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In 1908 Mr. Milburn was a candidate for attorney-general but was
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defeated in convention. In 1910 he was again a candidate and again de- feated in convention. In 1914 he was nominated and elected. Ile had served only ten months of his term when he died on November 9, 1915.
In 1887 he married Lizzie Fowler, whose death occurred on August 2, 1916, and they had four children. He was a Presbyterian, a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk.
JOHN H. KIPLINGER.
John H. Kiplinger was born at Rushville, Indiana, December 12, 1881. He is the son of Jesse and Miranda ( Sampson) Kiplinger. He was edu- cated in the common and high schools of Rushville, Oberlin College and Indiana University. He studied law in the office of Mr. Magee at Rush- ville, from 1901 to 1903, and was admitted to the bar in the latter year. He practiced with Mr. Magee from 1904 to 1912; alone until January 1, 1915, and since with Donald Smith. He was deputy prosecutor 1905-6; county attorney, 1912-13; city attorney, 1914. He is a past exalted ruler of the Elks, a Knight of Pythias, a Red Man and a Republican. On November 29, 1903, he married Bessie Morrison, of Indianapolis. They have two children, Jules G. and Jean R.
STEPHEN A. CALLAHAN.
Stephen A. Callahan was born in Ft. Wayne, July 30, 1888. He is one of the four children of James and Margaret (Dolan) Callahan. The father has been chief train dispatcher of the Northern Pacific railroad. Stephen A. Callahan was educated in the parochial schools of Ft. Wayne and in Valparaiso University. from which he graduated in 1909. He read law with Leonard & Zollars and was admitted to the bar in 1909. In 1910 he was appointed deputy prosecutor by Harry H. Hilgemann, a position which he still holds. He is a Knight of Columbus, an Elk, a Moose, and a Democrat. He married Miss Esther Auger. They are Catholics. Their home is at 2219 South Barr street, Ft. Wayne.
GEORGE V. MENZIES.
George V. Menzies, of Mt. Vernon, Indiana, was born December 21, 1844, in Boone county, Kentucky. He is a son of Dr. Sammel G. and Sally (Winston) Menzies. His ancestor served under Washington, commanding a battery at Yorktown. His father was a surgeon in the Union army. He was educated in the common schools of Cincinnati, and at the naval academy at Annapolis, from which he graduated in 1864. He served till 1871 in the navy, first as ensign, then as flag lientenant on the South Pacific squadron under Admirals Dahlgren and Turner. In 1871 he re- signed from the navy and located at Mt. Vernon, where he at once engaged in the practice of law and has since continned. In 1876 he was a dele- gate to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis; from 1878 to 1882 he was a state senator; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- tions, 1880, 1896, 1900. 1904 and 1912, placing Thomas R. Marshall in nomi- nation in the latter ; made the race for Congress in 1905 and 1906; member
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of and president of the Board of Control of State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, member of Grand Army of the Republic and a Democrat. On November 11, 1869, he married Esther Hovey, daughter of Gov. A. P. Hovey. They had three children, Mary M., Juliet M., and Winston. Mrs. Menzies died May 30, 1915.
GEORGE HENRY GIFFORD.
George Henry Gifford, of Tipton, Indiana, was born near Falmouth, Fayette county, Indiana, January 10, 1850. He is one of twelve children born to Solomon W. and Malinda (Gillam) Gifford. He grew up on his father's farm, attending in season the district schools. He studied two years at the Milroy high school, one year at Fairview Academy, and grad- uated from Northwestern University (now Butler College) at Indianap- olis in 1872. The same year he located at Tipton, where he has since practiced. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Phi Delta Theta, and a Democrat in politics. From 1892 to 1896 he was state senator from Tipton and Clinton counties. In 1912 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore, Maryland. For twenty years he served as county attorney. June 20, 1842, he married Anna R. Smiley, of Fairview, and they are the parents of five children, Allen W., Frank, Glenn, J., Manley R. and Hanson S. Frank and Glenn J. are lawyers at Tipton, in partnership with their father.
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WILLIAM HARRISON HAYS
Will H. Hays, equally known as a successful lawyer and politician, was born in Sullivan, Indiana, November 5, 1879, and is the son of John T. and Mary (Cain) Hays. £ After completing his studies in the Sullivan high school in 1896 he entered Wabash College, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1900, receiving the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution in 1904. Mr. Hays had for several years been a close student of the law in his father's office, and on his twenty-first birthday was admitted to the bar, though he had practiced prior to that time by permission. He at once formed a partnership with his father which has continued, his brother, Hinkle C. Hays, being subsequently admitted to the firm.
