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JOSEPH M. CRAVENS.
Hon. Joseph M. Cravens, of Madison, for years a member of the Indiana Legislature and a practicing attorney since the year 1884, was born at Madison and has lived there all his life. He was born on Feb- ruary 9, 1859, son of John R. and Drusilla (Lanier) Cravens, both natives of Madison, the former of whom was a son of Dr. Robert Cravens, a native of Virginia, and Sarah (Paul) Cravens, daughter of John Paul, the founder of Madison. Mrs. Drusilla Cravens was the daughter of J. F. D. Lanier, a native of North Carolina, who settled at Madison when a lad and became a pioneer lawyer of that place, later founding the great banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Company at New York. Upon completing the course in the public schools of his home town, Joseph M. Cravens entered Wabash College in 1877 and was graduated from that institution in 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He studied law in his father's law office, attended Harvard Law School 1883-84, and was admitted to the bar in the latter year. He began practice at Madison, in association with his father, a veteran lawyer of that place, and after a few years of practice engaged in farm- ing. Mr. Cravens is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, a member of the Indiana Democratic Club and of the University Club at Indianapolis and of the Indiana Society of Chicago. Since 1910 he has been a member of the board of trustees of Hanover College. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, affiliated with both the York Rite and Scottish Rite of that order, and is affiliated with the college fraternity, Theta Delta Chi. For years Mr. Cravens has been active in state po- litical affairs and during several campaigns served as chairman of the Jefferson county Democratic committee. In 1902 he was elected rep- resentative from Jefferson county to the Indiana Legislature and was re-elected in several succeeding campaigns, serving in the House during the sessions of 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911 and 1913, during which latter year he was Democratic floor leader of the House. During the sessions of 1903, 1909, 1911 and 1913 he was a member of the legislative visiting committee. In 1904 and in 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention from the Fourth district, and in 1916 was nominated by the Democrats for joint representative from the counties of Scott and Jefferson.
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ROLLIN A. TURNER.
Rollin A. Turner, member of the law firm of Tremain & Turner, Greensburg, is a native of Indiana, born at Laurel, Franklin county, July 26, 1881, son of the Rev. J. W. and Elizabeth ( Woofill) Turner, both natives of Indiana. He was graduated from the Greensburg high school in 1900 and in the fall of that year entered DePauw University, from which he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the fall of 1904 he entered Harvard University Law School and was graduated from the same in the year 1907, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In that same year he was admitted to practice and imme- diately thereafter formed a partnership with George L. Tremain, of Greensburg, for the practice of law, and that partnership still continues. Mr. Turner is a member of the Decatur County Bar Association and the Indiana State Bar Association. He is a Republican and in 1912 was the nominee of his party for Congress from the Fourth Indiana district, but was defeated in a district strongly Democratic. Mr. Turner is a member of the Methodist church, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, of the Fraternal Order of Eagies and is affiliated with the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He also is a member of the Columbia Club at Indianapolis. On June 1, 1910, Rollin A. Turner was united in marriage to Lillian Hill, daughter of William J. and Lillian ( Helmick) Hill, of Greensburg.
JOHN F. HOLLETT.
