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dealings have involved large and serious interests. Like his father, Mr. Bailey is a Democrat. He was assistant United States attorney for two years and was ap- pointed as United States attorney by President Cleveland at the close of his ad- ministration. He had practical control of the business of the office while assistant attorney and distinguished himself by his peculiar ability in the management of difficult cases. Rapidly he attained prominence as the result of careful and painstaking preparation of his cases, the energy with which he urged them to trial and the ability with which he managed them in court. He was the first corpora- tion counsel of Indianapolis under its new charter. Meanwhile a man of such abil- ity, advancing constantly in his knowl- edge of human nature and in acquisition of tact and influence, could not remain long unknown and un-utilized by his party. Having developed marked talent as a public speaker, he has participated in every campaign since 1880, his thor- ough information on political subjects combining with his happy style of oratory to make him a forceful, irrefutable cam- paign speaker and debater. The late Vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks-under whose tutelage he had studied-recogniz- ing in him fine political timber, urged his acceptance of the candidacy for State Senator from the Capital district of In- diana. The first step into the political arena proved a fortunate one, Mr. Bailey defeating his opponent by nearly 2,100 and entering the Senate of 1885, the jun-
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ior member of that body by several years. Says the "Bench and Bar of Indiana:" "With a trained mind, ready to debate, ambition to excel, he soon took rank as a legislator and the Capital district never had a more vigilant, conscientious, effect- ive representative in the halls of the State Senate than Leon O. Bailey." He served during the two sessions of 1883 and 1887, being chairman of the election committee, a position of great import- ance, as during that session it had nine or ten contests. During this trying per- iod, Senator Bailey evinced most fully his leadership and tact. To his fore- sight is given, by his party leaders, much of the credit for the election of David Turpie to the United States Senate. In 1890 he was chosen among many competi- tors as city attorney of Indianapolis, dis- charging the arduons duties of that of- fice, until the close of his term in Janu- ary, 1893, with consummate skill. He also accepted about this time, at the ur- gent request of his friend, Alonzo Greene Smith, the office of assistant attorney gen- eral of Indiana, Mr. Smith having been elected attorney general. Mr. Bailey continued to enjoy a lucrative practice, gaining all the time in popularity, effi- ciency and strength, and when in August, 1898, the Democratic Convention was held, his worth was again recognized by a unanimous nomination for Congress by the Democrats of the Seventh District. The condnet of his congressional cam- paign in 1898 attracted attention through- ont the country, and though the district
in 1896 gave nearly 6,000 Republican ma- jority, Mr. Bailey was defeated by less than 2,600. It is said that his contest, made single handed against the combined corporate wealth of Indianapolis, was the most fearless and vigorous political fight ever made in the Capital district. And. despite the result, it is conceded Mr. Bailey came out of the conflict greatly strengthened with his party and the coun- try. Mr. Bailey is not only a Democrat in name, but his feelings, propensities and convictions are intimately demo- cratic. The Indianapolis Sentinel, in an editorial, says of him: "As a legislator his efforts were uniformly directed in the interests of the people, as the statute books will amply testify. The confidence reposed in him by the people has never been betrayed or abused." The "Bench and Bar," speaking of the same trait, says: "He is distinctly of the people, having risen to his present position by force of his own energies; he is never happier than when fighting for the op- pressed; he sympathizes with the people in their afflictions and glories in their tri- umphs. Though long in official position he enjoys the confidence of the peo- ple for whose interests he always labors and with whom he never resorts to deceit. As a friend, he is very tenacious, always affable, generous and faithful, and those worthy of his assistance never seek it in vain." It is probable that with Mr. Bailey's present successful attainments, much future distinction awaits him. He is as yet barely at the meridian of life
