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district. This partnership continued until October, 1909, when Mr. Davies engaged in practice with Frank B. Shutts, one time candidate for lieuten- ant-governor of Indiana, and that partnership continued until the removal of Mr. Shutts to Miami, Florida, in January, 1911, since which time Mr. Davies has been practicing alone. He is a member of the Dearborn County Bar Association and of the Indiana State Bar Association; is vice-presi- dent of the Aurora Commercial Club, a member of the Dearborn Ciub of Aurora and a member of the Baptist church. He is a Republican and takes an active interest in local political affairs.
PETER M. BUCHANAN.
Peter M. Buchanan, attorney-at-law and abstractor, with offices in the Bank of Indiana building at Rochester, is a native of Ohio, born on a farm in that state on February 3, 1856, son of James H. and Ann Masiah (Macklin) Buchanan. Upon completing the course in the public schools he attended the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and was graduated from that institution in 1877. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and in 1883 began the practice of his profession at Rochester, where he has been thus engaged ever since. Mr. Buchanan for some time served as deputy prosecuting attorney and also was for some years a justice of the peace. He has a complete set of abstracts of title for Fulton county and makes a specialty of that line. Mr. Buchanan is a Democrat, a mem- ber of the County Bar Association and is affiliated with the Rochester lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He married Margaret J. Richeson, daughter of Peter G. Richeson, and they are the parents of three boys, Blythe G., Harry J. and George. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
LUNSFORD LESLIE BROADDUS.
Lunsford Leslie Broaddus, of the firm of Florea & Broaddus, attor- neys-at-law, Connersville, is a native of Indiana, born in Washington township, Wayne county, January 27, 1856, son of Warner H. and Amanda E. (Scott) Broaddus. Following a course at Spiceland Academy he at- tended Indiana University and studied law in the office of the Hon. B. F. Claypool, being admitted to the bar in 1881, immediately thereafter enter- ing upon the practice of his profession at Connersville. In 1889 he formed a partnership with George C. Florea, under the firm name of Florea & Broaddus, which still continues. Mr. Broaddus is a Republican and served as trustee of Connersville township from 1882 to 1886, and was city attorney of Connersville from 1890 to 1913. Since 1908 he has been presi- dent of the Connersville public library board. He is a member of the Connersville Commercial Club and of the Knights of Pythias and is affiliated with the Greek-letter fraternity, Sigma Chi. In 1882, L. L. Broad- dus was united in marriage to Sarah C. Powell, of Harrisburg, Fayette county, Indiana, and to this union has been born one child, a daughter, Merle.
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JOHN E. OSBORN.
John E. Osborn, senior member of the law firm of Osborn & Hamilton, Greensburg, is a native of this state, born on a farm in Decatur county, August 25, 1872, son of Albert I. and Florence (Harding) Osborn, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Butler county, Ohio. He completed his schooling in the high school at Newpoint and in Decem- ber, 1891, when nineteen years old, was appointed deputy county auditor of Decatur county, under his brother-in-law, John J. Puttmann, and was thus engaged until March, 1896. In the meantime he had been privately studying law and in May, 1897, was admitted to the bar, engaging in practice in partnership with Elmer E. Roland, then prosecuting attorney for the Ninth judicial circuit. On November 1, 1897, he formed a partner- ship with Hugh Wickens, which continued until the latter's election to the circuit bench in 1910. He then formed a partnership with Lewis A. Hard- ing, under the firm name of Osborn & Harding. On January 1, 1912, Frank Hamilton entered the firm and in November of that year Mr. Hard- ing retired, following his election to the office of prosecuting attorney since which time the firm has been Osborn & Hamilton. Mr. Osborn is a mem- ber of the Decatur County Bar Association and of the Indiana State Bar Association. He is a Democrat and was the member of the Democratic state central committee from the sixth district in 1908-12. He has exten- sive business interests chiefly in the cooperage line in Arkansas, and with Jolın T. Meek, of Greensburg, owns and operates "Sycamore Plantation," a tract of four thousand four hundred acres of land in Concordia parish, Louisiana. Mr. Osborn is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On July 17, 1900, he married Grace Gullefer, daughter of Dr. Thomas B. Gullefer, of Greensburg, and to that union has been born one child, a son, Mendell G.
ELIJAH C. MARTINDALE.