John E. Hollett, of the law firm of Walker & Hollett at Indianapolis, is a native Hoosier, born at Arcadia, Indiana, April 19, 1874, son of Byron P. and Elizabeth Anne (DeVaney) Hollett, also natives of this state. He received his elementary education in the grade schools of Hamilton county, was graduated from Shortridge high school at Indian- apolis in 1893; attended Butler College, 1893-95; was graduated from the Indiana Law School in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to practice in that same year. From the time of tak- ing up his residence in Indianapolis in 1800 he had studied law in the office of A. C. Ayres and Aquilla Q. Jones, and upon his admission to practice was made the junior member of that firm, under the firm name of Ayres, Jones & Hollett, which arrangement continued until January 1, 1910, when Mr. Hollett formed a partnership with Judge Merle N. A. Walker under the firm style of Walker & Hollett, which continues, with present offices in the Indiana Trust building. Mr. Hollett is a member of the Indiana election commission, having been appointed to that body by Governor Marshall in 1912 and reappointed by Governor Ralston in 1914. He was appointed by Mayor Shank as the Democratic member of the sinking fund commission of the city of Indianapolis and was re- appointed to that body by Mayor Bell. In 1908 he was president of the Indiana Democratic Club; in 1912 was chairman of the Marshall con- mittee for the selection of a vice-presidential nominee at the Democratic
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national convention at Baltimore and in 1916 was elected chairman of * the similar committee at the national convention at St. Louis. For seven years he served as a director of the Indianapolis Commercial Club and then was elected president of that body, in that capacity serving for three years longer as a director. He was a charter member of the Uni- versity Club at Indianapolis; is a Mason, a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church, a member of the Indiana Democratic Club, of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Turnverein and is affiliated with the college fraternity, Sigma Chi, of the Indiana province of which he was praeter for one term. On June 26, 1900, Mr. Hollett was united in marriage to Katherine Moore Sullivan, daughter of Judge Thomas L. Sullivan, former mayor of Indianapolis, and to this union three sons have been born, Thomas Sullivan, John E., Jr., and Byron P. The Holletts reside at 4001 North Meridian street, Indianapolis.
WILLIAM E. ENGLISH.
Capt. William Eastin English, of Indianapolis, was born near Lexing- ton, Scott county, Indiana, on November 3, 1850, and is the only son of Hon. William H. and Emma M. (Jackson) English. He received his early education in the public schools of his native county and under private tutors. When fourteen years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to Indianapolis, and here attended private schools, and, later, Northwestern Christian University (now Butler College), where he grad- uated as a member of the law class in 1872, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Being at once admitted to the bar, he formed a partnership with Hon. John R. Wilson, with whom he was associated for five years. Captain English then retired from the firm and spent the following three years abroad, visiting every country in Europe, portions of Asia Minor and North Africa, besides which he has traveled in Canada, Mexico, Cuba and South America ; again, in 1902, the captain and his wife visited Europe, incidental to his appointment, that year, by President Roosevelt, as a delegate to the National Congress of Commerce, held at Ostend, Belgium. Being one of the largest property-holders in the city of Indianapolis, his attention is now mainly given to the management of his private interests.
Captain English has been identified with military affairs from young manhood. He was a charter member of the Indianapolis Light Infantry, in 1877, with which he performed active service during labor riots and on other occasions. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he was, by President McKinley, appointed an aide on the staff of Major- Gen. Joseph Wheeler and served through the Sanitago campaign. During the battle before Santiago he was disabled by his horse rearing and falling on him, and was also attacked by severe and persistent illness, necessitat- ing his return to the United States. At the close of his service in the army, Captain English patriotically declined to accept the pay due him from the government, and the full amount, nearly twelve hundred dollars, was turned back into the United States treasury. Governor Mount appointed
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him paymaster-general on the staff of the governor, with the rank of col- onel ; he became inspector-general, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor Durbin, and was alde-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor Hanly. He was one of the three founders of the United Spanish War Veterans, and was its first elected commander-in- chief. He has also served as department commander of Indiana of the Association of Spanish-American War Veterans; vice-commander of Indiana Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; senior vice-commander-in- chief and department commander of Indiana Commandery of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War; a charter member of the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Captain English commanded the division of Spanish-war Veterans in the parade incident to the inauguration of President Roose- velt; represented the state of Indiana on the staff of the chief marshal at the inauguration of President Taft; was the official representative of Indiana at the funeral of President MeKinley; and represented Governor Mount at the great parade in honor of Admiral Dewey in New York.