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and his equipment for the larger fields of | to young and old and won for her un- usefulness is complete and nnique. He usual love and regard. Mr. Bailey has a brother, Hon. Morton S. Bailey, who is an eminent lawyer of Colorado, and has for several years occupied a place on the Cir- cuit Bench of that State. His cousin, the Hon. Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, is the well-known Democratic leader of the present House of Congress. is a member of the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College Fraternity. Mr. Bailey has suffered but one serious blow in his career and that occurred in the loss of his wife in September, 1892. 1 charming woman of rare accomplishments and the chosen adviser and counsellor of her hus- band, her loss has been irreparable. Mrs. Bailey was Miss Rosamond Paty Cogge- AUGUSTIN BOICE. shall. She was born on the island of Nan- Augustin Boice, attorney-at-law, In- dianapolis, was born on his father's farm, in Cheshire township, Gallia county, Ohio, December 1, 1842. His parents were Jacob and Mary Stevens (Bradbury) Boice, and were among the early settlers of that part of Ohio. Jacob Boice was a son of Joseph and Keziah (Bowman) Boice, who were natives of New Jersey. He was born November 14, 1811, in Fay- ette county, Pennsylvania, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1820 and set- tled in Cheshire township. Mary Stevens (Bradbury) Boice was the eldest daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stevens) Brad- bury, and was born in Maine Jannary 28, 1804, and removed to Ohio with her father's family in 1816. She was directly descended in the seventh generation from Thomas Bradbury, the immigrant, who settled in New England as early at least as 1634, and his wife, Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, who was the daughter of John Perkins the elder of Ipswich. She, with her father's family, arrived in Boston tucket in 1858. She was the youngest daughter of William Boylston and Anne Maria Jenkins Coggeshall. On her mother's side she boasted distinguished ancestry and relatives. Benjamin Frank- lin, Lucretia Mott, Maria Mitchell and Tristam Coffin were among these. The "Coffin School" of Nantucket, at which Mrs. Bailey was educated, was founded in 1825 by Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet, of England. It was established for the education of the descendants of Tristam Coffin, and is still an institution of high standing and open, without charge, to all those who can trace their lineage to its founder. On her grandfather's side, Mrs. Bailey descended from Sir John Coggeshall, one of the founders of New- port and prominently identified with the history of Rhode Island. Her gifts were many and varied, being a rare musician, singer and composer, a writer of both poetry and prose, and possessing a charm of character which made itself apparent
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from Bristol, England, on the ship Lyon, February 5, 1631. Roger Williams was a fellow passenger. The evidence shows that Mrs Bradbury was a Christian woman of high character, standing and ability, yet when about eighty years of age, she fell a victim to the witchcraft craze, and in July, 1692, was arrested tried and convicted of the alleged crime of bewitching John Carr, but escaped execu- tion for some unexplained reason, but probably because the whole infamous bus. iness broke down under its own horrors before her turn came. The character of the evidence used against her is shown by the following interesting specimen: William Carr, in his deposition, testified that: "About thirteen years ago, present- ly after some difference that happened to he between my honored father, Mr. George Carr and Mrs. Bradbury, the pris- oner at the bar, upon a Sabbath at noon, as we were riding home by the house of Captain Thomas Bradbury, I saw Mrs. Bradbury go into her gate, turn the cor- ner of, and immediately there darted ont of the gate a blue boar, and darted at my father's horse's legs, which made him stumble; but I saw it no more. And my father said, "Boys, what did you see?' And we both said, 'A blue boar.'" Mrs. Bradbury was defended by Major Robert Pike, of whom the historian of the Salem witchcraft delusion says: "Not a voice comes down to us of deliberate and effect- ive hostility to the movement, except that of Robert Pike in his cool, close and pow- erful argumentative appeal to the judges
who were-trying the witchcraft cases. It stands out against the deep blackness of those proceedings like a pillar of light upon a starless midnight sky." Mr. Boire is also descended directly from Major Pike through his daughter Sarah by her marriage to the Reverend John Stockman. Thomas Bradbury was born in Essex connty, England, in 1610, and early in 1634 he appeared in Agamentiens. now York, Maine, as the agent of Sir Fer- nando Gorges, the proprietor of the Prov- ince of Maine. He was one of the found- ers of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and one of the foremost citizens there for more than half a century. He held at various times the office of schoolmaster of the town, town clerk, deputy to the general court, county recorder, Associate Judge and captain of the military company. At the time Mr. Boice's parents settled in Ohio that part of the country was largely an unbroken forest. Those were the days of the log cabin and the spinning wheel. Money was very scarce and even calico was fifty cents a yard, so the people were compelled to raise flax out of which they made the greater part of their clothing. After a time sheep were introduced and then they had linsey-woolsey, and later, home-made flannel and jeans. His father when quite a young man learned the carpenter's trade, and during his ear- ly manhood was a contractor and builder. and built many of the houses, barns and bridges in that vicinity. He held various township offices, such as trustee, clerk, etc. In politics he was strongly anti-
