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WILLIAM F. McNAGNY.
William F. McNagny, of Columbia City, former congressman from the Twelfth Indiana district, and one of the best known lawyers of the state. was born on April 19, 1850. He is one of two children born to Alexander and Julia (McClelland) McNagny. In 1834 the family came to Whitley county, Indiana, where William F. McNagny was born and grew up on a farm. He attended the public schools, taught a term or two, worked on a farm, served four years as station agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. and during the last named period was reading law with Attor- ney McKinett. He was admitted to the bar at Columbia City in 1873, where he has practiced continuously since. From 1874 to 1908 he was associated with P. H. Clugston and Thomas R. Marshall, but when the latter was elected vice-president of the United States the firm was dis-
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located, with present offices at 1514 Merchants Bank building; residence, University Club. Some years ago Mr. Williams was appointed first solicitor and then assistant counsel of the Vandalia Railroad Company, and on February 1, 1916, was appointed general solicitor of that company. On December 1, 1914, he formed a partnership with Charles J. Orbison, under the firm name of Williams & Orbison, which firm was dissolved on December 15, 1915. Mr. Williams is a Democrat, and on June 6, 1915, was appointed by Governor Ralston as a member of the board of trustees of the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane. Mr. Williams is affiliated with the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, is a Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club, the University Club and the County Club at Indianapolis.
ARGUS D. VANOSDOL.
Argus D. Vanosdol, of Madison, was born in Shelby township, Jeffer- son county, Indiana, September 18, 1839. When he was nine years old his parents moved to Vevay, where he had the advantage of the school taught by Julia Dumont. After he completed the village schools he taught three years, and in 1859 entered the law office of Alexander C. Downey at Rising Sun. In 1861 he enlisted in the Third Indiana Cavalry, serving until he was wounded at Stone's river. He later enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Infantry, with which he served till the close of the war. After the war he entered Indiana University, graduat- ing from the law school in 1871. The same year he opened an office in Madison, practicing alone till 1881, and from then to 1903 with Hiram Francisco. He was alone till 1912, and from 1912 to the close of 1915 with Harry H. Cope. At the latter date he retired from practice. He was prosecutor of the Fifth circuit from 1893 to 1897; county attorney 1873 to 1891; department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1SS8; inspector-general in 1886, and is now their judge advocate. He is a Republican. On August 3, 1862, he married Mary Henry, of Switzer- land county. Mrs. Vanosdol died on October 2, 1914.
BARTLETT H. CAMPBELL.
Bartlett H. Campbell, of Elwood, a native of Madison county, Indiana, born on April 14, 1862. His parents were John A. and Miriam (Crow- bridge) Campbell, the former a native of England, the latter of Ohio. The father served three years in the Thirty-sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. Bartlett H. Campbell was educated in the common and high schools of Anderson, and taught in the district and city schools of Madison county for some years. Later he served as deputy postmaster of the city of Anderson, and then as deputy sheriff of Madison county, the meanwhile reading law with Schwinn & McMahon, of Anderson. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1892, and in the fall of that year was elected prosecuting attorney. He served four years as city attorney of Anderson, and was a member of the An-
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derson school board from 1SS6 to 1892. In 1907 he removed to Elwood, where he has since practiced his profession, and where he has served as city attorney. Mr. Campbell was married July 7, 1883, to Luella Wright, of Anderson, and they have five children living: Dale J., Mrs. Lena Kennedy, Mrs. Edith Carlson, Ralph B. and Marian. HIe is a Mason and an Elk and a member of the Christian church.
VIRGIL S. REITER.
