Fountain-Montgomery County IN Archives Biographies.....Stilwell, Thos. H. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Thos. H. Stilwell, attorney, Covington, senior member of the law firm of
Stilwell & Dochterman, is a native of Montgomery county, Indiana, his people
being among the early pioneers of that county. After receiving his early
education he attended, in 1864-5, the Waveland College, of that county. In 1866
he came to Fountain county and began the study of law, and in February, 1867, he
was admitted to practice. His diploma to practice in the supreme court of
Indiana, is dated November 27, 1871. He has served two terms as district
attorney, his first term beginning November 2, 1870. Two years after he was
reelected to the same office. October 26, 1874, he was elected prosecuting
attorney of Fountain county for a two years' term, and in 1876 he was reelected.
Mr. Stilwell came to Covington especially to finish the study of law, and now,
in sixteen years' time, be has not only completed that study, but has also been
honored by au office requiring legal talent just one half of the time. He is a
member of Covington Lodge, No. 21, I. O. O. F., and is the present noble grand
of that lodge.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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