Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ilcCartney. Tlie -ei ond Hislricl Judge was Jesse LynchHolman, a native of Kentucky, who was com-mi.^sioned Se])teml)er Ki, 18;;, and served tillhis death. March -28. 184-2. He read law in theoflice of llenrv Clay, and removed to Indianain 1808, where he was a terrilm-ial circuitjudge, and from 181(i to 18;i() oiu> of the judjresof the Supreme Court of Indiana. Followinghim came Klisha MilU Hunt ingloii. coiinnis-sioned Afay 2. 1842, and servimr till his deathon Octobe
Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes . ilcCartney. Tlie -ei ond Hislricl Judge was Jesse LynchHolman, a native of Kentucky, who was com-mi.^sioned Se])teml)er Ki, 18;;, and served tillhis death. March -28. 184-2. He read law in theoflice of llenrv Clay, and removed to Indianain 1808, where he was a terrilm-ial circuitjudge, and from 181(i to 18;i() oiu> of the judjresof the Supreme Court of Indiana. Followinghim came Klisha MilU Hunt ingloii. coiinnis-sioned Afay 2. 1842, and servimr till his deathon October 2(i, 1Sfi2. in his term was heardthe notable fugitive slave case Yaughan, a citizen of ^ Williams, in fnr reseiiiiii;Aaughairs fugitive slaves, which he had foundand arrested in a cal)in near Noblesville, inHamilton Countv. Williams demurred on theground that the Ordiiuince of 1787 rwpiiredthe reliirn of fuu:iliM -Lives only to one of the Iflxl. of liididiiii. .\iii. (i)iiiiiiiiiiiriiillli Sr-ri<:<. p. :;2!). ofiO HISTORY OF GREATER IIIST()|;v OF GREATER INDIAXAlOLIS. .-.(ll tliirttCii original states; but tiic coiiil ruli-iltliat thu constitution superseded this, and that|ihiintiir was entitled to recover if he provedtitle to the negroes. On trial it appeared that\aughan had bouglit thcni of one Tipton, whopreviously had taken them into Illinois, andkept them till he gained residence, and voteilas a citizen of Illinois, which made them freeunder the law of that state. The jury, as in-structed by the court, returned a verdict for thedefendant. Judge Huntingtons successor was CalebJilood Smith, a native of Boston, who studiedlaw at Cincinnati and Connersville before lo-cating at Indianapolis. He was a noted orator;and was intluential in securing the nominationfor the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, inwhose cabinet he served as Secretary of the In-terior. He resigned this position to acce]:)t theposition of Distr
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