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"Colonel Nave was married to Miss Lurena Rich Dec. 2, 1838.
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Six children were born to them, four of whom are now living and will be in attendance at his funeral. His wife died June 12, 1852.
"He was elected Captain of a company that was raised at this place for service in the Mexican war, which became Company I of the First Indiana Regiment, and of which he hecame Lieutenant- Colonel. After serving about nine months in that capacity, he resigned and returned to Danville, being sneceeded as Lientenant- Colonel by the Major, Henry S. Lane, who afterward became Gov- ernor of the State and a United States Senator.
"He served for two terms in the House of Representatives of Indiana in 1834 and 1835, and for three terms in the Senate, 1839, 1840 and 1842. He was a member of the Constitutional Conven- tion that framed the present Constitution of the State.
"He was an indomitable worker in his profession. When he undertook a eanse he sunk his identity completely in that of his elient. For many years he maintained the reputation in this and adjoining counties with the masses of the people of being a very great lawyer. He had numerous elients, and the aggregate of the fees he received would be very large. The first case that he had in our Supreme Court that I have noticed is reported in Third Blackford, being a decision of that court at the November term, 1834.
"Colonel Nave never married the second time. He reared his motherless children as best he could, and the old settlers bear testi- mony that his efforts in their behalf were earnest and untiring. For more than thirty-two years he lived a widower, and for many years his children had all been married and gone. Those who have seen Colonel Nave only of late years have seen an old man alone and lonely, and seemingly with no one to eare for him, and yet that old man onee had a pleasant home and happy family. His wife was a lady of culture and refinement, kind-hearted and universally beloved. He married her while on a visit to Tennessee. She was a teacher at that time. The few old settlers remaining who knew her, speak of her in the highest terms. Her loss to Colonel Nave was irreparable. That he had faults only shows that he was hu- man, but, in my humble judgment, the sum of his virtues greatly ontweighed his faults, and now that he is no more let us imitate the former."
From the above it will be seen that his professional career in Danville continued for nearly fifty-three years, and during all of that time it is doubtful whether the interests of any elient ever suf- fered because of any neglect on his part. He was very publie
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spirited and contributed largely to every enterprise that he thought was calculated to develop the country, and by some of them he lost large sums of money. He introduced cultivated fruits into the town of Danville and was ever ready to help disseminate seeds and plants among his neighbors.
The day (Saturday) preceding his death he caused to be filed in the Circuit Court a complaint in his own handwriting. He died in his office library-room, which he used as a bed-room, being un- willing to be removed elsewhere. He was a remarkable man in . many particulars and had prominent individual characteristics.
There have been other members of the Danville bar who have removed elsewhere and died, but the above named, Gregg, Hadley, Ogden and Nave, are all of the members of the bar who have died resident of Danville. On the death of Mr. Gregg, the bar estab- lished the precedent of having the oldest practicing lawyer to pre- side over the meeting, who was Mr. Nave, and he presided at the meetings on the deaths of Gregg, Hadley and Ogden. Joseph S. Miller presided on the occasion of the death of Mr. Nave.
In a pigeon-hole box in the clerk's office, the writer deposited copies of the Danville papers containing notices of, and the bar proceedings on, the deaths of the four gentlemen mentioned above. Should the practice be kept up, each in his tarn will have a brief but very perishable record.
Before taking up the present members of the bar, I must make mention of an old citizen of Danville, known to everybody as Judge Marvin.
HENRY H. MARVIN was born in Luzerne County, Pa., Feb. 22, 1802. While he was an infant his parents removed to Ohio. He passed the most of his boyhood with his parents in the country, helping to clear off the forests, but attended school sufficiently to get a better education than most country boys. He read law in the office of Osmer and Henry Curtis in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Colnm- bus Delaney was a law student in that office at that time.
He located in Danville in December, 1831, having previously passed through the place on his way to the State of Illinois, where he staied something like a year before he returned. In locating at Dan- ville, he preceded Colonel Nave afew days. He began the practice of law immediately but in an irregular way, for he was not admitted to the bar until in 1834. Before his admission to the bar he taught a grammar school, probably the first school in Danville in which grammar was taught.
