Hon. James Story Drake. The annals of the Indiana bar contain no more highly honored name than that of Hon. James Story Drake, judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, who as lawyer, legislator, jurist and citizen has capably and faithfully discharged every duty which has devolved upon him in his long and distinguished career, and whose place in the confidence of the people is one that has been fairly and honorably won.
Judge Drake was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, February 18, 1852, and is a son of James L. and Susan (Hayward) Drake, the former a native of the Buckeye State and the latter of New York.
As a young man James L. Drake made the long and perilous journey across the plains to the gold fields of California, with .the intrepid adventurers of the "days of '49," but prior to the Civil war returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming, in which he was engaged when the great struggle between the forces of the North and the South came to a head. In his home community of Holmes County, Ohio, he organized Company H, which was attached to the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an organization which became famous because of its eminent commanders, these including William Starke Rosecrans, its first colonel, who subsequently became one of the famous generals of the Union army; Stanley Matthews, who was afterward a United States senator and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and who was its lieutenant-colonel; its major, Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward President of the United States, and William McKinley, then a private, later destined to become President and one of America's greatest statesmen.
At the bloody battle of Antietam, Captain Drake sustained a wound so severe in character that he was forced out of the active service at the front and resigned his commission, but was subsequently appointed provost marshal of the Fourteenth Ohio District and during his service in that capacity commanded the volunteers who put down the famous Holmes County rebellion.
After the close of the war, in 1866, Captain Drake moved to LaGrange, Indiana, where he continued to reside until his death in 1886.
His wife died in 1877, and he married in 1881. His second wife survived him.
He was a stalwart republican in his political views.
The father of a large family of children, two of his sons served as soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, one of whom, Levi, died of starvation in the awful prison hole of Andersonville. while the other, Francis M., saw four years of service, was confined as a prisoner for a time in Libby Prison, and died in 1903.
James Story Drake received his early education in the Holmes County public schools, and was fourteen years of age when the family moved to LaGrange, where he was duly graduated from the high school.
During 1870-1-2 he attended Hillsdale (Michigan) College, and leaving that institution in his junior year spent two years at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1874, when twenty-two years of age.
He began his professional career at LaGrange in association with Judge Ferrall of the Circuit bench, and in 1878 was elected prosecuting attorney for LaGrange and Elkhart counties, an office to which he was re-elected, being its incumbent in all for four years.
In 1884 he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, in which body he served with fidelity for four years, and after his return to LaGrange took a prominent part in educational affairs and for several years was a member of the LaGrange Board of Education. Coming to Goshen in 1898, he began practice with C. W. Miller, and the firm later became Miller, Drake & Hubbell, which continued until 1910, when Judge Drake was elected judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, a capacity in which he has since served with dignity, impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the people. He was renominated at the primary in March, 1916.
He has always been a stanch republican and an active worker in the ranks of his party, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national convention held at Chicago which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency.
His fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
With his family, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.
Judge Drake was married January 2, 1877, to Miss Amanda Clugston, of LaGrange, who died in February. 1904.
In 1911 he was again married, when united with Miss Lillian Michael, of Goshen, who was superintendent of the Goshen city schools for five years preceding and who for many years preceding that was principal of the Goshen High School.
Mrs. Drake is prominent in literary and social circles, and at this time is president of the Beacon Light Literary Club. The beautiful home is located at No. 114 South Seventh Street.
Abraham E Weaver, A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with particular attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2 (The American Historical Society, 1916), Google Books, 412, 413.
Judge Drake was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, February 18, 1852, and is a son of James L. and Susan (Hayward) Drake, the former a native of the Buckeye State and the latter of New York.
As a young man James L. Drake made the long and perilous journey across the plains to the gold fields of California, with .the intrepid adventurers of the "days of '49," but prior to the Civil war returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming, in which he was engaged when the great struggle between the forces of the North and the South came to a head. In his home community of Holmes County, Ohio, he organized Company H, which was attached to the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an organization which became famous because of its eminent commanders, these including William Starke Rosecrans, its first colonel, who subsequently became one of the famous generals of the Union army; Stanley Matthews, who was afterward a United States senator and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and who was its lieutenant-colonel; its major, Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward President of the United States, and William McKinley, then a private, later destined to become President and one of America's greatest statesmen.
At the bloody battle of Antietam, Captain Drake sustained a wound so severe in character that he was forced out of the active service at the front and resigned his commission, but was subsequently appointed provost marshal of the Fourteenth Ohio District and during his service in that capacity commanded the volunteers who put down the famous Holmes County rebellion.
