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JOHN M. SPANGLER.
John M. Spangler, attorney-at-law at Winamac, was born in that city on August 21, 1866, son of Judge William and M. K. (Phipps) Spangler, the former of whom was appointed to the bench of the Forty-fourth judicial circuit by Governor Porter and whose death occurred in January, 1908. Upon completing the course in the schools of his native town, John M. Spangler entered Notre Dame University and upon his graduation from that institution entered Indiana University, from which he was graduated in 1889. He was admitted to the bar in that same year and has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession at Winamac. Mr. Spangler is a member of the Pulaski County Bar Association. He is a Republican
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and is a member of the Winamac lodges of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Red Men. His wife is a member of the Baptist church. Mrs. Spangler was born Mary I. Long, daughter of Christian Long.
BEN T. RISTINE.
Ben Taylor Ristine was born in Gallatin county, Kentucky, January 19 1807. He received instruction in the classics under a minister at Madi- son, Indiana. His family moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, and here Ristine taught school and engaged in the dry goods business. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. From 1845 to 1875 he prac- ticed with Alexander Thompson. In 1867 Ristine's son entered the firm and after 1877 it bore the name of Ristine & Ristine. Ristine died several years ago.
J. FRED FRUCHTE.
J. Fred Fruchte, of Decatur, was born on a farm in Adams county, Indiana, November 24, 1876. He is one of a family of three children born to Ernest L. and Louisa (Scherry) Fruchte. He took advantage of the public schools of his neighborhood and then attended the Normal schools at Anderson and Marion. After taking the course at the Indiana Law School he entered the law office of D. D. Erwin. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and has since been actively engaged in the practice. He was elected prosecutor in 1914 and renominated in 1916. He has served one term on the school board of Decatur. He is a member of the Adams County Bar Association and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Polit- ically he is a Democrat. Mr. Fruchte married Myrtle Beachler, daughter of William Beachler, superintendent of the schools of Decatur. He is a member of the Reformed church, while his wife is a Methodist. Their home is at 412 West Jackson street, Decatur, Indiana.
LEMUEL W. ROYSE.
Lemuel W. Royce, of Warsaw, was born on January 19, 1848, at Kosci- usko county, Indiana. He is one of ten children born to George W. and Nancy (Chaplin) Royse. The father was a native of New Hampshire and the mother, of Vermont. The father came west and located in Ohio, where he was a minister in the Methodist church for many years. Lemuel Royse received some education in the public schools but practically all his wide education has been secured through his own systematic reading. He got his legal training at Warsaw under the late J. E. Frazier. He was ad- mitted to the Kosciusko county bar in September, 1874, and began the practice the following year. He has practiced continually, save when in public office, for the last forty-two years. In 1876 he was elected prose- cutor of the Fifty-fourth circuit and served one term. In 1SS5 he was elected mayor of Warsaw and served six years. In 1894 he was elected to Congress from the Thirteenth district and two years later re-elected, serving from 1895 to 1899. In 1904 Governor Durbin appointed him Cir-
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cuit judge, as which he served till 1908. He is a member of the County and State Bar Associations, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, a Red Man and an Elk. On July 10, 1873, he married Miss Bell McIntyre.
PETER S. KENNEDY.
Peter S. Kennedy was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, July 10, 1829. He read many books while a boy, but the only schooling which he had in addition to the common schools was at North Middleton (Ken- tucky) Academy. At the age of twenty, while teaching school, he began the study of law and, after being admitted to the bar, located in Craw- fordsville, Indiana. In 1874 he was elected to the House from Montgom- ery county on the Republican ticket.
CHARLES F. GRIFFIN.
Charles F. Griffin was born at Crown Point, Indiana, June 10, 1857. He was admitted to the bar in 187S. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1884 and was twice chairman of the Republican central committee of his county. In 1SS6 he was elected secretary of state, the youngest man who has ever held that office. After his term expired he located in Indianapolis for a short time and then moved to Hammond. In 1892 he was a delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention.
JABEZ T. COX.
Jabez Thomas Cox was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1846, and was brought to Hamilton county, Indiana, in 1850. He served in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Indiana Regiment in the Civil War. After the war he read law with James O'Brien at Noblesville, Indiana, and began practice with N. R. Overman at Tipton, Indiana, in 1866. From 1875 to 1882 he lived in Kansas and Colorado, but in 1SS2 returned to Indiana and located at Peru. He was elected to the House in 1886 and in 1890 was elected Judge of the Fifty-first judicial circuit and served two terms.