Virgil S. Reiter, judge of the Lake Superior court, Hammond, is a native of Indiana and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in Fulton county, September 17, 1864, son of Jacob M. and Susan (Bair) Reiter, the former of whom died in 1907. He received his early schooling in Rochester, completing the same in June, 1881. He graduated from HHeidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, in 1886, and afterward began read- ing law in the office of M. L. Esseck, at Rochester. He was admitted to the har in 1889 and began practice at Rochester. In 1893 he moved to HaHmmond, where he ever since has been located, continuing his practice until his appointment as judge of the Superior court in August, 1907. At the succeeding regular election in 1908 he was elected to that same office and in 1914 was re-elected. serving now his second six- year term on the Superior bench. Judge Reiter is a Republican and for some time served as chairman of the Republican County Committee of Lake county. From 1902 to 1904 he served as city attorney of Hammond. Judge Reiter is a member of the Lake County Bar Association and of the Indiana State Bar Association and is affiliated with the Masons-a Knight Templar-and with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, while he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Judge Reiter married Josephine Kingsley, a daughter of Edward Kingsley, and to this union two children have been born.
ALBERT ASCHE.
Albert Asche, of Indianapolis, was born on July 28, 1881, in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and is the son of George and Mary Asche, the former a native of Germany, and the latter of Indianapolis, though of German de- scent. The father died when the subject of this sketch was but six years old and, the mother being left with four other children, the remaining years of his childhood were spent in the German Orphans' Home. IIe attended the Indianapolis public schools up to the seventh grade and then, when not quite fifteen years old, entered the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. On January 25, 1896, he entered the offices of Morris, New- berger & Curtis, the largest commercial law firm in Indiana. with whom he remained for more than nine years. He gave close attention to the law, studying at night, and graduated from the Indiana Law School on May 27, 1903. He began the practice of law on his own account on June 1. 1906. renting desk room in the office of Craig & Pettijohn. Two months later he was admitted to the firm, under the name of Craig, Pettijohn & Asche. Mr. Craig died three months later and Pettijohn and
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Asche continued the partnership eight months longer, when it was dis- solved, though they continued to occupy the same offices for eight years. He specializes in commercial, corporation and bankruptcy law. Mr. Asche is a Democrat in politics, but not active. He is a Mason, belonging to Mystic Tie Lodge, Keystone Chapter and Indianapolis Council, Indianapolis Consistory of Scottish Rite Masons and to the Mystic Shrine.
CHARLES FREDERICK REMY.
Charles Frederick Remy was born near Hope, Bartholomew county, Indiana, February 25 1860. He was the son of Calvin J. and Miranda (Essex) Remy. He grew up in Bartholomew county; graduated from Franklin College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884; and grad- uated from the University of Michigan with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1888. He then located at Columbus, Indiana, where he prac- ticed law for eight years in partnership with Judge Marshall Hacker. In 1894 he was elected and served one term as representative from Bar- tholomew county. In 1896 Remy was elected reporter for the Supreme court on the Republican ticket, and he was re-elected to this office in 1900, serving eight years in all. In 1905 he formed a partnership with James M. Berryhill and has practiced law in Indianapolis ever since.
On November 25, 1891, he married Deborah Henderson, of Columbus, Indiana, and they have one son, William Henderson. Mr. Remy is at pres- ent the grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Indiana. He is a member of the Columbia Club, Marion Club, Country Literary Club, Society member of the Columbia Club, Marion Club, Century Literary Club, Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Baptist church.
LOUIS NEWBERGER.
The late Louis Newberger, for years one of the leading lawyers at the Indianapolis bar, who died at his home in that city on March 11, 1916, was a native son of Indiana, born at what then was New Cumberland, now Matthews, Grant county, December 18, 1852. He was graduated at Northwestern Christian University, now Butler College, in 1872, and soon afterward began the practice of law at Indianapolis. A few years later he formed a partnership with Nathan Morris, and still later James B. Curtis became a member of the firm, which was known as Morris, New- berger & Curtis, the pioneer commercial law firm in Indianapolis. Mr. Morris lost his life in trying to save a young nephew from a fire in 1903. Mr. Curtis moved to New York several years ago, and the firm was reor- ganized and continued as Newberger, Simon & Davis. Mr. Newberger was a member of the American Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Marion County Bar Association and had served as president of the latter two. He was a Republican, member of the Co- lumbia Club, German House, University Club, Marion Club, Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Hebrew congregation and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. Mr. Newberger was a charitable and philanthropic man and was noted for his gifts to charity during his lifetime, while his will provided for bequests aggregating nearly five thousand dollars to various charitable and benevolent associations. In this respect he and Nathan
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Morris were alike, for both were leaders in many of the movements in behalf of the betterment of mankind and the relief of the needy. A drinking fountain stands at Indianapolis as a public memorial to the memory of Mr. Morris. On January 28, 1914, Mr. Newberger was united in marriage to Parthenia Nicholson, who was born in Henry county, this state, June 30, 1874, and who survives. The deceased also left a brother, Joseph Newberger, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Aaron Simon, of Wabash, this state.