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slavery, and one of the original Repub- licans. He supported the Free Soil ticket in 1852, and during the war for the Union he belonged to the class of Republicans known as Radicals. He felt that slavery had made war upon the Union, and should perish as the only means of per- manent peace. The Bradbury families in Ohio were equally radical upon the slav- ery question and were all Republicans. The village of Kyger, which was the vot- ing place of Cheshire township, was a sub-station of the underground railroad. Mr. Boice, as soon as he was old enough, worked upon his father's farm during the summer and attended the district school at Kyger during the winter, until the sec- ond year of the war for the Union. Ou August 7, 1862, he volunteered as a pri- vate in Company B, Ninety-first Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years. It was made up from Gallia, Law- rence, Scioto, Adams, Pike and Jackson counties, and was first assembled at Portsmouth, Ohio, where it remained about two weeks. This time was spent in building quarters and hard drilling. August 26, it received its guns, and on the same day five companies, including B, were sent to the mouth of the Big Sandy River to repel a threatened raid, but as it did not materialize, they were sent to Ironton, Ohio, where a few days later the remainder of the regiment joined them, and on September 7, 1862, it was regu- larly mustered into the U. S. service for three years. When the regiment was mus- tered, Mr. Boice was appointed one of
the corporals of Company B. At that time the Confederates were making strong efforts to drive the Union forces back to the Ohio in the States of Ken- tucky and Virginia. Colonel Lightburn had been defeated at Fayetteville, West Virginia, and was retreating down the Kanawha, and the 91st was sent to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to assist in checking the enemy. It arrived there September 14 and remained there until the 26th, when it started on its first raid up the Kanawha. The object of this raid was to surprise, and if possible to capture a Confederate camp at Buffalo. The regiment marched all night and struck the enemy just at daylight, com- pletely surprising them, and their whole force fled, leaving their camp in the hands of the Yankees. They were just getting breakfast and were well supplied with chickens and turkeys, but the captors did not have time to eat them. They also had large quantities of dry goods, boots and shoes, which they had taken from the raided stores, some of which were appro- priated by the Union boys. The cavalry which was to co-operate with the 91st, did not reach the place assigned to it on time, so most of the Confederates es- caped. The regiment here first heard the shriek of hostile shells, but fortunately they were all aimed too high, and their only effect was to make the boys' hair stand on end. In October the 91st, with about ten thousand other troops, ad- vanced up the Kanawha, drove the enemy out and re-established the outpost at
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Fayetteville. Here it built winter quar- ters, and during the winter and spring it did much hard guard duty and drilling. and assisted in building a strong fort, which soon became useful. In May, 1863. the Confederates made a two days' at- tack upon Fayetteville, but were repulsed. The fighting consisted largely of an ar- tillery duel, and as the Union forces were protected by forts, their losses were small. In July the regiment was sent in pursuit of Morgan, then making his raid through Ohio, but failed to meet his forces, except to capture thirty of his men. After Morgan and his men had been captured it returned to Fayetteville. The regiment took part in two expeditions to Lewisburg in the fall of 1863. The first was in November, and is chiefly to be re- membered on account of its hard march- ing. as the enemy rapidly retreated, and about the only satisfaction the Union forces got out of it, was the burning of the Confederates' fine winter quarters. The second was in December, and again the enemy failed to stand for a fight, but had just rebuilt their winter quarters. which were again burned. On the return trip in both cases, the weather was ex- ceedingly bad and the suffering great. The great campaign of the war began in 1864, and the 91st had its full share of its hardships and honors. The regiment marched 1,229 miles, and was engaged in twelve battles during that year, including Sheridan's battles in the Shenandoah valley. Of this regiment it may be said that it never failed to respond to any call