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Politically, Mr. Hays has always been an ardent Republican, taking active part in political affairs from the time when, before he was twenty- one years of age, he served as precinct committeeman. From 1904 to 1908 he served as chairman of the Republican county committee and as a member of the state advisory committee from the second district. During the campaigns of 1906 and 1908 he was chairman of the speakers' bureau of the state committee. In 1910 he was district chairman of the second district and vice-chairman of the state committee. He has been a member of the state central committee continuously since 1910 and chairman of the Republican state central committee since February, 1914. His only political office has been four years' service as city
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attorney of Sullivan. Mr. Hays is a member of the Presbyterian church. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order, including the York and Scottish rites, the Mystic Shrine, the Knights of Pythias, a life member of the Sullivan Lodge of Elks: the University, Columbia and Marion Clubs, of Indianapolis, the Illinois Athletic Club, of Chicago, and of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, of which he was state president for six years.
On November 18, 1902, Mr. Hays married Helen Louise Thomas, u daughter of Judge Albert Duy Thomas, of Crawfordsville.
WILLIAM T. ZENOR.
William T. Zenor was born in Harrison county. Indiana, April 30, 1846. He was a son of Philip and Auna C. ( Shuck) Zenor. His father was a lieu- tenant in the Mexican War; his grandfather, Jacob Zenor, was prominent in state affairs while the capital was at Corydon. He served in the General Assembly, serving in the first, second, fourth aud fifth sessions. William T. Zenor was educated in the district schools and the Salem Academy. After leaving school he read law with David W. La Follette. He was admitted to the Harrison county bar in 1870, where he practiced with Mr. Matthews. Later he removed to Leavenworth. He was appointed prosecutor by J. D. Williams, and later was elected to two full terms. In 1884 he was elected Judge of the Third circuit and served till 1897, when he resigned to take a seat in Congress. He served in Congress five consecu- tive terms. At the expiration of his fifth term he reopened his law office at Corydon, but in 1910 moved to New Albany, where he practiced in part- nership with George D. MeIntyre. On December 23. 1873, he married Ella Lynn. They had no children. He died at New Albany, Indiana, June 2, 1916.
LEMUEL DARROW.
Lemuel Darrow, of Laporte, Indiana, senior member of the law firm of Darrow & Rowley at Laporte, former mayor of that city and former county attorney of Laporte county, was born on February 6, 1867, son of Peter and Susan (Rynerson) Darrow, who were the parents of two chil- dren and the former of whom was a civil engineer and surveyor. Upon completing the course in high school Lemuel Darrow entered Valparaiso University and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1SSS. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession at Laporte. In that same year he was elected county attorney of Laporte county and served one term in that office. In 1898 Mr. Darrow was elected mayor of Laporte and so satisfactory did his administration of the affairs of that office prove that he was retained in office until 1914. thus serving as chief executive of his home city for a perlod of sixteen years. On January 1, 1915, Mr. Darrow formed a partnership with N. Earl Rowley, under the firm name of Darrow & Rowley, which association con- tinues, with present offices in the Masonic Temple. Mr. Darrow has been
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largely concerned in the promotion of railroads throughout northern In- diana. He is a Democrat, a member of the County Bar Association, an Elk and a Knight of Pythias, while he and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Darrow married Martha Cleghorn, daughter of William W. Cleghorn, and to that union one child has been born, a daughter, Dorothy C.
HARVEY WAVELAND KERR.
Harvey Waveland Kerr was born in Ft. Wayne, March 25, 1882. He is one of a family of five children of William J. and Anna (Layman) Kerr. William J. Kerr was an attorney at the Ft. Wayne bar for many years preceding his death, June 3, 1901. He was admitted to the bar in Miami county, Ohio, in 1864. Harvey W. Kerr was educated in the common and high schools of Ft. Wayne. As soon as he had finished his schooling he took up law and was admitted to the bar in 1903. He has since practiced at Ft. Wayne. In the city election of 1913 he was elected police judge by a majority of 1892. He is a member of the Allen county bar and a Demo- crat. He married Miss Lillian Blowers and they have one child, Romona. They are members of the West Jefferson Church of Christ. Their home is 323 Fairfield avenue, Ft. Wayne.