After the close of the war, in 1866, Captain Drake moved to LaGrange, Indiana, where he continued to reside until his death in 1886.
His wife died in 1877, and he married in 1881. His second wife survived him.
He was a stalwart republican in his political views.
The father of a large family of children, two of his sons served as soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, one of whom, Levi, died of starvation in the awful prison hole of Andersonville. while the other, Francis M., saw four years of service, was confined as a prisoner for a time in Libby Prison, and died in 1903.
James Story Drake received his early education in the Holmes County public schools, and was fourteen years of age when the family moved to LaGrange, where he was duly graduated from the high school.
During 1870-1-2 he attended Hillsdale (Michigan) College, and leaving that institution in his junior year spent two years at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1874, when twenty-two years of age.
He began his professional career at LaGrange in association with Judge Ferrall of the Circuit bench, and in 1878 was elected prosecuting attorney for LaGrange and Elkhart counties, an office to which he was re-elected, being its incumbent in all for four years.
In 1884 he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, in which body he served with fidelity for four years, and after his return to LaGrange took a prominent part in educational affairs and for several years was a member of the LaGrange Board of Education. Coming to Goshen in 1898, he began practice with C. W. Miller, and the firm later became Miller, Drake & Hubbell, which continued until 1910, when Judge Drake was elected judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, a capacity in which he has since served with dignity, impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the people. He was renominated at the primary in March, 1916.
He has always been a stanch republican and an active worker in the ranks of his party, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national convention held at Chicago which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency.
His fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
With his family, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.
Judge Drake was married January 2, 1877, to Miss Amanda Clugston, of LaGrange, who died in February. 1904.
In 1911 he was again married, when united with Miss Lillian Michael, of Goshen, who was superintendent of the Goshen city schools for five years preceding and who for many years preceding that was principal of the Goshen High School.
Mrs. Drake is prominent in literary and social circles, and at this time is president of the Beacon Light Literary Club. The beautiful home is located at No. 114 South Seventh Street.
Abraham E Weaver, A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with particular attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2 (The American Historical Society, 1916), Google Books, 412, 413.
Hon. James Story Drake. The annals of the Indiana bar contain no more highly honored name than that of Hon. James Story Drake, judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, who as lawyer, legislator, jurist and citizen has capably and faithfully discharged every duty which has devolved upon him in his long and distinguished career, and whose place in the confidence of the people is one that has been fairly and honorably won.
Judge Drake was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, February 18, 1852, and is a son of James L. and Susan (Hayward) Drake, the former a native of the Buckeye State and the latter of New York.
As a young man James L. Drake made the long and perilous journey across the plains to the gold fields of California, with .the intrepid adventurers of the "days of '49," but prior to the Civil war returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming, in which he was engaged when the great struggle between the forces of the North and the South came to a head. In his home community of Holmes County, Ohio, he organized Company H, which was attached to the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an organization which became famous because of its eminent commanders, these including William Starke Rosecrans, its first colonel, who subsequently became one of the famous generals of the Union army; Stanley Matthews, who was afterward a United States senator and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and who was its lieutenant-colonel; its major, Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward President of the United States, and William McKinley, then a private, later destined to become President and one of America's greatest statesmen.
At the bloody battle of Antietam, Captain Drake sustained a wound so severe in character that he was forced out of the active service at the front and resigned his commission, but was subsequently appointed provost marshal of the Fourteenth Ohio District and during his service in that capacity commanded the volunteers who put down the famous Holmes County rebellion.
After the close of the war, in 1866, Captain Drake moved to LaGrange, Indiana, where he continued to reside until his death in 1886.
His wife died in 1877, and he married in 1881. His second wife survived him.
He was a stalwart republican in his political views.
The father of a large family of children, two of his sons served as soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, one of whom, Levi, died of starvation in the awful prison hole of Andersonville. while the other, Francis M., saw four years of service, was confined as a prisoner for a time in Libby Prison, and died in 1903.
James Story Drake received his early education in the Holmes County public schools, and was fourteen years of age when the family moved to LaGrange, where he was duly graduated from the high school.
During 1870-1-2 he attended Hillsdale (Michigan) College, and leaving that institution in his junior year spent two years at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1874, when twenty-two years of age.
He began his professional career at LaGrange in association with Judge Ferrall of the Circuit bench, and in 1878 was elected prosecuting attorney for LaGrange and Elkhart counties, an office to which he was re-elected, being its incumbent in all for four years.
