patrick, was born June 8, 1776, and died July 13, 1860. John Kirkpatrick, grandfather of Lex J., was born in Kentucky, October 23, 1802. He was a pioneer settler of Rush County, Indiana, where Stephen Kirkpatrick, the Judge's father, was born February 10, 1832. Stephen Kirkpatrick was a farmer and horticulturist, and took up his residence in Howard County in 1854, and in 1871 retired to Kokomo. He married Rebecca J. Jackson September 9, 1852, who was born in Rush County February 14, 1834, daughter of Joseph Jackson, who was born in North Carolina March 1, 1794, and was another early farmer in Rush County. The Judge's father died December 20, 1911, and his mother died April 19, 1914.

Judge Kirkpatrick was the only son of three children, the other two having died in infancy. He attended the district schools near his father's farm in Taylor Township, Howard County, Indiana, and received his higher education by one year of study in Oskaloosa College in Iowa, in Howard College at Kokomo, during 1872-73, took up the study of law with Hendry & Elliott, at Kokomo, and graduated from the Central Law College of Indianapolis June 18, 1875. His work as an Indiana lawyer covers a period of over forty years. He was associated in practice with Judge J. F. Elliott, under the name of Elliott & Kirkpatrick, at Kokomo, until November, 1890. Judge Kirkpatrick is a democrat. Such was his personal popularity and his high standing in the legal profession that in 1890 he was elected judge of the Thirty-Sixth Judicial Circuit, overcoming heavy normal republican majorities in the counties of Howard and Tipton, then comprising that circuit. Judge Kirkpatrick presided with impartial dignity over his own court and as special judge in many trials outside his own circuit until November, 1896.

On retiring from the bench he became a member of the firm of Kirkpatrick, Morrison & McReynolds in December, 1896. This firm came to rank as one of the foremost in the state in volume of practice and the importance of its interests and clients. Judge Kirkpatrick was again called from the private walks of the profession in March, 1909, when, the Legislature having constituted Howard County the Sixty-Second Judicial Circuit, Gov

ernor Thomas R. Marshall, now vice president of the United States, appointed Judge Kirkpatrick to preside over the new circuit. He filled the term until the regular election and retired from the bench and took up private practice again January 1, 1911, with Milton Bell, under the name of Bell & Kirkpatrick. Later Hon. W. R. Voorhis, now of New York City, and Judge W. C. Purdum became associated with the firm. The firm is now Bell, Kirkpatrick & Purdum.

Judge Kirkpatrick has long been prominent as a member and worker in the Christian Church, in the Young Men's Christian Association, and as an officer in the Christian Endeavor. He was president of the Indiana State Union of that organization from November, 1893, to November 1896, and also a vice president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union. For twentyfive years he was superintendent of the Kokomo Sunday School of his church, from July 1, 1883, to July 1, 1908, this school then ranking second in attendance of all the schools of such church in the United States.

September 22, 1881, he married Miss. Emma Palmer, daughter of Stephen and Letitia (Saville) Palmer, of Adrian, Michigan, who has been a most valuable helpmate in his work. Her father was born in New York State January 29, 1824, and her mother in Wayne County, Indiana, in September, 1826. Judge and Mrs. Kirkpatrick in addition to their Kokomo home have a pleasant winter home near Bradentown, Florida, on the Manatee River, near the Gulf of Mexico.

Judge Kirkpatrick has for many years been vice president and general counsel of the Indiana Railways & Light Company, and is associated with and legal counsel for a number of public utilities and manufacturing industries of Kokomo. He contributed liberally of his time and means to advance the best interests of the community where he resides. He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and also of the American Bar Association. He takes an active interest in the Chamber of Commerce and other industrial organizations of his city.

C. H. BRALEY, an honored veteran of the Civil war, is an old resident of Indianapolis, and for nearly thirty years has

been the pioneer chiropodist and foot specialist of that city, rendering services that have been appreciated in corresponding degree to the length of his practice.

He was born in Chester, Warren County, New York, June 18, 1847, a son of Joseph and Melvina (Ellis) Braley. The Braley family is of colonial American descent, and traces its origin in this country back to Roger Braley, who was in Massachusetts as early as 1696. Joseph Braley was born at Chester, New York, September 23, 1822, and his wife was born August 9, 1822. They married October 4, 1846. Joseph Braley died May 2, 1849, when his son was only two years old.

The widowed mother afterward married again and took her only child by her first marriage to Prophetstown, Illinois, where her second husband became a farmer. C. H. Braley acquired part of his education in the common schools of Troy, New York, and later attended school at Prophetstown, Illinois. As a boy he began work as a farm laborer, and one time worked six months at wages of $6 a month. In 1861, at the age of fourteen, Doctor Braley enlisted in Battery F of the First Illinois Light Artillery, and saw active service until the close of the war. He was in many battles, including Shiloh, Corinth, Lookout Mountain and the siege and operations around Vicksburg. At the conclusion of this service, a veteran soldier though still under age, he returned to his old home in Illinois. A few years later he and a great English traveler made a world's tour, visiting all the cities of Europe, and after his return to America Doctor Braley took up his residence at Indianapolis.

He has had almost a lifelong experience in the treatment of foot troubles, and was one of the men to give dignity and standing to the art of chiropody, and was one of its first practitioners in Indianapolis. People have come from far and near to secure his services. He maintains a high class establishment in the Saks Building.

