. History of Gibson county, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . is profession in Indiana. has had the advantage of being the son of a man of affairs, also alawyer by profession, an officer of rank in the Civil war and a leading manin his community all his life. Lucius C. Embree is the son of James Thomas and Mary Magdalene(Landis) Embree, a native of Staunton. Virginia, and was bom September8, 1853, in Princeton, Gibson count), Indiana. The family is identified withthe earliest history of Gibson county, and throughout its generations havebeen among the foremost citizen
. History of Gibson county, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . is profession in Indiana. has had the advantage of being the son of a man of affairs, also alawyer by profession, an officer of rank in the Civil war and a leading manin his community all his life. Lucius C. Embree is the son of James Thomas and Mary Magdalene(Landis) Embree, a native of Staunton. Virginia, and was bom September8, 1853, in Princeton, Gibson count), Indiana. The family is identified withthe earliest history of Gibson county, and throughout its generations havebeen among the foremost citizens. Joshua Embree. great-grandfather of theimmediate subject of this sketch, came to Gibson county from Lincoln county,Kentucky, in 1811. He was a farmer and died the first year of his residencein ( ribson county. His will was the first ever probated in this county. Elisha Embree, grandfather of Lucius C. Embree, was also born in Lin-coln county, Kentucky, and came to Indiana with his father in 1811. He,too, was an agriculturist and also a lawyer. He was judge in the circuit. LUCIUS C. EMBREE .I BSON COUNTY, I NDIANA. 473 court of Gibson county from [835 to [845. His wife was Eleanor Robb,daughter of David Robb, a prominent pioneer of Gibson county, a memberof the constitutional convention and also of the state Senate. They reareda famih of four children: James T.; David L. who became a prominentlawyer in Princeton and died in 1877: .Maria Louisa and Milton P. Thefamily was brought up in the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church, andfor many years Elisha Embree was superintendent of the Sunday schooloi his church. He was prominent in the politics of Gibson county in his dawand in [847 defeated Robert Dale Owen for Congress. He received theWhig nomination for governor of the state of Indiana in 184) on decliningto run again for Congress, but was defeated owing to the district beingagainst him politically. At the outbreak of the Civil war he took a keeninterest in the various q
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