Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Pollard, Charles Robert 1882 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 28, 2006, 10:06 pm Author: John C. Odell (1916) CHARLES ROBERT POLLARD. Charles Robert Pollard, a brilliant young attorney of Delphi, Indiana, has won for himself an influential place in the legal profession, not only of Carroll county, but of Arkansas City, Kansas, where he practiced law during the eight years prior to 1913. His life work has been one of unceasing industry. By honorable methods and capable and efficient service to his clients, he has won their confidence and the confidence of the community where he has practiced. Well grounded in the principles of jurisprudence, he has been admitted to practice in all of the courts of Indiana and Kansas and, on December 15, 1910, was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States. He is a product of the Culver Military Academy, which he attended for two years, and professionally is a graduate of the law department of the University of Illinois, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Charles Robert Pollard, who was born at Delphi, Indiana, December 2, 1882, is the son of Robert Carter and Sallie Allen (Jackson) Pollard, natives of Mobile, Alabama, and Delphi, Indiana. Robert C. Pollard was born in 1855, in Alabama, and ten years later came to Delphi, Indiana, where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the public schools and in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated with the class of 1878. Beginning the practice of his profession shortly after graduation, he continued to practice until his death on June 3, 1913, when he was fifty-eight years old. His wife still survives. Robert C. Pollard was a member of the Episcopal church but his widow is a member of the Methodist church. He belonged to the Knights of Pythias. Although a Democrat, nominally, he never sought office. Robert C. and Sallie A. (Jackson) Pollard were the parents of three children, Charles Robert, the subject of this sketch; Florence Lydia, who died on February 14, 1915, at the age of thirty years and Thomas Bracken, of Toledo, Ohio, who is superintendent of a foundry of the Railway Materials Company. He married Lottie Hawkins and they have two children, Robert and Richard. Mr. Pollard's paternal grandparents were Robert, Sr., and Lydia (Garrett) Pollard, natives of Richmond, Virginia, and County Cork, Ireland. He died in the prime of life at Mobile, Alabama, just before the Civil War, while she lived to be eighty-four years old. The paternal grandfather was also a lawyer. By his marriage to Lydia Garrett, there were born five children, Charles Rowen, Mrs. Effie Lyon, Mrs. Sallie Case, Robert Carter and one who died in infancy. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Pollard married Hettie Bracken, a native of Wisconsin, while he was a native of Indiana. After having been engaged in the hardware business at Delphi for some time, he died in middle life, but his wife had passed the sixties at the time of her death. To them were born five daughters, Mrs. Fannie Parkinson, Mrs. Jennie Smalley, Mrs. Sallie Pollard, Mrs. Nellie Murphy and Mate, who died when sixteen years old. Charles Robert Pollard was reared in Delphi and attended the grade school from which he was graduated. He was a student at the Culver Military Academy for two years from 1897 to 1899. He then entered the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he was a student for four years, being graduated from the law department in 1903. Upon returning to Delphi, Mr. Pollard was admitted to the bar and entered into partnership with his father under the firm name of Robert C. Pollard & Son. This arrangement continued until January 1, 1905, when Charles Robert went to Arkansas City, Kansas, and there formed a partnership with Charles T. Atkinson. This partnership continued for three years or until Mr. Pollard withdrew and formed a partnership with Ed J. Fleming and Charles S. Beekman, under the firm name of Fleming, Pollard & Beekman. This firm continued until January, 1911, after which Mr. Pollard practiced alone until June 3, 1913. At this time he returned to Delphi and resumed the practice in Carroll county. During the eight years he was located in Arkansas City, Kansas, he was city attorney for five years and was also local counsel for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, the Kronert Brothers Wholesale Grocery Company, the Arkansas City Produce Company, the New Era Milling Company, the Security State Bank and the Traders State Bank. On account of his father's death, Mr. Pollard returned to Delphi. He is admitted to practice before the supreme and circuit courts of Indiana, the supreme and district courts of Kansas, the United States circuit and district courts of Indiana and Kansas, and the supreme court of the United States. On December 19, 1906, Mr. Pollard was married to Addie Howard Pigman, the daughter of Admiral George W. Pigman, whose wife before her marriage was a Miss Howard. To this union has been born one daughter, Lillie Howard, who was born on September 10, 1909. Mrs. Pollard was born in Washington, D. C, April 6, 1884. Her father was born in Delphi, Indiana, and her mother in Washington, D. C. Her mother died in February, 1907, but her father is still living. They were the parents of four children, George, Isabel, Lillie and Addie. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Pollard were natives of Indiana and lived in Delphi. Her paternal grandfather was one of the early clerks of the court and was also engaged in mercantile business. He died in middle life, but his wife lived to be many years older. They were the parents of six children, James, George, Lucy, Belle, Lillie and Charles. Mrs. Pollard's maternal grandparents were natives of Maryland and died in that state. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robert Pollard are members of the Episcopal church in which Mr. Pollard is a vestryman. Mr. Pollard is a member of Kappa Kappa Chapter, Sigma Chi Fraternity, at the University of Illinois. He is a member of Arkansas City Lodge No. 956, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically, he is a Democrat. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/pollard285nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 6.9 Kb