RALPH E. HORNER.
Ralph E. Horner, senior member of the law firm of Horner & Thomp- son, Winamac, Indiana, is a native of Indiana, born in Pulaski county, April 19, 1883, son of Elias W. and Mary A. (Malcolm) Horner, the for- mer of whom is engaged in the banking business at Medaryville. Upon completing the course in the public schools he entered Indiana University and later continued his studies at the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, from the law department of which latter institution he was grad- uated in 1909. On September 6 of that year he was admitted to the bar and has since been engaged in practice in Winamac. For a time he was associated in practice with the late M. M. Hathaway, and on July 12, 1912, formed a partnership with Robert E. Thompson, which continues, under
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the firm style of Horner & Thompson. Mr. Horner is a member of the Pulaski County Bar Association. He is a Republican, a member of the Masonic order and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Horner was born at Medaryville, Mamie Guild, daughter of James R. Guild.
JOHN M. SMITH.
John M. Smith, ex-Judge of the Jay Circuit court, was born on a farm in Jay county, Indiana, September 29, 1853, and is a son of James A. and Eliza Jane (Hoppes) Smith, both natives of Ohio. His elementary edu- cation was obtained in the common schools, his higher training in Liber College. His professional education was obtained in the office of William A. Bonham at Hartford City, teaching meanwhile to pay his expenses. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1875, and began practice in May, 1880, at Portland, where he has since practiced. His first partnership was with David T. Taylor, later Taylor, Smith & Bailey, which lasted till 1885, when he joined Cornelius Corwin. This lasted until 1898, when he was elected Judge of the Fifty-eighth circuit. In 1882, he was elected to the state Senate, and was re-elected, serving four years, and in 1909, he served in the House. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a Dem- ocrat. On September 28, 1881, he married Ettie Leonard, an Irish girl, and they have five children, Glenna, Rufus, Katharyn, Anna and Robert.
JAMES M. BROWN.
James Monroe Brown was born in Union county, Indiana, Ocober 16, 1826. He attended the common schools and an academy and from 1848 to 1854 taught school. In 1854 he began reading law under Nelson Trusler at Connersville, Indiana. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and moved to Peru, Indiana. In 1860 he was elected mayor of Peru and held that office for four terms. He had charge of the office of city engineer for eight years and served four years on the council. He served as county attorney and had charge of the construction of the city waterworks. In 1889 he was appointed Judge of the Fifty-first judicial circuit, and served until the election of 1890.
JAMES A. DILTS.
James A. Dilts, of Winamac, prosecuting attorney for the Forty-fourth judicial circuit, was born in Winamac and has lived there all his life. He was born on August 19, 1SSS, son of Moses A. and Amanda (March) Dilts, the former of whom is a banker and real-estate dealer at Winamac. Fol- lowing a course at DePauw University he entered the law department of Indiana University, from which he was graduated in 1911, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and opened an office for the practice of his profession in his native city. In November, 1914, he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Forty-fourth judicial circuit, comprising the counties of Pulaski and Starke, as the nom-
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inee of the Republican party, and is now serving in that capacity. Mr. Dilts is a member of the Pulaski County Bar Association. He is a Mason and he and his wife are members of the Methodist church. Mr. Dllts married Mary A. Huddleson, daughter of William S. Huddleson, of Win- amac, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Kathryn A.
STEPHEN NEAL.
Stephen Neal was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, June 11, 1817. He studied Latin and Greek in the academy at Moorefield, Kentucky, and read law under Joseph G. Marshall at Madison, Indiana, and with Will- iam Norvill at Carlisle, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar at Car- lisle in 1841 and two years later located at Lebanon, Indiana. In 1846 he was elected to the Legislature from Boone county and was re-elected in 1847. There he introduced the bill forbidding the granting of legisla- tive divorce. Neal was the author of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, which was presented to the committee of fif- teen by Godlove S. Orth. In 1890 Neal was elected Judge of the Boone Circuit court and served one term.
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NOTT N. ANTRIM.
Nott N. Antrim was born in Cass county, Indiana, March 25, 1847. He worked on the farm and attended district schools until he was eighteen, when he enlisted in the Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. In 1866 he entered Union Christian College at Merom, Indi- ana, and, having qualified himself for teaching, taught for a time. He · later located at Peru, Indiana, and read law in the office of Shirk & Mitchell. He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and in 1874 opened a law office. In the same year he was elected prosecuting attorney for the Twenty-seventh judicial circuit, composed of Miami and Wabash counties, and served two terms. He was elected representative from Miami on the Republican ticket in 1SS8.