Elijah C. Martindale, senior member of the law firm of Martindale & Martindale, at Plymouth, and former prosecuting attorney for the Forty-first Indiana Judicial district, is a native of Indiana, born in Cass county, February 2, 1850, son of the Rev. Isaac and Elizabeth (Cornwall) Martindale, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina, and the latter of Virginia, to whom were born nine children, five of whom sur- vive their parents. Upon completing the course in the public schools Elijah C. Martindale began to read law under the instructions of Enoch Sturgeon, of Rochester, Indiana, and later in the office of Essick & Hol- man at Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1882 he began practicing at Plymouth and in that same year was elected prose- cuting attorney, a position he filled for four years. During his long practice at Plymouth Mr. Martindale has been associated as a partner with J. D. McClaran and with Smith N. Stevens, the latter of whom is now Judge of the Circuit court, and in 1915 formed the present partner- ship with his son, Frank E. Martindale, who was admitted to the bar in
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1913, following his graduation from the law department of the University of Indiana. Mr. Martindale is a member of the County Bar Association and of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He married Helena Weber, daugh- ter of Albert Weber, a native of Germany.
ENOCH G. HOGATE.
Enoch G. Hogate, of Bloomington, was born on September 16, 1849, at Centerton, New Jersey. He is the son of Jonathan and Sarah (Han- thorn) Hogate, both natives of New Jersey, the father a shoe manufacturer. Enoch G. Hogate was educated in the common schools of New Jersey, the old Danville Academy, Danville, Indiana, and Allegheny College, Mead- ville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from college in 1872, and was ad- mitted to the bar and began practicing law in Danville the same year. He practiced uninterruptedly until 1903, a large part of the time in part- nership with J. L. Clark. He represented his county in the state Senate in the Assemblies of 1897 and 1899. For one year previous to 1903 he taught law in the law school of the Central Normal at Danville. In 1903 he entered the law faculty of Indiana University, becoming dean of the law school in 1906 on the death of George L. Rinehart. He is a past grand master of the Odd Fellows, a Methodist and a Republican. His first wife was Mary J. Matlock, who died in 1880. They had three children, Jessie, Charles and Mary. His second wife was Anna C. Huston.
GEORGE FORD
George Ford was born in South Bend on January 11, 1846. He is one of six children born to Isaac and Emeline (Perkins) Ford. He was edu- cated in the public schools of South Bend and in the University of Michi- gan, graduating from the latter's law school in 1869. He began practice at once in South Bend and has since practiced there, part of the time in partnership with Col. Norman Eddy and part of the time with Joseph Henderson. From 1875 to 1SS4 he served as prosecutor. At the 'latter date he was elected to Congress from the Thirteenth district. In 1914 he was elected Superior Judge of the Sixtieth judicial district. He is a member of the St. Joseph County and Indiana State Bar Associations; he is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. On November 25, 1885, he married Josephine Oliver, daughter of James Oliver, the manufacturer.
ADAM E. WISE.
Adam E. Wise, attorney-at-law, of Plymouth, and a former member of the Indiana Legislature from Marshall county, is a native of Indiana, born in Marshall county, December 19, 1868, son of Samuel and Catherine (Kepler) Wise, who were the parents of ten children, and the former of whom, a well-to-do farmer, was a native of the state of Pennsylvania. Upon completing the course in the public schools, Adam E. Wise entered Valparaiso University, taking the scientific course, and presently was graduated from that institution. He taught school several terms in
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Marshall county and later entered the law department of Valparaiso University, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1891, ever since which time he has been engaged in active practice at Plymouth. In 1896 Mr. Wise was elected to represent his home district in the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly and was re-elected in the ensuing election, serving during the sessions of 1897 and 1899. He later was re-elected and served during the sessions of 1909 and 1911. Mr. Wise is a Democrat, a member of the Marshall County and Indiana State Bar Associations, a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He married Margarite C. Ewald, daughter of Valentine Ewald, and to this union five children have been born. Mr. Wise and his family are members of the Church of God.
ARTHUR L. HUBBARD.
Arthur L. Hubbard was born at South Bend, Indiana, November 19, 1872. He is a son of Lucius Hubbard, Judge of the Circuit court, 1894- 1900, and state senator, 1870-1874. He was educated in the schools of South Bend and Michigan University, graduating from the latter in 1894. His legal training was secured in Harvard Law School, graduating from that institution in 1898. He was admitted to the bar at South Bend in 1896, and has since practiced there. On January 1, 1916, he entered the present firm of Hubbard & Pettengill. He has been on the school board since 1913. He is a Methodist and a Republican. He married Mary Orth Ford, of Lafayette. They have three children.