Politically, Captain English served as a member of the Democratic county committee and the state executive committee for more than twenty consecutive years, and in 1SS7 became chairman of the Indianapolis city committee, of which he had been a member for many years. Soon after- ward he also became county chairman. During that same year he was elected joint representative to the Legislature from Marion and Shelby counties. In 1882 he was elected to represent his district in Congress, but thereafter declined further official honors. In 1892 he was elected vice- president of the National Association of Democratic Clubs and during the following four years was the Indiana member of the national committee. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1892 and and 1896, but in the latter year. being at variance with the views of the presidential nominee, he allied himself with the Republican party and has since remained identified with it. In 1901 he was a member of the Re- publican city executive committee, and later became president of the board of safety of his home city; member of the county executive com- mittee in 1906 and 1908; in the former year, chairman of the county convention, and in 1904, of the joint legislative convention of Marion and Hancock counties; in 1902, vice-president of the Republican state conven- tion ; in 1904, chairman of the committee on rules and order of business in the state convention ; in 1906 chairman of the committee on credentials in the state convention; chairman of the Marion, county delegation to the state conventions in 1910, 1912 and 1914; in 190S he was the nominee of his party for state senator, but met defeat with the rest of the ticket ; in 1910 was again his party's candidate for state senator and. although his party was again doomed to defeat at the polls, he received the highest vote cast at the primary. In 1916 he was nominated without opposition for senator from the joint district of Marion, Hamilton and Hendricks counties; in 1912 was a delegate to the Republican national convention at
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Chicago, and the same year declined to accept the Republican nomination for Congress.
Captain English is an active member of the Masonic order, in which he has taken all the York-Rite degrees, and the Scottish-Rite degrees up to the thirty-second, being a life member of the latter. In 1903 he was chosen grand master of the Masonic grand lodge of Indiana. He is also past grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States. He has served as president of the Indianapolis Commercial Club, president of the Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, president of the Indiana Society of Colonial Wars, vice-president of the Indiana Historical Society, vice-president of the Indianapolis Benevolent Society, vice-president of the old Northwestern Genealogical Society, a member of the Society of Cincinnati, Huguenot Society of America, Holland Society of America, American Social Science Association, National Civic Federation, Western Writers' Association, Indianapolis Bar Association, Indianapolis Art Association, Indianapolis Board of Trade, Indianapolis Deutsche Haus, New York Lambs Club, Army and Navy Club of Washington, D. C., the Indianapolis University Club, Columbia Club, Marion Club, Country Club, Canoe Club, and others. On January 5, 1898, Captain English married Helen Orr, of Indianapolis, granddaughter of Col. John M. Orr, of Civil-war fame, and they have one child, Rosalind Orr English, born March 10, 1903. Captain and Mrs. Eng- lish and daughter pass a considerable portion of their time at their beauti- ful country seat, "Englishton Park," the old family homestead in Scott county. They also have an attractive summer home on the shores of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan woods, called "Heartsease-by-the-Lake."
HENRY SMITH LANE.
In the roll of former members of the Indiana bar the name of Henry Smith Lane, lawyer, soldier and statesman, ever must occupy a place near the top. His services to the state as legislator and as governor and his services to the nation during the Mexican War and later in the halls of Congress, stamped him as one of the impressive figures in his generation and it is but fitting that there should be presented here a brief memorial to his life and attainments; a proper tribute to the kindly figure of whom it was said at the time of his death in June, 1881, that he "was universally mourned by his church and state; a man rich in natural gifts, of varied and interesting public service; his character unassailed, his memory a proud heritage of our citizenship."
Henry S. Lane was born in Montgomery county, Kentucky, Febru- ary 24, 1811. When eighteen years of age he began to study law; soon after attaining his majority was admitted to the bar and in 1835 came to Indiana and settled at Crawfordsville, where he ever afterward made his home and where he spent his last days. From the very begin- ning he was a successful lawyer and it was not long until he became a national figure. In 1837 he was elected to the state Legislature from the Crawfordsville district and in 1840 was elected to Congress and re-elected
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in the following election. Upon the outbreak of the Mexican War, Mr. Lane raised a company of volunteers in Montgomery county and was made captain of the company, later being elected major of the regiment to which that company was attached and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the field. In 1849 he again made the race for Congress, but was defeated by James E. McDonald. Upon the formation of the Republican party he left the ranks of the Whigs and ever after- ward was one of the leaders in the new party, which he had helped to organize, and was president of the first national convention of that party held in Philadelphia in 1856. In 1860 he was made the nominee of his party for governor of Indiana and was elected, having previously been one of the most effective supporters of Abraham Lincoln for the nomination as President in the memorable Republican convention in Chicago that year. In the previous year, 1859, Colonel Lane and Col. William M. Mc- Carty received the votes of a majority of the members of the Indiana Legislature for the United States Senate and they went to Washington to contest the seats of Senators Bright and Fitch, but the Senate voted against them. Two days after his inauguration on January 14. 1861, as governor of Indiana, Governor Lane was elected United States senator and resigned the governorship to take his seat in the Senate, where he served until 1867. Upon the conclusion of his service in the Senate he was made Indian commissioner by President Grant and upon the expira- tion of that term of service declined further public honors, retiring to his home, "Lane Place," at Crawfordsville, where he spent his last days and where his widow, who survived him many years, continued to reside until her death when well past eighty-five years of age.