Doctor Braley is a democrat, a member of the Indianapolis Democratic Club, and has done much to support his party. In 1892 he married Miss Mary Vess, of Indianapolis.

JONATHAN W. GORDON, lawyer, was born in 1820, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was of Scotch-Irish parentage.

The family removed to Ripley County, Indiana, when he was a lad of fourteen. He went through the common schools, attended Hanover College for one term, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. At the beginning of the Mexican war he volunteered, but was taken sick at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and sent home without seeing any service. He read medicine, attended lectures at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1847-8, and began the practice of medicine which he continued for two years. Dissatisfied with this, he came to Indianapolis in 1852 and opened. a law office. Not being overburdened with business, he indulged in newspaper work, and was engaged as editor of The Temperance Chart, which was under the patronage of the Sons of Temperance, at that time a very strong organization in Indiana. In 1853 he was elected prosecuting attorney for Marion County, but soon resigned to give attention to his growing practice. In 1856 and 1858 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the state, and in the latter year was speaker at both the regular and special sessions. In this period he wrote some fair poetry, good enough at least to be admitted to Coggeshall's Poets and Poetry of the West. He was an omnivorous reader, and thereby attained quite a broad education. In later years, when troubled by insomnia, he used to keep a Greek Testament by his bedside, and pass his wakeful hours reading it.

In 1861 he was elected clerk of the House of Representatives, but when the news came of the firing on Fort Sumter he resigned, and at a great public meeting was the first to volunteer. After a short service in West Virginia, in the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he was appointed by the President major in the Eleventh United States Infantry, and assigned to duties in Massachusetts and Indiana until September, 1863, when he was sent to the front with the Army of the Potomac. In the spring of the following year he resigned, on the ground that his salary was not sufficient for the support of his family. He resumed the practice of law, and was soon engaged in the most spectacular case of the period, commonly known as "the Treason Trials." A secret society known as the Knights of the Golden Circle had been formed in Indiana and other western states, and had developed

an "inner circle" with treasonable designs. Governor Morton had detectives in the organization from the start, who kept him informed of every move. In 1864 he had several of the leaders arrested and brought before a military commission for trial. Gordon was retained for the defense, and at once raised the point of no jurisdiction. The courts of the state were open and unobstructed, and if any offence had been committed the prosecution should be in the courts. This had no weight with the commission, which convicted the defendants, and sentenced part of them to death. An appeal was made to the Supreme Court of the United States, but there was not time for it to be heard before the day set for the execution. Gordon prepared a brief. The question was one that went to the very foundation of constitutional rights, and he went to the bottom of the English and American precedents. He went to Morton with his brief, and sought his aid in securing a postponement of the execution. Morton examined it and said: "By God, Gordon, you are right. It would be murder to execute these men." He assisted in getting a reprieve, and the case was heard by the Supreme Court, which ordered the release of the defendants. (Ex parte Milligan, 4 Wallace, p. 2.) Gordon's brief was the one used by General Garfield in his argument of the case in the Supreme Court. From that time on Gordon had employment in abundance. He was easily the foremost criminal lawyer of his day in Indiana. He was also strong before a jury in any case, skillful in examination, and a forcible speaker. He made money, but had no faculty for keeping it. He was generous to a fault, and very indulgent with his family. In consequence he was usually in debt and out of money. In his later years when broken in health, and too old to practice his profession he was offered the position of clerk of the Supreme Court by Governor Albert G. Porter (q. v.) who had been his class-mate at Hanover, and his life-long friend and accepted the position.

Gordon was an influential factor in the republican party, from an early date. He advocated the nomination of Lincoln in 1860, and was instrumental in securing the vote of the Indiana delegation for him. In 1872 he was a presidential elector on

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the republican ticket, and a member of the electoral college that elected General Grant. In 1876 he was the republican candidate for attorney general, and was defeated with his party. In this campaign he attracted wide notice by publicly refusing to pay the campaign assessment made on him by the Republican State Central Committee. This was only an example of the resolute independence that he showed in everything. In his criminal practice he defended more than sixty persons charged with murder in the first degree, and only one of them was hanged. His success was in part due to his personal convictions concerning crime and punishment, which were not altogether in touch with ordinary American ideas. In 1856 he introduced a bill in the Legislature for "a system of criminal jurisprudence founded on the principle of compensation," but did not succeed in getting adopted. In 1882 he incurred much criticism by writing a public letter to the attorney general of the United States, urging, on purely legal grounds, that Guiteau was insane, and should not be executed for the assassination of President Garfield. Gordon died at Indianapolis on April 27, 1887.

WILLIAM G. SMITH has spent his active career at LaPorte, where the family was established nearly seventy years ago. For many years he has been in the ice business and is now an executive official in the leading industry of that kind at LaPorte.

Mr. Smith was born at La Porte, son of Louis Smith. Louis Smith was born in Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1825. His parents spent all their lives in Germany, where his father died at the advanced age of a hundred four and his mother still older, being a hundred five when death called her. Louis Smith and a brother who when last heard from was living in New York State were the only members of the family to come to America. He had a common school education in Germany and served an apprenticeship to the tailor's trade. In 1852 he came to the United States, where he was one of the early merchant tailors and conducted a successful business in that line for many years. He is still living at the venerable age of ninety-three, well preserved both mentally and physically. He married Sophie Hedder, who was born in Mecklen