In Memoriam JOHN H. BRADLEY. PREPARED BY MORTIMER NYE. John H. Bradley was born at La Porte, Indiana, on the 24th day of December, 1851, and died at LaPorte, February 16, 1900, of typho-pneumonia, after a brief illness of four days. He was stricken with the disease of which he died while in the discharge of his professional duties in the LaPorte superior court, and thus fulfilled one of his dearest wishes-that he might be active to the end of his life. The deceased was the son of Judge James Bradley, who was one of the pioneer lawyers and jurists of this state, and whose memory is cherished and honored by all who knew him. John H. Bradley was born in LaPorte. He lived his whole life in our city, and died at his residence on the same plot of ground upon which he was born. He was educated in the LaPorte public schools and at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and afterwards attended law school at Bloomington, Indiana, and was a law student in his father's office up to the time of his admission to the bar. He then formed a partnership with his father, and for years, and until the death of his father, they conducted a large and lucrative law business in this part of the state. From the date of his father's death John H. Bradley continued to practice law without forming any copartnership with anyone. In his early practice he held some minor offices-city clerk, deputy prosecuting attorney, and was both city and county attorney-all of which positions he filled with credit and distinction to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the public. He was never an officeseeker. His sole aim in life was to become a respected lawyer and a good citizen. In October, 1878, he was united in marriage with Miss Myra B. Teegarden, who was a daughter of Dr. A. Teegarden, who was also one of our most honored and worthy pioneer citizens. The deceased leaves surviving him his widow and two children, a son and a daughter, to whom he has left the most precious of all legacies— the remembrance of a well-spent life and an honored name. John H. Bradley has built his own monument, and has builded well. His position was conspicuously prominent at that place where Webster once said, "there was plenty of room.” He had the highest regard for the ethics of the profession, and never on any account departed the least therefrom. By his quick perception and studious life he was always able to come into a case well equipped for any emergency, and by his clear and wise expressions he was always able to be understood, and in practice met with such success as always attaches to an honest and earnest advocate. In the trial of a case he was always fair and honorable, and never resorted to any low cunning or trickery to gain any undue advantage over his adversary. He always sought to present law and the facts in such a manner as his judgment told him was right, and would abandon a case in which he had been employed rather than consent to fraud or trickery by others on his side of the case. He was never elected judge, and yet for years he has served in that capacity in special cases, both in this and surrounding counties, and that service was so pure and so eminent that he was uniformly thought of and spoken of as judge. His mind was judicial. His bearing commanded admiration and respect; his rulings were clear and impartial, and, best of all inspirations for a judge, he inspired the lawyers who practiced before him with the firm. belief that his every ruling was honest and made with the sole pur pose of arriving at the truth within the limits of the law as he understood it to exist. His life was pure and genial; always dignified and courteous, honest, truthful and intelligent-a faithful and constant friend, a high-minded and dignified citizen. In the death of John H. Bradley the state loses one of her most excellent and exemplary citizens, his family a devoted husband and loving father, the bar one of its brightest and most honored members. April 18, 1900. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, JR. PREPARED BY WILLIAM V. STUART. On last Christmas afternoon the inhabitants of the city of Lafayette were shocked to learn of the death of Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., a member of the bar of Tippecanoe county, and of this association, he losing his life while attempting to board a Monon passenger train at Roachdale, Indiana. Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., was the third child and only son of Judge Edwin P. Hammond and Mary A. Spitler, and was born at Rensselaer, Indiana, March 2, 1873. After completing his studies in the schools of that city and attending Notre Dame College for a year, he entered Indiana University, graduating with honor in 1895 with the degree of A. B. Having chosen the profession of law for his life work, he read under the guidance of his father until the opening of the school year following, when he matriculated in the law school at his alma mater, graduating therefrom in 1897. At this time he entered the office of his father, the Hon. Edwin P. Hammond, a member of the firm of Stuart Brothers & Hammond, later Stuart, Hammond & Simms, where he continued in the active practice of his profession until his death. He was an excellent student and an exceedingly bright, active and quick young man. The prospects before him were of the rosiest character. He had in him the making of a fine lawyer, and it was his father's greatest hope that he might become a leader in that profession. They were inseparable friends, as well as father and son, and the younger man accompanied the elder on all his legal trips to other cities. He was ambitious and a tireless student. At college he was very popular; at his former home (Rensselaer) he was idolized; in the city of Lafayette he had friends in all walks of life. The Tippecanoe Bar Association adopted the following very fitting and touching memorial, prepared by D. W. Simms, who was associated with him in the practice of law: "Once again has death's unerring shaft found lodgment in the heart of a member of this bar. While Christmas bells were ringing, and all earth seemed filled with glad anthems of the happy holiday season, the summons came to Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., and, without pausing to reply, he took his departure and entered upon the solution of that greatest problem of life-death. “We meet in the forum to-day to pay tribute to his memory, and to express sincere and heartfelt sympathy for those whose lives, by nature's ties and association, were so closely intertwined and interwoven with his that it seemed when his sun had set theirs could no longer shine. * * * "Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., was, both by nature and education, most excellently equipped to succeed in the profession to which he had become wedded.. "His eminent qualities of heart and mind were recognized by all who knew him. "His opportunities to become a leading jurist were unexcelled, if not unequalled. His every effort was made beneath the eye of a fond father, whose own experience and ability have made him the peer of the ablest jurists of the day. "The death of Edwin P. Hammond, Jr., has robbed this bar of one of its most promising members. It has removed one whose courtesy and kindly greetings had endeared him to his fellowmembers. It has taken from the father and the mother the solace and comfort of their riper years. "We bow in sorrow to the mandate of Him whose 'ways are past finding out.' "So far as human sympathy can extend, we offer ours to the bereaved and stricken family. Therefore, be it "Resolved, That this memorial be spread upon the records of this court, and a copy thereof transmitted to the family of the deceased." CHARLES A. KORBLY. PREPARED BY CHARLES MARTINDALE. Charles A. Korbly was born at Louisville, Kentucky, January 16, 1842, and died at Indianapolis, Indiana, June 13, 1900. His parents were from Alsace. About four years after his birth they removed to Ripley county, Indiana, where he was reared, obtaining his primary education in the country school, in which he afterwards taught. He was early in life attracted to the study of medicine, and served three years as assistant surgeon in the army during the civil war. After retiring from army service he located first at Michigan City, Indiana, where he began to read law, and soon afterwards removed to Madison, where he continued the study of law and became a partner in the practice of that profession with Hon. Henry W. Harrington. He soon took a high place in the bar of southern Indiana. He |