CYRUS F. McNUTT.
Cyrus F. McNutt was born on a farm in Johnson county, Indiana, July 29, 1837. He is a son of John and Mahala (Hensley) McNutt, pioneer Hoosiers. He took full advantage of the short district schools of the time and at the age of nineteen entered Franklin College, but the death of his father compelled him to drop out. In 1859 he studied in the law department of Northwestern College and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He practiced till 1862 at Franklin and then moved to Martinsville. In 1874 he became a professor of law in Indiana Univer- sity where he served till 1877. He then located in Terre Haute where he practiced till 1896 when he moved to California, continuing active practice till his death May 31, 1912. From 1879 to 1887 he was county attorney of Vigo county; from 1890 to 1894 he was Superior Judge of Vigo county. In 1872 he made the race for Congress in the Indian-
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apolis district on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 1858 he married Elizabeth S. Finley, of Red Oak, Ohio. They had two sons, John Gilbert and Finley A., both lawyers. The wife died in 1861. In June, 1863, he married Eliza Gordon Craig. They had three children, two of whom died young.
EDWARD T. HEINEMAN.
Edward T. Heineman, of Valparaiso, an attorney-at-law in that city since 1913, is a native of the state of Illinois, born in Chicago on August 16, 1SSS, son and only child of Theodore A. and Abbie (McDonald) Heine- man, the, former being a manufacturer.
Upon completing the course in Chicago public schools he entered Northwestern University and was graduated from that institution in 1910. Mr. Heineman opened an office for the practice of his profession in Val- paraiso and has ever since been located there, with offices at 54 Washing- ton street. Mr Heineman is vice-president of the Porter County Bar As- sociation. He is interested in the Indiana National Guard and is com- missioned as captain in the Third Infantry. He is a Republican and a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, which he serves in the capacity of warden. Mr. Heineman is affiliated with the Phi Kappa Sigma fra- ternity.
SAMUEL H. DOYAL.
Samuel H. Doyal was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, May 19, 1838. His parents moved to Boone county, Indiana, when he was only six months old. At twenty he entered Northwestern Christian University (now But- ler College) at Indianapolis, and attended for three years. He taught for two years and began the study of law with Cason & Harrison at Lebanon. A year later he entered the University of Michigan and graduated. In 1865 he located at Frankfort and opened an office. In 1867 he was ap- pointed prosecuting attorney of the Common Pleas court for the Twenty- fourth district and was elected in the fall. He then practiced in partner- ship with Perry W. Gard until 1890, when he was elected Judge of the Forty-fifth judicial circuit, serving one term.
EDGAR HAYMOND.
Edgar Haymond, of Warsaw, was born at Brockville, Indiana, Febru- ary 22, 1829. He is one of five children born to Rufus and Caroline (Northrup) Haymond. The father was a physician, born in Virginia. Edgar Haymond was educated in the common schools and read law with George Holland, of Brookville. He was admitted to the bar and began practice at Brookville, Indiana, August, 1849. After ten years he located at Warsaw, where he has since practiced. He has served his town as trustee and his city as attorney. He served as Circuit judge of the Fifty-fourth circuit from November 17, 1890, to November 17, 1896. He is a director and vice-president of the State Bank of Warsaw. He is a member of the
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County Bar Association, of the Loyal Legion, of the Presbyterian church, and is a Republican. He married Miss. Emma H. Wing, danghter of Hal- lett Wing, of Brookville. They have three children, Lulu H., Mabel, wife of George M. Stephenson, and Norman E.
WILLIAM T. HAYMOND.
William T. Haymond, of Muncie, was born at Cowan, Delaware county, Indiana, August 1, 1880. He is a son of Henry Clay and Mar- garet A. Haymond. He was educated in the Muncie high school and Indiana University, graduating from the arts department in 1903 and from the Indiana Law School in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in Muncie in 1905, and the following year joined the partnership of Bingham, White & Haymond. This lasted till Mr. Bingham became at- torney-general, when it became as now, White & Haymond. Mr. Hay- mond is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason. In polities he is a Republican. On March 31, 1909, he married Helen Louise Glass. They have one child, Jane.
WILLIAM F. WHITE.
