and was admitted to the bar in 1910. The present law firm was organized in May, 1914. Mr. Gatten had previously served one and one- half years as deputy prosecutor under Prosecutor Nyce. He is a member of the Dekalb County Bar Association, is an Odd Fellow, a Modern Wood- man, and is a Democrat in politics. Mr. Gatten married Bertha Collins, and both are members of the Methodist church.
EMMET A. BRATTON.
Emmet A. Bratton, of Angola, was born on a farm in Williams county, Ohio, July 16, 1855. He is one of eight children born to Ira and Deborah (Thomas) Bratton. His early education was received in the country schools of his native county. In due time he entered the law department of the University of Michigan from which he graduated in 1SS1. The same year he was admitted to the bar at Angola and began practice. His first partnership was with Stephen A. Powers which lasted till 1884. when he formed a partnership with Hon. D. R. Best, which continued until he was elected to the bench of the Thirty-fifth judicial circuit in 1904. He served till 1910. The present partnership with William E. Heckenlively dates from January 1, 1911. Mr. Bratton served two terms as prosecutor, and six years as city clerk of Angola. He is a member of the Steuben
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County Bar Association, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, and a Republican. He married Della Rice, whose death occurred in January, 1914. They had three children : Arla, wife of B. L. Averall; Lulu, wife of P. G. Preston, and Cornelius Rice. The family belong to the Christian church.
LUCIUS C. EMBREE.
Lucius C. Embree, of Princeton, was born there on September S, 1853. He is the son of James T. Embree, a member of the Princeton bar and lieutenant-colonel of the Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers; the grandson of Elisha Embree, lawyer, judge and congressman; the great-grandson of David Robb, who was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1816. Mr. Embree's mother was Mary M. (Landis) Embree, a native of Staunton, Virginia. His education was received in the schools of Prince- ton, in Indiana Asbury University and Earlhanı College, and his legal training was received at the University of Virginia, under John B. Minor. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, but continued his studies till August 10, 1877, before beginning practice. He practiced with James E. McCul- lough until September, 1879; then was alone except for a short partnership with Martin W. Field and, later, with Willis P. Howe, until 1907, when the present partnership with his son, Morton C. Embree, was formed. Morton C. Embree is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Virginia Law School. Lucius C. Embree married Luella Casey, December 29, 1880, and they have four children, James C., Morton C., Louise and Clotilde.
FERDINAND S. SWIFT.
Ferdinand S. Swift was born in Butler county, Ohio, September 6, 1839. He worked on the farm and read law at night. At twenty-five he left the farm and began studying law under David Mace at Lafayette, Indiana. He taught school at Franklin and in 1867 moved with his mother to Brookville, where he formed a partnership with Henry C. Hanna. In 1868 he was elected clerk of Brookville and served six successive terms. From 1876 to 1880 he served as clerk of the Franklin Circuit court. In 1880 he was appointed Judge of the Thirty-seventh judicial circuit by Gov- ernor James D. Williams. He was elected in the fall and by re-election served until 1904. He then resumed practice and was so engaged at the time of his death.
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