Hendricks County, Indiana - Chapter 7: The Bar, 1885

"When the vvriter of this sketch located at Danville, in the sprinoof 1S63, to practice law, he found James M. Grecrg, Christian C. Nave. Joseph S. Miller, Leander M. Campbell, Peter S. Kcnnedj and Sinaou T. Fladley engaged in the practice of that profession at that place. Of these, Mr. Kennedy afterward removed to CrawfordsviUe, Ind., where he is engaged in the practice in connection with his son. Gregg, Iladley and Nave have died. I will give a sketch of each of these deceased brethren in the order in whicli their deaths occurred, including .J. S. Ogden who was not in the practice at the time mentioned, IS'.l-j, and who died after the death of Mr. Hadiey and before that of Mr. Nave.

jAiXES M. Geegg. - Mr. Gregg ^vas the first resident attorney of Danville to die. He died in June, 1SG9. The bar promptly held a meeting on the occasion, Colonel C. C. Nave presiding, and the writer of this acting as secretary. B,em.arks were made by all of the members of the bar, the number of whom had increased since the writer located in Danville in 1SG3, and all bore testimony to the many excellent characteristics of the deceased. He was respected by all, botli in and out of the profession, and his death was regretted by the entire community. The remarks of Simon T. Hadiey were the most replete with the biographical facts of Mr. Gregg's life, and v,'ere as follows:

"The deceased was b^rn in Patiick County, in the State of Virginia, on the 20th day of June, 1S06, and was reared in that county. He emigrated from there to this county in January, 1S30, stopping at -Judge Jessup's, in the southeast corner of the county, for about eighteen months, most of which time he was employed in making rails and clearing up the forest. In September, 1831, he came to this place (Danville) and was employed by James J. Giyen, the only dry-goods merchant in town, as clerk in the store. In September, 1S33, he left the store and commenced writing in the clerk's office for me as deputy. _In October, lS3-i, be was appointed County Surveyor, but still continued with me in the clerk's office writing, when not engaged iu surveying. In 1S37 he was elected Clerk without opposition. He took the office at the close of my term in 1S3S, and served one term of seven years, during which time he made himself acquainted with the law, and at the close of his term, not being re-elected, he commenced the practice of law with good success. Since that time he was elected to and served one term in Congress; also one term in the State Legislature."

Mr. Gregg was elected to Congress in the fall of the memorable campaign year, 1S56. His election to the Legislature occurred early during tL ; war of the Rebellion. To Congress he went as a Democrat. To the Legislature he was elected by the combined Union sentiment of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

SnioN T. Hadley. - IMr. Hadley died March 7, 1872. The writer cannot describe the deceased better than by quoting the remarks made by him at the bar meeting on the occasion of Mr. Hadley's death, to wit:

"I came to Danville in 1S63 and formed a partnership with Mr. Hadley in the practice of law, which continued until I enlisted in the army in 186i. On my return the partnership was not renewed, but I occupied a roo:n with him as an office for three or four years, thus having good opportunities to study and learn his character on which I put tlie following estimate: He was honest and desired justice to all persons. This is saying very much. His leading traits were industry and patience. He was remarkably even teuipered. He was an indefatigable worker. If he was intemperate in anything, it was in working, a kind of intemperance most rare. By his industry, patience and fidelity he built up a reputation with tlie masses of the community for integrity and reliability, such as no other man in the county ever attained, and such as probably none of us will ever attain. With the masses, his opinion on business matters had the weight of aatliority; it was law. He was so very cautious that he was timid. He seldom or never in matters he deemed important, gave counsel or advised people, on the strength of his own opinion. Every tMng he undertook was well weighed and considered. He was not calculated to be a leader in the enterprises of men. His mental organization and constitution were such that he was best fitted to fill a place or post whose duties would be discharged according to rules and regulations, and no man would be more faitliful in such a post. He possessed laroje secretiveness of cliaracter, keeping liis thoughts, plans and designs to himself and having few confidants. Indeed, it took a long time of close observation to learn his character. Of his religions convictions, his faith and hopes, I know but little. I only know that once he dropped e.xpressions that indicated his belief in the doctrine of the sovereignty of God in ordering and shaping the affairs of men.