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In those days, to be admitted to the bar and be anthorized to practice law was not the easy thing that it now is, though it takes as long now to make a good lawyer as it did then. While no easier or shorter road has been found to good lawyership, yet by virtue of the present Constitution of the State, all barriers to the bar have been removed, as to all males twenty-one years of age possessing a good moral character. The great majority of the legal profession in Indiana, to-day, were admitted to the bar under the present Con- stitution, and I think it would be interesting to some to know something of the steps taken by the old lawyers to be admitted. Beside evidence as to the moral character of the applicant, he had to undergo an examination by a committee composed of members of the bar appointed by the court for the purpose, as to his knowl- edge of law and his qualifications generally to practice. That ex- amination had to be followed by two others, that is by the two presiding judges of two judicial circuits, and if all sneh examina- tions proved satisfactory, the applicant was, on taking the proper oath, duly admitted to the bar and licensed as a practicing lawyer. Mr. Marvin has kindly furnished mne with the following certificates relating to his admission, which I give verbatim.
"STATE OF INDIANA, { s. Hendricks Circuit Court, October Term, 1832.
" Hendricks County, S
"I, Simon T. Hadley, Clerk of said court, do hereby certify that at said term of said court it was, oa motion, ordered to be certified that Henry H. Marvin was a man of good moral character. I do therefore hereby certify that he (the said Marvin) is a man of good moral character.
"Gven under my hand with the seal of the court affixed at Danville this 6th day of July, A. D. 1833.
Seal of the Cir- cuit Court of Hendricks County, In- diana. Indorsed "Certificate of -
"S. T. HADLEY, Clerk."
. Moral Character."
The seal was a mere iuk scroll, in a square form.
" THE HON. B. F. MORRIS- "President of the Fifth Judicial Circuit :
"The undersigned having. examined Mr. Henry H. Marvin
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touching his qualification to practice law, recommend him to your honor for a license.
" Danville, Oct. 13, 1834.
"J. MORRISON, "W. QUARLES, " WILLIAM HEROD,
" CHRISTIAN C. NAVE,
"CALVIN FLETCHER."
"STATE OF INDIANA, TO-WIT :
"We, Bethnel F. Morris, President Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and Amory Kinney, President Judge of the Seventh Judi- cial Circuit of the State of Irdiana, do certify that Henry H. Mar- vin has produced to us satisfactory evidence of his good moral character, and we having examined him tonching his qualifications to practice law, do hereby license and permit him, the said Henry H. Marvin, to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in all the Circuit and inferior Cours of said State.
"Given under our hands and seals, this 20th day of October, A. D. 1834. "B. F. MORRIS. [L. s.] "AMORY KINNEY. [L. s.]"
The seals were ink scrolls. Annexed to the foregoing certificate of the two judges were two certificates of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Putnam County. The first must have been considered in- sufficient, for the second cove's the same and more ground, to-wit: " STATE OF INDIANA,
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"I, Arthur McGanghey, Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, do certify that the above licensed Henry H. Marvin was, by order of the Circuit Court, admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in this county, and that he took the oath re- quired by law.
"Given under my hand and the seal of said court
[SEAL.] at my office in Greencastle, on the 21st day of
October, 1834. A. MeGAUOHEY, Clerk."
"THE STATE OF INDIANA, SS. 1834, Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Putnam Circuit Court, October Terin,
" Putnam County,
"Beit remembered, that on the above day of the above term of the above court, before the court in session, personally appeared the with- in named Henry H. Marvin, a id took an oath to support the Consti-
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tution of the United States and the Constitution of this State; and an oath of office, to-wit : That he will, in all things, faithfully execute the duties of an attorney and counselor at law according to the best of his understanding and abilities; whereupon said Marvin was fully admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law agrecably to the within license, and to law.
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"In witness whereof I, Arthur McGanghey, Clerk of said Court, hereunto set my hand and affix the scal of said court, at Greencastle, this 21st day of October, 1834.
"A. MOGAUGHEY, Clerk."
The scals used by Clerk McGanghey were not ink scrolls, but stamped impressions. Mr. Marvin has not practiced any since the writer came here in 1863, and probably had not for a number of years before. He is much interested in the study of astronomy, and has some theories of his own which he has talked of publishing.
