Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....McAleer, William J. 1867 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM J. McALEER.

    William J. McAleer, a prominent lawyer of Hammond and prosecuting attorney
of the thirty-first judicial circuit of the state of Indiana, has had seven
years of creditable and successful practice at the law, all in Hammond, and his
popularity in the city and county is shown by his election and reelection to the
important administrative office which he now holds. He was a teacher a number of
years, and also followed other occupations before taking up the law, and all in
all he has had a career of which he may well be proud.

    Mr. McAleer was born in Gray county, Ontario, Canada, July 31, 1867, a son
of John and Frances (Burchill) McAleer, both natives of Canada. His mother was
one of the fourteen children born to Jason Burchill, a native of Ireland and a
Methodist preacher, who emigrated to Canada about 1840, and died there when
eighty-four years of age; his wife was Isabell Brown, and she lived to be
eighty-three years old. The father of John McAleer was William McAleer, who was
born in Ireland and emigrated thence to Canada, where he spent the remainder of
his long life of ninety-seven years, being a farmer by occupation. His wife,
Nancy (Brown) McAleer, attained the advanced age of eighty-six years.

    John McAleer, the father of William J. McAleer, was a Canadian farmer all
his life. He held the office of reeve for many years, and also other minor
offices. He died in 1901, at the age of sixty-two years. His wife survives him,
and is now sixty-three years old. They were both Methodists. They were the
parents of five children: Edith, the wife of R. T. McGirr, of Maford, Canada;
William J.; Martha, the wife of David Berridge of Thessalon, Algoma, Canada;
Annie, the wife of Thomas Brooks, of Thessalon; and Robert, of Thessalon.

    Mr. William J. McAleer was reared on a farm in Canada, and after a course in
the district schools graduated from the Owen Sound Business College, in 1886. He
then came over into the United States, and for six years was engaged in teaching
in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. From there he went west to the state of
Washington, and was employed by the government in the Indian service for two
years at Granville, Chehalis county. He resigned his position and came to
Valparaiso, Indiana, and entered the college there. In 1897 he graduated with
the degrees of B. S. and LL. B., and in the same year was admitted to the bar
and commenced the practice of law at Hammond. In November, 1900, he was elected
to the office of prosecuting attorney, leading the Republican ticket in that
election, as he also did in the election of 1902. He is one of the professors in
the law department of the Valparaiso Normal College.

    Mr. McAleer has been in the Republican ranks ever since attaining manhood,
and is an interested political worker. He affiliates with Garfield Lodge No.
569, F. &. A. M., and also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His
residence is at 368 State street. He was married May 21, 1892 to Miss Ethelia
Hembroff, a daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Grady) Hembroff. They have two
children, Leoda and Verna.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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