William E. White, of Muncie, was born in Saginaw county, Michigan, February 6, 1871. He is a son of Andrew and Margaret (Prevaird) White. He was educated at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, graduating in 1896. He taught school in Muncie from 1896 until 1900, reading law in the meantime. He was admitted to the bar in 1900, and practiced alone until 1904, when he joined Edward M. White. In 1906 the firm became Bingham, White & Haymond. After Mr. Bingham became attorney general, the firm became White & Haymond. Mr. White is a Republican in politics, and is a past exalted ruler in the Elks lodge. He was county attorney from 1905 to 1911, and a member of the city council six years.
On October 11, 1894, Mr. White married Ida Mae Wirt, of Elkhart county, Indiana, and they are the parents of six children : Helen M., Lillian A., Walter D., Florence M., Charles Wirt and Robert W.
EVAN B. STOTSENBURG.
Evan B. Stotsenburg was born in New Albany. Indiana, May 16. 1865. He is one of five children born to John H. and Jane F. (Miller) Stotsenburg. The father was a prominent attorney of New Albany from 1852 until his death. June 7. 1909. Evan B. Stotsenburg received his ele- mentary education in the grade and high schools of New Albany. He then entered the University of Louisville and later attended Kenyon College, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar. May 17, 1SS6, and began practice with his father from 1886 until 1890, when the latter retired. Mr. Stotsenburg has since practiced alone. He represented his county in the Fifty-ninth General Assembly, and was a senator from 1905 to 1913. In 1911 he was chosen president, pro tem, of the Senate. In
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1915 he was appointed attorney-general to fill out the unexpired term of R. M. Milburn, deceased. He is a member of the Floyd County and Indiana State Bar Associations, a Mason, an Elk, Knight of Pythias and a Democrat. He married Zenobia Borden, in 1892, and they have two children, Mary B. and Jane M. They are members of the Episcopal church. Their home is in New Albany, Indiana.
CHARLES MONROE FORTUNE.
Charles M. Fortune, ex-Judge of the Vigo Circuit court, was born on a farm in Prairie Creek township, Vigo county, Indiana, November 2, 1870, and is a son of Henry Cole and Frances (Howell) Fortune. His early life was spent on the farm and in attendance as the district schools. He later attended the high school at Darwin, Illinois. At the age of nineteen he began work in a shop at Terre Haute, then worked at the watch- maker's trade, studying law meanwhile. In 1898 he entered the law office of Cox & Davis in Terre Haute, and was soon admitted to the bar. He opened an office of his own and practiced till 190S. In 1905 he was elected city judge. In 1908 he resigned to take up the duties of Circuit Judge, to which office he had been elected. Since 1914 he has been practicing alone. Judge Fortune was the man who exposed the political corruption in Terre Haute in January, 1914, that finally terminated in the sending by Judge Fortune of one man to the penitentiary and, by the government, of over one hundred to the federal prison. They were prosecuted under the new federal statute which was passed by Congress on account of the exposure through Judge Fortune's activities.
LEW WALLACE.
Lew Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, on April 20, 1827, the son of David Wallace, lieutenant-governor of Indiana from 1831 to 1837, and governor of the state from 1837 to 1840. In 1832 his parents moved to Covington. In 1837 they moved to Indianapolis, and from there to Craw- fordsville, Indiana. Lew Wallace early showed the instincts of an artist, but his education, under the direction of Samuel J. Hoshour, of Center- ville, was intended to fit him for the bar. He later attended Wabash Col- lege, but did not graduate.
At the age of sixteen he became a clerk in the office of the county clerk at Indianapolis. In 1844-50 he reported the House proceedings for the Indianapolis Journal. He then began to read law in his father's office, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Covington. In the meantime he had served as a lieutenant in the First Indiana Regiment in the Mexican War.
In 1850 he was elected prosecutor and re-elected two years later, mov- ing in 1852 to Crawfordsville, where he made his home during the remain- der of his life. He served in the state Senate in 1857 and 1859.
He was addressing a jury at Frankfort on April 13, 1861, when a tele- gram from Governor Morton called him to his country's service. After a
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brief service as adjutant-general he left for the front as colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry. On September 3, 1861, he became a brigadier- general, commanding a division at Ft. Donelson. On March 21, 1862, he became a major-general, serving throughout the war. He was a member of the court that tried the conspirators in connection with the assassina- tion of President Lincoln, and presided over the court-martial which tried Henry Wirz.