Let us now turn to the present active members of the bar. I will name them in the order of the dates of their admission. All were admitted to the bar, for the first time, at Danville. It gives me pleasure to say that I believe them to be as reliable and honor- able, bothi in their professional and private lives, as are the members of any bar in the State. For legal learning and natural ability I believe they will compare favorably with the bar of any mere county seat in the State. I have no hesitation in saying that their clients need have no fears but that their business will be faithfully attended to.
JOSEPH S. MILLER, born Sept. 11, 1826, in Highland County, Ohio. Came with his parents to Hendricks County in April, 1835. They removed to Danville in December following. He read law at Danville in the office of William C. Wilson, now of Lafayette, Ind., and was admitted to the bar in Danville, Nov. 20, 1850, and has been in practice there ever since. In December, 1865, he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the counties of Hendricks, Marion and Johnson, by Conrad Baker, Lieutenant-Governor, act- ing as Governor, to fill a vacancy. At the next ensuing election he was elected to that place for a term of two years. He was married to Miss Ellean Patty on the 16th day of November, IS4S, and after her death he was married to Miss Jane Fletcher, both of Hendricks County. He has four children. On the 20th day of April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, under the call for three-months men, and was the first
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man in Hendricks County to volunteer. He raised the company, which was the only company raised in Hendricks County for the three-months service, and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant, and served as such until the expiration of the term of enlistment. In politics he is a Republican, and it is worthy of mention that he was a delegate from Indiana in the convention at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1856, that nominated Fremont for President. He has been longer in the practice of law than any man in Danville. He is not a member of any church.
LEANDER M. CAMPBELL was born in Mason County, Ky., Feb. 12, 1833. His education was obtained in the country schools. He read law books and taught school alternately for several years, and spent one winter in the law office of his brother, T. C. Campbell, at Maysville, Ky. He came to Hendricks County in the winter of 1852. He taught school in the south part of the county for a while, and was admitted to the bar in Danville, April 7, 1854, where he has practiced law ever since. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the counties of Hendricks and Putnam for a term of two years. No salary was paid the Prosecuting Attorney at that time. His compensation depended solely on fees received for convictions. For one year he was in partnership with John V. Hadley, in the law. He is now State Senator for the counties of Hendricks and Putnam, having been elected to that position in 1884. He is married and has two grown daughters, one of whom is the wife of Attorney Thad. S. Adams. The other is unmarried and is study- ing painting, favorable notices of her work having appeared from time to time in the press. Mr. Campbell states that he has not , missed attendance at any term of court since his admission to che bar. He is a Republican in politics. Does not belong to any church.
CHARLES FOLEY was born Jan. 3, 1835, at Indianapolis, Ind. His mother died in the fall of 1839, he being the only surviving child. In the spring of 1843 his father removed to a farm four miles north of the city, near where Crown Hill Cemetery now is, where he staid most of the time until he attained his majority. He attended the neighborhood schools some of winters, they being typical schools of the rural districts of Indiana of those days, the Marion County Seminary some, and Hanover College the first year of the scien- tific course. He spent two winters teaching in Hendricks County, and in the spring of 1857 started to the West with an outfit of sur- veyor's instruments, and after visiting Nebraska and Iowa located
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in Harrison County, Mo., where he followed surveying and teach- ing until the breaking out of the war in 1861, when he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and entered the law office of the late Horatio C. Newcomb and John S. Tarkington, as a student, and in the spring of 1863 located at Danville to practice law. He was admitted to the bar at the next ensuing term, the August term, 1863, of the Hendricks Cirenit Court, and has practiced there continuously ever since, except during 100-days service in the summer of 1864, as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment Indiana Volunteers. In the fall of 1863 he formed a partnership with the late Simon T. Hadley in the practice of the law, which continued until the spring of 1864, when he enlisted in the above- named service. On his return from the service he occupied a room for several years as an office with Mr. Hadley, without being in partnership. He was married Jan. 31, 1867, to Miss Eliza Ann Leach, of Pittsboro, Hendricks County. They have one child, a boy, in his ninth year. He is a Republican in politics. His anti- slavery views and the fact that he had been a Republican candi- date for Presidential Elector in Missouri, in 1860, hastened his exit from that State. He does not belong to any church.