made upon it, and always acquitted itself with honor. Mr. Boice participated in all the battles and marches of his regiment up to the time he was wounded, except in May and June, 1864, when he was sick with the measles and complications re- sulting therefrom. The regiment was part of the Second Brigade, Second Di- vision of the "Army of West Virginia." commanded by General Crook, and formed part of General Sheridan's force in the Shenandoah valley. The regi- ment's greatest victory was the battle of Carter's farm. or Stephenson's depot, fought July 20, 1864. It was one of the most brilliant victories of the war, but owing to the comparatively small num- bers engaged, and the other great events then transpiring. little was said about it at the time. For gallantry, it has rarely. if ever, been surpassed. Just before the charge the situation was this: the Con- federates were formed in double line of battle across the pike leading from Mar- tinsburg to Winchester, upon elevated ground in the edge of a wood, about three miles north of Winchester, and consisted of General Ramseur's division of Early's army, composed of three brigades of in- fantry. Its center rested upon the pike, at which point a battery of artillery of four twelve-pound guns was located, and more in reserve: its flanks were protected by two brigades of cavalry, Vaughan's and Jackson's, a force more than double that of the Union, acting strictly on the defensive, and all under the command of Major General Ramseur. Opposed to this
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force and about to assault it was the Sec- ond Brigade, Second Division of the Army of West Virginia, composed of the 91st and 34th Ohio, and 9th and 14th West Virginia regiments, containing at that time about 1,350 men, commanded by Col. I. H. Duval, and formed in a single line of battle across the pike, parallel to and about three- fourths of a mile north of the enemy. Its center rested on the pike, the Ohio regi- ments being east, and the Virginia west of the pike; the 91st Ohio and 9th Vir- ginia ocenpied the center of the line; on the flanks were about 1,200 cavalry-the whole commanded by General Averell. There were twelve pieces of artillery in rear of the infantry, but when the tug of war came, they could not fire. The ground between the lines was open meadows, nearly level. About 2 P. M. the com- mand, forward, was given, and this single line, without any reserves or supports, in full view of the enemy and without any protection whatever, but with a confi- dence born of uniform success, moved for- ward in perfect order at right shoulder arms, as if going on parade. The line continued to advance in ordinary time with skirmishes in front until within about three hundred yards of the enemy's line, when the command to charge was given, and with a yell the whole line rushed forward at a run until within about seventy-five yards of the enemy, when it was halted and every man instinctively lay down, and just at this moment the Confederates fired
their principal volley, which most- ly passed over the men without in- jury. The I'nion line immediately arose and with a mighty voll rushed upon the enemy and broke through his center, and the whole line gave way in panie which also broke the second line and the whole fled in confu- sion. Many of the men threw away their guns and ent off their cartridge boxes and belts. It was partly a hand-to-hand contest and guns were clubbed. The 91st Ohio and 9th Virginia captured the four cannon in the pike, two each, but with heavy loss, as the guns had been firing grape and canister. The 9tst lost in this charge 68 men killed and wounded out of a total of a little over 300 men. The total Union Joss in killed and wounded was 208. The enemy left 203 killed and wounded upon the field, including Gener- als Lewis and Lilly wounded, and Colonel Board killed. Their total loss, including prisoners, was over 400. The Union forces picked up on the battle field about 1,000 rifles which the enemy had thrown away. The Richmond Examiner of that period described this action as "the de- plorable affair in which Ramseur's divis- ion was humiliated in the dust." At the battle of Halltown. during Sheridan's campaign. August 24, 1864, Mr. Boice was severely wounded by a ritle shot in his right arm, resulting in the resection of the middle third of the humerus. This wound came near being fatal, but by good forinne he recovered, although it was more than a year before the wound final-
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ly healed. It left him permanently dis- abled and he was honorably discharged on account of this disability, May 29, 1865. In the fall of 1865 he entered the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, as a student, and graduated in June, 1869. He belonged to the Philomathean Liter- ary Society of that institution, and was considered one of the best debaters in college at that time. He was one of the representatives of his society in its lit- erary exhibition at commencement in 1868. While at college he commenced the study of law, and afterwards finished his reading with his uncle, Hon. Joseph Bradbury of Gallia county, and was ad- mitted to the Ohio bar at AAthens, in Sep- tember, 1870. He went to Indianapolis in November, 1870, and formed a law part- nership with his college classmate, John L. MeMaster, now one of the judges of the Marion Supreme Court. This part- nership lasted nearly twenty-one years. He stands high as a citizen and in his profession. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He cast his first vote in the hos- pital at Baltimore, Maryland, in October, 1864, as a resident of Gallia county, Ohio. Ohio allowed her soldiers to vote as if in the county of their residence. He re- covered sufficiently to travel, and was giv- en a furlough to go home in November, and got home on the day of the Presi- dential election and cast his vote for the re-election of President Lincoln. From that day to this he has voted at every Presidential, State, county, township and city election. Mr. Boice has always taken