Mrs. Lane, before her marriage was Joanna M. Elston, daughter of Col. Isaac C. Elston, of Crawfordsville.
CLINTON B. MARSHALL.
Clinton B. Marshall, of Indianapolis, a member of the bar in Indiana since the year 1908, is a native son of this state, born in Fountain county, February 10, 1SS5, son of Miles and Ella E. (Dice) Marshall, both natives of this state. Following his graduation from the high school at Veeders- burg in 1900, he entered Wabash College and was graduated from that institution in 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then began the study of law in the office of Schuyler C. Kennedy at Crawfordsville and in 1908 was admitted to the bar. In that same year he formed a partnership for the practice of his profession with Henry D. Van Cleve at Crawfordsville, which arrangement continued until Mr. Marshall, in 1909, moved to Indianapolis, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, with present offices at 1209 Merchants National Bank building. Mr. Marshall was counsel for the Indiana National Insurance Company. of which he was secretary, 1914-1915; director and counsel of the State Exchange Bank 1913-1914; counsel for the National Underwriting Com- pany, 1910-14; director of and attorney for the Zero Ice and Coal Com-
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pany ; director of and counsel for the Tippecanoe Hotel Realty Company ; director of and counsel for the Caldwell-Marshall Company and a director of and counsel for the Van Orman Hotel Company. He is a member of the Columbia Club at Indianapolis, of the Indianapolis Bar Association, of the Indiana State Bar Association, of the Chamber of Commerce at Indianapolis, the Maenerchor Society of that same city, the Crescent Club at Evansville, the Chamber of Commerce in the latter city, and is affiliated with the Kappa Sigma fraternity. During his college days Mr. Marshall took an active part in college athletics and was captain of the "Little Giants," the Wabash football team, in 1903. On December 7, 1903, Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Jessie G. Talbot, daughter of Dr. Jesse N. and Lucretia (Clore) Talbot, of Crawfordsville, and to that union has been born one child a son, Nicholas T. The Marshalls reside at 2911 Washington Boulevard, Indianapolis.
HEMPSTEAD C. SHAW.
Hempstead C. Shaw, the son of Carpus N. and Alma M. (Hempstead) Shaw, was born at Worthington, Indiana, March 14, 1869. When about sixteen years of age he entered Earlham College, but before completing the course he returned to Terre Haute, where he had formerly attended school, and received instructions from a private tutor. Later he entered the office of his uncle, Harvey D. Scott, and studied law until his admis- sion to the bar at the age of twenty-two. After practicing a short time at Worthington, he came to Indianapolis, where he has practiced alone for the past eighteen years. He is a Republican. He has been married twice. His first wife was Ibbie C. Carter and to this marriage was born one son, Carl Verner, now a resident of Los Angeles. Mr. Shaw was married a second time, June 3, 1912, to Lillian B. Lake.
RALPH KENT KANE.