JOHN V. HADLEY was born Oct. 31, 1839, in Hendricks County; was educated in the common schools of the county. Enlisted Aug. 20, 1861, in Company B, Seventh Indiana Volunteers. He served until Feb. 22, 1865. He participated in a number of battles, no- tably Port Republie, the second battle of Bull Run, where he received a flesh wound, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and the Wil- derness, beside minor engagements. On the 5th day of May, 1864, he was taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness. He seems to have gone the rounds of the rebel prisons, for he was an inmate of prisons in Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina. He escaped with some other prisoners Nov. 4, 1864, and after much hardship and many exciting adventures he and party reached the Union forces at Knoxville, Tenn., Dee. 10 following. He was dis- charged at Washington City. He read law in Danville, was ad- mitted to the bar in June, 1866, and has been in the practice at that place ever since, having been in partnership with Leander M. Campbell, Jesse S. Ogden (now deceased), Richard B. Blake and Enoch G. Hogate. In the winter of 1884 the firm of Hadley, Ho- gate & Blake was dissolved, and Mr. Hadley is now alone. In the early part of his professional career he varied the monotony of waiting for clients by writing a pamphlet of his prison life and
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experiences in making his escape, which had a good sale in the county. He was married March 15, 1865, to Miss Mary J. Hill, of Hendricks County. They have three children. He owns a large farm and takes much interest in Hereford cattle, with which he is experimenting. He is President of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Danville, and is a member of the Christian church. He is Republican in politics.
THOMAS J. COFER was born Sept. 2, 1839, in Hendricks County, and was reared on a farm four miles north of Danville. His edn- cation was mostly acquired at the district school of the neighbor- hood. He enlisted as a private in Company K, Sixteenth Regi- ment Indiana Volunteer Infantry for one year, and served until the expiration of the term of enlistment. Being in Washington City and not in service, on tlie 23d day of May, 1862, he went to Fredericksburg, Va., on a visit to the Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers. The next day he went with the regiment to the - Shenandoah Valley and remained there until June 9, 1862, in the meantime participating in the battle of Port Republic, at which he was wounded and taken prisoner by the rebels. From thence he was taken to various rebel prisons, and was paroled in Decem- ber, 1862. He then came back to Hendricks County. He re-en- listed in the fall of 1863 in Company I, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, becoming First Lieutenant and afterward Captain, and served until Sept. 8, 1865, when he was finally discharged. He returned again to Hendricks County and engaged in the dry-goods trade, at which he continued until the year 1872, when he was admitted to the bar in Danville, at which place and business he has continued ever since. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney in the fall of 1872, and served for the term, two years. Since his term of office ex- pired he has served four years as Deputy Prosecutor. He is now in partnership with Newton M. Taylor, in the practice of law. He was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Mary S. Scearce, daughter of William Scearce, a neighbor of his father's. They have two children, girls, living. In politics he is a Republican. He does not belong to any church organization.
RICHARD B. BLARE was born in Hendricks County, Ind., Marchi 14, 1850. He graduated in June, 1872, at Asbury, now De Pauw, University, at Greencastle, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in Danville, Oct. 16, 1872, ar.d has continued in the practice of law at that place ever since. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney for one term, serving from 1878 to 1880. He is in partnership
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with Enoch G. Hogate in the practice of law. He was married to Miss Antoinette E. Moore, of Danville, Dec. 22, 1874. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church about fourteen years, having joined while attending school at Greencastle.
ENOCH G. HOGATE was born Sept. 16, 1849, at Centerton, Salem Co., N. J. He graduated at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in June, 1872. On the 16th day of October, 1872, he was admitted to the bar in Danville, and has practiced law there continuously ever since. He is in partnership with Richard B. Blake. He was married May 8, 1873, to Miss Mary J. Matlock, of Danville, who died leaving him three children. He was married a second time, Aug. 10, 1881, to Miss Anna C. Huston, of Danville. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1866.