JOHN A. HIBBERD.
John A. Hibberd, of South Bend, was born at Syracuse, New York. November 12, 1855. He is one of three children of Joseph H. and Helen (Baldwin) Hibberd. He was educated in the elementary and high schools of South Bend. After reading law with Arnold & Creed he entered Union College of Law at Chicago, graduating in 1883. The following year he was admitted to the bar and has since practiced at South Bend. He has served on the school board of South Bend, as vice-president of the Citizens National Bank and Trust Company, and owns the Hibberd Printing Com- pany. He served as state senator. He is a Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, an Elk and a Republican. He married Miss Mollie C. Corbitt, of Ohio. They have two children, Helen and Marjorie.
PAUL G. HOOPER.
Paul G. Hooper was born on a farm in Adams county, Indiana, Novem- ber 24, 1859. He is the only child of Ezekiel and Almira (Gosline) Hooper. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812 and settled in Root township in 1834, where he lived until his death in 1871. He helped organize Adams county and was one of its first associate judges. Paul G. Hooper attended the district schools and then the more advanced schools of Monmouth and Decatur. In 1876 he entered the office of James R. Bobs and studied law until 1879, when he was admitted to the bar. He was editor and pro- prietor for a time of the Adams County Union. After a short experience as an editor he formed in 1880 a law partnership with John T. France, which lasted till 1889. His present firm is Hooper & Lenhart. He is presi-
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dent of the Decatur Abstract and Loan Company. He is a member of the Adams County Bar Association and a Republican. He married Miss Charity Harrod, December 25, 1879. They are members of the Methodist church.
CYRUS CLINE.
Cyrus Cline, of Angola, Indiana, was born on a farm in Ohio, July 12, 1856. He was one of a family of nine children born to Michael and Barbara (Orewiler) Cline. The father was a native of Ohio and a farmer. He died in 1878. Cyrus Cline was educated in the common and high schools of Angola, finishing the latter in 1872. In 1876 he graduated from Hillsdale College, Michigan. He read law with Woodhull & Croxton, of Angola, and began practice in 1885. He practiced continuously at the Angola bar until 1912, when he was elected to Congress from the Twelfth Indiana District. He has been re-elected once since. He is a member of the Steuben and In- diana State Bar Associations, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a Moose and a Democrat. He married Miss Jennie Gibson, of ' Vermont. They have one child, Carrie. They are members of the Congre- gational church.
CLYDE HUNTER.
Clyde Hunter, assistant prosecuting attorney of Lake county, Indiana, was born November 26, 1881, a son of Joseph A. and Frances H. Hunter. He graduated from the Indianapolis Law School in 1906 and was admitted to the bar in the fall of the same year. He began to practice in Gary in November, 1907, and served as deputy prosecuting attorney of Superior Judge Greenwald, when the later was prosecutor, until he was appointed assistant prosecutor in November, 1913.
Mr. Hunter married Daisy Altland and they have one son. Clyde K. He is a member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Elks and is now a district exalted ruler of the northern district of Indiana. Mr. Hunter is a member of the Gary Bar Association. He was nominated by the Repub- lican party for prosecuting attorney for Lake county, subject to election in November, 1916.
HARRY L. UNGER.
Harry L. Unger, attorney and counselor at law, of Plymouth, and for- mer prosecuting attorney for the Forty-first Indiana judicial district. is a native of Indiana, born October 13, 1878. son of Sylvester S. and Frances M. (Helsel) Unger, the former of whom is now a retired lumberman and farmer. Upon completing the course in the public schools Harry L. Unger entered Valparaiso University and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1904. He was admitted to the bar in that same year and has ever since been practicing in Plymouth. He was elected prosecut- ing attorney for the Forty-first judicial district in 1909 and was re-elected
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for the enusing term, serving four years. He also was elected justice of the peace and served two years in that office. Mr. Unger is a member of the Marshall County and Indiana State Bar Associations. IIe also is a member of the Masonic Order, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Court of Honor. Harry L. Unger married Zora A. Rosenberg, daugh- ter of William Rosenberg, and to this union two children have been born, Harry L., Jr., and Beatrice M. Mr. Unger and his family are members of the Church of Christ (Scientist). He is a Democrat and takes an active part in local politics.