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an active interest in politics, although he has never sought office, and the only civil office he ever held was that of treasurer of his native township. His mother was twice married. Her first husband was Thomas Russell. She was married to Jacob Boice December 11, 1834, and died October 18, 1884. His father died No- vember 28, 1894. Mr. Boice is a member of the Delta Tau Delta Greek letter fra- ternity; Geo. H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., and also of the Union Veteran Legion; the State Bar Association of Indiana and the Indianapolis Bar Association. He is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, and of the Supreme Court of Indiana and the Federal Courts of Indiana. He is a member of the Com- mercial Club of Indianapolis, and of the University Club of Indiana. Mr. Boice was married August 8, 1872, to Adela Verena Johnson, eldest daughter of the late Dr. William P. Johnson, well known as a skilled surgeon, and as the surgeon of the 18th O. V. I. regiment during the war, and an influential citizen of Ohio, where he represented Athens county in the Legislature, and wielded a strong in- fluence in his part of the State. Dr. John- son became a citizen of Indianapolis in 1869, and there were few more widely and favorably known either in public life or professionally. Mr. and Mrs. Boice have one son, Parker Johnson Boice, who graduated from Princeton University in 1897. They are members of the First Presbyterian church of Indianapolis. Mr. Boice was one of the organizers of the
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FRANCIS M. TRISSAL.
Francis Marion Trissal was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, September 30, 1847. His father, Joseph Trissal, a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, born in 1820, acquired a thorough edu- cation in the State of Ohio and moved to Indiana in 1849, where he engaged in school teaching as a profession. He was numbered as one of the pioneer "Hoosier schoolmasters," teaching in Cass, Miami and other Indiana counties until his death, which occurred in Miami county in 1863. His mother, whose maiden name was Phoebe MeGriff, was born in 1822 and died in 1849, when the subject of this sketch was but two years old. Her re- mote ancestors were from Scotland. Her grandfather on the maternal side, served in the Revolutionary war with General Francis Marion, hence the name given our subject. The early education of Francis M. was obtained principally under the tutorship of his father and in the common schools of Indiana. The death of his father while he was yet a youth necessi- tated his self-dependence. In his case, like many others, where there was no way provided he had to make one. Hle worked on a farm and in other ocenpations re- quiring physical labor, at the same time striving to better educate himself, and
succeeded. In 1865 he obtained a position as deputy clerk of the Hamilton Circuit Court, in which he served for two years, and held a position of the same kind in Howard county, Indiana, for one year. These positions brought him in associa- tion with lawyers and judges and made him ambitious to enter the legal profes- sion, which he did after a two years' course of study with General David Moss of Noblesville, Indiana, a distinguished lawyer. At the end of two years' study he became associated as partner with his law preceptor. This partnership contin- ned five years, the firm being widely known and doing a large business. While this partnership existed, he was ap- pointed prosecuting attorney for the counties of Hamilton and Madison by Governor Hendricks. He served one year, and during that time successfully prosecuted a number of criminal cases, among them a homicide case, that at- tracted unusual attention in the com- munity. He continued in the general law practice in Hamilton and adjoining coun- ties until 1888, when he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, and there engaged in practice. In 1891 he went to Chicago to engage in the specialty of corporation law. He is the general attorney for the Southern Indiana Railway Co., the Bed- ford Quarries Co., and other Indiana cor- porations whose main offices are located in Chicago. In politics Mr. Trissal is a Democrat. He is a member of the F. & .1. M. and I. O. O. F. In 1869 he was mar- ried to Miss Harriet D. Ross, daughter
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