The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-06

signing on account of disability: afterwards
served as commissarv sergeant of the One hun
dred and thirty third Indiana Infantry; was
commissioned lieutenant and assistant quarter
| master of the One-hundred -and-forty ninth
Indiana Infantry. and mustered out with the
| regiment in September. 1865; admitted to
| the bar in March, 1866; was elected prosecuting
attorney, serving two years: was elected as rep
resentative to the State Legislature, in 1863
| from Parke county; was elected State senator
| from the counties of Parke and Vermiion in
1874, serving four years; was elected to the
Forty ninth Congress as Republican, receiving
| 70, lS5 votes, against 20, 035 votes for John E.
Lamb. Democrat 149 votes for Andrew Tomlin-
| son. Prohibitionist. and 2 votes scattering
Ninth Distrct-Thomas B. Ward, of Lafay-
cite. WAS born at Marysvile, Union county,
Ohio, April q. 1885: his parents removed to La
Iayette. Ind, where he has since resided) in
May. 1886; was educated at Wabash College,
Indiana, and at Miami University. Oxford, o.;
graduated at the laSt-named institution in June
1000; stucied law at Lafayette, Ird, and was ad
mitted tc the bar in 1857 was elected mayor of
Lafayette In 1861, and reelected in 1861, serving
four years; served one term as clerk to the city
OF Lafayette, and three terms as city attorney
OF that city, was appointed by Governor Hen
bricks, in 1873, judge of the Superior Court of
TippecaIoe county, Indiana then newly created
and elected to that position in 1876, serving five
years in all as judge; was elected to the Forty
eighth Congress, and was reelected to the
Forty ninth Congress as Democrat, receiving
Is, A1 votes, against Is 628 votes for Doxey, Re-
publican, COZ votes for Cotton, Greenbacker, and
I'll votes for Cornelius M. Riggin.
Tenth District-William d. Owen, OF Logans-
port, was born at Bloomington Ind, Sept. g.
1916; is minister of the Christian Church, and
was elected to the Forty ninth Congress as Re-
publican receiving 10. 262 votes, against Is, Isl
votes for Thomas j. Wood Democrat, 473 votes
for N. j. Bozorth, Greenbacker, and one vote
scattering.
Eleventh District-George W. Steele of Ma
rlon was born in Fayette county Indiana, Dec.
3D. 1889; received a common school education;
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in
February. 1861; enlisted in Company FL Eighth
Indiana Infantry, April % 1861; was commits
stoned first lieutenant Twelfth Indiana Infan-
try. May 2 1861; captain One hundred-and first
Indiana Infantry, Sept. 6, 1862; major. Feb. s,
1863 ard Northumberland, June l, 1868; con-
tinued to serve in that capacity until the close
of the war, the first year s service in the East
ern army, and the last three IN the Army of the
Cumberland; was commissioned first lieutenant
Fourteenth United States Infantry, Feb %, 1866;
was appointed regimental quartermaster, July
l, 1868; resigned to take effect Feb. l, 1876,
while performing duty as depot quartermas
ter at Ogden, U. T.; with the exception
of short time on recruiting service, was
doing active duty on the frontier; is now engaged
in pork packing and farming; elected to the
Forty-seventh and Forty eighth Congresses, and
was reelected TO the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Republican receiving % go votes. against p 625
Pleas, Greenbacker.
Twelfth District-Robert Lowry, of Fort
Wayne, was born in Ireland removed in early
youth TO Rochester, N. Y; was instructed
in the elementary branches at private schools,
and had partial academic course, but education
mainly self acquired; was librarian of Rochester
Athenaum and Young Mems Association; stud
led law; removed to Fort Wayne in 1843 was
elected by the Common Council, while yet under
age, city recorder; was reelected but declined;
tO ha har. cti in
Goshen, Ind, in 1885, was appointed by the
Governor circuit judge in 1852 to fill vacancy
for an unexpired term: was unexpectedly pomi-
mated by the Democrats in 1856, in a district
having large adverse majority, as a candidate
for Congress- and defeated only by close vote;
in 1860 was president of the Democratic State
convention and one of the four delegates at large
to the Democratic national convention in
1861 and 1862, while still retaining resi-
dence and practice in Indiana, had law Office
in Chicago; in 1864 was nominated by the Demo
Gratis and elecued circuit judge for term of six
years; while still occupying the bench he was
again nominated by the Democrats in 1866 and
renominated in 1868, as candidate for Congress
in heavily Republican districts aud defeated,
but by reduced majorities; in 1867 resumed his
residence in Fort Wayne; was reelected circuit
judge on the expiration Of his term, in 1870,
without opposition; was delegate at large to the
Democratic national convention in 1872; resigned
the circuit judgeship in January, 1875 and re-
sumed practice in Fort Wayne as a member of
the firm of Lowry, Robinson Sc ORourke; in
September. 1877, was appointed by the Gov
ernor, on the unanimous recommendation of the
bar, as judge of the newly created Superior
Court, and afterward elected as such in 1873 by
a unanimous popular vote; was elected the first
president of the Indiana State Bar Association
judge, in 1882 he was elected to the Forty
eighth Congress, and was reelected to the For
ty-nnth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 49,
5O7 votes. against l6, 957 votes for Keator. Re-
publican, 800 votes for Harstuck and 303 votes
for Gale.
Thirteenth District-George Ford, of South
Bend, was born at South Bend. Ind, Jan. IL,
1886 received a common school education;
studied law was admitted to the bar. and has
since practiced; prosecuting attorney, by ap-
pointment of the Governor of Indiana, from
April to October, 1873, and by election from 1875
to his resignation, Jan. a. 1885; and was elected
to the Forty ninth Congress as a Democrat. re-
ceiviug 2097l votes, against IL, 792 votes for FL.
g. Thayer, Republican