JOHN C. HOFFMAN.
John C. Hoffman was born on a farm in Allen county, Indiana, July 2, 1883. He is one of the four children of George W. and Anne (Stroebler) Hoffman. The father came to Indiana from Germany in 1850. He was engaged in farming and lumbering till his death in 1909. John C. Hoffman finished the common and high school of Ft. Wayne and then entered the Indiana State Normal. He later entered the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1908. The same year he was admitted to the bar at Ft. Wayne and has since been engaged in active practice. He is a member of the firm of Hoffman & Homberg, formed in 1914. He is a member of the Allen County Bar Association, an Elk, a Knight Templar and a Democrat. He married Miss Elizabeth E. Evans, of Ft. Wayne. They have one child, John E. They are members of the First Presbyterian church. Their home is at Oakwood Place, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
LELAND H. STANFORD.
Leland H. Stanford, a veteran lawyer of Liberty, Indiana, an honored veteran of the Civil War, the owner of eleven hundred acres of choice land in Union county and the heaviest taxpayer in that county, is a native of the state of Ohio, born in the city of Cincinnati May 13, 1848. He is a son of Martin and Anna (Wellman) Stanford, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. When he was twelve years old Mr. Stanford moved to Butler county, Ohio, and thence, two years later, to Preble county, the same state, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. In September, 1863, he then being but fifteen years of age, Leland H. Stanford enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command until after the close of the war, having been mustered out at Camp Denison, Ohio, on July 25, 1865. Upon the completion of his mili- tary service Mr. Stanford went to New Orleans and thence, after a while, to Colon, crossing thence to Panama and on up the coast to San Francisco, later settling at Genoa, Nevada, thus being a resident of that territory during the days of "Mark Twain." He worked on the con- struction of the railroad from Carson City to Virginia City and held many other jobs and positions. In November, 1869, when twenty-one years of age, Mr. Stanford returned East, and in the neighborhood of his old home began to work on a farm at sixteen dollars a month. He
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invested his savings in law books and a year later opened an office for the practice of law at Liberty, at the same time taking up the study of shorthand writing in which he presently became very proficient. He presently graduated from a school of shorthand in New York City, ac- quiring an accurate knowledge of Munson's system, writing up to two hun- dred words a minute. Later he reported the famous Tweed trials. In 1875 Mr. Stanford was engaged in practice at Lebanon, this state, serving while there also as stenographer for Jonathan W. Gordon, during which connection he reported the famous Goodwin murder case. He later practiced for a time at Connersville, and in February, 1877, returned to Liberty, where he ever since has been located, and where he has been very successful. From January, 1871, until fifteen years ago, he was em- ployed in practically every case tried in the county, and had ninety per cent. of the legal business that came from outside the county. In 1880 Mr. Stanford was elected prosecuting attorney, as the nominee of the Dmocratic party, for the judicial circuit comprised of the counties of Franklin and Union, and in 1882 was re-elected, the circuit being changed at Mr. Stanford's suggestion by the Legislature of 1883 to comprise the counties of Fayette, Franklin and Union. Mr. Stanford was called to pre- side in the impeachment cases against the commissioners of Shelby county, but they resigned after the issues were made up and before the case came to trial. Mr. Stanford voted at two presidential elections before he was twenty-one years old; first for Lincoln at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864, when he was sixteen years old, and for Grant in 1868, at Genoa, Nevada. The theory of his first vote was that anyone old enough to be a soldier was old enough to vote. In 1868 almost everybody in Nevada was for Grant, and his friends urged him to vote that year. In 1872 he voted for Greeley and after that supported the Democratic ticket until 1912, when he voted for Roosevelt. Mr. Stanford has made wise investments in farm lands, and is the largest land owner in Union county. He owns eleven hundred acres of choice land in the vicinity of Liberty. On May 14, 1870, the year following his return from the West, Mr. Stanford was united in marriage to Elizabeth J. Judith, of Fayette county, Indiana, and to this union two children were born, Roscoe L. Stanford, now of Wayne county, Indiana, and Mrs. Lillian Barnhart, of Union county. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford live in a magnificent country place just south of Liberty.
HARRY C. MILLER.
