A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . pen in full harmony therewith, he accomplishes in ashort time an amount of labor that is rarely illustration it is only necessary to state that, amidsta large legal practice, and besides accomplishing an im-mense amount of other literary labors, he has, with hisown hand, written a complete, and the only complete,philological and free translation of the entire Bible, awork that consumed four solid years of hard labor, andif publis
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . pen in full harmony therewith, he accomplishes in ashort time an amount of labor that is rarely illustration it is only necessary to state that, amidsta large legal practice, and besides accomplishing an im-mense amount of other literary labors, he has, with hisown hand, written a complete, and the only complete,philological and free translation of the entire Bible, awork that consumed four solid years of hard labor, andif published would be an invaluable contribution to re-ligious literature. He is the most highly esteemed bythose who know him best, and, after a residence of overforty years in Lafayette, his private and public life arewithout stain or reproach. His love for home andfamily is singularly intense, and he is greatly belovedbv his neighbors and the children of the his mental endowments unimpaired and a care-fully preserved physical constitution, he apparently hasbefore him many years of usefidness and honor. He isa representative man ol THE Tenth Congressional District. fj DRIAN, JAMES A., M. D., of Logansport, was?? born in Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence County, New) York, January 12, 1829. His parents, Arthur andMary (Mulvana) Adrian, removed to Pittsburg,Pennsylvania, wliere they soon died, leaving him an or-phan at the age of three years. It does not appear uponwhom the care of the helpless child devolved, norwhat were the circumstances in which he was reared;but it is certain that he received little instruction, for,at the age of eleven, he was unable to read or , however, his mind evinced its higher instincts ina craving for knowledge; and in Roscoe, CoshoctonCounty, Ohio, he secured, by working morning andevening, the coveted privilege of attending he made such rapid progress as to become com-petent, before long, to teach a village school,
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