From History of Marshall County, p. 588-89:
R.C. O'BLENIS, a well known lawyer of Marshall county, public spirited and thoroughy interested in whatever tends to promote the material welfare of his community, is numbered among the native sons of the county, born in Green township on the 22d of April 1861. His parents, Abel and Mrs. Eliza (Shakes) (Worrell) O'Blenis, were born in Indiana and were the parents of four children: Jacob M., R.C., Eva, the wife of Charles Tilden and Emma May, the wife of George G. Mill. The father followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation and at the outbreak of the Civil war he offered his services to his country's cause, entering the Twentieth Regular Indiana Volunteers. He was captured by the rebel ship Fanny off Cape Hatteras and incarcerated in Andersonville prison, there remaining until his exchange and his re-enlistment in the Eighty-seventh Regulars with the rank of a liueutenant. His re-enlistment occurred soon after the battle of Chickamauga, and he served as a brave and valiant soldier until the close of the war.
When R.C. O'Blenis was fifteen years of age his father died, and he then began work on a farm for ten dollars a month. After working three months or more here he walked two hundred miles into Illinois, where he resumed his former occupation of farming by the month, but after a time returned to Marshall county on foot and began working for the farmers during the summer months, while in the winter months he attended school and worked for his board. He later became numbered among the educators of Green and Walnut townships, also teaching in the schools of Argos, and here he was later appointed the deputy prosecuting attorney by the Hon. Charles P. Drummond. After remaining the incumbent of this office for four years, Mr. O'Blenis resumed his educational work and taught for two years. In 1891 he began the practice of law, and is now numbered among the leading representatives of the calling in Marshall county.
Mr. O'Blenis married Addie Robey on the 26th of December, 1886. She was born in Howard county, Indiana, May 17, 1865, a daughter of James and Jane (Davis) Robey, both of whom also claimed Indiana as the commonwealth of their nativity. Two children were born to them, Laura and Addie, but the elder is deceased. Mr. O'Blenis holds membership relations with many of the fraternal orders, including Lodge No. 399, A.F. & A.M.; Warsaw Lodge No. 802, B.P.O.E.; Argos Lodge No. 212, K. of P., and in this order he has held all of the offices and has served as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
R.C. O'BLENIS, a well known lawyer of Marshall county, public spirited and thoroughy interested in whatever tends to promote the material welfare of his community, is numbered among the native sons of the county, born in Green township on the 22d of April 1861. His parents, Abel and Mrs. Eliza (Shakes) (Worrell) O'Blenis, were born in Indiana and were the parents of four children: Jacob M., R.C., Eva, the wife of Charles Tilden and Emma May, the wife of George G. Mill. The father followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation and at the outbreak of the Civil war he offered his services to his country's cause, entering the Twentieth Regular Indiana Volunteers. He was captured by the rebel ship Fanny off Cape Hatteras and incarcerated in Andersonville prison, there remaining until his exchange and his re-enlistment in the Eighty-seventh Regulars with the rank of a liueutenant. His re-enlistment occurred soon after the battle of Chickamauga, and he served as a brave and valiant soldier until the close of the war.
When R.C. O'Blenis was fifteen years of age his father died, and he then began work on a farm for ten dollars a month. After working three months or more here he walked two hundred miles into Illinois, where he resumed his former occupation of farming by the month, but after a time returned to Marshall county on foot and began working for the farmers during the summer months, while in the winter months he attended school and worked for his board. He later became numbered among the educators of Green and Walnut townships, also teaching in the schools of Argos, and here he was later appointed the deputy prosecuting attorney by the Hon. Charles P. Drummond. After remaining the incumbent of this office for four years, Mr. O'Blenis resumed his educational work and taught for two years. In 1891 he began the practice of law, and is now numbered among the leading representatives of the calling in Marshall county.