HERMAN W. WORDEN.
Herman W. Worden, assistant prosecuting attorney for Laporte county and a practicing attorney at Laporte since 1901, was born in that city on January 15, 1874, one of a family of eight children, of whom six survive, born to his parents, Herman B. and Rachel (Stinchcomb) Worden, the former of whom was a carpenter and building contractor. Upon com- pleting the course in the high school, Herman W. Worden entered Val- paraiso University and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1901. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and began practice at Laporte, where he ever since has been located, with present offices in the National Bank building. Mr. Worden is a Demo- crat. He served two terms as city attorney of Laporte and on January 1, 1913, was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for Laporte county, under Prosecutor Pepple, which position he still occupies. Mr. Worden is a member of the Laporte County Bar Association and of the Indiana State Bar Association, and has been admitted to practice in the supreme and federal courts of Indiana. He is a Mason, an Elk and a Knight of Pythias and is a member of the Tribe of Ben-Hur and of the Knights of the Maccabees.
FRANK E. OSBORN.
Frank E. Osborn, senior member of the law firm of Osborn, Osborn & Osborn at Laporte, Indiana, is a native of this state, born on a farm in Porter county, December 17, 1857, son of Jason and Eliza (Gramer) Osborn who were the parents of nine children. Upon completing the course in the high school at Wanatah, Indiana, Frank E. Osborn attended the Indiana State Normal School and the law department of Valparaiso University, from which latter institution he was graduated. He then attended the law department of Michigan University for a year, and in 1882 was admitted to the bar. He began practice at Laporte and has been located there ever since. Mr. Osborn is a Republican, a member of the Laporte County Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and he and his 'family are members of the Baptist church. Frank E. Osborn married Elizabeth E. Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Laporte, and to this union four sons have been born, Gordon C., Frank L., Lee L. and Kenneth D. Two of these sons, Lee L. and Kenneth D., early began the study of law in the office of their father and are now associated with him in
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practice at Laporte under the firm name above noted. Lee L. Osborn was graduated from the law school of Michigan University in 1895 and was admitted to practice and to partnership with his father in that same year. He is now city attorney of Laporte. Kenneth D. Osborn, a grad- uate of Michigan University and of Columbia University, was admitted to the bar in 1914 and to partnership with his father and brother in that year.
RALPH N. SMITH.
Ralph N. Smith, president of the Laporte County Bar Association, junior member of the law firm of Sutherland & Smith, with offices in the Masonic Temple, Laporte, and former prosecuting attorney of Laporte county, is a native of Ohio, born on a farm in Huron county, June 9, 1873, son of Otis and Mary J. (Welch) Smith, who were the parents of six children. Upon completing the course in the high school at Green- wich, Ohio, he entered the Ohio Normal University and, following his graduation from the classical course in that institution, entered the law department of Valparaiso University, from which he was graduated in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in that same year and began the practice of his profession in Illinois, where he remained for five years, coming in 1901 to Laporte, where he has been located ever since. Mr. Smith is a Democrat and has served for three terms as prosecuting attor- ney for Laporte county. In 1905 he formed a partnership with Martin R. Sutherland at Laporte and that association continues. He is a member of the Laporte County Bar Association, which he is now serving as president, and is also a member of the Indiana State Bar Association. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masons, Knights of Pythias and with the Knights of the Maccabees, while he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Smith married Olive McBride, daugh- ter of W. W. McBride, of Goshen, Indiana, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Russell W., born in 1898.
