From Settlement to Sesquicentennial
Clarence Edward Benadum
7 June 1889 - 12 Nov. 1978
Clarence Benadum was born in Delaware County, Indiana.
He ventured west for a time before returning to Delaware County and beginning
his law career. Benadum was extremely active in the Muncie and Delaware
County law communities throughout the remainder of his life. In his
mid-forties, he published his first novel, Blackshirt (1935). The novel
portrays Indiana political life in the early 1900s. Benadum did
not publish his second, and final, novel until nearly twenty years later. Bates House (1951), is
an historical novel set in Indiana during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln addressed a crowd
at Bates House during a trip to Washington, D.C. Benadum also wrote a prose poem
titled The Trial of Bill Jones (1967).
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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
6 Oct. 1862 - 27 Apr. 1927
Albert Beveridge was born in Highland County, Ohio. After graduating from Indiana Asbury College (now DePauw University), Beveridge began practicing law in Indianapolis, Indiana. He served six terms in the U.S. Senate (1899-1910). After leaving office, he returned to Indianapolis to pursue his literary and historical interests. Beveridge was a prolific writer with one of his most ambitious projects being a four volume biography of John Marshall.
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Americans of
To-Day and To-Morrow. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1908. [ISL call number: I 814 B571a]
The Bible as Good Reading. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1907. [ISL call number: I 220.8 B571]
Life of John Marshall. Boston: Houghton, 1916-1919. [ISL call number: I 923 M368b v. 1-4]
Work and Habits. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1908. [ISL call number: I 814 B571w]
Samuel Hamilton Buskirk
19 Jan. 1820 - 3 Apr. 1879
Samuel H. Buskirk was born in New Albany, Indiana. He practiced law in Monroe County, Indiana, after graduating from Indiana University. He served five terms in the Indiana House of Representatives. In 1859, he was appointed Director of the Indiana State Prison. From 1870 to 1876, he sat on the Indiana Supreme Court. During his final year on the bench, he published his only work--a legal treatise recording cases heard by the Indiana Supreme Court and decisions rendered among other details.
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Bibliography
The practice on appeals to the Supreme Court of Indiana
on writs of error from the Supreme Court of the United States to a state court, on the removal of causes from state courts to the Circuit Court of the United States : and a complete table of cases decided by the Supreme court of Indiana, with annotations showing where any of such cases have been cited, distinguished, criticised, modified, doubted or overruled by subsequent decisions. Indianapolis: J. V. Olds, 1876.