" Our brother was born in North Carolina, Sept. 23, ISOl. He learned the saddler's trade in 1S18. Commenced teaching school in 1S19. Married Mary Iladley in 1824. Moved to Plendricks County in 1S2G. "Was elected Clerk and Recorder in 1S30 and commenced the discharge of the duties of those offices in 1831. He moved to Danville in the spring of 1832, nearly forty years ago. He was re-elected Recorder in 1837, again in 1844, again in 1851 and again in 1855. He served as Clerk and Recorder both seven years, and as Recorder alone twenty-two years. He was President of the'Bank in Danville [The First National] from its organization in 1S63 until within two or three months past, and contributed much to the success of that institution. He was a Director of it at the lime of his death.

"His wife died Jan. 12, 1866, and since then the loss of her society made him somewhat lonely. In a brief notice I prepared of her death for publication, I said of her, 'With meekness and humility she discharged her daily round of duties, until the messenger of death called her hence.' How truly can we speak thus of our brother. Mr. Hadley and his wii'e greatly resembled each other in many traits of character. He died respected by all and beloved by a great many."

Mr. Hadley never read law. His practice was confined to deed writing and probate business, almost exclusivsly, the routine of which he picked up while serving as Clerk and Recorder, and he did much of such business. The statutes and a small probate work constituted his law library, yet niany people, particularly the pioneer settlers and their children, sought his opinion on quite a variety of legal questions, and I doubt whether I ever saw a man who could reach as correct a conclusion atid give as good advice from the common-sense standpoint alone as he; and in his line of work his opinion was law withttie masses. Hs possessed good natural talent for jlld^;^ng human nature.

where he resided up to the time of his death. His parents were poor, and quite earl j he was compelled to help support himself and the family by such work as a hoy can get in and about a countrv village. He had a desire for an education and for a while paid his tuition in the Danville school by doing janitor's work. In August, ISCl, he enlisted as a private in the Seventh Indiana Infantry, and was wounded in the right hand at the battle of Winchester where his service ceased. He returned to Dauville and was elected Recorder of the county on the Republican ticket, which ofhce he filled until the end of his terra. "\V hile serving as Recorder he read law and was admitted to the bar in June, 1S67. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1S70, and to the" Legislature in 1S72. He formed a partnership in the law with John V. Hadley, which continued up to the time of his ceatb. He was constituted for action rather than reflection, in the ^)ractice of the law. He was a fluent speaker. He left many friends, and a wife and five children who live in Danville.

Christian C. N" aye. - Mr. I^ave is the fourth and last resident of the Danville bar that has died. The remarks of the writer at the bar meeting on the occasion jf his death so fully cover his biography that I copy the same:

"Christian C. Nave was U ru Aug. 22, 1803, and died on Sunday, Aug. 3, ISSi, being al nost eighty-one years old. Of his boyhood I know nothing. Be read law with Colonel James P. Taylor, at Elizabethtown, in Carter County, Tenn. On the 2Sthday of March, 1S2T, he was admitted to the bar at that place to practice law. He followed his pr')fession there until the fall of 1S31, when he started out to find aiotherplace to locate, going to the State of Georgia and from chers to Springfield, 111., and from there to Indianapolis, Ind. On the way to the latter place he passed through the town of Danville, staying all night here Dec. 5, 1S31, being the first time h'3 ever was here. At Inditinapolis he was cautioned against locating in a malarious region, and was advised to come to Danville, because the situation was high and rolling. Accordingly he returned to Danville and established himself in the practice of the law Dec. 19, 1S31, andhad been here continuously ever since in that business, except while he was serving in the Mexlcau war. When lie came to Dauville to locate he found that the venerable Jadge Marvin had preceded him a few days in beginning the practice of the law in this place.