EDGERTON W. AGAR.
Edgerton W. Agar, a practicing attorney at Valparaiso since the year 1897, and for some years a member of the faculty of Valparaiso Uni- versity, is a native of the Dominion of Canada, born on a farm in Gray county, Ontario, January 15, 1864, son of James and Anna (Burchill) Agar, who were the parents of four children and the former of whom died in 1900 in the state of Michigan, to which state he had moved with his family in 1873. Edgerton W. Agar was about nine years old when his parents moved to Michigan. Upon completing the course in the public schools he entered Valparaiso University and was graduated from the scientific and law departments of that institution in 1897, receiving the degrees of B. S. and LL. B. He was admitted to the bar in that same year and began the practice of his profession at Valparaiso, where he has been located ever since. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Agar also is engaged as an instructor in mathematics and English in Val- paraiso University, having been a member of the faculty of that institu-
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tion since the year 1895. He also served for some time as city attorney of Valparaiso. He is a Republican, a member of the Porter County Bar Association and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, while he and his wife are members of the Christian church. Mr. Agar married Jennie Bowden, also a member of the faculty of Valparaiso University, an instructor in expression and elocution, and to this union one child has been born, Edna.
CHARLES S. LUNDIN.
Charles S. Lundin, attorney-at-law at Knox, is a native of that city, born in the house in which he still resides, April 29, 1SS5, son of Charles J. and Jennie (Prettyman) Lundin, the former of whom is a merchant at Knox. Upon completing the high school course in his home town he entered Valparaiso University, from which he was graduated in 1906. On May 24 of that same year he was admitted to the bar and has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession at Knox. For some time he was an office associate of Judge Pentecost, present Judge of the Forty- fourth judicial circuit, and for two years served as assistant prosecuting attorney for that, circuit, associated with Prosecutor McDowell. Mr. Lundin is a member of the County Bar Association. He is secretary of the Masonic lodge at Knox and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Republican and takes an active interest in political affairs. Mr. Lundin married Nina Mckinney, daughter of A. L. Mckinney, and to this union have been born two children, Jennie Mar- garet and Charles M.
JOHN W. LOVETT.
John W. Lovett, a practicing attorney at Anderson since the year 1873 and for years prominently identified with the financial and indus- trial interests of that city, is a native of Indiana, born on September 22, 1847, at St. Omer, Decatur county, son of David and Hannah (Wood) Lovett, the former of whom was a native of Montgomery county, Ohio, and the latter of Rush county, this state, daughter of John Wood, a native of England. John W. Lovett received his elementary education in the schools of Greensburg, and in March, 1864, he then being but sixteen years of age. entered the Union army. serving in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, until the close of the war, after which he entered Asbury (now DePauw) University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June. 1869; three years later receiving his Master degree. On leaving college Mr. Lovett was appointed Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, succeeding Major Elijah W. Halford, who had resigned to be- come editor of the Indianapolis Journal, and in 1871 received the appoint- ment as an examiner in the pension department at Washington. While thus engaged he also studied law and continued his newspaper work, and in June, 1872, received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession, Mr. Lovett
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returned to Indiana and on January 1, 1873, formed a partnership with Col. Milton S. Robinson for the practice of law at Anderson, an associa- tion which continued until Colonel Robinson's election to Congress in the following fall. During the panic of 1873 Mr. Lovett was appointed counsel to the receiver of the First National Bank of Anderson, a service which, together with other employment incident to the panic, gave him an exten- sive practice in the federal courts. When gas was discovered in Madison county in 1887 Mr. Lovett became prominently identified with the develop- ment of that great natural resource and soon amassed a fortune. He is a director of two large manufacturing corporations, a director of the Citizens Bank of Anderson, of the National City Bank of Indianapolis, of the Citizens National Bank of Greensburg and a stockholder in the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company at Indianapolis, and other concerns. Mr. Lovett is a Republican and in 1886 was a candidate for the nomina- tion for attorney-general, but was defeated by L. T. Mitchner by only a few votes. Four years later he was the party's nominee for that office, but went down with the rest of the ticket in that year. Mr. Lovett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is a charter member of the Columbia Club at Indianapolis, and is a member of the Anderson Club and the Country Club. On December 24, 1872, John W. Lovett was mar- ried to Ella Cumback, only daughter of the Hon. Will Cumback, former Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana, lawyer, statesman and author, and to this union three children were born, two of whom are still living, Nellie, who married Earl Reeve, of Chicago, western manager for the Curtis Publishing Company, and Louise, wife of Charles Ward Seabury, a well- known insurance man and member of the firm of Marsh & McLennen, of Chicago and New York. Mrs. Lovett died on November 30, 1915.
