Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of th* Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FORMER JUDGE JAMES SAUDERSON IS DEAD Well Known Fowler Citizen Dies Alter Lingering Illness. James T. Sanderson, well known to many readers of The Democrat and at one time candidate for judge of the appellate court on the Democratic ticket, died at his home in Fowler Saturday morning after an illness Of several weeks, aged almost 75 years. Mr. Sanderson was Dorn at Delphi, Ind., September 11, 1841. He enlisted in Company A, Second Indiana cavalry in September, 1861, and served throughout the war or until discharged for disability in 1864. He later studied law in Monticello and was admitted to the White county bar in 1867. In 1868 he located In Kentland and practiced law there for nearly 25 years. On account of impaired health he then went to Oklahoma and from there to Los Angeles and Denver, practicing law in each place for a year or more. In 1897 he returned to Indiana and formed a partnership in the practice of law with E. G. Hall at Fowler, the firm being known under the name of Saunderson & Hall. He was elected judge of the Benton-Warren circuit court in November, 1906, by 700 majority in a district that was normally 1,800 Republican. He served one term of six years as judge of that circuit. Burial was made at Monticello. He leaves a wife, but no children, three born to them having died in infancy.