"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 lie became Lieutenant- Colonel. After serving about nine months in that capacity, he resigned and returned to Danville, being succeeded as Lieutenant- Colonel by the Major, Henry S. Lane, who afterward became Governor of the State and a United States Senator.

"He served for two terms in the House of Representatives of Indiana in ISSiand 1S35, and for three terms in the Senate, 1S39, 1S40 and 1842. He was a !nember of the Constitutional Convention that framed the present Constitution of the State.

"He was an indomitable worker in his profession. When he undertook a cause he sunk his identity completely in that of his client. For many years he maintained tlie reputation in this and adjoining counties with the masses of the people of being a very great lawyer. He had numerous clients, and the aggregate of the fees he received v.'ould be very larga. 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 jM"ovember term,lS34.

" Colonel Nave never married thi second time. He reared his motherless children "as best he could, and the old settlers bear testimony tliat ^lis efforts in tiieir behalf were earnest and untiring. For more than thirty-two years he lived a widower, and for many years his children liad all been married and gone. Those who liave seen Colonel Nave only of late years have seen an old man alone and lonely, and seemingly with no one to care for him, and yet that old man once had a pleasant home and happy family. His wife was a lady of cnlture and reflneraoit, 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 human, but, in my humble judgment, the sum of his virtues greatly outweighed 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 dnrino- all of that time it is doubtful whetliertho interests of any client ever suffered because of any neglect on his part. He was very public spirited and contributed largely to every enterprise tliat he tlionglit was calculated to develop tlie 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 unwilling to be removed elsewhere. He was a remarkable man in I many particulai-s and had prominent individual characteristics. Tliere have been otlier members of the Danville bar wdio 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. Grego-, the bar'established the precedent of having the oldest practicing lawyer to preside over the meeting, who was Air. 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 pigeoji-liole bo.x 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 turn will have a brief but very perishable record.

Hexky H. Maevin was born in Luzerne County, Pa., Feb. 22, 1802. While he was an infant his parents removed to Ohio. He passed the most of Iiis bojhood with his parents in the country, helping to clear off the forests, but attended school sufficiently to get a better education than most country bo3"S. He read law in the office of Osmer and Henry Curtis in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Columbus Delaney was a law student in that office at that time.

He located in Danville in December, 1S31, having previously passed through the place on his waj^ to the State of Illinois, where he staled something like a year before he returned. In locating at Danville , he preceded Colonel Ni" ve afew days. He began the practice of law immediately but in an irregular way, for he was not admitted to the bar until in lS34r. Before his admission to the bar he taught a grammar school, probably the first school in Danville in whicli grammar was taught.

In those days, to be admitted to the bar and be authorized to practice law was not the easy thing that it now is, thouo-h 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 birriers to the bar have been removed, as to all males twenty-one years of age possessino- a good moral character. The groat majority of the legal profession in Indiana, to-day, were admitted to the bar under the present Constitution, and I think it would be interesting to some to know something of the steps taken bf 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 knowledge of law and his qualifications generally to practice. That examination had to be followed by two others, that is by the two presiding judges of two judicial circuits, and if all such examinations proved satisfactory, the applicant was, on taking the proper oath, duly admitted to the bar and licensed as a practicing lawyer. Mr. Marvin has l^indly furnished me with tlie following certificates relating to his admission, which I give verl)atirii.

"I, Simqn T. Hadley, Clerk of said court, do hereby certify that at said term of said court it was, o^i motion, ordered to be certified that Henry H. Jlarvin was a man of good moral character. I do therefore hereby certify that he (the said Marvin) is a man of o-ood moral character.

"We, Eethuel F. _Morris, President Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and Amory Kinney, President Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of the State of Irdiana, do certify that Henry H. Marvin has produced to us sat'isfactory evidence of his good moral character, and we having examined him touching his qualifications to practice law, do hereby licmse and permit him, the said Henry H. Marvin, to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in all the Circuit and inferior Cour:s of said State.