LUKE W. DUFFEY.
Luke W. Duffey, expert titleman and head of the Luke W. Duffey Farm Sales Company, 316 Traction Terminal building, Indianapolis, is a native of Indiana, born in Marion county, October 24, 1879, son of Squire Eli F. and Nancy J. (Benbow) Duffey, members of pioneer families in that county. He studied law in the Central Normal College of Danville and was admitted to the bar of the Hendricks Circuit court in August, 1900. He established offices at Plainfield, giving particular attention to real es- tate law, and in 1910 moved to Indianapolis, where he has since been lo- cated, head of the Luke W. Duffey Farm Sales Company and promoter of numerous additions to that city. He is a member of the Indianapolis Real Estate Exchange and was appointed chairman of the agricultural de- velopment committee of the International Real Estate Association, the purpose of which is to co-operate with committees of Congress and with the Canadian Parliament in a movement to bring about better farming conditions in America. He is chairman of the good roads committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and was appointed by Governor Ralston as secretary of the Indiana state highway commission. In 1913 he represented the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at the international
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convention of real estate men at Winnipeg, Canada, in a speaking contest, standing second in a field of seventy-five representatives of leading Amer- ican cities. Mr. Duffey is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and holds birth- right membership in the Society of Friends. He is a member of the Co- lumbia Club, the Marion Club, an ardent Republican, and, as nominee for representative, he received a complimentary vote over a large field of legislative candidates on a good roads platform. Mr. Duffey is well-known throughout this and other states as an advocate of better highways, a greater internal development, rural efficiency and improved farming con- ditions.
GRANT CRUMPACKER.
Grant Crumpacker, of the law firm of Crumpacker Brothers at Val- paraiso and a practicing attorney in that city since the year 1894, is a native of Indiana, born on a farm in Porter county, July 27, 1867, son of Theophilus and Harriet (Emmons) Crumpacker. Upon completing the course in the public schools he entered Valparaiso University and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1894, having previously, in 1887, been graduated from the regular literary course. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and began the practice of his profession at Valparaiso, where he ever since has been located. Mr. Crumpacker was elected by the board of county commissioners to serve as county attorney in 1905 and has ever since served in that capacity. He is a member of the Porter County Bar Association and is now serving as president of that association. In May, 1913, following the retirement from Congress of his brother, Judge Edgar D. Crumpacker, Grant Crum- packer and his brother formed their present partnership and have since been engaged in practice together at Valparaiso. Grant Crumpacker is a Republican, an Elk and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He married Lottie Wade, daughter of William H. Wade, of Tennessee, and to this union four children have been born.
MARTIN R. SUTHERLAND.
Martin R. Sutherland, senior member of the law firm of Sutherland & Smith, of Laporte, who has been engaged in the practice of law in that city since 1891, was born in Laporte county on September 10, 1864, one of the seven children born to his parents, Charlton O. and Phoebe (Mar- tin) Sutherland, and has lived there all his life. After teaching several years in the schools of Laporte county, he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1891. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession at Laporte, where he has been located ever since. In 1898 be formed a partnership with ex-Lieu- tenant-Governor Nye, which continued until the death of Mr. Nye in 1901. On January 1, 1905, Mr. Sutherland formed a partnership with Ralph N. Smith, under the firm name of Sutherland & Smith, which association still continues, with present offices in the Masonic Temple. Mr. Suther-
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