The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-05-05
STATE TICKET.
FOR CLERK OF THE sUPREAB eoURT-CAI
s. ~ TAIN THEoDoR. ". M'CoY

nary 81, 1899 His father, Rev James
HcCoy, a New School Presbyterian
Minister, was widely known throughout
| Southern, Central, and Eastern Indiana,
and in the Wabash Valley, in his minis
terial character He was an anti slavery
man, native of Kentucky, and we'll
known for his anti slavery views His
father was without the means to educate
him as he earnestly desired. and during
young McCny's academic days at Pro.
fessors j. l. Morrison's and b. C. Hobbs
schools at Salem. Indiana, he WAS com
pelled to supply himself, by his own
efforts, with clothing and books.
In May, 1866, having prepared for
college, he entered the Wabash College,
at Charlottesville, where, with but slight
assistance from other sources, he main-
tanned himself until the completion Of
the first term of the junior year, when
ill health rendered him unable to pro-.
ceed with his college course.
Leaving Wabash College at tue close
of 1858, he taught a district school in
Hamilton county, Indiana, for one term,
and was then employed in the seminary
at Noblesville, Indiana, as teacher Of the
male department of the high school for
a year and half Meanwhile he was
studying law under the instruction Of
Stone and Conner, and at the close of
in
ted the whole of his attention to legal
studies, excepting five months, during
which time he taught school at Stump
town, Marion county, Indiana. He was
admitted to the practice in the Hamil-
ton Circuit Court, March term, 1861,
entering the practice as partial part
ner of j. w. Evans, Esq. The attack
on Sumter induced him to enter the SER
vice in April, 1861, enlisting in Captain
John d. Evans's. company, which served
in the sixth Indiana regiment in the
three months lvice. Returning to In
diana, he re- enlisted as private in Cap
tain Evans company, recruited for the
39th Indiana. Upon the organization
of the regiment, Evans was made Major,
and Mr.. Mccoy Second Lieutenant of
his old company. Promoted to First
Lieutenant in the same company, Nov.
lst, 1861. Promoted Captain in the
same company. May 22d, 1862, at Shi-
lob Field, Tennessee
Captain Mccoy was compelled to quit
the service on account of physical de-
bility in September, 1868, and, after
weary sickness of several months, en-.
tered the political campaign OF of 1864,
canvassing large portion Of Southern
Indiana. He located to practice law at
J Jeffersonvilie, Nov. 1st, 1864, at which
place he now resides. ~
Capt. Mccoy is an original Repubii-
cao, and in mis- boyish days his sympa-
thies were with the Whi2 party. He is
an excellent speaker, and will do good
service during tue campaign. ~f
FOR REPoRTER OF THE SUPREME COURT
col JAMES Il. BLACK.
James B. Black, who is@twen;y nine
years of age, has been citizen OF In
LLAMA since 1876 In the fall of 1856
ne entered Asbury University, at Green
castle, where. depending entirely on his
own exertions, he prosecuted his studies
lntil 1860. when, having obtained tu-
orship in the State University, he
moved thither, and continued his edu-
cation until the breaking out of the war
The week Fort Sumter was attacked he
Unlisted in the first company formed in
Monroe county. Not succeeding in be
ng assigned to one of the three months
eglments, the company to which he be-
onged was attached to the Fourteenth
Regiment, then forming at Terre Haute,
nto which organization Mr.. Black was
mustered as sergeant. Soon afterward
e was removed to Camp Morton and
ssigned 20 the Eighteenth Regiment, in
Thich. by election of his company, he
vas made Second Lieutenant of Com
amy "H." Eighteenth Regiment, and |
mmedistely went with his regiment, to
oin the army of Fremont, and with it
anticipated in the Springfield campaign.
lie was with Pope at the first important
apture of prisoners at Blackwater, and |
nth Curtis in the Pea Ridge campaign
nd march through Arkansas to Helena.
With the Thirteenth Corps he went
hrough the battles and siege of the
'icksburg campaign, during the latter
art of which he was nromofod IN %ho |
,aptaincy of his company. He also /
anticipated in the campaigns under
'anks up the Teche and on the coast of
'exas. As Judge advocate of the Uni |
ed States in Texas, he received the
pecial commendation of Major Gen.
)ana.
In January 1861 tho 18th ro a.l;.4Aa [