In Memoriam CURRAN A. DERRULER, URIAH STOKES JACKSON, JAMES H. JORDAN, GEORGE S. PLEASANTS, HANNIBAL C. YOUNT. Curran A. DeBruler Curran Alonzo DeBruler was born November 11, 1843, a son of Lemuel Quincey DeBruler, who himself was an able lawyer. He was graduated in 1862 at the Indiana University, and in 1864 at the Harvard Law School. He began his work as a lawyer at Rockport in 1864, in partnership with his father. The first case in the Supreme Court in which he took part as a lawyer is found in 25 Indiana, and is an appeal from the Perry Common Pleas a court which has now been out of existence for more than 38 years. His name is in most of the succeeding volumes of the Supreme Court reports as a participant in many legal battles. He moved to Evansville in 1874, and from that time continued in the active practice of the law in that city until he was elected judge of the Circuit Court in 1908. Upon his location in Evansville he formed a partnership with Edwin R. Hatfield, which continued for about nine years, and later was a partner of Alexander Gilchrist for about twenty years. In his brief career upon the bench he showed the highest and best qualities of a judge, and in his decisions was never influenced by any other consideration than a determination to do exactly what the law sanctioned and what was right. To all who knew him well for many years as a man, a lawyer and judge, he was known to posses an exceedingly high sense of honor, and even in all the stress and irritation of a defeat his opponent never attributed to Judge DeBruler an unworthy act or thought. As a citizen, a lawyer, a jurist and a man he stood for whatsoever things were true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report. He was a grandly gifted man, a clear, logical, strong thinker, with a rare gift of expression; of delightful humor, a warm heart and the kindliest emotions. With an intimate and appreciative acquaintance with the best literature, he was a Christian gentleman, of spotless integrity. Judge DeBruler died at -on Patrick H. Elliott Patrick H. Elliott was born on a farm near the village of Herbst, in Grant County, Indiana, September 30, 1858, and spent almost his entire life in the vicinity of his birth and the city of Marion, where he was an honored member of the bar at the time of his death which occurred on December 31, 1911, as a result of a sudden attack of cerebral hemorrhage. He spent his life in his native county except for a short interval on the frontier of Colorado, strengthening a naturally rugged constitution; his life was an open book to the people of the county and its environs, and his name stands as a synonym for honesty, integrity and fidelity to every trust. He acquired a good education at school, finishing his prepa ration at Valparaiso, and early took up the study of law, with which profession he was identified till his death, though much of the time he lived upon his splendid farm, consisting of two hundred acres, where he lived at the time of his death, and where his surviving wife and nine model children, five sons and four daughters still reside. His standing as a lawyer, his ability and sterling integrity recommended him to the people so that in 1906 he was chosen as the Democratic candidate for the office of Judge of the Grant-Howard Superior Court, and although both counties were normally overwhelmingly Republican, Mr. Elliott was elected by a good majority, and during his four years of service on the bench he gave no one cause to regret his promotion. By an act of the legislature the district was so changed that it became the Grant-Delaware judicial district in 1911. As judge of it he served just one year with the same uniform satisfaction; in the year 1910 Mr. Elliott was the Democratic candidate for circuit judge, being on the county ticket against Judge H. J. Paulus; Mr. Elliott did not seek either of these nominations, but as in the former, so in the latter, his popularity, ability and sterling integrity brought to him a large vote regardless of party, he being only defeated by Judge Paulus by a small majority; he was never known to seek favor by ungentlemanly methods and held his opponents in highest regard. Judge Elliott was industrious, conscientious and zealous in behalf of his clients and totally impartial as a judge. His marked success at the bar, his prominence and uprightness inspired high respect and admiration in all those with whom he came in contact; his sterling integrity and uprightness of purpose in all the relations of life marked him as an honorable man, professionally, politically and socially. Judge Elliott died just one year to the day after retiring as judge of the Superior Court and just twenty-two years to the day after he had formed a law partnership with G. A. Henry, which partnership was only interrupted by the years he spent upon the bench. Francis T. Hord Francis T. Hord was a native of Mason County, Kentucky, born in the city of Maysville, on the 24th day of November, 1835. He died at Indianapolis March 8, 1912. His father was a native of Virginia, and was a descendant of an old and honorable English family. Francis T. was the fifth of his family, and in his youth attended the seminary in his native town, from which he graduated at the age of eighteen. Having early manifested a decided preference for the law, he entered his father's office, where he pursued his legal studies until attaining his majority, when he passed an examination before the judges of the Circuit Court of Kentucky, who granted him license to practice. After his admission to the bar he began the practice of law in connection with his father, and after a short time in Maysville he came to Columbus, which continued to be his residence to the time of his death, where soon his superior atperior attainments won for him a conspicuous place among the successful lawyers of Southern Indiana. He soon was recognized in politics, and was elected prosecuting attorney, and was, at the same time, selected as attorney for the county, and in this capacity served for many years with creditable ability. |