From 1878 to 1SS1 General Wallace was territorial governor of New Mexico; from 1SS1 to 1SS5 he was minister to Turkey. From the latter date until his death, on February 15, 1905, he was engaged in literary work at his home in Crawfordsville. His books are: "The Fair God," 1873: "Ben-Hur." 1SS0; "Life of Benjamin Harrison," 1SS8; "Boyhood of Christ," 1SS9; "Prince of India," 1893; "The Wooing of Malkatoon." and last his autobiography.
In 1852 Lew Wallace married Susan Elston Arnold, of Crawfordsville, who died on October 1, 1907. They were the parents of one son, Henry Land Wallace, now an attorney of Indianapolis.
WALTER GRAY.
Walter Gray, of Muncie, was born on July 15, 1851, on a farm in Randolph county, Indiana. He is a son of Matthew and Margaret (Sanders) Gray, the former a native of Wayne county, Indiana, the latter of Rockcastle county, Kentucky. The father was a leader In the "New Light" church. Walter Gray was educated in the district schools. He bought the farm on which he was reared and has been a farmer and lawyer, residing on the farm till 1897. He was admitted to the bar in 1SS6. Since 1897 he has devoted the whole of his time to the law, in which he has built up a good practice. He has never sought nor held an elective office. He is a Democrat. On December 30, 1874, he married Mary O. Van Buskirk. They have three children : George W., Samuel H. and Wilbert L .. all farmers of Delaware county.
C. LEE WALTERS.
C. Lee Walters was born in Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, Janu- ary 10, 1869. He is one of the two children of William M. and Martha A. (Drummond) Walters. The father was a teacher in Adams county. Indiana. and Clay county, Nebraska, where he later lived. C. Lee Walters was educated in the common and high schools of Decatur, and the Tri-State Normal at Angola, Indiana, afterward becoming a student in the Valparaiso Normal, and finally in Blackburn College at Carlin- ville, Illinois. After graduating he taught school eight years, the last five years of the period being assistant principal of the schools at Decatur. He spent his spare time reading law, and after a brief ex- perience in mercantile business and real estate, he was admitted to the bar and opened an office at Decatur in 1906. Since that time he has been busy at the practice. He is at present associated with L. A.
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Graham. He has served as Republican county chairman and internal revenue collector for the Northeastern District of Indiana. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, a Shriner, a Knight of Pythias, and a mem- ber of the Eastern Star. He married Grace E. McConnehey in 1896, and they are the parents of three children, Robert K., Helen and Dorothy. The family are members of the Methodist church.
LOU W. VAIL.
Lou W. Vail, of Goshen, was born at Benton, Elkhart county, Indiana, January 20, 1851. He is one of four children born to Jesse D. and Elma (Cope) Vail The father is a native of Pennsylvania, moving to Indiana in 1876, where he still resides. Lou W. Vail attended the old log school house of Elkhart county and Raisin Valley Seminary of Michigan, finishing his education in Earlham College. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and began practice the same year at Goshen. He served there as county attorney from 1898 to 1904. He also served five years as deputy prose- cuting attorney. In 1892 Mr. Vail was elected to the state Senate and served through the sessions of 1893 and 1895. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, a Republican, and a Quaker. He married Miss Relia Whittan, daughter of Judge Isaac Whittan, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They have one child, Jesse D., a merchant of Salt Lake City, Utah.
WALTER BRUBAKER.
Walter Brubaker was born in Wakarusa, Indiana, April 17, 1878. He is a son of John H. and Harriet (Bly) Brubaker. The father has been a lawyer at Warsaw for many years. Walter Brubaker was educated in the public schools, obtaining his legal education at Indiana Law School from which he graduated in 1901. In 1901 he was admitted to the bar and joined his father in the practice. The firm name is J. H. Brubaker & Son. Since 1912 he has been city attorney of Warsaw. He is a member of the County Bar Association and a Republican. He married Miss Mayme Barron, daughter of Francis Barron. They have two children, Dorothy and Margaret.
JOHN C. MORAN.
John C. Moran, of Decatur, was born on a farm in Adams county, Indiana, January 22, 1870. He is one of the nine children born to Thomas and Anna (Fahey) Moran, both of whom emigrated from Ire- land in 1865. The parents settled in Adams county in 1870. John C. Moran secured an elementary education in the common schools, and then went to the Ohio Normal School at Ada, Ohio. He later attended a normal at Portland, Indiana, and still later, 1895, graduated from Valparaiso University. He read law with R. H. Hartford, of Portland, and was admitted to the bar in 1897. He first located in Berne, Indiana, where he practiced until 1900, when he was elected prosecutor. He served in the office six years. In 1912 he formed a partnership with
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