The seals vcQr& 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 insufhcient, for the second cove /s the same and more ground, to-wit:

"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 'lounty, and that he took the oath required by law.

"Be it remembered, tliat on :he above day of the above term of the above court, before the court in session, personally appeared the %vithin named Henry H. Marvin, and took an oath to support the Constij) YUy.H.J: tution of the United States and the Constitution of this State; and an oath of ofBce, 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 agreeably to the within license, and to law.

"In witness whereof I, Arthur McGaughey, Clerk of said Court, hereunto set my hand and affix tlie seal of said court, at Greencastle, this 21st day of October, 1S31.

" A. McGauguey, ClerkP The seals used by Clerk McGaughey were not ink scrolls, but stamped impressions. Mr. Marvin has not practiced any since the writer came here in 1S63, 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 publish) no-. Let us now turn to the present active members of the bar. I will unme 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 tl-em to be as reliable and honorable, both 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 liave 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, 1S26, in Ilighlaud County, Ohio. Came with his parents to Hendricks County in April, lS3o. They removed to Danville in December following. He read law at Danville in the office of William C. Wilsou, now of Lafayette, Ind., and was admitted to the bar in Danville, Nov. 20, ISoO, and has been in practice there ever since. In December, IS^iS, he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the counties of Hendricks, Marion and Johnson, by Conrad Baker, Lieutenant-Governor, acting 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 t^^e 16th day of November, ISIS and after her death ho was married to Miss Jane Fletcher, both of Hendricks County. He has four childien. On the 20th day of April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, under the call for three-moudis men, and was the first man in Hendricks County to volunteer. He raised the company, which was the only company raised in Hendricks Conuty 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 lie 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. ' ,. -

Leandek M. Campbell was born in Mason County, Ky., Feb. 12, 1S33. 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 1S52. 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. Eo salary was paid the Prosecuting Attorney at that time. His compensation depended solely on fees received for convictitins. 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 ISSi. Ho is married and has two grown daughters, one of whom is the wife; of Attorney Thad. S. Adams. The other is unmarried and is studying painting, favorable notices of lier 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 ;he bar. He is a Republican in politics. Does not belong to any church.

Charles Foley was born Jan. 3, 1S3.5, at Indianapolis, Ind. His mother died in the fall of 1839, he being the only surviving child. In the spring of 18-13 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 Coui ty Seminary some, and Hanover College the first year of the scientific course. He spent two winters teaching in Hendricks County, and in the spring of 1857 started to the West with an outfit of surveyor's instruments, and after visiting iSTebraska and Iowa located in Harrison County, Mo., where he followed survejing and teaching until the breaking out of the war in 1861, when he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and entered the law ofHce of the late Horatio 0. Neweomb and John S. Tarkington, as a student, and in the spring of 1S63 located at Danville to practice law. He was admitted to the bar at the next ensuins: term, the August term, 1863, of the Hendricks Circuit 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 Tliirtj-'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 abovenamed service. On his return from the serrlce 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. Tiiey have one child, a boy, in his ninth year. He is a Republican in politics. His antislavery views atid the fact that he had been a Republican candidate for Presidential Elector in Missouri, in 1860, hastened his exit from that State. He does not belong to any church.

John V. Hadlet 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, ISGo. He participated in a number of battles, notably Port Republic, the second battle of Bull Run, where he received a flesh wound, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg aud the Wilderness, 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 Xov. 4, 1864, and after much hardship and many exciting adventures he and party reached tbe Union forces at Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 10 following. He was discharged at "WashingtOQ City. He read law in Danville, was admitted 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 f eceased), Richard B. Blake and Enoch G. Hogate. In the winter of 1884 the firm of Hadley, Hogate & Blake was dissolved, and Mr. Hadlej 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 experiences in making his escape, which had a good sale in tlio county. He was married March 1.5, 1S65, 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, 1S39, in Hendricks County, and was reared on a farm four miles north of Danville. His education was mostly acquired at the district school of the neighborhood. He enlisted as a private in Company K, Sixteenth Regiment 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 the 23d day of May, 1SG2, he went to Fredericksbflrg, 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, 1S62, 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 December, 1S62. lie then came back to Hendricks County. He re-enlisted in the fall of 1863 in Company I, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, becoming First Lieutenant and afterward Captain, and served until Sept. S, 186-5, 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 1S72, 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 ofKce expired 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, 1S6.5, to Mary S. Seearce, daughter of William Scearce, a neighbor of his father's. The}' have two children, girls, living. In politics he is a Republican. He does not belong to any church organization.