In 1884 he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, in which body he served with fidelity for four years, and after his return to LaGrange took a prominent part in educational affairs and for several years was a member of the LaGrange Board of Education. Coming to Goshen in 1898, he began practice with C. W. Miller, and the firm later became Miller, Drake & Hubbell, which continued until 1910, when Judge Drake was elected judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, a capacity in which he has since served with dignity, impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the people. He was renominated at the primary in March, 1916.
He has always been a stanch republican and an active worker in the ranks of his party, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national convention held at Chicago which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency.
His fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
With his family, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.
Judge Drake was married January 2, 1877, to Miss Amanda Clugston, of LaGrange, who died in February. 1904.
In 1911 he was again married, when united with Miss Lillian Michael, of Goshen, who was superintendent of the Goshen city schools for five years preceding and who for many years preceding that was principal of the Goshen High School.
Mrs. Drake is prominent in literary and social circles, and at this time is president of the Beacon Light Literary Club. The beautiful home is located at No. 114 South Seventh Street.
Abraham E Weaver, A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with particular attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2 (The American Historical Society, 1916), Google Books, 412, 413.
Judge Drake was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, February 18, 1852, and is a son of James L. and Susan (Hayward) Drake, the former a native of the Buckeye State and the latter of New York.
As a young man James L. Drake made the long and perilous journey across the plains to the gold fields of California, with .the intrepid adventurers of the "days of '49," but prior to the Civil war returned to the peaceful pursuits of farming, in which he was engaged when the great struggle between the forces of the North and the South came to a head. In his home community of Holmes County, Ohio, he organized Company H, which was attached to the Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an organization which became famous because of its eminent commanders, these including William Starke Rosecrans, its first colonel, who subsequently became one of the famous generals of the Union army; Stanley Matthews, who was afterward a United States senator and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and who was its lieutenant-colonel; its major, Rutherford B. Hayes, afterward President of the United States, and William McKinley, then a private, later destined to become President and one of America's greatest statesmen.
At the bloody battle of Antietam, Captain Drake sustained a wound so severe in character that he was forced out of the active service at the front and resigned his commission, but was subsequently appointed provost marshal of the Fourteenth Ohio District and during his service in that capacity commanded the volunteers who put down the famous Holmes County rebellion.
After the close of the war, in 1866, Captain Drake moved to LaGrange, Indiana, where he continued to reside until his death in 1886.
His wife died in 1877, and he married in 1881. His second wife survived him.
He was a stalwart republican in his political views.
The father of a large family of children, two of his sons served as soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, one of whom, Levi, died of starvation in the awful prison hole of Andersonville. while the other, Francis M., saw four years of service, was confined as a prisoner for a time in Libby Prison, and died in 1903.
James Story Drake received his early education in the Holmes County public schools, and was fourteen years of age when the family moved to LaGrange, where he was duly graduated from the high school.
During 1870-1-2 he attended Hillsdale (Michigan) College, and leaving that institution in his junior year spent two years at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated from the law department in 1874, when twenty-two years of age.
He began his professional career at LaGrange in association with Judge Ferrall of the Circuit bench, and in 1878 was elected prosecuting attorney for LaGrange and Elkhart counties, an office to which he was re-elected, being its incumbent in all for four years.
In 1884 he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, in which body he served with fidelity for four years, and after his return to LaGrange took a prominent part in educational affairs and for several years was a member of the LaGrange Board of Education. Coming to Goshen in 1898, he began practice with C. W. Miller, and the firm later became Miller, Drake & Hubbell, which continued until 1910, when Judge Drake was elected judge of the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Indiana, a capacity in which he has since served with dignity, impartiality and to the entire satisfaction of the people. He was renominated at the primary in March, 1916.
He has always been a stanch republican and an active worker in the ranks of his party, and in 1888 was a delegate to the national convention held at Chicago which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency.
His fraternal connections are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons.
With his family, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.
Judge Drake was married January 2, 1877, to Miss Amanda Clugston, of LaGrange, who died in February. 1904.
In 1911 he was again married, when united with Miss Lillian Michael, of Goshen, who was superintendent of the Goshen city schools for five years preceding and who for many years preceding that was principal of the Goshen High School.
Mrs. Drake is prominent in literary and social circles, and at this time is president of the Beacon Light Literary Club. The beautiful home is located at No. 114 South Seventh Street.
Abraham E Weaver, A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana: an Authentic Narrative of the Past, with particular attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development, Volume 2 (The American Historical Society, 1916), Google Books, 412, 413.
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