Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Pruitt, Edward E. 1866 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

EDWARD E. PRUITT.

   Edward E. Pruitt, a well-known attorney of Delphi, Indiana, former
proseaiting attorney of the thirty-ninth judicial circuit, one-time member of
the Indiana Legislature, and city attorney of Delphi since 1907, is a native of
Carroll county, born on September 17, 1866, in Burlington township.

   He is a son of William A. and Maria A. (Timmons) Pruitt, who were natives of
Indiana. They had seven children: Drilla, deceased, was the wife of Dr. Henry
Carter, of Bringhurst; Ella is the wife of Dr. Lewis Shirrar, of Flora, Indiana;
Edward E. is the subject df this sketch; Elizabeth is the wife of Fred O'Haver,
a telegraph operator of Garrett, Indiana; Lola is the wife of William Brackney,
of Newcastle, Indiana; Charles W. is deceased, and Grace is the wife of James
Evilsizer, of Wellsboro, Indiana. William A. Pruitt, father of these children,
was reared in Carroll county and for forty years has been an auctioneer and has
practiced law. He resides in Flora, Indiana, where his first wife died on March
i, 1895, at the age of fifty-five years. She was a devout member of the
Disciples church. William A. Pruitt is a veteran of the Civil War, having served
in the Twenty-fourth Indiana Battery for a little more than three years. At
times he has served as justice of the peace. After the death of his first wife,
he was married to Rosa Jones.

   Mr. Pruitt's paternal grandfather was Pleasant Pruitt, who was a native of
Pennsylvania and a pioneer in Carroll county. He and his wife, also a native of
Pennsylvania, spent much of their time, however, in Howard county, being farmers
by occupation. The grandfather died in Flora, Indiana, at the age of seventy-two
years; his wife died early in life. William A. was the only child born to this
marriage. After the death of his first wife. Pleasant Pruitt married again and
by the second marriage had three sons, Sampson, Harry and Joseph. Mr. Pruitt's
maternal grandparents were natives of Ohio and pioneers in Burlington township,
Carroll county, Indiana. Their children included, Elizabeth J. Leeka, of
Fairmount, Illinois ; Sarah Aylsworth, William R. Timmons, Ezekiel John, Maria
A. Pruitt and Cyrus Timmons.

   Born on the little farm of forty acres owned by his father near the town of
Darwin, Edward E. Pruitt moved with his parents into the town of Darwin, where
the father ran a small store for a time. Later, the father took up
auctioneering. Edward E. Pruitt grew to manhood in Darwin, attending the country
schools and the public schools at Burlington. He taught school for seven years
and, during the last four years in the school room, studied law preparatory to
attending law school. Subsequently, he was a student of law in the office of
Odell & Ryan and graduated from the law department of Indiana University in
1893, but was admitted to the bar one year previously, in 1892. From 1893 to
1895 he practiced his profession at Flora, but in February, 1895, he removed to
Delphi and has practiced here ever since.

   Mr. Pruitt served two terms as prosecuting attorney in the thirty-ninth
judicial district and was a member of the Indiana Legislature during the session
of 1905. Two years later he was elected as city attorney of Delphi, an office
which he still holds. During the past three years, he has also been attorney for
the town of Camden.

   Politically, Mr. Pruitt is identified with the Republican party and has been
prominent in the councils of his party for many years. He is a member of Mount
Olive Lodge No. 48, Free and Accepted Masons, Delphi Lodge No. 80, Knights of
Pythias, and of the uniform rank, of the latter order. When Fountain City Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, was organized at Flora, Mr. Pruitt was a charter member,
but, after removing to Delphi, dimitted his membership to the county-seat lodge.
Mr. Pruitt is well known in Carroll county, enjoys a good reputation as a lawyer
and ranks high as a citizen and man.


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Biographical Section of
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


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