DAVID W. McKEE.
David W. McKee, veteran attorney at Connersville, is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Rush county, December 14, 1845, son of David and Martha L. (Woods) McKee, both natives of Kentucky, of Scotch- Irish descent. He was largely home taught in his boyhood and in 1866 began teaching school, being thus engaged until 1873, teaching in Rush, Fayette and Franklin counties. In the meantime he was pursuing his legal studies and in 1872 was graduated from Indiana University, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the spring of 1915, forty-three years later, he was called on to address the law school of that institution. Admitted to practice in 1872 Mr. McKee formed a partnership with John F. McKee, at Brookville, and for thirteen years was engaged in practice in the courts at Brookville and Rushville, during which time he was connected, on one side or another, with many of the most noted cases tried in the courts of Franklin and Rush counties, including the Goodwin murder case (Goodwin vs. State, 96 Ind. 550). In December, 1886, he moved to Connersville and formed a partnership with Joseph I. Little, under the firm name of Little & McKee, which in 1893 became McKee, Little & Frost; on June 1, 1909, became McKee, Frost & Elliott, and on January 1, 1916, became McKee, Wiles & Elliott. Mr. McKee is a member of the Indiana 'State Bar Association and of the Connersville
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Commercial Club. He is a Presbyterian and for twenty years has been president of the Fayette county branch of the American Bible Society. He is a Democrat and during his residence in Brookville served for a time as president of the town board.
In 1873, in Kentucky, David W. McKee was united in marriage to Eleanor McKee, to which union five children were born, four of whom are still living, Misses Grace and Louise McKee, at home; Mrs. J. W. O'Byrne, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Mrs. E. C. Green, at Newcastle, Indiana, the only son having died in infancy. Mrs. Eleanor McKee died on February 22, 1914, and on December 23, 1915, Mr. McKee was married to Mrs. Ada (McKee) Harrison, the youngest sister of the former Mrs. McKee, at Lexington, Kentucky.
CHARLES W. JENSEN.
Charles W. Jensen, prosecuting attorney for Porter county and a prac- ticing lawyer at Chesterton since 1904, is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Laporte county, September 7, 1SS1, son of Charles and Lydia (Baer) Jensen, who were the parents of six children. Upon completing the public-school course, Charles W. Jensen entered the Indianapolis Law School, from which he was graduated in June, 1904. In the fall of that year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession at Chesterton, where he has been located ever since. In 1908 Mr. Jensen was elected city attorney for Chesterton and is still serving in that capacity. In the fall of 1914 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Porter county and in 1916 was renominated by the Republicans of that county to succeed himself. . Mr. Jensen has been admitted to practice before the Federal courts and the Supreme court of Indiana ; is a member of the Porter County Bar Association; fraternally, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Knights of Pythias, while he and his family are members of the German Lutheran church. Mr. Jensen married Matilda C. Reberg, a daughter of Fred Reberg, and to this union five children have been born.
GEORGE J. RICHMAN.
George J. Richman, of Greenfield, was born on a farm in Sugar Creek township, Hancock county, Indiana, March 1, 1875. He is a son of Charles F. and Georgine (Kunz) Richman. He was educated in the public schools of Hancock county, the Central Normal' College, the In- diana State Normal and the Indiana Law School, graduating from the State Normal in 1899 and from the Indiana Law School in 190S. In the meantime he taught five years in the grades and three years as principal of a high school. From 1903 to 1907 he was county superintendent of schools. In 1907 he was admitted to the bar. and practiced with Samuel T. Offutt from 1908 to 1911. Since 1911 he has been county superintendent of schools, his present term expiring in 1917, transacting considerable legal business in the meantime. He is a Mason, a Knight
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of Pythias and a Modern Woodman. On June 27, 1900, he married Alice Meek, of Philadelphia. They have three children Georgia, Gilbert and Lucile. He will devote all of his time to the practice of law after the expi- ration of his present term of office.
RALPH S. GREGORY.