Harry C. Miller, attorney-at-law at North Judson, Starke county, and former representative in the lower house of the Indiana General Assem- bly from that district, is a native of Starke county and has lived there all his life. He was born on a farm on November 16, 1875, son of William and Mary A. (Long) Miller, who were the parents of eight children, of whom seven survive. Upon completing the course in the public schools he entered the Indiana Law School, from which institution he was gradu- ated in 1903. In that same year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of his profession at North Judson, where he ever since
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has been thus engaged. For some time Mr. Miller served as deputy prose- cuting attorney for the Forty-fourth judicial circuit and is now serving as city attorney of North Judson. In 1908 he was elected representative to the Legislature and served during the session of 1909. During the cam- paigns of 1912-14 he was chairman of the Starke county Republican com- mittee. Mr. Miller is a member of the County Bar Association. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar, a member of the Modern Wood- men and a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Miller married Helen A. Marsh, who died on December 23, 1914, leaving two children, Temple M., and Millard H.
FRED E. ZOLLARS.
Fred E. Zollars was born on February 7, 1869, at Ft. Wayne, In- diana. He is one of a family of three children of Allen and Minnie (Ewing) Zollars. He was educated in the public schools and Miami University. He read law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1897. He has practiced continually since at Ft. Wayne. He is a member of the firm of Leonard, Rose & Zollars. The firm devotes most of its attention to corporation practice, being counsel for the Pennsylvania, Grand Rapids & Indiana, Wabash and Vandalia railroads. The firm was organized in April, 1910. Mr. Zollars is a Democrat, a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk, and a member of the Commercial and Country Clubs. He married Miss Ger- trude E. Lindsay. Their residence is at 2814 Fairfield avenue, Ft. Wayne.
FRED M. GRIMMER.
Fred M. Grimmer, one of the younger members of the bar at Crown Point, is a native of Indiana, born in Lake county, December 15, 1890, son of Michael and Helen (Newman) Grimmer, the former of whom is a former auditor of Lake county and a representative from that county in the sixty-seventh session of the Indiana General Assembly. He attended both the University of Michigan and Chicago Universities and was gradu- ated from the latter institution in 1914. In 1913 he was admitted to the bar and in 1914 opened an office for the practice of his profession at Crown Point, where he ever since has been located. For one year he served as attorney for the neighboring village of Shererville. Mr. Grimmer is a Republican. He is a member of the Lake County Bar Association and is affiliated with the legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi.
HARRY L. CRUMPACKER.
Harry L. Crumpacker, of Michigan City, Indiana, judge of the Su- perior court for the district comprised in the counties of Laporte and Porter, is a native of Indiana, having been born in the city of Valparaiso on May 6, 1SS1, one of the three children born to John W. and Anna (Smith) Crumpacker, the former of whom, a banker of that city, died on April 6, 1913. Upon completing the course in the high school of his home town, Harry L. Crumpacker entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from the law department of which institution he was graduated in
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1905. In the fall of that same year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession at Michigan City, where he ever since has made his home. Judge Crumpacker is a Republican and was serving as city attorney of Michigan City when he was elected judge of the Superior court in the fall of 1914, and resigned that position upon ascending the bench on January 1, 1915, his term of office to extend to January 1, 1919. Judge Crumpacker is a member of the Laporte County Bar Association; fraternally, is affiliated with the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, while he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Judge Crumpacker married Blanche Bosserman, daughter of the late Charles Bosserman, who died on June 16, 1914, and to this union three chil- dren have been born.
ANDREW G. WOOD.
Andrew G. Wood, of Warsaw, Indiana, was born in Ohio, January 16, 1835. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Ohio and his collegiate education in the Ohio Wesleyan University, of which he is an alumnus. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar in Ohio, but three years later he moved to Indiana. In June, 1863, he enlisted from Law- renceburg in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Indiana, serving till September 22, 1865. After being discharged he located in Warsaw, 1865, where he has since practiced. He has served his city three terms as coun- cilman and one term as mayor, having been elected on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the County Bar Association, of the Grand Army of the Republic, an Odd Fellow, a Moose, and a Democrat. He is a member of the Library Board and a trustee of Winona Agricultural So- ciety. He has occupied the same office forty-two years. In 1913 he formed a partnership with Merle L. Gochenour, which still continues. He married Miss Rose A. Reed, daughter of Samuel Reed. They have four children, three living.
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