Hoosier Legal Literaries
From Settlement to Sesquicentennial


Ewbank - Harrison

Louis Blasdel Ewbank
5 Sept. 1864 - 6 Mar. 1953

Louis B. Ewbank was born in Guilford, Indiana. In 1914, Ewbank was elected judge of the Marion County Circuit Court.  He ascended to the Indiana Supreme Court bench in 1920.  He returned to private practice in the firm of Whitcomb, Ewbank, & Dowden in 1927.  Ewbank authored several legal texts and served as editor of the Indiana Cumulative Digest throughout the early 1900s. He also published Morgan's Raid in Indiana, an account of Confederate cavalry leader John H. Morgan's raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio in 1863.

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Bibliography
Ewbank's Manual: A Manual of Practice in the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Indiana. Indianapolis, 1900.
Indiana Criminal Law. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. [ISL call number: I 345.772 E94in]
Indiana Trial Evidence. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1902. [ISL call number: I 347.94 E94i]
Morgan's Raid in Indiana. Indianapolis: C. E. Pauley & Co., 1918. [ISL call number: H 973.7342 E94m]


William Pinckney Fishback
11 Nov. 1831 - 15 Jan. 1901

In addition to practicing law, William Fishback was a newspaper man. He served as editor of the Indianapolis Journal from 1870 to 1872 and then joined the staff of the St. Louis Democrat. He returned to Indianapolis and law in 1874. Later in his life, several of his addresses were deemed worthy of publishing. His most ambitious work is Recollections of Lord Coleridge. He also wrote a law manual in keeping with his original calling.

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Bibliography
Manual of Elementary Law, being a summary of the well-settled elementary principles of American law. Indianapolis, 1896. [ISL call number: I 347 F532m]
Recollections of Lord Coleridge. Indianapolis, 1895. [ISL call number: I 923 C693f]


Benjamin Harrison
20 Aug. 1833 - 13 Mar. 1901

Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio. He did not come to Indiana until after his marriage to Caroline Scott in 1853. Harrison established a law firm in Indianapolis, where he practiced throughout his life. Before being elected President in 1888, Harrison served three terms as a U.S. Senator. He remained an active writer and lecturer after leaving public office in 1892. His writings deal with American political issues and the structure of the federal government.

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Select Bibliography
Constitution and Administration of the United States of America. London, 1897. [ISL call number: I 342.73 H318c]
Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the Unites States. March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1893. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. [ISL call number: I 353 H318]
Thirty Days with President Harrison; containing all of his speeches in full on his recent vacation trip through the country, also a full and graphic account of all the receptions and banquets tendered him. New York, 1891. [ISL call number: I 923 H318t]
This Country of Ours. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897. [ISL call number: I 353 H318t]
Views of an Ex-President: Being His Addresses and Writings. Indianapolis, 1901. [ISL call number: I 304 H318v]


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Image Sources:
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Text Sources:
American President: Benjamin Harrison. Miller Center of Public Affairs. 2 Mar. 2006.
Banta, Ray E., comp. Indiana Authors and their Books, 1816-1916. Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1949.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. 2 Mar. 2006.
Indiana Supreme Court Justice Biographies: Justice Louis B. Ewbank. Indiana Supreme Court. 16 Mar. 2006.
Thompson, Donald E., comp. Indiana Authors and their Books, 1917-1966. Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1974.