Ralph S. Gregory, of Muncie, was born on a farm in Delaware county, Indiana, February 2S, 1841. He is a son of Samuel and Mary (Braddock) Gregory, natives of Pennsylvania and among the early settlers of Niles township, Delaware county. Ralph S. Gregory was educated in the com- mon schools and then entered Wabash. In 1862 he enlisted and served for two years in the Eighty-fourth Infantry. His college education was completed in DePauw, from which he graduated in 1867. He taught for a short time but in 1868, was admitted to the bar at Muncie, where he has since practiced. He was county superintendent of schools for one term, and is now city judge of Muncie. Judge Gregory is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity; he is a Knight Templar, a Knight of Pythias and a Red Man. In 1880 he married Anna C. Madden, of Piqua, Ohio. They have two children, Walter Leon, graduate of Chicago University, and Mrs. Florence Thompson.
FRANCIS MARION GRIFFITH.
Francis Marion Griffith, of Vevay, was born in Craig township, Switz- erland county, August 21, 1849. He is a son of Joshua and Caroline M. (Vernon) Griffith, both natives of Indiana, the father a Baptist minister. He was educated in the schools of Switzerland county, Moorefield Acad- emy, Vevay high school, and Franklin College. He read law with Scott Carter, at Vevay, was admitted to the bar in 1877, and practiced there thirty-eight years, till in 1914 he was elected Circuit Judge. He served in the State senate from 1887 to 1895; in Congress from March, 1897, to March, 1905, from the Fourth district. He is at present district chairman of the Democratic party. On December 24, 1874, he was married to Jose- phine Shadday. They have five children, Marion H., Grace H., Edna J., Ernest F. and William J., Jr.
BENJAMIN CRANE.
Benjamin Crane, of Crawfordsville, was born in Bainbridge, Putnam county, Indiana, August 7, 1850. His parents were Abiathar and Caroline Crane, both natives of Berkeley, Massachusetts. Benjamin Crane finished his education in Wabash College, Crawfordsville, graduating in 1873 at the age of twenty-three. He taught school one winter and then entered the law office of Gen. Lew Wallace. In the fall of 1875 he was admitted to the bar. When General Wallace was appointed governor of New Mexico, the firm of Hurley & Crane, consisting of himself and General Wallace's former partner, George D. Hurley, was formed. Albert B. Anderson studied law in the office of Hurley & Crane and when it was dissolved the firm
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of Crane & Anderson followed, which lasted until A. B. Anderson was appointed United States District Judge for Indiana. He and Charles M. McCabe, of Covington, then formed a partnership in the law. He married Mary Campbell, daughter of Prof. John L. Campbell, of Wabash College, of Crawfordsville, October, 1896. They have two daughters, Anna Caro- line and Marian E.
GALLITZEN A. FARABAUGH.
Gallitzen A. Farabaugh, of South Bend, was born on June 26, 1883, at Loretto, Pennsylvania. He is one of eight children born to Matthias and Elizabeth (Noel) Farabaugh. The father was a farmer. The son was educated in the common and high schools of Pennsylvania and the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1904. In 1907 he was admitted to the bar and has since practiced. In 1910 he was elected City Judge and served till 1914. He is a member of the St. Joseph County and Indiana State Bar Associations, an Elk, an Eagle, a Ben-Hur, and a Democrat. He married Nano Golley. They have two children, Mar- guerite and John. Their home is at 1022 North Michigan street, South Bend.
SAMUEL M. HENCH.
Samuel M. Hench, of Fort Wayne, was born near Port Royal, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1846, the eldest of the eight children of William and Jane (McLaughlin) Hench. His father was extensively known in that region as an architect and contractor. Samuel M. Hench received his preparatory education in the public schools and then attended Airy View Academy near his home. The Civil War interrupted the young man's pursuit of learning, for at the age of sixteen years he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was badly wounded in the sanguinary battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862. With his regiment he was discharged from the service in June, 1863, and on the 7th of August fol- lowing came to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to reside. During the remainder of that year he was at such employment as his battle injuries permitted him to undertake, working for a short time in the shops of the Pennsylvania railroad. He attempted repeatedly during the winter of 1863-4 to re-enlist, but was each time rejected because of the wounds he had sustained. While on a visit to Peoria, Illinois, in May, 1864, he sought to enlist and on the last day of that month he accomplished an enlistment in Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred-days' service, passed the medical examination and was mus- tered in. This regiment almost immediately was ordered to the front in Kentucky and Missouri, and took part in the operations that resulted in expelling Gen. Sterling Price and his army from the state of Missouri, Discharged with his regiment, October 31, 1864, Mr. Hench returned to
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Fort Wayne, purposing to enter college there, but the stresses of the Union cause challenged his patriotism anew and once more he sought to enlist. On December 12, 1864, he again enlisted and was mustered in as a member of Company F, Eighty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infan- try. He soon joined his regiment, which was a part of the Fifteenth Army Corps, near Savannah, Georgia, and remained with the regiment, partici- pating in the celebrated march through the Carolinas to Washington.