Ralph Kent Kane, of the law firm of Matson, Kane & Ross, 947-955 Lemcke annex, Indianapolis, with offices also at Noblesville, is a native of Indiana, born at Noblesville, June 9, 1868. He is the son of Thomas J. and Sophia W. (Smith) Kane, the former of whom, for years a lawyer at Noblesville, died in 1908. Graduating from the Noblesville high school in 1887, Ralph K. Kane continued his studies in the classics under the private tutelage of the Rev. John M. Craig, at the same time pursuing his law studies in the office of his father, and was admitted to practice when twenty-one years of age. He was associated in practice at Nobles- ville with his father and Judge Davis until the elevation of the latter to the Appellate bench in 1893, after which the firm became Kane & Kane, father and son. In 1897 a brother, Thomas E. Kane, came into the firm and this arrangement continued until the father's death in 1908, since which time the two brothers have maintained their office at Noblesville alone. On January 1, 1915, Ralph K. Kane formed his present connection with the firm of Matson, Kane & Ross at Indianapolis. Mr. Kane is a member of the American Bar Association. He is a Republican, served for
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years as president of the Noblesville school board and in 1908 was elected state senator from the district composed of Hamilton and Tipton counties. He is a Mason and an Elk. Mr. Kane was married, December 22, 1897, to Flora B. Heretb, daughter of Henry Hereth, of Indianapolis, and has one child, a daughter, Regina M., named in honor of her maternal grand- mother.
THOMAS J. KANE.
Hon. Thomas J. Kane was born on December 6, 1830. In Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Hercules D. and Elizabeth ( Laughlin) Kane, the former of whom was born near Belfast, Ireland, sin 1802, and the latter of whom was a native of County Derry, Ireland, but of Scotch descent. Hercules D. Kane emigrated to America in early life and after living in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, for a time removed to Fairfield county, Oblo, where he died In 1840. His widow died in 1852.
Thomas J. Kane was educated in the Ohio district schools, in the academy at Tarleton under Prof. S. S. Rickey, and at Ohio University at Athens. He taught school three years and during this time studied law. In 1855 be removed to Indiana and entered the law office of G. H. Voss at Noblesville, being admitted to practice the next year. From 1856 to 1861 be was in partnership with Voss. Later he was in partnership with Shirts & Moss, and subsequently with the late Theodore P. Davis, one-time Judge of the Appellate court of Indiana. Kane and Davis practiced to- gether until the latter's elevation to the bench.
Thomas J. Kane was married on November 26, 1862, to Sophia W. Smith, daughter of the Rev. David and Catherine Smith, of Noblesville. They had six children : Ralph Kent, Thomas Emmett, Allen David, Sophie, Grace, and Donald S. All of these children are living except Allen David.
Thomas J. Kane died June 28, 1908, at Noblesville. His widow Is still living. In 1884 he was the Republican nominee for judge of the circuit comprising Madison and Hamilton counties, but was defeated in the Democratic landslide of that year. He was a member of the Presby- terian church.
JAMES K. EWING.
Hon. James K. Ewing was born November 26. 1843. in Decatur county, Indiana and is the son of Patrick and Lydla ( Morgan) Ewing, who were natives of Maryland and Kentucky, respectively. Patrick Ewing was the grandson of Patrick Ewing, a commissary in the Continential army. James K. Ewing attended the country schools and the high school at Mil- ford. Indiana. He studied law with his brother, Cortez Ewing. In Greens- burg, and was admitted to the bar in Decatur county in November, 1867. He began the practice of his profession at Greensburg, and until 1882, practiced with his brother. Afterwards, for eleven years, he was in part- nership with his nephew, Cortez Ewing, Jr. James K. Ewing was ap- pointed by Governor Matthews as Judge of the Twenty-eighth judicial
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circuit, comprising Rush and Decatur counties, on January 17, 1893, and served until January, 1895. He succeeded the Hon. John W. Study, who died in office. Subsequent to 1895, Judge Ewing was for a few years asso- ciated in the practice of law with John D. Wallingford, and next with George L. Tremain. Finally he was associated with Frank Hamilton, of the firm of Hamilton & Osborn.
Judge Ewing was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis in 18SS. For a quarter of a century he was the attorney for the Big Four Railway Company at Greensburg. He has practiced in all the higher courts of the state. He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the Christian church, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On January 21, 1890, Judge Ewing was married to Ida L. Levesque, formerly Ida Maguire, daughter of Dr. Samuel Maguire, of Orlando, Florida and they have one daughter, Louise, now fourteen years old.
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