ALBERT D. THOMAS, a prominent member of the Crawfordsville bar, was born in Warren county, Indiana, Jan. 17, 1841, and is the son of Horatio J. Thomas.  His father was a merchant in the city of Philadelphia before coming to Indiana.  Erasmus Thomas, the father of Horatio Thomas, was a distinguished physician of the city, and for several years clerk of the county, of Philadelphia.  The subject of this sketch lived on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age.  He attended the common school, and in 1864 graduated in the scientific course of Wabash College.  In the fall of 1864 he began reading law while clerking in a store, reading law at night and other odd times.  In the fall of 1865 he entered the law department of Ann Arbor University, attending there one year.  In January, 1867, he entered the law office of John M. Butler, now the law partner of Senator McDonald, of Indianapolis.  He studied with him four months and then opened an office with his brother, Charles L., and has been a member of the bar of this city ever since.  In October, 1872, he was elected judge of the court of common pleas of Montgomery, Fountain, and Vermilion counties, and held this office until it was abolished by the state legislature in the spring of 1873.  In the fall of the same year he was elected judge of the twenty-second judicial circuit of the State of Indiana, composed of Montgomery and Parke counties, carrying the circuit by over 1,200 majority, and Montgomery county by nearly 700, holding the office six years.  During his judicial life Judge Thomas discharged the duties of his office with credit to himself, with honor to the bench, and with satisfaction to his constituents.  Judge Thomas was married July 25, 1878, to Miss Ruth Vance, of this city.  They have one child, Helen L., born Oct. 7, 1879.  Mr. Thomas is a member, and since 1874 has been an elder, in the Center Presbyterian church.  In politics he is republican, and in the state convention, in 1880, received a large vote for the nomination for judge of the supreme court of the state, being beaten only by the wider acquaintance of an older competitor.  Judge Thomas is a dignified, honorable gentleman, and an influencial member of society.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Indiana - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 306
Source:  Photo on page 320 of History of Montgomery County, Indiana - Part 2 - Publ. 1881

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J. C. TODD, farmer, Waveland, was born in Brown township, Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1836, and has been a resident of the county all his life.  His father, Johnson Todd, was born in Shelby county Kentucky, in 1809, married Mary Hanna in 1834, and came to Montgomery county in 1835.  Mr. J. C. Todd married, in 1857, Sarah Mitchell, daughter of Alfred Mitchell of this county.  The issue of this marriage is: Mary A., Alfred, Susan, Jennie, Hattie, Frank, and Joel.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Indiana - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 354