Mr. Hench was mustered out of service with the regiment at Louis- ville, Kentucky, in the latter part of July, 1865, a nineteen-year-old veteran of three enlistments. He returned to Fort Wayne, and during the win- ters of 1865-66, attended school in that city and later he taught school in the country. He went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May, 1867, and in the following December entered the law office of Clinton Sapp. He was ad- mitted to the bar in Council Bluffs, December 15, 1869, and practiced law in that city until December, 1871, when he returned to Fort Wayne, where he has continuously resided ever since. He was appointed by Governor Hendricks, in 1874, to be prosecuting attorney of the Criminal court of Allen county, an office he held for almost seven years, covering a period marked by salutary rigor against law-breaking and signalized by the suc- cessful prosecution of many cases of more than local celebrity. He was elected in 1882 to the bench of the Criminal court of Allen county, serving one term, and then was elected judge of the Allen Superior court, serving one term. During the first Cleveland administration he was appointed, in August, 1888, to be chief of the law division of the second comptroller's office in the national treasury department, served one year and returned to Fort Wayne, where he resumed his law practice. Judge Hench was twice elected to the Indiana Legislature, serving in the house as a repre- sentative from Allen county in the sessions of 1891 and 1893. It was through legislation for which Judge Hench was sponsor in 1891 that the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors monument at Indianapolis was completed. A peculiar fitness of things was recognized in May, 1910, by Governor Marshall, who appointed Judge Hench to membership on the board of control of the Soldiers and Sailors monument to succeed Gen. George Mc- Ginnis, whose death had caused the vacancy, and that place is held by Judge Hench at this time. Judge Hench is a distinguished member of the Allen county bar, is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Grand Army of the Republic, is a Democrat and a bachelor.
ARTHUR W. BRADY.
Arthur W. Brady, of Anderson, was born at Muncie, Indiana, in 1865. His parents were Thomas J. Brady and Emeline Wolfe Brady. His non- professional education was received in the public schools at Muncie, Upson Seminary, a private school at New Preston, Connecticut, and Yale College. After graduation from Yale in the academic class of 1887, he read law in the office of Bell & Morris at Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a year, and then entered the senior year of the law school of the University of Michigan,
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and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1889. Upon graduation he began the practice of law at Muncie, where he remained in active practice until 1902. During that time he served as mayor of the city from 1891 to 1894, having been elected on the Demo- cratic ticket. In 1902 he removed to Indianapolis, where he engaged in general practice for two years. During that time he became actively con- nected in legal and other capacities with the development of the Union Traction system of electric railroads. In 1904 he was elected president of the Indiana Union Traction Company, as well as general counsel, and has since held those positions with that company and its successor, Union Traction Company of Indiana. He has resided at Anderson since 1904.
WALTER L. BALL.
Walter L. Ball, former state senator from Delaware county and since 1895 a practicing attorney at Muncie, member of the law firm of Leffler, Ball & Needham, is a native of Indiana, born in Blackford county on January 16, 1869, son of George M. and Susanna (Hale) Ball. When he was but a babe in arms, in 1870, his parents moved to Delaware county and there he has lived ever since. Upon completing the course in the public schools he entered Valparaiso University, from which he was graduated in 1888. In 1895 Mr. Ball formed a partnership for the practice of law with Judge Joseph G. Leffler at Muncie and has ever since been thus en- gaged, the present firm being Leffler, Ball & Needham. Mr. Ball is a Republican and was elected to the Indiana state senate from Delaware county in 1896 and was re-elected in 1900, serving two terms in the upper house of the General Assembly. In 1916 he was a candidate in the Re- publican primaries for the nomination for Congress from the Eighth Indiana district. Mr. Ball is a member of the Columbia Club at Indian- apolis and is a member of the Muncie Commercial Club. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and with the Improved Order of Red Men. On November 7, 1894, Mr. Ball was married to Seretha F. Taylor and to this union has been born one child, a daughter, Ruth Lucile, now a student at the University of Wisconsin.
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