Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . twinkled withamusement or looked with tenderest sjmi-pathy or flashed with indignation at awrong. While in Wabash College he be-came the subject of earnest religious con-victions, and was ever a steadfast upholderof church and morality, being a memberof the Presbyterian denomination. In Terre Haute in September, 1855,Judge Claypool married iliss Hannah She was the daughter of John , whose conspicuous services as aneditor and abolition leader are told on otherpages of this


Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . twinkled withamusement or looked with tenderest sjmi-pathy or flashed with indignation at awrong. While in Wabash College he be-came the subject of earnest religious con-victions, and was ever a steadfast upholderof church and morality, being a memberof the Presbyterian denomination. In Terre Haute in September, 1855,Judge Claypool married iliss Hannah She was the daughter of John , whose conspicuous services as aneditor and abolition leader are told on otherpages of this history. Solomon Claypool and wife were the par-ents of seven children: Anna C, who mar-ried George W. Faris and died August ; John Wilson ; Hannah M., who mar-ried Thomas H. Watson; Ruby S., wife ofChester Bradford, now deceased; MaryAlice, who married Ridgely B. Hilleary: •Lucy Gorkins, who died in 1890, and Eliza-beth Caroline. John W. Claypool has been a memberof the Indianapolis bar more than thiity-five years. His individual services havebeen in effect a continuation of the eminent. =^^/\ Cr-Z/^ IXDIAXA AND INDIAXAXS 1235 career of his honored father, Solomon Clay-pool, who in his time enjoyed an unequivo-cal position among the leaders of the In-diana bar. Xothing less than worthy afhievenientand services could have been expected ofJohn Wilson Claypool, and in his individ-ual career he has justified his honored par-entage and ancestry. He is the only sou of Solomon and Han-nah (Osborn) Claypool and was born inTerre Haute October 19, 1858, and livedthere until he was eight years of age. Inthe meantime he attended a private family removed to Greencastle in 1866,whei-e after finishing the public schoolcourse, he entered Asbury, now De Pauw,University, continuing his studies for sev-eral years. He came with the family to Indianapolisin January, 1876, and entered his fatherslaw office. By reason of the thoroughly]iractical training he received under hisfat


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