The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-02-06


no alarming symptoms. However while |
responding to call from the Inland !
mill, DIR. Ansley loked in at the house |
to see how the patient was getting |
along. He found him comfortable and |
left in a few minutes. Judge sHembroff /
then expressed a desire TO try and
sleep, 80 Mrs. Hembrofr left him alone. !,
An hour later she looked in to see /
whether he was resting easily. She
observed an unusual pallor about his
countenance and this alarmed her. She |
made a closer examination of his feat
ures, and their set aspect added to her
| fears She sent across the street for
DR.. Frederick Sauer and telephoned for
DR.. Ansley and DR.. c. c. Robinson
DIR. Sauer was the first on the scene.
He examined the patient and reluctant
y Informed the anxious wife that her
husband was dead.
There was nothing to Indicate that
there had been a struggle. The bed
was not disordered. and the features
We're serene and placid. No sound had
come from the room during the hour
in which the patient had been left alone.
and 1t is believed that the end was
painless and peaceful. Undoubtedly 1t
had come while the patient slept.
Burns and McGuan were at once noti-
fed of the death of Judge Hembroff
and they removed the remains to their
undertaking establishment where an
autopsy was held during the afternoon.
Coroner Shanklin was not present at
this but had deputfzed w r. Howatt
and DR.. Fl. e. Sharrer TO represent him.
They performed the autopsy in the
Ipresence of Or. Robert Ansley. DR..
Sauer and w. ]. McAieer, a brother-in-
law of the deceased. and gave it as
their opinion that, death was due to
the causes above named.
Mrs. Hembrofr is desirous that the
knowledge of her fathers death be kept
from their daughter Dixie. who is now
in Denver and whose delicate health
is such as to make it advisable to keep
her in ignorance of the calamity that
has overtaken the family
Judge Hembroff was born in Gary
County. Ontario. Canada. Dee IL. 1866.
He comes of good substantial stock
though his people We're not wealthy
and he may justly be characterized as
a self-made man.
At the age of IS years his father. Jo-
seph Hembroff moved his family to
Saulte Ste. Marie and Thomas. the son.
worked on a farm in the summer and
, went to school in the winter. He was
three years taught school in the vi
, entity in which he lived He saved
money enough to take him to valpa-
raise where he earned a bachelors de-
, gree in the scientific course and the
classical course.
After he had finished his schooling
5 in the university he went to Edinbor-
ough, Miss. where he took a position
5 as superintendent of schools. which he
held from 1891 to 1894.
It was while he was in the south
that he was married, being welded to
Miss Florance Keyte June 20, 1893, at
> Chillecothe. Mo.
The unio.. was blessed with the birth
, of four children, Dixie, aged Is; Eliza
Jewell. 1s; Mildred, 10. and Victor, I
years of age. The year following his
/. marriage he returned to Valparaiso
. whore he entered the law school. grad
; uating in go Following his admission
. / to the bar he went to South Bend where
he practiced his new profession for six
2 months. and 1t was at the expiration of
. that period that he became identified
|. with Lake county. He went first to
Hammond where he entered into a
partnership with w. J. McAleer the
partnership lasting until 1900. when 1t
was dissolved owing to the election of
Mr. Hembroff to the city judgeship and
of Mr.. McA1eer to the Office of prose
). lcuting attorney Judge Hembroff was
the only democrat elected on this
| ticket defeating Charles S. Ogle, a
man who like his successful rival en-
ljoyed a great popularity.
At that time the city judgeship was
;: a more important office than it is al
Y present, as the city judge had juris-
t diction in both civil and criminal pro-
n cesses. but in 1906 the legislature took
5 the civil cases from the hands of the
y city Judge.
o He held this office for two terms
l from 1900 until 1854. He might have
continued indefinitely in this office
e but in the meantime. certain things had
G come up which changed his politica
Is faith. He embraced the doctrines OF
o republicanism and soon after retired
from the bench he moved with his fam
lily to Indiana Harbor.
g. His popularity followed him from
Hammond here, and he at once entered
= the front rank In society and his pro.
D. fession.
s. Besides being a man of great viii
power and unusual intelligence, he pos
= sessed traits of character which made
him friends wherever he went. His ma
ture was most lovable, he had a keeI
sense of humor, enjoyed a joke ant
N could laugh with others as well a,
. furnish the inspiration for laugh
n Above all things he was honest ans
~ straight forward and a stranger hat
j., only to look at him to be impressed
I with these characteristics. He for
20 giving and always ready to make al
s, lowances even for his enemies. If, in
n deed. he may be said to have had any
s. and these traits won him earnest ant
e lasting friendships among the new
l. community with whom he had cast hi
30 lot Nor did he come to them unknown
30 at that. For the name of Judge Hem
A. broff was already a power Throughout
DO Lake county.
DO His interest in politics did not hat
after his removal to this city He be