Mr. O'Blenis married Addie Robey on the 26th of December, 1886. She was born in Howard county, Indiana, May 17, 1865, a daughter of James and Jane (Davis) Robey, both of whom also claimed Indiana as the commonwealth of their nativity. Two children were born to them, Laura and Addie, but the elder is deceased. Mr. O'Blenis holds membership relations with many of the fraternal orders, including Lodge No. 399, A.F. & A.M.; Warsaw Lodge No. 802, B.P.O.E.; Argos Lodge No. 212, K. of P., and in this order he has held all of the offices and has served as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
From History of Marshall County, p. 588-89:
R.C. O'BLENIS, a well known lawyer of Marshall county, public spirited and thoroughy interested in whatever tends to promote the material welfare of his community, is numbered among the native sons of the county, born in Green township on the 22d of April 1861. His parents, Abel and Mrs. Eliza (Shakes) (Worrell) O'Blenis, were born in Indiana and were the parents of four children: Jacob M., R.C., Eva, the wife of Charles Tilden and Emma May, the wife of George G. Mill. The father followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation and at the outbreak of the Civil war he offered his services to his country's cause, entering the Twentieth Regular Indiana Volunteers. He was captured by the rebel ship Fanny off Cape Hatteras and incarcerated in Andersonville prison, there remaining until his exchange and his re-enlistment in the Eighty-seventh Regulars with the rank of a liueutenant. His re-enlistment occurred soon after the battle of Chickamauga, and he served as a brave and valiant soldier until the close of the war.
When R.C. O'Blenis was fifteen years of age his father died, and he then began work on a farm for ten dollars a month. After working three months or more here he walked two hundred miles into Illinois, where he resumed his former occupation of farming by the month, but after a time returned to Marshall county on foot and began working for the farmers during the summer months, while in the winter months he attended school and worked for his board. He later became numbered among the educators of Green and Walnut townships, also teaching in the schools of Argos, and here he was later appointed the deputy prosecuting attorney by the Hon. Charles P. Drummond. After remaining the incumbent of this office for four years, Mr. O'Blenis resumed his educational work and taught for two years. In 1891 he began the practice of law, and is now numbered among the leading representatives of the calling in Marshall county.
Mr. O'Blenis married Addie Robey on the 26th of December, 1886. She was born in Howard county, Indiana, May 17, 1865, a daughter of James and Jane (Davis) Robey, both of whom also claimed Indiana as the commonwealth of their nativity. Two children were born to them, Laura and Addie, but the elder is deceased. Mr. O'Blenis holds membership relations with many of the fraternal orders, including Lodge No. 399, A.F. & A.M.; Warsaw Lodge No. 802, B.P.O.E.; Argos Lodge No. 212, K. of P., and in this order he has held all of the offices and has served as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
R.C. O'BLENIS, a well known lawyer of Marshall county, public spirited and thoroughy interested in whatever tends to promote the material welfare of his community, is numbered among the native sons of the county, born in Green township on the 22d of April 1861. His parents, Abel and Mrs. Eliza (Shakes) (Worrell) O'Blenis, were born in Indiana and were the parents of four children: Jacob M., R.C., Eva, the wife of Charles Tilden and Emma May, the wife of George G. Mill. The father followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation and at the outbreak of the Civil war he offered his services to his country's cause, entering the Twentieth Regular Indiana Volunteers. He was captured by the rebel ship Fanny off Cape Hatteras and incarcerated in Andersonville prison, there remaining until his exchange and his re-enlistment in the Eighty-seventh Regulars with the rank of a liueutenant. His re-enlistment occurred soon after the battle of Chickamauga, and he served as a brave and valiant soldier until the close of the war.
When R.C. O'Blenis was fifteen years of age his father died, and he then began work on a farm for ten dollars a month. After working three months or more here he walked two hundred miles into Illinois, where he resumed his former occupation of farming by the month, but after a time returned to Marshall county on foot and began working for the farmers during the summer months, while in the winter months he attended school and worked for his board. He later became numbered among the educators of Green and Walnut townships, also teaching in the schools of Argos, and here he was later appointed the deputy prosecuting attorney by the Hon. Charles P. Drummond. After remaining the incumbent of this office for four years, Mr. O'Blenis resumed his educational work and taught for two years. In 1891 he began the practice of law, and is now numbered among the leading representatives of the calling in Marshall county.
Mr. O'Blenis married Addie Robey on the 26th of December, 1886. She was born in Howard county, Indiana, May 17, 1865, a daughter of James and Jane (Davis) Robey, both of whom also claimed Indiana as the commonwealth of their nativity. Two children were born to them, Laura and Addie, but the elder is deceased. Mr. O'Blenis holds membership relations with many of the fraternal orders, including Lodge No. 399, A.F. & A.M.; Warsaw Lodge No. 802, B.P.O.E.; Argos Lodge No. 212, K. of P., and in this order he has held all of the offices and has served as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.
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