NEWTON M. TAYLOR was born Oct. 3, 1847, at Attica, Fount- ain Co., Ind. Was educated in the public schools of that place and at Asbury University, at Greencastle, Ind., where he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1873. He read law for one year at Greencastle with Brown & Hanna, attorneys, and graduated at the Law School of the State University at Blooming- ton, Ind., in 1875, after a one-year course there. He served as a private in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regi- ment Indiana Volunteers, in the 100-days service, in the sum- mer of 1864. Was married Ang. 11, 1875, to Miss Lu Ensey, of Annapolis, Parke Co., Ind .; removed to Danville immedi- ately, was admitted to the bar, where he has been in the prac- tice of the law ever since. He is now in partnership with Thomas J. Cofer. Was elected Prosecuting Attorney in the fall of 1880 for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit for a term of two years. He has two children. Is a Republican in politics. Does not belong to any church, but is a Unitarian in faith.
JAMES O. PARKER was born Oct. 11, 1853, at Jonesville, Bar- tholomew Co., Ind. Received his education in the public schools. Read law in Danville and was admitted to the bar in 1876. Practiced law until the year 1880, when he went into the dry- goods business with his father-in-law, William N. Crabb, in which business he continued until some time in 1881, when he be- came connected as editor and publisher, with The Hendricks County Republican, of which paper he finally became sole editor and publisher. He sold out the Republican in April, 1885, to Messrs. Moffett & Riddle, and has resumed the practice of law. He is in partnership with James A. Downard in the law and ab-
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stracting titles. Mr. Parker was married to Miss Victoria J. Crabb, of Danville, on the 31st day of October, 1877. They have two children: He is a member of the Methodist church.
THAD. S. ADAMS was born Nov. 6, 1853, in Hendricks County. Educated in the common schools of the county. Read law in Danville and was admitted to the bar at that place in the spring of 1877. Was married May 6, 1880, to Miss Effie Campbell, of Dan- ville, daughter of Attorney Leander M. Campbell. They have one child. Is Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Hendricks County. Is Republican in politics. Does not belong to any church.
JAMES A. DOWNARD was born Nov. 15, 1855, in Hendricks County. Attended the common schools and Butler University (at Irvington, Ind). He read law at Danville and was admitted to the bar at that place in June, 1878. He is in the practice and is in part- nership with James O. Parker in the law and in abstracting titles and loaning funds. He was married May 22, 1884, to Miss Don- aldson, of Danville. He does not belong to any church and is a Republican.
MURAT W. HOPEINS was born' Oct. 20, 1857, in Hendricks County. Was edneated in the common schools of the county. He graduated in the Law Department of the Iowa State University; located at Iowa City, State of Iowa, in June, 1881. Was admitted to the bar in Danville in September, 18$1. He was married April 20, 1882, and has one child. He is a partner of Robert Hollowell in the practice of law. Is a member of the Christian or Disciples' church. He is a Democrat in politics ..
. GEORGE W. BRILL was born in Hendricks County, Dee. 16, 1859. Received his education in the common schools of the county and at the Central Normal College at Danville. Read law in Danville and was admitted to the bar at that place in June, 1883, where he has since been engaged in the practice. He is a Democrat in polities. Does not belong to any church, and is not married.
CASSIUS CLAY HADLEY was born in Hendricks County. He at- tended the common schools of the county, the Central Normal School at Danville, and Butler University at Irvington, Ind. He read, law in Danville, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1883. On the dissolution of the la'v firm of Hadley, Hogate & Blake, in February, 1885, he became clerk to Mr. Hadley, of that firm, in which capacity he is now engaged. Is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Christian church. Is not married.
ROBERT HOLLOWELL was born Jan. 6, 1858, in Parke County, Ind.
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Was educated at the common schools of the county. Read law some in Danville, and graduated in the Law Department of the State University of Michigan in the spring of 1883. Was admitted to the bar in Danville in September, 1883. Is a partner in the practice of law with Murat W. Hopkins. Is a Republican in politics. He is not married.
GEORGE C. HARVEY was born in Rockville, Parke Co., Ind. At- tended Wabash College four years. Read law in Danville, and was admitted to the bar there in September, 1SS4. Is now in the practice. He is the Corporation Clerk. His father was killed at the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, as Captain of Company I, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers. He is not married, belongs to no church, and is a Republican.
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