Richard B. Blake was born in Hendricks County, Ind., ilarch 14, 1850. He graduated in June, 1ST2, 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 ISSO. He is in partnership with Enoch G. Hogate in the practice of law. He was married to Miss Antoinette E. Moore, of Danville, Dec. 22, IST-i. 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, 1S49, at Centerton, Salem Co., N. J. He graduated at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in June, 1872. On the 16th day of October, 1S72, 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 S, 1S73, to Miss Mary J. Matlock, of Danville, who died leaving him three children. He was married a second time, Aug. 10, ISSl, to Miss Anna C. Huston, of Danville. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1866.

Newton M. Tatloe was born Oct. 3, 1847, at Attica, Fountain Co., Ind. Was educated in the public schools of that place and at Asbury University, at Greencastle, Ind., where he received 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 Bloomington, Ind., in 1875, after a one-year course there. He served as a privafe in Company E, , One Hundred and Thirty-fifth -Regiment Indiana Volunteers, in the 100-days service, in the summer of 1864. "Was married Aug. 11, 1875, to Miss Lu Ensey, of Annapolis, Parke Co., Ind.; removed to Danville immediately, was admitted to the bar, where he has been in the practice 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 0. Parker was born 03t. 11, 1853, at Jonesville, Bartholomew 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 drygoods business with his father-in-law, William N. Crabb, in which business he continued until some time in 1881, when he became connected as editor and publisher, with The Hendricks County Republican, of which paper he finally became sole editor and publisher. He sold out the Repuhlican in April, 1885, to Messrs. Moffett & Riddle, and has resumed the practice of law. He is in partnersliip with James A. Downard in the law and abr

Btracting titles. Mr. Parker was married to Miss Victoria J. Crabb, of Danville, on the 31st day of October, 1S77. They have two children. He is a member of the Methodist church.

Thad. S. Adams was born Nov. 6, 1S53, in Hendricks County. Educated in the coiumon schools of the county. Read law in Danville and was admitted to the bar- at that place in the spring of 187T. Was married May 6, 18S0, to Miss Effie Campbell, of Danville, 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, 1S.55, in Hendricks County. Attended the common schools and Butler University (at Irvington, Ind). He read law at Dani^llle and was admitted to the bar at that place in June, IS'TS. He is in the practice and is in partnership with James 0. Parker in tlie Law and in abstracting titles and loaning funds. He was married May 22, 1884, to Miss Donaldson, 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 edncated in tlae common schools of the county. He graduated in tho Law Department of fche Iowa State University; located at Iowa City, State of Iowa, in June, 1881. Was admitted to the bar in Danville in September, ISSl. He was married April 20, 1882, and has one child. He is a psirtner of Robert Ilollowell 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 Hendiicks County, Dec. 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 pbaee in June, 1883, where he has since been engaged in the practtce. He is a Democrat in politics. Does not belong to any churcSi, and is not married.

Cassius Clay Hadley was born in Hendricks County- He attended the common schools of the c«>unty, 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.

Was educated at the coinmoii 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 ilurat W. Hopkins. Is a Republican in politics. He is not married.

George C. Harvey was born in Rockville, Parke Co., Ind. Attended Wabash College four years. Read law in Danville, and was admitted to the bar there in September, ISSi. 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 1, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers. He is not married, belongs to no church, and is a Republican.